** CANADA. 218-MCW kHz, Oct 15 at 0603 UT, NDB dash and RL, which is
980 watts from Red Lake, Ontario.

269-MCW kHz, Oct 15 at 0601 UT, NDB dash and UDE, which is 50 watts
from Delta, Manitoba.

274-MCW kHz, Oct 15 at 0600 UT, ND beacon dash and YPM, 25 watts from
Pikangikum, Ontario, which DXinfocentre.com marx as decommissioned --
but not, it`s back! Where`s that?

http://www.ifna.ca/article/pikangikum-116.asp

``Overview --- Pikangikum First Nation is located on Pikangikum Lake,
approximately 100 km northwest of Red Lake, Ontario. It is
approximately 15 minutes by plane from Red Lake to Pikangikum.
Pikangikum is one of the largest First Nation communities in Northern
Ontario with the highest on-reserve population in Northern Ontario,
approximately 2,300. An estimated 75% of the population is under
twenty-five years of age... (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. Correxion: this was on Oct 6, not Oct 5 typo; fixed:

6754.8-USB, Oct 6 at 2325, the other CHR Trenton frequency for night
is also askew from 6754.0, but only +0.8 kHz instead of +1.8 kHz;
someop`s slippery fingers? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Oct 15 at 1354: Only 13835, 10920 JBA
carriers; 9155, 9300, the last until 1400*; no other WOOBs in between
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 4940, Oct 15 at 0204, quick check just to confirm
anonymous mystery missionary station is still going (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2056)

** CUBA. 6000, Oct 15 at 0541, RHC English is S9+20 but suptorted; //
6145 also but better than 6000. 6100 is OK, VG S9+40. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PALAU. 9900, Oct 15 at 0904, when I happen to awaken, no signal
from T8WH which was going to start testing at 0800. Scott Reppert of
Hope Radio in WV later informs it did not happen due to transmitter
troubles but were going to try again Oct 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 2056)

** U S A. World of Radio 2055 monitoring: confirmed UT Thu Oct 15 at
0100 on WRMI 7780, S7-S9 into UTwente SDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2056 contents: Alaska, Algeria and non, Antarctica,
Ascension, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba and non, France
Germany, Indonesia, Iran non, Japan non, Korea South & North,
Madagascar, Myanmar, Nigeria, Oklahoma, Palau, Perú, Philippines,
Romania, Russia, São Tomé, Sa`udi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK
non, Uzbekistan, Vatican and non, Venezuela, Zanzibar; and the
propagation outlook

WOR 2056 is available as of 2339 UT Thursday October 15
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2056.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2056.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 Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW]
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com -
not necessarily in US funds, from Samuel Sánchez, who says,
"So enjoy your podcasts. Again, many thanks for your exceptional
journalism. It is can't miss listening for me each week``

One may also contribute via money order or check in US funds
on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6160-v, Oct 15 at 0203, JBA carrier maybe ailing WBCQ, while
7490+ is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5985, Oct 15 at 0540, S9+10 gospel huxter in English, S9+10
undermodulated, WRMI expanded? Yes, skedgrid now shows `Challenge`,
Tue-Sun at 0500-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Oct 15 at 0202, WRNO is still gone (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2056)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 15 from 0546:
558, 576, 603, 612, 621, 639, 684*, 693, 738, 747, 774(2), 837,
855(2), 882, 891, 936, 1017, 1044(2), 1053*, 1089, 1098(2), 1107(2),
1116(2), 1152, 1215(2), 1305(2), 1422, 1503, 1584, 1710(domestic).
*strongest. Despite this rather long list, if I were to immediately
rescan and/or do it in 1 kHz/LSB instead of USB offset, would come up
with some others which were temporarily obscured by music splash
and/or random fading the first time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0126 UT October 16

** MADAGASCAR. 13710, Oct 14 at 2109, something new: ``His mother
waited up for him``, repeated over and over --- a secret spy message?
No, alternating with something in Chinese, so a language lesson; first
thought VOA? But next phrase to learn is ``The Bible tells us to wait
patiently on the Lord`` --- oh, oh, better not be VOA. Nothing is
scheduled in the big three on 13710 at this hour, but MWV is on 13710
until 2100 in Arabic. Chinese follows supposed to be on 11610 where
it`s always good here, aimed at Europe, so failed to change frequency!
Wish I had figured this out in time to check whether 11610 were
missing today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 14 at 2205, VOT English inbooming to UTwente at
S9+40 with usual features, but after same old COVID-19 PSA and `Today
in History`, just music fill after 2218, no `Letterbox` on yet another
Wednesday. But the music is really nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed Wed Oct 14 from
2100:18 on WBCQ 7490.06v, S6-S8 direct as reception gradually
improves; jump to 2200 in November will help more.

Also confirmed surprise new time on WRMI 9955, Wed Oct 14 at 2200,
caught by Richard Lemke, Alberta; and now it is on the skedgrid too.

Next: 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

Thanks for an anonymous contribution by money order or check
in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert.

WOR 2056 should be ready by early UT Friday October 16 for first
broadcast at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 5010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 18155-USB, Oct 14 at 2103, ham in ``western Washington``
in contact with weaker station, but he is in deep fades avoiding ID,
typical of sporadic E. First catch on ``17`` m in a few weeks despite
frequent scanthrus. DXMaps did not catch this opening MUF even unto
<19 MHz. OSOB and also not a thing on 16m SWBC band, and probably not
either a single transmission now from anywhere in Hemisphere West
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0016 UT October 15

** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, Wed Oct 14 at 1810, another try at English
from RTA via FRANCE. Again poor signal at UTwente, and even worse to
Spain, South Africa, Qatar and Kuwait SDRs, but ICELAND is sufficient
off the back S4-S6 and echoey as I pay attention from 1825: now in
French; 1835 pause for Qur`an; 1838 back to French; 1844 météo avec
musique; 1846 item about Nations-Unies; 1851 Arabic to 1859* off. No
English during this period, so is there ever, anymore? BTW, météo
meaning weather is missing from my neat handy little Collins
French/English 760-page pocket dixionary first published in 1952y:
must be a neologism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 248-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0614 UT, ND beacon dash and WG,
which is 1000 watts from WinnipeG, Manitoba, *much* stronger than the
others now and often:

250-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0613 UT, ND beacon dash and FO, which is 1600
watts from Flin Flon, Manitoba. ``Flin Flon shares the distinction of
being named after a character in an adventure novel with Tarzana,
California.`` --- bing. 2066 km = 1284 statute miles from Enid.

258-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0612 UT, ND beacon dash and ZSJ which is 1000
watts from Sandy Lake, Ontario, not South Africa. I was tuned to
257-USB. Wikipedia:

``Sandy Lake First Nation (or Negaw-zaaga'igan Nitam-Anishinaabe,
Oji-Cree: ᓀᑲᣞ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᓂᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ) is an independent Oji-Cree First
Nations band government. The First Nations community, in the west part
of Northern Ontario, is located in the Kenora District, 227 km (141
mi) northeast of Red Lake, Ontario.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 19, Oct 14 at 1515 UT, still no signal from KAUT OKC.
Rabbitears.info shows it has transitioned to ATSC 3.0 as of October 8,
the only Market 50 station so far, and as related to KFOR. None others
in OK or KS, and in TX only in Austin and DFW. Very few overall.

No signal registers visibly, of course, nor even on the STB meter, but
presumably is there, and enough to block any DX of either standard.
KAUT ``Freedom 43`` programming in ATSC 1.0 is allegedly now on the RF
27 KFOR transmitter, but I am not getting any sign of it, just KFOR
and its usual -2, -3 and -4 subchannels. Surely the STB would step on
to -5 or whatever? Rabbitears.info is not showing programming transfer
to KFOR.

I asked KWTV/KSBI engineering director Jack Mills about this, and he
thinx the only way to get KAUT in would be to rescan. But STBs should
not require that, and my other TV which does, Sanyo, I never want to
rescan since it may miss marginal signals at the moment which are
already scanned in! Never buy a TV which can be set up for tuning
*only* by scanning! Cannot even add or delete channels at will (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. RF 20, Oct 14 at 1513 UT, KTXS 12-1 is decoding, tnx to
tropo blob as forecast by Hepburn, from marginal here to levels 5-6
SSW into W central TX, i.e. Sweetwater station at 494 km = 307 miles
city-to-city. With ABC, The View sporadically decoding, and also at
1532, CW on 12-2 and MeTV on 12-3. Otherstation in market, KRBC NBC
``9`` is now on RF 29 so blocked here by KTUZ or maybe QRMing it. I
had both 9 and 12 many times back in the analog VHF TVDX era. KTXS
runs 530 kW ERP from 1319 feet HAAT per rabbitears.info and is also
direxional skewed eastward toward Abilene, also with beam tilt. Level
1 tropo into S Kansas is enough to inbring sporadically KDCU RF 31
``31``, Derby-Wichita with Univision bug LR at 1523. Both to my
bent-mast and broken antenna at roof-level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: final two airings:
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 for an anonymous contribution by money order or check
in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert
WOR 2056 should be ready by early UT Friday October 16 for first
broadcast at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 5010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 10194-USB, Oct 14 at 1407, WGY945 definitely IDed twice in
contact with anotherstation, informal weather discussion, digiblast
and nothing further for a few minutes. Searched out an ancient
27-year-old list by Richard Bak of FEMA frequencies, not including
this one, and calls, this one having been in Columbus OH;
http://www.redwaveradio.com/11_0fce4e49481b7ea0_1.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9991.44-USB, Oct 14 at 1411, 2-way in colloquial Spanish
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1937 UT October 14

** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, Tuesday October 13 at *1800, TDA relay via
FRANCE cuts on just in time, opening in Arabic with VG signal into
UTwente, atop self-jamming beepery also audible. Last summer it was
discovered that this hour, only, of RTA would often contain an English
segment out of the domestic international network, usually around the
half hour, but no one has reported it in a long time, so I am
rechecking today, listening after 1825 either live or by recording,
but the signal has faded down a lot. I can`t make out any English
after 1830, but at 1841 seems to have switched to French. After that,
so weak I can`t discern the language. Try another day, and/or another
remote site.

Drastic move down to 7375 for B-20 should improve close-in reception,
and if the segment shift one UT hour later between 19-20 due to going
off DST, both 7375 and 7315 will be available per:
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B20&broadc=TDA
which also shows extensive imaginary schedule of RTA via the two sites
inside Algeria which have been ``under construxion`` for many, many
years, always with wooden HFCC schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Oct 13 at 2336-2348, not in the order
tuned, mostly fluttery JBA carriers at known spots, u.o.s.: 9180,
9200, 9280, 9300, 11070, 11100, 11460, 11500, 12210 Chinese, 12880,
13130 S9+10 Chinese talk and music, why so big, the rest so small?
13160, 14870, 14920, 15920, 16160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 13 at 0338, anonymous mystery missionary
station, with gospel huxter in Spanish, S9/+5 into Bonaire SDR with
characteristic minus 6.2 Hz carrier offset. Recheck direct at 0627,
same at S9 but poor in noise level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 7345, Oct 13 at 0602, BBCWS in English, poor with
Cuban pulse jamming. A fine example of Cuba not giving a damn about
collateral damage its excessive jamming may cause; since it`s
``needed`` only before 0200 UT when Radio Martí quits DRMing
7340-7345-7350.

BBC to Africa at 06-07 is via Ascension, but also on 7345 at 05-06 via
Vatican and 07-08 via São Tomë --- why change sites every hour;
because they can? 7345 once was useful here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Oct 13 at 0604, NO signal from VON; it had been
reliable for quite a while checked almost every night after this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.903, Oct 14 at 0021, JBA carrier, trace of mod?
Presumably the ailing WBCQ transmitter during `Old Tyme Radio`, close
to known offset but could be a local birdie. Nothing about this on the
program schedule website, but plans for a Thanxgiving special:
http://zappahead.net/#2020-1126-wbcq-thanksgiving
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4840, Oct 13 at 0626, WWCR with S9+40 of dead air as often
during this frequency-hour; ho, hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 880, Oct 13 at 0610 UT, amid TA carrier search including one
on 882, I notice that KRVN Lexington, Nebraska is still carrying Jim
Bohannon during this hour, despite missing from his website
station-finder, as has just appeared in NRC DX News (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 13 at 0340, no signal into Bonaire
from ROCV. I wonder if it adhere to a specific schedule, or erratic.
Manuel Méndez, Spain, reports to the WOR iog that instead of Venezuela
93.7, it`s now relaying LV del Tigre, 980, and he was still hearing it
later on same date:

``6906.1, R. O. C. V., Radio Onda Corta Venezuela, El Tigre, heard
here in Friol today, 0425-0555, 13-10, extremely weak signal,
Venezuelan and pop songs, audible only at times, strong fading, no
identification can be heard due to the extremely weak signal. 15311.

Via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Bonaire, heard with fair to good
signal, 0530-0640, 13-10. and I could observe that R. O. C. V. has
left relaying "Venezuela, 93.7 FM, Así Suena", and now is relaying "La
Voz del Tigre, 980 AM", Venezuelan and pop songs in English,
identifications: "Todo el día complaciendo a sus oyentes, La Voz del
Tigre", "Desde El Tigre, 980 AM", "980 en el dial, La Voz del Tigre",
"La Voz del Tigre, 980, la pionera", "980 AM, La Voz del Tigre".

The programming manager of the station confirms, via Whatsapp, that
the actual power is 50 watts, but in about 12 days they increase the
transmitter power, he also says R. O. C. V. means Radio Onda Corta
Venezuela`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 13 from 0610:
576, 621, 774(2), 855, 882, 936, 1044, 1089, 1098, 1107, 1116(2),
1125, 1134(2), 1305, 1503(2); 1710(domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, Oct 13 at 0618 UT, JBA talk at the end of my TA
carrier search, probably the Hudson County NJ TIS.

BTW, I wonder what happened to that religious pirate in Bâton Rouge on
1690? Not heard since sometime last year. Website emphasizes streaming
of radio and TV but still claims 1690 toward the bottom of this page:
https://www.radioretenloquetienes.com/
And even displays the FCC logo with a reference to Part 15. They used
to claim an FM frequency too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
++++++++++++++++++++++++

IAN BREMMER, GZERO MEDIA: WHY I`M NOT VOTING FOR TRUMP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_rZ1D-Mtac
(via gh)

This report dispatched at 0216 UT October 14

** PALAU [and non]. Re: T8WH PALAU firing back up:

Correspondence with Scott Reppert of Hope Radio:

``Mr Reppert, We are getting reports the last few days of Radio Free
Asia testing in Vietnamese at 1330-1430 UT on 9955 kHz. Is this via
Palau? Can you definitely confirm whether or not? Are you also
planning to lease it to RFA? Thanks, Glenn Hauser``, Oct 8.

``Glenn: It was not us. A link to our frequencies is below. We do not
have any plans to lease to anyone right now, but would possibly
consider it should something come our way.
https://www.hoperadio.net/frequencies
Scott Reppert``, Oct 12. Viz.:

``Winter Frequencies
Angel 3 0800-2300 UTC M-Sun 9930
Angel 4 0100-0500 UTC [days not specified] 15675
Angel 5 0800-1200 UTC [days not specified] 9965
*winter frequencies commence on October 25, 2020*``

``Scott, When do you expect to start testing? Since you are still
referring to the transmitters as Angels, will LeSea/FBC still be
involved in this, such as your leasing rather than buying them
outright? Glenn``

``I will have to check with our engineer on site to see when the
repairs we are making to the facilities will be done. When he gives us
the go-ahead, I'll let you know. Even though the Angel names were kept
(in honor of Dr. Sumrall), we own the stations outright. Scott``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 12, WOR iog)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed Monday
October 12 from 1801.1 on IRRS, 7290 Bulgaria, VG S9+15/25 at UTwente.
Continued OK past 1810 but always with splash from Vietnam 7280 and/or
Iran 7300. 7290 open carrier already on at 1757; 1758.8 JIP rock song;
1759.8 IRRS/NEXUS ID with Milano PO Box and phone; 1800.6 Feature
Story News headlines then WOR. AMSynch frequency reads out 7289.99830
varying to 7289.99845 or so.

Also confirmed UT Tue Oct 13 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here and sounds
undermodulated; but clockwise at a Rochester SDR closer to the beam
angle, it`s VG S9+5/10.

Also confirmed UT Tue Oct 13 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, Good S7-S8 at
Rochester; S9+15/20 at Bonaire; fair to portable/rod ATS-909 here.

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 for an anonymous contribution by money order or check
in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6160v, Oct 13 at 0005, Larry Will explains absence this
weekend: ``Hi Glenn, There was a lightning event at WBCQ on Saturday
evening at around 0030 UT Sunday October 11 that damaged some
equipment at the classic WBCQ facility, including the 6160 transmitter
and some of the support equipment for the AM and FM systems. 6160 is
back online this evening as I write this, although it is running on
lower power as repairs proceed. We expect full service to resume
sometime this week if all goes well. Thanks, Lw``

So then I check it at 0009 via Rochester SDR, VP S4-S6 with AMSynch
carrier offset reading minus 80 Hz, i.e. 6159.92. At 0013 direct to
here, JBA but measured 6159.920. Yet 7490.06 is S9+10 with cool jazz
on FTIOM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Oct 13 at 0025 and still at 0200 chex, NO signal from
WRNO, gone again. Maybe crashed after last night`s distorted
overmodulation and splatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Keith Olbermann Goes To Town On ‘Creature’ Donald Trump In Return To
Punditry --- The commentator launched his “Worst Person In The World”
video series on YouTube with zinger after zinger about the president’s
coronavirus failings. By Lee Moran...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-donald-trump-worst-man-in-the-world_n_5f7edb33c5b6e48b16840d91

His first new video
https://youtu.be/rE-GxWyhw_Q

Keith has a small professional announcement to make ;-)
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vAxRrwoOQRxl
(via gh)

This report dispatched at 0410 UT October 13