** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, Friday August 7 just as I tune in RTA via
FRANCE via UTwente SDR, at 1827.5 English segment is starting, about a
female singer named Aishi(?). Good -60-70 dBm with self-QRM only from
the beeping. 1832 switches to general info about that American style
of music, jazz, with clips of ``Lewis`` Armstrong in ``Wonderful
World`` and ``Hello, Dolly``, and others from New Orleans. 1837.5 just
music. 1838.5 into Spanish, `Africa Hoy` about the Gran Museo in
Egypt. 1849 French ID as R. Algerie Internationale, music; 1851.5
brief Qur`an reminding God that it is Great; 1854 bit of Arabic talk,
pop music to 1859* chopoff. Maybe the Q was for vespers as Algiers LSS
was 1848, close enough? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. Correxion: the offset from 11780 to 11731 and 11829 is 49
not 39 kHz; fixed:

11731 and weaker 11829 approx., August 6 at 2346 suspicious blobs with
no readable modulation, but they happen to be ~49 kHz equidistant
from: 11780 RNA which is S9+20/30 and distorted; it has
been a spur-producer before. The lower one QRMs Romania in Spanish on
11730. Then I try to detect them on some S and N American SDRs but
cannot; even at Braslia 11780 is not very strong by groundwave (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 7730, Aug 7 at 1332, CNR1 jammer at S4-S6, confirmed as such
by // 13130 et al., shortly. Aoki shows SOH & jamming up to 24h on
7730, Mandarin except for diversion to the Cantonese hour at 15-16.
Still seems odd for anything but WRMI to be heard here. Fortunately,
when it is on evening and night, we never have any QRM.

CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 7 at 1336, mostly JBA to JBA carriers except
here S-ed: 13130 S5-S8, 13020, 12500, 12190 S7-S9 vs CODAR;

1341: 13835 with self-echo from two and // the WOOBs as CNR1; 14850;
11460, 11440.

1346: 11170 S4-S6, 11150, 11070, 10820 S2-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GERMANY. At 1650 this Friday August 7, I remember that Uncle Bill`s
shows are now scheduled on 9670 from Channel 292, Germany, 16-18 UT
--- UTwente and e.g. Lisbon SDR have nothing but JBA carriers. At
least there is no CCI or ACI. By 1742 some music audible at both,
better at UTwente, but vs lots of noise level. UTw improving, -75 to
-85 dBm. 1750: at UTwente: Seems more splash from faroff 9685 Urumqi
bigsig than from 9665 Pyongyang. As I posted step by step on the WOR
iogroup. Bill Tilford replies:

``Thanks Glenn, We're going to give this one more try next week just
to exclude a bad day at ionosphere rock, if the results are similar
we'll then test a few hours later. We will be keeping our
transmissions on 6070 either way, this is a possible addition rather
than a substitute. --Bill``

Just now saw this at 2220 -- checking 9670 on UTwente, nothin but
noise. Glenn

``NEWS FLASH - REPEAT TEST OF 9670 TONITE!!
After conferring with Channel 292, we are going to do repeat tests of
9670 kHz tonite as follows:
2100-2200 UTC - From the Isle of Music
2300-0000 UTC - Uncle Bill's Melting Pot

Another program, Radio Waves International, will be in the middle at
2200-2300. Next week there will be a repeat test from 1600-1800 to
rule out propagation and/or technical anomalies.

William "Bill" Tilford
Tilford Productions LLC
5713 N. St. Louis Av
Chicago IL 60659-4405
tel: 773.267.6548``

At 2325, 9670 at UTwente still nothing but noise, skipover late at
night. At Maine SDR, music S4-S6 still noisy. Somewhat listenable.
At OK, JBA carrier at 2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, August 8 at 0104, song of some sort,
checked on a Rochester remote after tip in FRW that Radio Nova would
be here from 0030 for almost an hour. Poor noisy signal and fading by
0115. But 0123 NOVA in CW and SSTV (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Friday August 7 at 2202 NO signal from VOT English
checked at TWR/DR SDR, nothing but NSS RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2046 monitoring: confirmed first
WRMI airing, Friday August 7 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, VP signal here but
modulating; good at TWR Dominican Republic KiwiSDR. Next, to confirm
changes as per sked grid, and with 7780 back on the air:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955-NEW [jammed?] to SSE
[5850, 5010 canceled?]
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 [NEW] to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSE
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
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
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
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 financial support from Doug Brown, London, Ont.,
for a check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA

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

** U S A. 7780, August 7 at 2156, JBA signal signifies that WRMI-1 is
finally back on air after a few days missing. Now I check WRMI FB:

``WRMI Radio Miami International
Yesterday at 11:44 AM · [EDT? August 6]

Dear WRMI Listeners: Earlier this week we experienced a severe
thunderstorm in the area of our transmitter site in Okeechobee (just
after Hurricane Isaias passed by). Our power lines were affected by
the storm. We did not lose power fortunately, but there was a power
surge which blew out some lights in our building and also blew out
some parts in our Transmitter #1 which operates on 7780 kHz. Our
engineers have been working on this for a few days now and have
replaced a number of components in the transmitter, but it still needs
more work to get it back on the air. In the meantime, we are
broadcasting all of our programs that are normally on 7780 kHz from
2000-0200 UTC on the alternate frequency of 15770 kHz. (This is
another one of our regular frequencies.) Both of these frequencies are
on antennas directed at 44 degrees. We will air these programs on
15770 kHz until we get the 7780 kHz transmitter back on the air, which
we hope will be tomorrow Friday August 7.

We are very sorry for this situation, but our engineers are working as
quickly as possible to get 7780 kHz back on the air. This transmitter
is normally on the air 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and has
been on this schedule for over a year now, so it really needs a bit of
downtime for technical maintenance. Thanks for your understanding.``

``WRMI Radio Miami International
5 hrs · [ago as of 2340 UT Aug 7]

Good news! 7780 kHz is back on the air. Our engineers Don Frish and
Harry Robbins have been working on this for a few days now, and it's
back in operation. Thanks for your patience everybody``

While I`m on disgraced FB, any other news from WRMI? Yes:

``WRMI Radio Miami International · July 14 ·
Longtime listeners to WYFR shortwave (the station that was here before
WRMI took over in 2013) may remember Evelyn Marcy, who was for many
years the assistant to Dan Elyea, the WYFR Station Manager. We are
sorry to report that Evelyn passed away this morning due to
complications from an operation. A number of Marcy family members have
worked at WYFR and/or WRMI, including Evelyn's husband Ed and her sons
Scott and Todd. Scott currently works as a control room operator at
WRMI. Below is a photo of Scott and Evelyn at one of our WRMI
Christmas parties.``

https://www.facebook.com/wrmiradio/photos/pb.269268060386.-2207520000../10164133668905387/?type=3&theater
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat Aug 8 at 0000, WBCQ webcast starting
`AAAWWW` with traditional version of ``WTO``; interjecting that ``its
time to get nasty``. Starting topix are: radio matters: early history
of ham and broadcasting 100+ years ago; the AT&T/Bell phone monopoly;
0022 lamenting living in a credit economy; 0023 call from Mr Mike in
Massachusetts that the Near-Fest for October has been cancelled ---
hamfest in NH, I think, morphing into COVID-19 discussion past 0030.
0039 AW says they are ``quadri-casting` on 7490, 6160, 5130 and 3265,
so I check them on the Rockport, Maine remote and indeed they can all
be heard well enough, so I listen on 3265 for a while till it cuts me
off. Exact frequencies not measured. More phone calls: 0040 from
Ramsey, not heard from in a long time; 0046 Kevin in Ohio, first-time
caller but long-time listener; is a fan of Ken Durchinsky(?) the
preacher just before on 7490 who thinx WINB is on 9625, and also of
Hal Turner just after AAAWWW; 0050 from Tony who hopes A&A will appear
at the next Winterfest, but Allan doubts it will take place; how many
SW transmitters does WBCQ have? Six, which means there is only one
extra when all are on the air. 0055 switches to email, Jason in
Halifax who disses Bell Canada and CBC; Chris in Connecticut where the
power is still out. Just a bit of time left for overt vote-for-Trump
urge; quick prayer and JIP Turner 0100+ already underway.

I`m not making this up, as John Carver matches with his notes:

``Tonight's show started on time on 5130, 6160 and 7490. They're using
the old version of WTO this evening. Allan and Angela in the studio
opening with some very political comments and then going into stories
about radio in the twenties and thirties. Then into talk of
telephones. Difficult to get a good signal on any of the three
frequencies this evening. Again an agitated Angela.

Phone call at 0022 from Mr. Mike to tell us that the fall Nearfest has
been cancelled. After that Allan announced that they were also
broadcasting on 3265. He also said that the superstation was working
and airing the WLC programming.

Phone call at 0040 from Ramsey. Another phone call at 0046 from a
gentleman thanking them for being on the air and stating how much he
was enjoying the program. At 0050 a phone call from Tony Straka asking
when they would next make an appearance at the Winterfest.

Reading of emails at 0055 and closing prayer at 0059. Program was off
the air at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0124 UT August 8

** BRAZIL. 11731 and weaker 11829 approx., August 6 at 2346 suspicious
blobs with no readable modulation, but they happen to be ~39 kHz
equidistant from: 11780 RNA which is S9+20/30 and distorted; it has
been a spur-producer before. The lower one QRMs Romania in Spanish on
11730. Then I try to detect them on some S and N American SDRs but
cannot; even at Brasilia 11780 is not very strong by groundwave (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey August 6 at 1456: 12880 the only WOOB in
the 12-13 MHz area; 11170, 11150, 11120 JBA carriers (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 5925, August 6 at 0430, VOA English going from
`Daybreak Africa` to `International Edition`, VG S9+10/20 signal here,
a good hour 0400-0500 for US to hear our own station; 100 kW, 350
degrees via BOTSWANA. Also on air at 0300-0400 but azimuth 10 degrees
so should be weaker over here. Vietnam 50 kW ND also registered 03-06
on 5925, but no sign of it from midday over there (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2046 contents: Antarctica, Australia,
Bangladesh, Bougainville, Canada, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea non,
France, Germany, Guinea, India, Indonesia, International Waters non,
Iran, Japan, Korea South & North non, Madagascar, Philippines, Spain,
Sudan South non, Swaziland, Tonga, USA and non, Vanuatu, Zambia; and
the propagation outlook

WOR 2046 is available as of 0112 UT Friday August 7
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2046.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2046.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

[However, WRMI 7780 has been off Aug 5-6-7]

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955-NEW [jammed?] to
SSE
[5850, 5010 canceled?]
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 [NEW] to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSE
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
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
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
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 financial support from Doug Brown, London, Ont.,
for a check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA

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

** U S A. 7780, August 6 at 0100, WRMI-1 is still OFF, as it was four
hours earlier, so a WOR airing is missed. 7780 still2 OFF at 2353 Aug
6 check and at 0200 August 7. What`s wrong? If not back soon, this
could be a problem for WORLD OF RADIO, which somehow is scheduled by
WRMI on this frequency more than any other, in fact half of the 12
airings, even tho it`s aimed NE missing most of North America west of
the east coast.

4980, August 6 at 0120 JBA carrier, presumed the WRMI placeholder with
a few-watt exciter only. This and all other scheduled frequencies are
on as normal except for AWOL 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Thursday August 6 at 1425, WRMI-3 is on again past
scheduled 1400* on weekdays, S5-S7 with SE Asian instrumental tune and
then vocal; 1428 Jeff White himself announces offer of a special
Freedom Synergy Radio QSL for these broadcasts on ``5800``, and off
1430*, so this is obviously intentional now altho contrary to
schedule; and irregular? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10840-USB, August 6 at 1501, 2-way in Spanish, or rather
multi-way net (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0339 UT August 7

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 5 at 1421, JBA or JBA carriers:
13130, 12820, 12550, 12500, 11150, 11120 S1-S5, 11070, 10870 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13650, Aug 5 at 2305 JBM music at S9-S5, the CRI
``Portuguese`` relay filled by music-only; much weaker than RHC itself
on 13740. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 7380, Aug 5 at 2306, no signal from RHC English to Africa,
but 5040 English to Carib is audible VP in noise. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11670, Aug 5 at 2308, RHC Spanish with very distorted music
at S9+20; at least no spurs this time. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Wed Aug 5 at 2215 I am all set to hear another
`Letterbox` on VOT, but there is no signal, nothing but NSS RTTY. Last
week anyhow host said would be back in two weeks, but that has often
proven to be mistaken. Now will have to try to catch it at 0315 Aug 6
on 7275; or podcast; or Sat/UT Sun repeats at same times.
Today`s podcast is not yet available but should become at:

www.radio360.eu/mplayer/podcastplayer-e.php?datei=http://www.radio360.eu/podcasts/en/tr/vot/./20200805_1430.mp3&feed=voteng
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2045 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 5
starting at 2100:27 on WBCQ 7490v, poor/fair S2-S6. Next:
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE [if back on air by now]

New WOR 2046 should be ready by early UT Friday August 7 for first
WRMI broadcast at 2200 on 9955.

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

WOR program and website are totally non-commercial.
Contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com --
not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO 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. 7780 & 9955, Aug 5 at 2100 no signals from these WRMIs,
supposed to be on now, the former with a non-WOR broadcast, while 9395
& 9455 are nominal; 2303 recheck, 7780 still off, 9955 on vs jamming
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, August 5 at 0620, R. Vanuatu YL talking, intonation
seems English but could be Bislama, and good modulation, better signal
than usual, S5-S6; 0628 music, 0630 ID as ``Radio Vanuatu`` --- so for
hard-liners insisting on a ``definite ID``, I have now heard one on
this third harmonic of 3945. Might have been readable were it not for
heavy storm noise from SW Kansas approaching us. Also trace of
modulation on much weaker 7890 second harmonic, but as expected
nothing audible on 15780 fourth harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0015 UT August 6

DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated August 4:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html

WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST of SW stations, by Alan Roe, updated:
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE updated:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

** CANADA. 326-MCW kHz, August 4 at 0644 UT, ND beacon dash and YQK,
which is 200 watts from Kenora, Ontario (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See
also U S A

** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, Aug 5 at 0231, anti-Christ pirate Station YHWH
is back after some absence, usual screed, S8-S9 except for some deep
fades. Tnx to tip from Eric Fetters-Walp on the WOR iog:

``[WOR] YHWH on 7470 as of 0220 UTC Aug. 5 --- Just checked 7470 kHz
and found Josiah back after several days -- if not longer -- of being
off the air. A noisy signal with lots of fading, but very audible
talking as of 0220 UTC here near Seattle, where we've still got full
daylight`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, August 5 at 0057, JBA music with flutter both up
and down and sidewise, S5-S6 at best until 0058*. Must be end of
Bengali semihour from SLBC as scheduled, despite current report from
Ivo that: ``Two of three transmitters at Trincomalle [sic] are out of
service. The transmissions of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation /
SLBC and some transmissions of Adventist World Radio / AWR are
suspended, as follows:
0030-0100 on 11905 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Bengali SLBC
0200-0230 on 11905 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Hindi SLBC...``

The B19 sked in WRTH 2020 was different, continuous 0030-0230, the
first and last semihours in Hindi, 0100-0200 in Bengali, all on 11905
Trincomalee. No azimuths ever shown there, but if Ivo be correct,
Bengali segment is not aimed at Bengal, east or West! Anyway,
trans-polar to here.

Last logged here July 13, 2018 from *0030v. Before that when the sun
was a bit spottier, I tracked numerously previous *0115 openings with
variable off-timesignals (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. MADAGASCAR. Ivo Ivanov reported: ``AGAIN NO
SIGNAL of MGB Eye Radio Special px on 7340 kHz August 3
0459-0557 on 7340 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*-pls check
on August 4
1459-1557 on 15410 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*-pls check
later today * including news in other languages:
English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho.
-- 73! Ivo Ivanov``

So I do check, 0500-0505 Tue August 4, no signal at UTwente on 7340,
just strong BBC Vatican on 7345. Aoki says Eye at 05-06 is on days 1
and 7 only. This had just been registered as an extra hour to deal
with COVID-19. Ivo replies, ``But no signal on both frequencies
Sat/Sun August 1/2 and Mon/Tue August 3/4`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. Correxion: 9685 was certainly not splashing upon
9830; I must have been referring to Spain 9690 getting QRM when
checked at same time via UTwente, no such ACI here:

``TURKEY. 9830, Wed July 29 at 2230 tune-in via UTwente, VOT English
is on today and VG, even without hum, but splash from 9685 which is
the orphan CRI ``Portuguese`` service of fill-music-only, via
Kashgar...`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 257-MCW kHz, August 4 at 0648 UT, ND beacon JYR, which is 25
watts from York, Nebraska, a new one for me? York is due north of
Enid, also on US 81, and east of Grand Island. I was near there for
the Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 --- those were the days ---
and brief ``nights`` but I was not checking for NDBs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR) See also CANADA

** U S A. 7637-USB, UT Wed August 5 at 0114, encrypted alfanumerix
including ``fife`` for five in ``UR55W``, presumably paramilitary
mumbo-jumbo from CAP as previously logged here UT Sat April 18 at 0124
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. NEW WORLD OF RADIO times on WRMI. On August 3, the skedgrid
http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs
has been updated to show WOR UT Saturday at 0130 on 9955, but no
longer on 5850 & 5010, still on 7780 at that hour. Also new 7780
Saturday at 2300; all of this yet to be confirmed. The sked appears to
be in flux with blank spaces on System F, where we hope to get back on
5850 to the NW and/or 9395/9455 SomeSystem to the NNW for better
coverage across the continent. Still shows the same early UT August
5.

Several WOR times still displayed on the grid are long outdated or
imaginary, and we stopped trying to confirm them long ago:

Sat 1130 9955 - active for a while earlier this year
Tue 2130 System D - no frequencies
Wed 1030 5950 on System F, but frequency grid shows SMTV on System J
Wed 2100 System D - no frequencies
Wed 2100 7780 - active briefly earlier this year
Thu 2100 System D - no frequencies
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2045 monitoring: confirmed Tue Aug 4 at 0100
on WRMI 7780, fair S9 better than usual 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

WOR program and website are totally non-commercial.
Contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com --
not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO 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. 7505, August 4 at 0136, and August 5 at 0117 chex, WRNO
continues AWOL. Last time I logged it was June 10 at 0144, on but with
dead air. Certainly not tracked every night, but first noted missing
on July 22.

Strange website with moving views of snow-covered hills on homepage;
listen linx stay silent; linx to external social media site providers;
does have own FB which has not been updated for months; this page
http://www.wrnoworldwide.com/event/ for ``upcoming programs`` shows
none since July 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0410 UT August 5

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 3 at 1408: no WOOBs in the 13s, 12s,
but JBA carriers on 11100, 10920. No doubt would have been many more
before 1400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, Aug 3 at 2043, S9+10 of dead air from RHC; warmup?
well before scheduled *2100; no spurs.

15370, Aug 3 at 2046, S9 of suptorted Arabic, which even when
well-modulated sounds like choking. No spurblobs noted now.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** IRELAND [non]. ITALY [non]. 7290, Mon Aug 3 at 1855 retune UTwente
for IRRS presumed Bulgaria as `The Shortwave Report` is concluding
with mandatory segment from Dan`s favorite station RHC, as he mislists
its frequencies ``from 6 pm [PDT] to midnight`` to include 6060 and
6165, both of which are long gone. The last item always gets cut off,
since IRRS inserts `Feature Story News` of about 5 minutes at 1830;
this week something from NHK Japan, chopped just before 1859 for IRRS
sign-off, which continues to give address as that 5-digit P O Box in
Milano, totally contradicting info that it is no longer in use! Such
as this note with eQSL received by Konstantin Bersankov, St. Pete in
the latest Rus-DX:

``Please also notice that we have discontinued our PO BOX or any
regular mail address for listeners' correspondence, and we are unable
to reply to QSL request by regular mail.

You may also find useful information on the following websites:
https://www.nexus.org
https://milanoventures.com
http://egradio.org
Let me know if we can further assist you. Hope this helps. Best
regards. Ron``

http://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2020/01/irrs-shortwave-nexus-iba.html

where it is assumed a QSL for 7290 at 1800-1900 June 20 [Saturday] was
for Romania; Altho nothing from IRRS specifies this as Romania --- now
believed to be Bulgaria. Furthermore, KB quotes this from their
website explaining why transmitter sites are kept secret, the only
non-Soviet broadcaster to do so:

``Since IRRS & NEXUS-IBA started relaying programs on shortwave in
1989, several organizations and individuals appeared on the market as
"competitors", offering similar services, sometimes in a fraudulent
and very un-professional way. We came across people charging for fake
(not existing) transmissions, and producing fake listeners' letters,
as well as broadcasts that are cheap, but so poor in quality that
cannot not be heard on the intended target, and those who commission
them have no means to check them.

In order to protect our interests and those of our members against
such competitors, our policy had to be changed in recent years not to
disclose information about our transmitter sites and our agreements
with our service providers and governments. Since we aim to to provide
top quality broadcasting services at the lowest possible cost to our
members, our transmitting sites may change as several technical and
contractual conditions change.

There is a simple way to explain this: when you buy anything at your
local shop, did you tried asking where exactly do they buy items that
they sell to you? I am sure no shop-keeper, service provider or
reseller will provide you information of their own sources for the
same reason.

Sometimes multiple transmitters are involved in order to provide
better coverage and/or redundancy. Nevertheless these sites will
remain confidential and are not disclosed to the general public. There
has been lots of speculations during the years (right and wrong) when
different "experts" tried to locate every and each
of our transmitter sites, and then published misleading information on
the internet and on other publications.

Only the power, time, program type, language and especially the target
area is clearly published in our schedules. We believe that this is
the information that our listeners need to know in order to tune into
our members' broadcasts.

Our programs are all originating from our Network Control Centre (NCC)
in Milan, Italy, where we operate all of our broadcasting services.``

This rationale makes no sense to me; the response to competitors
putting out fake info is to be completely transparent with real info.
If it change from time to time, fine, just acknowledge it. And then
there`s IRRS as HQ in IRELAND per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 10-m beacons with some sporadic E struggling to MUF:

28298.8-CW, Aug 3 at 1424, long pause and long message starting with
dits, VVV DE K4JDR/B and ending with SK run together which is hard to
render typographically. I copied as K4JGR, but must be per WJ5O:
``28.2988 K4JDR C RALEIGH, NC # 10W, VERTICAL QRT Dec 2010 reactivated
Feb 15 Jan 2018 reported(SWL)`` --- QRZ.com:
``K4JDR USA flag USA, RONNIE J CASEY, RALEIGH, NC 27603-7336``

28255-CW, Aug 3 at 1428 and again at 1447, KB4UPI/B:
``28.255 KB4UPI C GADADEN [sic], ALABAMA # 3 W, DIPOLE NEW 2 Dec 07
relocated (agn)1 April 14`` --- GADSDEN is on I-59 NE of Birmingham
about 1/3 on way to Chattanooga. Lots of illustrated info plus
hamautobio at
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/kb4upi

``I am located on Camden Cove Island in Etowah county AL. See our
28.255 Mhz Beacon, up since 1987. KB4UPI 10 Meter Beacon 28.255
EM73ax

Our 10 meter beacon runs 5 watts into a 10 meter vertical antenna on
the top of my boathouse. The beacon was first placed on the air in
October of 1987 on 28.224, and the first report came from Don, WB4YRJ,
who is now a SK. The frequency was chosen because it was the only
place I could make the converted CB transmit at due to the crystals I
had on hand. Later I changed it to 28.267 for much the same reason. It
was later changed to 28.255 at the request of the HF beacon
coordinator Bill, WJ50. Contact Bill before you start any intended
beacon operation. See the WJ5O Beacon List.

The beacon has received reports from all over the world over the
years. The most distant report was in March of 1990 and came from SWL,
Brian Webb, ZL2262 in New Zealand. That is 4998 (MPW) miles per watt.
See his report below.

I QSL 100 per cent worldwide to ham operators and SWL's. No SASE is
required. Send your QSL and I'll send mine. Copy the short message if
you wish. All I need for a QSL is the frequency, time, date, and
signal report. Email reception reports are always welcome and
appreciated. To send me a simple report via email you may send it to
MickUpi*Gmail.com. The at sign is replaced to prevent email
harvesting.

The picture above is the present setup in the attic of my boathouse at
my QTH on Camden Cove Island in AL. I am located in Gadsden Alabama on
the banks of the Coosa River and Neely Henry lake. I have had several
transmitters over the years. The present one is a RS HTX-100. It runs
on low power at 5 watts. This radio should never be run at high power
(25 watts) in beacon operation. It will burn out and require service.
It should also have a fan. See the fan below.

Radio --- Close up view of the RS HTX-100 radio running 5 watts. These
radios are still readily available on eBay for around $ 80 to $ 100.
Look closely at the knob on the top right. Above it is printed, "pull
for low power". I placed a 3/16" thick rubber washer behind the knob.
Without the washer it is easy to accidently bump the knob and put the
radio on high power.

Keyer --- Close up of the MFJ-447 memory keyer. It has keyed the
transmitter for many years. The keying transistor was burned out
during a lightning strike a few years ago, but it is easily replaced.

Meter --- This is a cheap and simple SWR/Power meter I bought at a
hamfest for $ 3. I use it to look at the meter when take a look in the
attic of the boathouse and see if the radio is transmitting. All it
takes is a quick glance.

Fan --- Not a good picture, but this is an AC fan blowing on the fins
on the back of the radio. It is vitally important to to protect your
transmitter. AC fans seem to be far more reliable than a DC fan. This
one is setting on some foam rubber pads to dampen the vibration and
make it less noisy. Even running at 5 watts the HTX-100 will get too
hot without the fan.

This is a Motorola model TPN1154A 16 amp power supply that runs the
radio and the keyer. These commercial power supplies are usually
overlooked at hamfests because people don't know what they are, and
it's not surprising because the units have no ratings on them showing
what the voltage or maximum amperage is. Depending on the model they
can be rated at 5 to 25 amps. You can buy them at hamfests for 10 to
15 dollars. The digital meter on the top right was added. It bounces
from 13.7 to 13.8 as the transmitter turns on and off. Curiously
Motorola made them and set them up to operate at 14.9 volts. A small
resistor can easily be added to the regulator board to bring the
voltage down to 13.8 volts. Many thanks to Kevin Custer, W3KKG and
others for providing info on these power supplies. To see more info on
the power supplies Click Here

This peice of coax is which a squirrel chewed the coax shield away
where I once had the equipment outdoors at another QTH. If outside I
have learned it is best to leave the coax hanging freely instead of
attaching it to trees. I can only wonder why squirrels do this.``

28289.3-CW, Aug 3 at 1447, AL DE WJ5O/B himself:
``28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14``

Almost always, including today, when such beacons are making it QRP,
tuning higher up to 28500 finds *no* phone hams, who could run up to
a kilowatt, contacting; where are they? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2045 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday August 3 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG here +30 degrees off beam,
some deep fades.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 3 at 0130 & 0230 on WRMI 7780, VP for a
change at UTwente, but VG as far as Maine SDR; also WRN webcast at
0130.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 3 from 0303 on Area 51 webcast after Free
Radio Skybird runs a bit over, closing with an address in New
Hampshire. WBCQ sked shows it 0230-0300 and ``Free Radio Skybird,
Hermans Radio & Record Room, and other shows air Sunday evenings on
5130 every other week.`` WOR good into Rochester SDR; at 0322 check
direct on 5130, S9+10 but noisy.

Larry Will tells us: ``[WOR] Glenn Hauser interview on Radio NewYork
International, 2008:
https://archive.org/details/dan-lewis-rni
Hour 2 of this RNI show hosted by Dan Lewis features an interview with
Glenn Hauser. This media comes from the WBCQ archives. L.``

Tnx, Larry, that brings back some memories. Starts :17 minutes into
and lasts until :41, direct link:

https://ia801501.us.archive.org/29/items/dan-lewis-rni/Dan%20Lewis%20RNI%2028%20December%202008%20Hour%202.mp3
if the URL with spaces in it survive replaced here by all those %20;
otherwise it`s the fourth item on the download options, VBR MP3, and
the second sub-item.

BTW, whatever became of Dan Lewis? His blog
http://danlewisradioguy.blogspot.com/
stopped after Tuesday, April 17, 2018 --- some interesting reading
there such as about ``Randi Steele``.

WOR 2045 also confirmed UT Mon Aug 3 at 0330 on WRMI 9955; as usual on
this airing, R. Prague fill music runs right up to 0330 with no ID
break; that makes up for some double-IDs at other times. Here it`s
S8-S9 but fading vs pulse jamming. A few minutes earlier at 0324
check, 9955 was S9/+10 well above lite PJ.

BTW, WRMI escaped any hurricane outage, far enough inland from the
path to get no more than 20 mph gusts per NWS Okeechobee city info.

WOR 2045 also confirmed Monday August 3 at 1805 tune-in via UTwente,
well underway and no dropouts on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria; just the
usual rough modulation, warble from 7291 and plus/minus 10 splash.
Next:

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

WOR program and website are totally non-commercial.
Contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com --
not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO 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. 13845, Aug 3 at 1908, zero signal from this WWCR while all
the others are inbooming, including higher 15825 at S9+20 tnx to Es,
so not a MUF issue; 12160 S9+30; 9980 S9+20; 2042 recheck, 13845 back
on with PMS at S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12844.75-USB, Aug 3 at 1407, 2-way in Spanish mentioning
barco, numbers perhaps referring to cargo, unprofessional whistling
into mike (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2321 UT August 3