Oops. Apparently the 606AM/1406UTC audio got up and disappeared. It’s back
now at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kq22kKzglmUUMVUgZ8BBW9KSBfJE8vE/view?usp=drivesdk

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 1:01 PM Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com> wrote:

> My best AM log ever: 7ZR 936kHz Hobart, Tasmania 8000 miles/13,000km away
> from McGrath, Alaska. 10KW/2 tower pattern, protecting a 936kHz in New
> Zealand. It's the only "ABC Local Radio" formatted station in the entire
> country on 936kHz.
>
> Heard on Wednesday March 24th. In my first clip, there's no mistaking
> those time pips and ornamental monumental Top Of Hour fanfare for anyone
> else. 1400UTC/6AM AK time audio:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rmVXYj6tmkDfSqmXxg9NdcOGYOTMeDAG/view?usp=sharing
>
> 6 minutes later at 1406UTC/606AM AK Time, you hear a lady begin with the
> weather mentioning a flood warning and a river and at 24 seconds you hear
> Laura Beavis say, "ABC Radio Hobart" just to confirm if there was any doubt
> what I heard(and there was no doubt. Audio:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kq22kKzglmUUMVUgZ8BBW9KS
>
>
>
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My best AM log ever: 7ZR 936kHz Hobart, Tasmania 8000 miles/13,000km away
from McGrath, Alaska. 10KW/2 tower pattern, protecting a 936kHz in New
Zealand. It's the only "ABC Local Radio" formatted station in the entire
country on 936kHz.

Heard on Wednesday March 24th. In my first clip, there's no mistaking those
time pips and ornamental monumental Top Of Hour fanfare for anyone else.
1400UTC/6AM AK time audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rmVXYj6tmkDfSqmXxg9NdcOGYOTMeDAG/view?usp=sharing

6 minutes later at 1406UTC/606AM AK Time, you hear a lady begin with the
weather mentioning a flood warning and a river and at 24 seconds you hear
Laura Beavis say, "ABC Radio Hobart" just to confirm if there was any doubt
what I heard(and there was no doubt. Audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kq22kKzglmUUMVUgZ8BBW9KS
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** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15475.98-CUSB, March 27 at 1535, LRA36 is on
for its Saturday repeat of Wednesday, as first heard via Brasília SDR
where I can ``camp`` tnx to another user in Salvador already tuned to
it; later when they quit I take it over myself.

Most or all of the other RXs are tuned to ham frequencies, primarily
``WSPR-autorun`` -- what`s that about, tying up so much bandwidth?
Weak Signal Propagation Reporter, ``whisper``:
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/25/the-50-ham-wspr-ing-around-the-world/
Tnx to Clara Listensprechen for that link.

LRA36 is only S2-S3 with music, then concluding program saying it will
repeat Saturday at 15 horas --- voilà, ou voici. By 1539 the Esperanza
song. 1542 ``sign-on`` again with LRA36 and Radio Nacional Arcángel
San Gabriel IDs, in Spanish, German, English, and Russian? Music, and
1549 the quadrilingual IDs again; mentions Día Mundial del Agua =
World Water Day; when is/was that? March 22: I am totally in favor of
H2O! I find it very useful, even essential, every day:
https://www.worldwaterday.org/
Then Esperanza/Antártida song, greeting from the 17th program =
décimosétimo. As was mentioned on miércoles.

By 1555, some ACI has arisen from Chinese music on 15480. Now I can
get on Pardinho SDR and listen to it directly. Traditional but
unsounds like Firedragon, rather typical end-of-hour filler. No
announcements until cut modulation and 1600* a few seconds later cut
carrier. Nothing to account for this, not even as jammer, in B-20 or
A-21 schedules. It`s already A-21 in China, after midnight? Not
really, 01 UT March 28 is the official start everywhere.

15475.98 at 1601, LRA36 is S5-S7 into Pardinho but by 1609 I notice
it`s gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 15480 unscheduled: see ANTARCTICA [and non]

** CUBA. 15230, March 27 at 1505, S9/+10 of dead air, still on after
presumed nominal 1500*. 15140 is S9+10/20 somewhat undermodulated.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [non]. 341-MCW kHz, March 27 at 0545 UT, Enid`s EI NDB is
silent again after brief reactivation yesterday. Now hearing only OIN,
Oberlin KS (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
March 27 at 1322, the 1300 on WRMI 15770, good S9+10 today instead of
JBA.

Also confirmed Sat Mar 27 at 1700 UT on WRN webcast, for one more
week; to become 1600 UT from next week with BST in effect. Next:

1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
2130 UT Saturday  WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
1130 UT Sunday WRMI 15770?
[Wolfgang Bueschel alleges WOR is on at this time; please check]
2200vUT Sunday    WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2300 UT Sunday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0030 UT Monday    WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1801vUT Monday    IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday  WRMI 5010 to S

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

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on
voluntary support: thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA,
for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 15825, 13845, 12160, 9980, March 27 at 1827, all four WWCR
frequencies are vacant. The top two may be JBA carriers in the
daytime, but the lower two should be audible if on. 12050 WEWN at
similar megameter distance is VG, having escaped tornado outbreak.
What`s wrong? Blitzortung shows lightning storm right over
mid-Tennessee, and a worse one along the TN/NC border. WWCR closed
down as precaution, or has it been stricken? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1842 UT March 27
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** AUSTRALIA. 12365-USB, March 26 at 1444, down-under accent with
marine weather, S1-S3; lots of geo coords cited such as 50S/134E,
which is about halfway between South Australia and Antarctica; high
seas forecast. EiBi shows it`s VMC Charleville, Queensland (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, March 26 at 0614, RHC in English with humbuzz, // clear
6100 and overmodulated 5040. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, March 27 at 0140, RHC manages correct language English,
tonight, instead of TV novela audio last night, S9+20 here // 6000
S9+40 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 12360, March 27 at 0141, CRI English relay is S9, harmonic of
S9+20 6180 X 2. Also checked X 3 = 18540 but not heard; possibly with
a little sporadic E. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA [non] 6080

** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 27 at 0139, no signal from R. Verdad: gone
again. A report to the WOR iog at 0609 UT March 26: ``Radio Verdad,
Chiquimula, out of air again --- Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain: Asking
via email, Édgar Madrid says transmitter burned out again. Here the
mail from the station: "Se nos volvió a quemar. En eso estoy. Édgar
Madrid"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, UT Sat March 27 at 0129, S6-S8 pirate
music, bet it`s Ball Smacker Radio, which with eQSL last week said
they`d be back Fridays at 9 on EDT on this frequency. Pirates not
usually so open about scheduling plans, but getting bolder in view of
lack of FCC SW enforcement. Some rapid-clicking QRM for a minute or
two until 0134. 0137 yes, B-S-R- ID by YL and QSL offer prompting
guesses about the musical topic, like last week it was ``green``, but
I don`t recognize any of the tunes this week until 0152, ``Who Ya
Gonna Call?``, a song with spoken parts, faux phone number sounded
like 1-500-989-3500. 0200 again asking for reports, signing off? Not
quite, more music, then 0205 SSTV now hitting S9+10. Pause and 0207
another SSTV image ending at 0209 and carrier off at 0209.5*. Now
let`s see what others reported at:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,79542.0.html
Keyword has been ``call`` and SSTV shows `Get Smart` with shoephone
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1140, March 26 at 1755 UT on caradio, NO signal from KRMP
OKC; sure it`s off as when on, 1 kW groundwave is equal to or greater
than 1150 KSAL KS, and much more than 1120 Tulsa. Recheck on DX-398 at
home, 2223, now it`s on with ``Heart & Soul 92.1 and 1140,`` OKC
traffic. 92.1 is, natch, a mere translator wagging this dog.

While it was off, wished I were in a low-noise area in case GW or SW
remnant of KXRB Sioux Falls could make it here, as it has been at
night when not supposed to: unlikely, but half its frequency 570 WNAX
Yankton SD is always audible under KLIF. Nothing directly between OK
and SD on 1140 but MO and AR might be problem; and closer 50 kW 1110
KFAB Omaha barely daytimes here (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, Fri Mar 26 at 2331, VOT is on today, VG
S9+35 into UTwente, yet Chinese undercurrent is audible from East
Turkistan, standard remark, i.e. CCCCCCI, or C6I which means ChiCom
Chinese language Co-Channel Interference. VOT plugs itself as ``with
you every hour of the clock`` [NO, it is not], then 2-minute segment,
``Did You Know That?``, but no idea about what, as I was not severely
concentrating vs the heavy accent. A bit of music, 2339 ``VOT, always
by your side`` [No, it is not]. Checked again at 2355 as IS is still
playing, 2356 starts interspersing IDs in German, ``Die Stimme der
Türkei`` twice or thrice before 0000 March 27 opening the spurious
German hour with Nachrichten rather than satellite info. Still on past
0015, but finally went off sometime before next check 0026 when a good
signal is still on the meter, but now in Chinese. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 6080, March 26 at 0612, VOA SAO TOME in English,
marred by pulse jamming. I think I have figured it out: leapfrog
mixing product of the strong jammers against nothing on 5980 and 6030
another 50 kHz away. Broadcast signals leapfrog; why not jammers?
Something`s always wrong at the DCJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 monitoring; next:

1300 UT Saturday  WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
2130 UT Saturday  WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
1130 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [Wolfgang Bueschel alleges WOR is on at
this time; please check]
2200vUT Sunday    WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2300 UT Sunday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0030 UT Monday    WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1801 UT Monday    IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday  WRMI 5010 to S

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

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on
voluntary support: thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA,
for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds,
via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com

First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday March 26 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780
S7-S9 poor here off the side and seems undermodulated, but VG on 5850,
S9+20/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat March 27 from 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`
casually monitored as I am paying more attention to MSNBC. Starts with
temp 80 in FLA after hi of 90? First topic is cassette tapes, sparked
by news of death of inventor. This goes on surprisingly long, still
0024, caller 0025, into EL versions, 8-trax, etc. 0047 Angela
complaining about masked people in fast cars. Too much of the time
Angela is yelling and overmodulating into the red, even worse when
both of them are talking at same time with no stereo separation. 0056
Allan briefly mentions death of George Zeller, a supporter of free
radio, 0059 benedixion and immediately into Hal Turner blasting
pencil-necked geeks. Here`s John Carver`s version:

``Tonight's show started on time on 6160 and 7490 with 6160 having the
better signal. Allan and Angela in the studio and apparently back in
FLA again. Allan is shirtless in the studio. Opening talk is reading
an article about the man that invented the cassette tape and later
CDs. Long talk about cassette tapes follows and they mention several
variations.

Phone call at 0026 which continues the cassette talk followed
immediately by another call at 0037 which continues on with the
cassette talk until the caller mentions politics which gets Angela
started. She continues till 0052 when Allan starts reading emails.
First email is political which causes Angela to comment again. A few
emails later Allan mentions the loss of George Zeller and talks of him
briefly. Closing prayer at 0059 and closing comments cut off at 0100
and move to dead air as happened last week also. John, Mid-North
Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, March 27 at 0157, two WRNO Worldwide IDs overlapping
as I tune in, asking for reports, but cut off 0159 to start ``Welcome
to Maranatha Radio with pastor Ray Bentley`` citing Philippians. Had
been VP to JBA signal lately but now it`s S9+20; jacked up closer to
full power or just improved propagation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1540.197 approx., March 27 at 0217 UT, way-off-frequency het
against 1540.00 stations is back, as previously traced, WKVQ,
Eatonton, Georgia. Not present every night, and should never be as a
10 kW daytimer direxional west (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12152-USB, March 27 at 1443, 2-way in colloquial
Spanish, QRMing CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0412 UT March 27
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** CUBA. 13700, March 25 at 1431, RHC is S9+30, plenty strong yet no
spur galaxy around it today. // 15140 during `Sonido Cubano` music is
S9+10 but overmodulated/distorted. Something`s still always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 12360, March 26 at 0112, CRI English relay at S9+10/20
somewhat undermodulated yet louder than S9+20 6180 of which this is
X2. 6180 has QRM from Brasil or even CRI East Turkistan; 12360 in the
clear but some deep fading. I should WOOBandscan around here more
often. CRI relays on 5990 and 5910 have also harmonicized on 11980 and
11820.

Shortly in A21, 12360 and 6180 will be gone, and so will 5910 and
11820 as CRI/HABana as usual ascends to 9580 at 01-03, and 9790 at
03-05 whose 19-20 MHz harmonix are unlikely to propagate except maybe
for a lucky summer sporadic E opening (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11840, March 26 at 0116, RHC is S9 with suptorted Spanish
modulation, and also S9 on 11860, but QRMing the noise jamming against
nothing --- or rather Cuba is jamming itself, yay! These two are the
parasitic spurs 10 kHz from fundamental 11850 which is S9+30 and
suptorted. For quite some time 11850 was parasite-free, but now has
resumed better than ever; as they used to be JBA carriers with
modulation hard to detect. Have they reswapped different transmitters?
Meanwhile, // fundamental 11760 is S9+10 and undermodulated; 11670 is
S9+10/20 undermodulated and distorted. Somethings` always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, March 26 at 0124, something very strange which has got
to be RHC transmitter, but not in English as scheduled, left to 6000
only. S9+10 with drama dialog in Spanish but long pauses of background
noises, music. Smax of TV soundtrack on a novela! Also overmodulated,
distorted. Not // RHC Spanish either, 11760 etc., nor the domestic SW
frequencies 5025, 4765. A totally wrong program feed is going into and
out of this unit. Still thus past 0217. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 9590, March 26 at 0122, weak S7-S9 YL in Spanish
with flutter; still past 0132+. It`s CRI scheduled at 01-03 from
Kashgar. Here`s something else about SW City, also land of ChiCom
imperialist genocide against the Uyghurs, I happened to see on CNN:

China's crackdown in Xinjiang has separated Uyghur children from their
parents. CNN found two of them - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/china/xinjiang-uyghur-families-china-amnesty-report-exclusive-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

15+ minute audiovideo as seen on AC360 UT March 25 circa 0530. Also
transcript with photos, maps, graphs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW kHz, March 26 at 0205 UT, EI, Woodring Airport,
EnId ND beacon is back on! Latest outage started March 15. I check at
random times day or night, and assume once it`s off it stays off until
heard again. But I wonder if this or some other LW/MW beacons at minor
airports operate only irregularly depending on when there are really
incoming flights needing them, on request?

Power saving of 25 watts would hardly justify the trouble of turning
them off and on. BTW, Deirdre Gurry, the new AP director I met on a
visit about EI in October 2019, has already moved on after receiving
an award; she was replaced the following September by Keston Cook
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2078 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday March 25 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, VG S9/+15 into Bonaire SDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2079 contents: *Algeria non, Antarctica, Ascension,
Armenia, Bonaire, Chile, *China, Congo, Cuba, France, India, Iran,
*Japan and non, Korea North and non, Korea South and non, *New
Zealand, North America, Philippines, *Romania, Singapore, Sudan South
non, Taiwan, *Thailand, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela; propagation outlook;
*A21 schedules

WOR 2079 is available as of 0023 UT Friday March 26, 2021
(mp3 stream)    http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2079.m3u
(mp3 download)  http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2079.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, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday  WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
2130 UT Saturday  WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
2200vUT Sunday    WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2300 UT Sunday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0030 UT Monday    WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1801 UT Monday    IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday  WRMI 5010 to S

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

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on
voluntary support: thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA,
for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds,
via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com

First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday March 26 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780
S7-S9 poor here off the side and seems undermodulated, but VG on 5850,
S9+20/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1370, March 26 at 0232 UT, a bandscan hits some C&W music,
and a produced ID barely readable in the QRM, sounds like KVRD or KBRV
or something similar rhyming. The only fuzzy fit in NRC AM Log is:
KCRV, Caruthersville MO, which is on the River in the Bootheel, east
of Kennett where it`s addressed; U1 1000/63 watts, really? E-W
longwire does favor it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, March 25 at 0606, JBA carrier presumed R. Vanuatu,
3945 x 3; but nothing heard on 7890 = 3945 x 2. Will 11835 have a CCI
problem in A-21? Yes, tentative HFCC shows nothing on 11835 but CNR
China, 150 kW, 257 degrees from Xi`an site at 0000-1300! There was
nothing at all in B-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL
+++++++++++++++++++++++

Glenn, I appreciate your dedication to the broadcast medium and
information that you provide to DXers world wide. I have been a
listener and shortwave DXer since 1967. Thanks again. Pat Zapalac,
Texas

This report dispatched at 0507 UT March 26
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