** AUSTRALIA. 12362-USB, April 25 at 1432, S2-S3, coastal marine
weather in Oz-accented robOM, mostly wind direxions and speeds in
knots, seas in metres, times in UTC? forecasts at least until Tuesday;
geographical references unrecognized, except 1434 two tones, then
Northern Territory. EiBi shows it`s VMW, Wiluna WA on air 24 hours.
Nothing heard from companion VMC Charleville QL on 12365-USB
supposedly also on air now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** JAPAN [non]. 5985 WRMI & 6195 WHRI, April 25 at 0400-0429, NHK
relay entirely in Spanish, no English insert here like in so many
other language services.

6105 Japanese via FRANCE went off at 0400 April 25. Ira Holmes in
central Florida reported that on April 23, 6105 had English at
0415-0500; but it was off April 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. Correxion: off at 2253.7* not 2353.7* of course; fixed:
9830, April 24 at 2247, checking VOT English via Bonaire
SDR, Turkish music and just in time for YL sign-off claiming again
this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450! NOT. IS plays until
2253.7*, shux, no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 9410, April 25 at 1446, tune-in to end of a song,
sounds like Nat-King Cole, then a non-English song, S5-S9. Of course,
it`s VOA Korean via PHILIPPINES, also // weaker 12080 at 1451 check.

If you hear classic tunes from The American Songbook, chances are it`s
VOA Korean service, which plays a lot of it. Is this a big thing among
Koreans, or by the VOA-K music director; or retaliation for K-pop?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 12098-USB, Sat Apr 25 at 1436, CAP net, YL NCS
Aspen Gold 99, each transmission ending with beep rather than
``over``; classic paramilitary lingo like ``wilco``; Yellowbird 73
one contact; 1439 asks for relays before we close. No, off at 1440*
with net ID as Heartland. Aspen Gold is the Rocky Mountain Region
tactical callsign, not specifically Colorado which is Blue Mesa. Maybe
it was Yellow Brick, which is Kansas, get it? It seems we never hear
any real axion on these CAP nets, such as rushing to scenes of plane
crashes, but rather extremely rigid pro-forma exchanges.

No problem from the weak SWBC on 12095, which would be BBC Somali;
HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all agree that on Saturdays only during this hour,
BOTH Madagascar and Uzbekistan sites are in use. Surely it`s only one
or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
April 25 at 1134 the 1130 on WRMI 9955, S3-S6 vs pulse jamming.

April 25 at 1300 on WRMI 15770: JBA carrier here at 1305. Barely
better in Bulgaria, reports Ivo Ivanov:
``Reception of World of Radio#2031 via WRMI-09 Okeechobee, April 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGlIQkk5gw&feature=youtu.be

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/04/reception-of-world-of-radio2031-via.html
1300-1330 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Sat, very weak`` -
Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque 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-, April 25 at 1457, KVOH on already and propagating
S9! musical prélude to weekly Saturday English block, the SSOB with
traces of 17815 WHRI? and 17615+ Sa`udi Arabia. Wavescan supposed to
air at 1500, and confirmed a few minutes later when checked on a
Kentucky KiwiSDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1040, April 25 at 0603 UT, WHO Des Moines IA with dead air
until 0606 comes to life, blasting ever-changing opening music of
C2CAM // many others but not synchronized, 1100, 1110, 1000, etc.,
guest host tonight Jimmy Church. What would Ronald Reagan say? Is no
human paying attention at WHO to its output? I should have hastened to
pull something else thru it. Maybe will recur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11785, April 25 at 1442, open carrier with flutter,
S1-S5. VOA Chinese via Philippines ends at 1400 and so too should the
CNR1 or Firedrake jamming. Nothing after 1400, except in EiBi, CRI
Chinese via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of imprisoning and
brainwashing Uyghurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1657 UT April 25

** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Sat April 25 just after 0100, via WRMI,
RAE ATTW in English, and also in English closing at 0128 as ``lockdown
edition #2``, so maybe the entire semihour was English. 0129 the way
outdated ``Son-power Radio`` WRMI ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, April 24 at 0541, R. Rebelde is S9 but just barely
modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 24 at 1849, S9+10 signal but just
barely modulated, Qur`an? Dengê Welat expected, via France or maybe
Pridnestrovye, and subject to Turkish blockage; but suspect the bigsig
suppressing atop is the Cuban numbers transmitter which is supposedly
not on 11530 now, but earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 11650, April 24 at 2055, S6-S7 open carrier, somewhat
noisy; what`ll it be? 2058 RRI IS and 2100 opening Spanish via
Tsiganeshti (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11820.042, April 24 at 1818, for the first
time this year, I think, decent S9/+10 signal from the HQS,
sufficiently soporific music for a nap; a Ramadan gift? Always
off-frequency+plus here; 2 minutes of pause from 1838 before
resuming.

// 11914.987 is always weaker, S4-S7, at 1845 April 24.

ARS is still absent from A-20 HFCC info, but in B-19, both 500 kW from
BSKSA Riyadh at 320 and 295 degrees respectively, with 320 closer to
OKward, altho intended only for W Europe. Spans for both were 18-23 UT
and probably still are. By 2053 recheck, however, 11820.042 has faded
to S4-S6 and anyhow are now in W&M talk. Originally it was the best
signal on band from beyond the Atlantic. So how about the other
Sa`udis?

11745.002, April 24 at 1846, presumably the AFRTS of SA, Al-Azm for
the forces attacking Yemen, music at S6-S8 with a fast SAH from USAGM
in Chinese Mandarin, 250 kW, 70 degrees from KUWAIT; or vice versa.
Not in B-19 HFCC, and classified as clandestine by WRTH 2020 on page
516 along with the next one:

11860, Republic of Yemen Radio, strangely enough, was not even
registered in B-19, since it`s clandestine, but everyone thinx it`s
also via Riyadh --- and totally inaudible here vs Cuban jamming and
Radio Martí. Not even its off-frequency carrier as measured by
Wolfgang Büschel, ``11859.965 kHz 14.57 UT on April 18`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 24 at 2247, checking VOT English via Bonaire
SDR, Turkish music and just in time for YL sign-off claiming again
this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450! NOT. IS plays until
2353.7*, shux, no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed first US
SWBC, Friday April 24 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: Bonaire SDR hears it OK
over Cuban jamming; Pardinho, Brasil better without jamming; while
direct to here, only a JBA carrier under the jamming.

Also confirmed UT Sat Apr 25 at 0130 on 3 x WRMI: 7780, poor with
storm noise; 5010 better S9+10/20 but also storm noise; and 5850 VG
S9+20/30 yet not enough to overcome all the storm noise. Blitzortung
shows a heavy band of lightning from SW MO to NE TX, along the OK/AR
border and the TX/LA border. Next:

0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque 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. 9330, April 24 at 2102, WBCQ in German, only fair S5-S8. The
flat-earth wackadoodles of World`s Last Chance used to be in Arabic,
but having moved that to a closer site Woofferton, have favored the
Germans with three hours here from 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Welcome back to John Carver with computer fixed, notes on
WBCQ`s AAAWWW UT Saturday April 25 at 0000:

``Tonight's show started on time on 7490 and 5130. Allan and Angela in
the studio. Show opens with a bit of talk about the Canadian shooter.
Phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Talk about some of the old programs
from the station that are contained in the archives. Phone call at
0015 from a new listener in Indiana asking for information about the
station which quickly changed to a talk about cars.

Phone call at 0036 from Ramsey which continued the car talk. Freddie
called again at 0042 and the talk this time was about tractors.
Reading of emails at 0055. Very quick prayer and off the air 0100.

Have read most of the reports of AAWWW and the only other thing of
interest was last week's show when Angela told her tale of being
outside before the show and seeing sparks down the street. She went
down to look and a tree limb had fallen into the "hydro" lines and
they were arcing and sparking. Allan explained that they weren't
called hydro lines down here in the States and Angela showed him a
piece of charred tree limb she'd brought back home with her to show
him. Allan called the power company and he got a robo call from the
power company about half way through the show telling him that the
problem had been fixed. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0210 UT April 25

** CANADA. 248 kHz, April 23 at 0622 UT, ND beacon dash and WG, which
is 1000 watts from WinnipeG; not often heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non?]. 15110, April 23 at 1455-1500* Chinese talk at S9+10,
cut off at ToH amid first/one timepip. Presumably CNR1 jammer against
VOA Chinese via Philippines, this hour only, same as heard yesterday
but now much better, and no signal from a second station; nor any
similar signals on the 15 or 13 MHz bands. A pipeline, from where?

11675, April 23 at 1541, one Chinese signal at S6-S7, CNR1 jammer
against RFA Saipan, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
2031)

** CUBA. 6060 & 6000, April 23 at 0612, RHC English is OFF these two,
still on 6100 & weaker 6145; 5040 also off. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. 13840.007, April 24 at 0129, RNZI S9-S7 better than
usual on this channel, and very slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 267 kHz, April 23 at 0623 UT, NDB HET, which is 25 watts
from HenryEtTa OK, not often heard. I was tuned to 265-USB, but 2 kHz
away it was as weak as could be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 14902-USB, Thursday April 23 at 1855, YL as Triblade 19, so
a Civil Air Patrol net, calling Red Fire and several other tactical
handles; long silence until 1900 she asks for relays, with Triblade
31, White Tail 51; agree to QSY to secret frequency designated N-E-H,
for traffic, calls for more traffic or relays; 1902 Yosemite 80 with
Triblade 60. Red Fire is Indiana; Yosemite of course California (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 contents: Antarctica,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bougainville, Bulgaria, China, Congo DR, Cuba,
Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Italy and
non, Japan non, Korea South & North, Madagascar, Malaysia, México,
Mongolia, New Zealand, Nigeria, North America, São Tomé, Sa`udi
Arabia, Somalia, Thailand, Tinian, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA and non,
Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder

WOR 2031 is available as of 0215 UT Friday April 24
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque 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. 6159.917V, April 24 at 0134, WBCQ-#? is on and wavering
off-frequency with talk show, presumably Hal Turner, whom I have no
interest in hearing; and without // matching, sounds like same thing
on 5130 and on 7490.110v; and 9455 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 570, April 23 at 0630 UT ``We`re the Voice of the Midwest,
570 WNAX`` and 0631 locally originated ``WNAX News`` presumably during
break in some talk show.

Not the only slogan in NRC AM Log for 570 in Yankton SD, ``Your
5-state neighbor`` --- tho who knows, it may also be uttered.

Wikipedia agrees that Voice of the Midwest is the slogan of WNAX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNAX_(AM)

Searching also leads to Voice of the Midwest as title of a 1953y book
about WLW Cincinnati. I think only those east of Ohio could think of
it as Midwest.

``Midwest`` is certainly an ill-defined term. One source shows all the
states within a ND-KS-OH triangle. But SD and others can also be
considered in the Great Plains, or North Central region. Certainly not
OK, tho we are the only state with a Midwest City = OKC suburb.

NRC DX News of April 14, AM Switch reported:
``Applications to extend existing STA received:
570 WNAX SD Yankton – Applies to extend STA, U1 5000/1250``

WNAX nominal parameters: 5000/5000 U2, i.e. ND daytime, direxionanl
nighttime, majorly toward NNE with two minor southish lobes.

Where`s KLIF Dallas? Twice as close. Only WNAX heard now on the E-W
longwire which should be equally unfavorable for both.

Both day and night patterns of KLIF are nullish toward here, but in
the daytime it`s atop WNAX, always audible underneath via
high-ground-conductivity path, and of course the only SD day signal
arriving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0318 UT April 24

** CHINA [non?]. 15110, April 22 at 1420, JBA Chinese with flutter,
during an hour VOA Chinese is via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, but more likely
CNR1 jammer. Nothing else like it on band, nor below 15000; and the
Cubans on 15140 & 15230 are abnormally weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 711.00, April 23 at 0044, weak carrier hetting 710.00
stations; this time I DF and confirm it from SE/NW, i.e. one of the
Radios Rebeldes, not NE/SW from Eurafrica. See also UNID (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15436 & 15304 S8; 15240 & 15500 S6; 15176 S2 & 15566 S3;
15110 S2-S3 & 15632 trace, April 21 at 2139-2146, panoply of approx.
spurblobs at approx. 64-66 kHz intervals up to fourth orders out of
15370 RHC which is S9+25. Totally unreadable in SSB, but somewhat in
FM or AM, also with tone which seems like the usual F# above Cmiddle,
tho not measured. Obviously the same transmitter which would do the
same out of 13700 in the mornings, but not lately whenever checked
almost daily. Welcome back! Fortunately none of these collide with any
legit broadcasts, the 19m band is so vacant. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, April 21 at 2147, RHC Spanish suptorted at S8; 11850
is just barely modulated, more modest problems than of 15370.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185, April 22 at 0135, XEPPM S9+10 but JBM if at all; ACI
from 6180 Brasil. But an update via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain to the
WOR io group.

``Radio Educación, 6185, has changed its schedule again, as inform me
Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, from Ciudad de México, new schedule:
from 2200 to 1000 UTC, instead of 2000-0800. This station, in my
opinion, has problems with the transmitter, past days strong carrier
but very weak audio, sometimes barely audible or inaudible, today
improved signal.
Today, 21-04 heard here in Lugo, 0456-0640, strong carrier, very weak
audio, comments and songs in Spanish. QRM from VoA on 6180 from 0500
to 0630.
Heard via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Brownsville, Texas, 0901-1000,
21-04, Mexican songs, ID at 0916: "Señal 1060 AM, 100.000 watts de
potencia, Radio Educación, la señal cultural de México". At times fair
and clear signal, but at times very weak, barely audible.``

Re MW 1060 XEEP: tho their IDs as heard even on SW always proclaim
100,000 watts, they are supposed to cut to only 20,000 at night and go
direxional, I have no idea whichaway. But it certainly is no dominant
signal here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 22 circa 2215, VP signal but VOT English
appears to be on today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2030 monitoring: confirmed Wed Apr 22 at 2127
the 2100 on WBCQ 7490.2, JBA.

Also confirmed UT Thu Apr 23 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente
SDR in Holland.

WOR 2031 should be ready by early UT Fri Apr 24, for first USSW
broadcast Friday at 2200 on WRMI 9955.

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard,
Raleigh NC, who sent a generous US$ cheque 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. 5129.987, UT Wed April 22 at 0127, WBCQ with `Amateur Radio
Roundtable`, S9+10/20 but heavy approaching storm noise level
impossiblizes copy, other than interviewee sounds like a S Asian
accent. Almost on-frequency as this transmitter has achieved lately.

So is 6160v also on again, //? Apparently so as signature
off-frequency 6159.917V has a JBA signal combined with high storm
noise level to register S7-S9. Recheck 0222, 5130 still going but if
it`s really the other WBCQ, JBA carrier in storm noise now measured
down to 6159.703V (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 711.00, April 22 at 0225, two JBA carriers slightly
apart beating, one or both Cuban or TA? Cursory check of 9-kHz TA
frequencies vs storm noise level detects 828, 945, but interestingly,
not 531, 549 nor 891, the usual Algerians (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0123 UT April 23

** CANADA. 15034-USB, April 21 at 1731, CHR Trenton Military ID with
own timecheck almost correct as 1730z, only one minute off instead of
61, which went on for months and months. Maybe fixed a while ago as I
don`t often happen to tune across when this datum emit (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Correxion: I neglected to add: ``Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba``, to: 711, April 20 at 0600, presumed off-frequency Radio
Rebelde is still very much here making big het against legal 710
stations. Someone reported hearing RR audio on 711, but I never have
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Correxion: I forgot to add: ``Something`s always wrong at
RHC``, to: 6060 // 6100 // 6145, April 20 at 0550, all three RHCs are
splattering plus/minus 10 kHz during music, e.g. QRMing 6050 ECUADOR,
q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, April 21 at 0607, RHC English is suptorted while the
other three, 6060, 6100 and 6145 are well-modulated. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 21 at 0600, RNZI timesignal and news,
S8-S9, good to hear them again, not only on the air but also
propagating; the SSOB by far and virtually the OSOB except for a few
JBA carriers. Even 9 MHz band is empty except for domestix WRMI, WEWN
and WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 21 at 0604, VON again audible at S9-S6,
weaker than usual. Would expect it to propagate from the tropix even
when signals from Europe be outwiped, but this may be relevant for
missing signals the night before, from https://spaceweather.com via
Mike Terry to the WOR io group:

``The first geomagnetic storm of 2020 (category G1) took forecasters
by surprise on April 20th when a CME hit Earth's magnetic field,
sparking bright auroras over Canada and some northern-tier US states.
The cause of the storm appears to be a faint slow-moving CME (coronal
mass ejection) that left the sun on April 15th. This CME was not
squarely Earth-directed, and forecasters did not think it was likely
to hit our planet. Nevertheless, it apparently did. Solar wind data
suggest that the CME sideswiped Earth with a snowplow-like buildup of
plasma shortly after 0130 UT on April 20th``

Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach near Monterey, California, also
replies April 20: ``Hi Glenn, My last VON reception was briefly noted
in tuning by on April 16, on 7254.94, at 0554, with African religious
song, in English and vernacular, titled "In The Name Of Jesus"(?);
0557, start of their usual musical IS; strong signal. Ron``

And on April 21: ``VON, on 7254.94, checking 0623-0630; heard with
fair-good signal; in vernacular; 0627, brief musical IS and sounded
like COVID-19 PSA. Ron, California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1020 // 1580, April 21 at 1742 UT, two-thirds of the
Triple-Play sport stations, KOKP Perry and KOKB Blackwell,
respectively, are instead carrying what sound like a live event,
probably from Oklahoma News Network, chief of Otoe-Missouri tribe and
Gov. Stitt about to sign a ``gaming compact`` about sharing earnings
from stupid gamblers between tribe and state, which has been a very
contentious issue in OK, and presumably still so concerning several
other tribes.

A quick tune across the MW band finds *no* other stations carrying
this, not even talk formats in OKC and Tulsa --- after all, that would
pre-empt Rush on some of them! TPS has always had a secondary
non-sports talk format, evidently expanded with nothing to lose (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15205.055, April 21 at 1732, SBC with Qur`an, VP
S4-S5 and stable frequency. But:

15434.986V, April 21 at 1734, SBC in Arabic other General Service not
so far off-frequency but audibly wobbling as I measure it, slightly
stronger S6-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830v, April 20 at 2227 check, no signal from VOT English
to N America. I did not try April 19, but Wolfgang Bueschel found it
absent also then: ``9830 kHz 22-23 UT TRT English - NOT ON AIR -
tonight. Not 22, 2205, nor at 2215 UT, only co-channel CNR1 Beijing
Chinese Mandarin sce, here in Western EUR at S=6-7 signal level``.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 245 kHz, April 21 at 0617 UT, ND beacon FS, which is 400
watts from Sioux Falls SD - Rock. Apparently the CV-19 outbreak there
has not yet silenced it. Under spring storm conditions, logging any of
these is difficult (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2030 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue Apr 21 at
0100 on WRMI 7780, fair-good via UTwente SDR, Holland. Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard,
Raleigh NC, who sent a generous US$ cheque 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. 7780, UT Tue April 21 at 0138, WRMI playing World Music fill
including own canned ID at 0141: instead of the unID ``pilot program``
of music I had heard on March 24 and April 7. So the pilot burned out?
What was it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5800, UT Tue April 21 at 0610, S9+10 open carrier, no doubt
WRMI on way late, but why? I had this before, but what day of week in
case it`s regular? As yet unfound that log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4980, April 21 at 0610, JBA carrier, presumed still the WRMI
exciter-only test; and not even that much from 4990 if Suriname were
active (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, April 21 at 0613, single-letter beacon A is
audible barely vs storm noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1938 UT April 21