** 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

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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)

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Audio logs 
4955kHz, R. Cultura Amauta, Peru, Huanta; 13/10, 0007 – 0013 male talks. Very poor (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/cultura_amauta4955khz0007utc13/s-x876aI7NY9W?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

2321 – 2327 instr. music alternating male spanish talks, female: “Huanta”. Poor (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/cultura_amauta4955khz2321utc13?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

2330 – 2337 male spanish talks, female on music sounding like ads. Poor (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/cultura_amauta4955khz2330utc13?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

4765kHz, R. Progreso, Cuba, Bejucal; 14/10, 0006 – 0015 male spanish talks “fotos antiguas...para contratar lhe...” music sounding like andean, male “fotos antiguas...”. Some het, fair (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/progreso4765khz0006utc14102020?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

From 0029 started what the recording shows, seems another carrier, increase of het, a station underneath. Remembering that sunday at 0030 same thing hapened but with a modulation and announcements by male (“la onda de la alegria...Habana, Cuba”) with a higher signal level than before of 0030. (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/progreso4765khz0029utc14102020?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

6100kHz, KCBS Pyongyong, Korea North; 14/10, 0850 – 0854 music, short female in korean announcements, coral female music. Good, clear (LOB). 
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/kcbs_pyongyang6100khz0850utc14?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1

RNA continues weak signal; checks 12/10 at 2318 and 13/10 at 2313

Tecsun PL310et 
Antenna wire 6m, dipole 18m 
Embu SP Brasil

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** 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

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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)

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** 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)

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JRX Logs_ Friday, October 9, 2020Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808Antenna (s)_  Sony AN71Date and Time in UTC/GMT

ASCENSION ISLAND** 15490. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 1915-1925, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Tigrinya. Woman and man in conversation with other man; 1917 Retuns news by man and woman voices. Very good reception.
BRAZIL** 11780. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2230-2250, Radio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasilia-DF, in Portuguese. Transmitting the mandatory official program " A Voz do Brasil": News of the executive, legislative and judicial powers. Fair to good reception.** 11815. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2306-2316, Radio Brasil Central, Goiânia-GO, in Portuguese. Man and woman announcers present news in the mandatory program "A Voz do Brasil". ID and local time: 6:06PM in Goiânia-GO (7:16PM in Brasilia and Cabedelo). Fair reception.Note: The State of Goiás has 1 hour less than Brasilia.
CUBA** 11760. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2212-2230, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Woman announcer speaks and comments about the Postal Mail, in the week dedicated to this institution and the World Mail Day; Says local time: 6:16 PM in Cuba (7:16 PM in Cabedelo-PB); 2219 Begins the program "De Cuba un Disco": a musician and his  history; A song by piano; ID; "Revista America" announcement. Good reception.** 11800. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2251-2305, Radio Habana Cuba, Quivican-CUB, in Spanish. Woman announcer talks and comments about the Coronavirus in Cuba and latinamerica; 2257 Man and woman talk; 2258 IS, ID and RHC sked in spanish; Website; A song. Good reception..
FRANCE** 17850. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 1838-1850, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers interview a man; 1843 ID and man talks. Good reception.
MADAGASCAR** 11610. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2104-2120, MWV-The Light of Life, Mahajanga-MDG, in Chinese language. Woman talks, in chinese; 2110 Man talks; 2114 A brief man communication, now, in english; 2115 Man and woman announcers return communication, now, in chinese. Very good reception.
MALI** 13630. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2035-2045, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in English. Man announcer says about variety chinese themes. Good reception.
SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE** 17655. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 1812-1829, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in Portuguese. Man announcer in conversation; 1826 João Santa Rita presents a summary news; 1829 Abrupt ends. Good reception.Parallel log on 13630bot, fair to poor reception.
STANAG** 13410. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2050-2100, 6WW Daka STANAG, Rufisque-DIRISI-SEN. Good reception in my area.
USA** 15825. Fri, Oct 9, 2020. 2020-2030, WWCR1, Nashville-TN, in English. Man talks; 2022 Man and woman voices, ID, website and a religious song; 2027 Man preaching, says Jesus Christus; 2028 ID. Fair to good reception.

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