** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 27 at 1410: none in the 16s; only
15110 JBA; 11440 JBA carrier; 11150 JBA Chinese; 11120 S2-S3; none in
the lower 9s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11950, Aug 27 at 2215, RHC on here during the hour earlier
than scheduled, with non-// alternative Spanish programming to 11760
mainstream. Something`s always wrong? at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [non]. 9490.028V, Aug 28 at 0242, R. República via RMI via
Issoudun, FRANCE, with song blending ME and Cuban elements? Soon 0244
into complaints of a political prisoner; S9+10/20 and no jamming
audible now. Frequency is varying slightly, difficultizing measuring.

After 0300, the UT Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon extension hour has resumed on 5800,
WRMI itself, confirmed at 0344 check Aug 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 27 at 0558, no signal from VON which should be
running IS by now for 0600 broadcast, but not rechecked later here or
elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. I haven`t kept rereporting this daily, but as of 1409 UT
Aug 27 daytime, no change since last report Aug 21, concerning 515-MCW
kHz, ND Beacon PN, Ponca City, still OFF; and 341-MCW kHz, NDB EI,
Enid, still on (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 27 at 2212, no signal here from VOT, surely off;
remote not checked since 9420 neighbor Greece accomplishes S8-S9.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Aug 27 at 1418, WRMI prolonged today beyond nominal
1400* with Freedom Synergy Radio talking about Taiwan in English. You
never know whether this webcast-only time will also get shortwaved
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1130 kHz, Aug 27 at 1410 UT, KLEY Wellington KS, is still on
steadily S9 but only a trace of music modulation; maybe the 250-watt
daytime rating, but useless except for the 100.3 FM translator to
pretend to relay it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 contents: Algeria, Antarctica,
Belarus non, Bolivia, Bougainville, Canada, China, Cuba and non,
France, India, Indonesia, Korea South & North, Laos, Madagascar,
México, Mongolia, Netherlands and non, New Zealand, Perú, Poland,
Spain, Sudan, Tajikistan/Tibet non, Turkey, UK, USA; and the
propagation outlook

WOR 2049 is available as of 2318 UT Thursday August 27
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2049.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2049.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 3210-USB
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955-[jammed?] to SSE
0700 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
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]
0700 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs

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

Thanks for financial support from Eric Lund, Karlsborg, Sweden
for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
- not necessarily US funds as PP will convert

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 USA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5850 // much weaker 5010, UT Fri Aug 28 at 0129 WRMI
abruptly cuts off Robobibling in English from ABF for ID and 0130 Bob
Bierman ``Greatest Music of All Time``, first Middle Eastern, by 0144
Cuban, ``MiLonga``, etc. Filling a blank field on the System F
skedgrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. JBA MW carrier search, Aug 27 at 0605: 621, 711, 846,
855(2), 882, all probably Eurafrican except 846 Kiritimati (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Aug 28 at
0253-0300, not in the order tuned: 684, 711.0, 891, 936, 1098(2),
1107(2), 1125, 1152, 1215(2), 1305(2) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING

Politics --- DONALD TRUMP’S CORRUPTION WAS ON FULL DISPLAY AT THE RNC
George Zornick, Jesselyn Cook, HuffPost August 25, 2020, 11:10 PM CDT
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-corruption-rnc-041022029.html

THE DAILY [SOCIAL DISTANCING] SHOW, with TREVOR NOAH

On Comedy Central, UT Tue-Fri at 0300-0345, repeated 0515-0600 UT, but
you don`t even need basic cable. Terrific political satire so needed
now, segment by segment:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trevor+noah+daily+show
This week however, another episode UT Sat Aug 29 to wrap up RNC (gh)

This report dispatched at 0409 UT August 28

** TURKEY. 9830, Wed Aug 26 at 2214, VOT S9+50! VG via UTwente but
with some hum, not even tried directly, already finishing `Turkey`s
Tourist Attraxions` and next into `This Day in History`, the latter
voiced by the `Letterbox` guy which is what I am expecting, ranging
from something Turkish in 1071y (when ``August 26`` if any, was
somewhen else) to the death of Charles Lindbergh in 1974y. 2217 his
canned COVID-19 PSA; 2218 music break but no `Letterbox`; 2224 the YL
with `Did You Know That?` about Hatay, UNESCO Creative City of
Gastronomy --- Well, the only Turkish city in the Top Ten here is #8,
Gaziantep!
https://lifeofdoing.com/unesco-creative-cities-of-gastronomy-foodie-destinations/
By 2230, more music fill, it`s quite clear this is another week with
no Letterbox (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: Re: ``Slept past 1330 UT Sat
Aug 22; did anyone hear 1300+ on WRMI 15770?`` --- Yes, direct here in
NB. Reception very good. Preceded Shortwave Radiogram. Recorded both.
-- Richard Langley``

Also confirmed Wed Aug 26 from 2100:17.5 on WBCQ 7490v, good via
Rochester SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thu Aug 27 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good S8-S9 via
Rochester SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thu Aug 27 at 0130, new time on WRMI 5850, good
S9+10 via Rochester and VG direct; and new 5010 VG S9+15 via TWR
Bonaire.

Next WOR 2049 should be ready by early UT Friday August 28 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0146 UT August 27

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 26 at 1414: none in 15s, 14s, 13s
nor any higher than 12190, S4-S6; skipping 25m inband; 11440 S4-S6;
11100 S5-S7; skipping 31m inband; 9155 S7-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, Aug 26 at 1411, RHC S9+20 but JBM during `Sonido
Cubano` music, while // 13700 is only S9+10 but fully modulated.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 13710, Aug 26 at 1411, M&W conversation in American
English, which means it must be CRI: yes, scheduled this hour only via
Kashgar, land of ChiCom persecuting Uighurs. I was expecting Sa`udi
Arabia but that`s not till later, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 5970, Aug 26 at 1516, via UTwente SDR, marine weather in
French by OM, keeps talking about whiskey --- those sailors! British
DX Clubbers, who don`t need a remote, first reported this yesterday,
for another Atlantic yacht race, HFCC-registered ``for new
organisation`` at 1500-1600 on this and four other ISSoudun
frequencies, 6105, 13730, 15300 and 17800, but no signals there.
Available for entire A-20 season, mixture of 225, 255 and 250 degrees
and 100 or 250 kW, but 5970 is 255 degrees at 250 kW, to CIRAFs 27SW &
37NW which basically means the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain;
unneeded 17800 would go as far as CIRAF 81S = middle of North
Atlantic, into 11 = Caribbean.

Recheck at 1522, now marine weather by YL in English with considerable
French accent; SW and NW direxions are clarified by fonetix including
whiskey. 1524, ``that`s all for the weather`` and says will be no
broadcast tomorrow as most should have arrived at destination by then,
Azores? and ``Mission: Impossible`` theme. 1525.4 to dead air until
off at 1530.1*. However there is a trace of some other talk
modulation, QRM or Issoudun leakage? BBC Pashto via Oman is also sked,
but don`t hear it after ISS off. It seems the current race is only
along the coast of France; Azores curtailed:
http://lessables-lesacores.geovoile.com/2020/tracker/

https://www.classemini.com/course-fr-les-sables---les-acores-en-baie-de-morlaix-1.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ITALY [non]. 7290, Wed Aug 26 at 1801, IRRS via Bulgaria via
UTwente, `Feature Story News` headlines, *then* 1802 IRRS Aïda theme
and sign-on, into `Life Matters`, anti-abortion show from California.
But also dealing the George Floyd case and BLM; somehow connecting the
murderous officer`s name to chauvinism and the godless French
Revolution. This is under the European Gospel Radio subset rather than
NEXUS-IBA or IPAR. Usual heavy splash from both 7280 and 7290 and the
warbling from 7291 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 26 at 0636 UT, JBA carrier from presumed
R. Kiribati, quite a regular now, and should be pullable well further
north and east of here. I don`t expect to get any audio, and for some
DXers that means they don`t care just to detect the carrier, no matter
how certain and obvious it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710.014, Aug 26 at 1501, SBC Qur`an service has
taken over from CRI East Turkistan, q.v. Aoki shows the handover at
1457 as if closely coördinated despite SA no longer active in HFCC. By
1519 I check it via UTwente SDR, where there is an excellent S9+40
local-quality signal on AMSynch matching my measurement, and wideband
9 kHz does it justice. I keep the incomprehensible classical Arabic
beautiful music with lite reverb, artificially applied? Or really from
inside a mosque? going in background past 1715; occasional
interruptions for ID or brief spoken sermonizing like 1645-1648; and
longer talk-only after 1650; still Qur`aning at 1740 recheck; off at
1759, scheduled until 1757*. All violating Separation of Mosque and
State, ha2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. Re previous report of birdsong show on REE, 9690: later
found it in podcast archive from original broadcast last March under
title ``Las aves``:

``Radio 5 En clave de 5 --- Sábados a las 21.05 horas. En Radio
Exterior miércoles a las 11.05 UTC [NOT when I heard it]

En clave de 5 - Las aves - 21/03/20 21 mar 2020

Desde el comienzo de los tiempos el canto de las aves ha inspirado a
los compositores. Escucharemos ejemplos de Janequin, Rameau,
Rautaavara, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen y otros.

https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/2105-clave-cinco-140320-aves-2020-03-20t11-39-39197/5542672/
reproducir audio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0648 UT, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25
watts from Wahoo, Nebraska.

417-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0651 UT, ND beacon IY, 25 watts from Charles
City, Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring, Next:
2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S]

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

Thanks for financial support from Samuel Sánchez, podcast
listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
- not necessarily in US funds as PP will convert

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 USA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4840, Aug 26 at 0632, this WWCR is S9+30 of dead air. 3215
with perpetual #1 squealing is S9+10/20 of BS.

5890 is also S9+10/20 but with double audio! BS plus some other talk
slightly lower, or seems so because BS is always screaming, maybe what
is supposed to be on 4840? Soon a Silver Solutions ad for ingesting
metal, not a good idea. Then resuming talkshow, name sounds like
Bosent Mopela?? But 0635 stops, leaving BS audio only. NO, program
sked shows after 0600 weekdays, TOMBS is supposed to be on all three.
Maybe intruder was from 1300 WNQM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, Aug 26 at 0625, Radio Vanuatu 3 x 3945 back to
normal, music at S3-S5; while 2 x = 7890 is S4-S5 but JBA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 710.4, Aug 26 at 0637 UT, het upon the 710.0 stations,
not 711! So not Morocco, getting too late anyway for that. It`s strong
enough to DF on the hand-held altazimuth wrist-mounted DX-398 as
slightly clockwise from E-W, like 100/280 degrees which isn`t SE
enough for Cuba and not NE enough for Eurafrica, so likely an
off-frequency domestic, and certainly neither of my closest dominants,
KGNC and KCMO. So what else is near that axis? KFIA Carmichael CA, U4
25000/1000 i.e. Sacramento; WNTM Mobile AL, U2 1000/1000; two in GA,
one in SC, which cannot be ruled out despite being daytimers. Locals
near these areas please check for offfrequenciness; apparently
intermittent, as not audible a bit later at 0651 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

This report dispatched at 1820 UT August 26