** 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:
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(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

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 25 at 1354-1400*: none in 16s;
15165 good; none 14s; 13835 JBA; 12230, 12190, 11460 JBA carriers;
11440 Chinese S3-S8; 11170, 11150, 11120, 11100 JBA carriers; 11070
reached just in time for 1400* timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 25 at 2354: 14980, JBA probably
Chinese with Doppler flutter; no others in the 15s, 14s, 13s or 12s
until 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR. 6135, Aug 25 at 0408, Maine SDR is getting a weak S4-S5
signal singing, presumed RNM; no het from another just below, like
Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, UT Wed Aug 26 at 0006, REE is S9+25/35 with bird
calls, then morphing into mixing with unfamiliar orchestral piece,
announcement soon as subject ``canciones de pájaros en la música
clásica``, then 0010 excerpt of Ottorino Respighi`s ``Pines of Rome``
with song of nightingale [ruiseñor]. REE may be deficient in English
but certainly provides some excellent programming in Castilian. Via
WOR Hitlist, program sked at
https://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/
shows 0130-0230 UT Wednesday is: `En Clave de 5`. What? The sked
labels the times UTC but they are really UT+2! So axually 2330 UT
Tuesday to 0030 UT Wednesday; also on 11940. Each program has an
individual hotlink but not this one, rather back to a generic page!
But I finally find it among huge roster of programas,
https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/
with 199 podcasts, but not latest episode originally last Saturday is
something else; maybe a repeat from long ago but searching the entire
file does not find it. The title means ``In the Key of 5``, referring
to the Radio 5 network (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 25 at 2244, VOT is on today with Turkish music
fill reading S9-S7, but much weaker than 9690 Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 1130, Aug 25 at 1521 UT, now there is an S9+10 carrier here
on the R75 and longwire, but just barely modulated; as KLEY Wellington
KS is attempting a comeback after yesterday`s JBA when I was mobile
north of Enid. Circa 1830 I`m back in the car inside Enid hearing a
trace of something --- on that radio it`s hard to tell if an open
carrier is involved, no strength meter. At 2128 again on the R75 like
earlier, S9 and JBM vs noise level of S8. By 2312 on the NRD-545, KWKH
sportstalk is propagating but with a fast SAH maybe remnant of KLEY.
BTW, correcting previous report: that`s ``Wheat capital`` of the
world, not ``what capitol``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, circa 0600 UT Aug 25, no signal at all from R.
Vanuatu x 3, apparently off --- or intermittent per other reports:

``Aug 25 - From 0355+ (last checked 0550), had no signal from R.
Vanuatu (harmonic 11835); only CNR2 being heard. Very unusual for RV
to be off the air; there are no weather issues there. Ron California``

``Fair signal of Radio Vanuatu on 3rd harmonic 11835 kHz at 0645 UTC,
but around 0655 only CNR-2 being heard. Fair signal on 2nd harmonic
7890 kHz at 0700 and poor signal on 3945 at same time via SDR
Brisbane`` - Ivo Ivanov, Aug 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7348-CW, Aug 25 at 0607, too fast CW for me to copy
much, but starts with VVV and ends with K; no DE after VVV but maybe
later inside repeating marker. Then goes into a non-marker contact
including a lot of numbers. Recent UDXF iog logs of this frequency as
FEMA ALE/USB from places such as Denver, Kansas City, Thomasville GA,
Maine, Maryland, by patrice privat earlier around 0400 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0202 UT August 26

** BRAZIL. I soon published a correxion but at least two editors
ignored it and published the original error. Correct frequency was
5939.506, while 5939.806 was a typo (or misreading my scribbled
original log note). So here it is AGAIN. Please publish it correctly.
Glenn

5939.506, Aug 11 at 0635, JBA carrier in 5935 WWCR splash, but no
problem from 5945 NZ, no doubt also RVM, always off-frequency (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR) BTW, Wolfgang Bueschel has just remeasured this at
5939.507, Aug 24 at 2338

** CUBA. 5055, Aug 25 at 0048, Rebelde/RHC leapfrog mixing product
again of 5025 over 5040 another 15 kHz, S3-S6, but no reverse on 5010
leaving WRMI in the clear. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 4765, Aug 25 at 0057, R. Progreso is OFF again, rather than
normal start at 0030. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR. ``Hi Ron, Today at 1404 I had JBA talk on 6135 as 49m
is almost faded out here except for 6170 NZ. Could this 6135 today be
anything but Madagascar long path? I thought maybe you would have
checked today as I have not yet gone thru all recent or new reports
about this. Glenn`` to Ron Howard, Aug 24.

``Hi Glenn, Was not at the beach this morning, but I'm very confident
you were in fact hearing Madagascar, because recently they have been
having very decent reception on 6135, about 1330+. Here is a typical
recent reception of their African music/singing -
http://bit.ly/2EmlyoO
Ron, California``

Also in the NASWA Flashsheet, Ralphus W Perry, IL, reports Mad on
6135.01 Aug 23 at 0408 with ``unmistakable chanting``, 0410 Christian
hymn on Sunday; vs presumed Brasil on 6134.82 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 25 at 0057, S Asian song, S1-S3 and fluttery
on near-transpolar path, very brief announcement and off at 0058* as
SLBC is now scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed Monday
August 24 from 1800:47 on IRRS, 7290 via Bulgaria, S9+25; tuned in
earlier via UTwente at 1745, Iran still on; retune 1758 I think the
IRRS carrier has just cut on, and a few sex before 1759 cuts on music
modulation but with heavy pumping, slow SAH from another carrier maybe
still Iran but fortunately no mod from it. RTTYish warble from 7291 as
always, and rough IRRS mod, some plus/minus 10 splash. Just before
1800 IRRS sign-on with deleted? Milano PO box, Feature Story News
headlines before WOR starts. Spot-checked every 5 minutes or so on my
recording finds it intact, no more pumping, but ending just before
1830, my closing cut off after ``standa --- [rdisclaimer]``. My editor
is leaving a second or two of dead air at end of file, which worx on
WRMI to prevent overlap, but not enough for IRRS.

Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S6-S8 direct
and somewhat undermodulated but improving.

Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0330, brand-new time on WRMI 5800,
good S7-S9 to Maine SDR, altho aimed SSE.

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]

Good but unfortunately this means the best broadcast across USA on
5850 will be the last airing of the week rather than the first, as I
am not inclined to change my produxion schedule to earlier than
Thursday afternoons.

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. 5800, UT Tue Aug 25 at 0230, WRMI amid a Spanish DX program
about Guyana rejecting VOA MW relay to Venezuela, not sure what but is
// 7780 where RAE is scheduled on System D. This matches last night
when WOR 7780 at 0230 also appeared on 5800. But the System H sked
still has a gap at 0230-0300 daily for 5800 or any other frequency it
might employ. The 0300-0400 block on System H 5800 is also empty on UT
Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon, where we already discovered Radio República has just
been inserted --- but keeping it a secret? To stave off jamming sure
to follow eventually (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Aug 25 at 0129, WRNO is still off, surprise2 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. UT Aug 25 at 0115 UT, as the Republican national
``convention`` is underway, at least on TV, I make a quick sweep
across the MW band while some woman is talking as if in a venue, and
hear her only on these major signals: 750 WSB Atlanta, 1170 KFAQ
Tulsa, 1510 WLAC Nashville. Otherwise most of them continue with silly
ballgames or their own far-right talk. Ho, hum. [I did not do any such
survey last week Democratically]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1420, Aug 25 around 0105 UT, Mexican music mixing [Mexmxmix]
with English weather sounds like ``KWTE first forecast``, the two
making a medium SAH. No fuzzily-similar call listed on 1420, but so
many radio stations rely on TV stations for weather, and the
closest-fuzzy TV rhyme to that is KWTV right here in OK, which would
correlate with nearest, Hobart OK, KTJS on 1420. Checking the KTJS+
cluster website
http://www.foxradiook.com/
there is no indication of wx source, but there is a link to KWTV9 for
news; so that all seems circumstantially likely. Soon there`s Sean
which would be a third station, not country KTJS.

1420 Spanish loops more E/W than N/S so probably Unitedstatesian. At
0107 UT, automated wrong TC for ``Las 8 de la noche con 6 minutos``,
so that narrows it down to CDT. Then 0109, ``no se equivoque --- La
Zeta`` which is the slogan of KBHS Hot Springs AR, 5000/87 watts ND.
Oh2, official sunset there in August was 0100 UT! Sept: 0015 UT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Friday night satire on HBO, you may think
you have to pay for a subscription, but segments soon show up free on
YouTube. Once you go to one, YT will of course bring up more, plus
related content like THIS WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, etc., e.g.:

Bill Maher is Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJq1K20YZg
(via gh)

This report dispatched at 0344 UT August 25