WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST

Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update:
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

1) Austria - ORF/OE1: Added station (thanks to Glenn Hauser)
2) France - RFI: Added links to programme and Facebook pages of
Musique du Monde
3) Greece - V of Greece: As VoG now relays the Proto (1st) programme,
in place of the ERT external services, added links to this service.
Additionally, Proto may relay overnight either the Deftero (2nd) or
Trito (3rd) programme, so added links to these as well (with thanks to
Richard Langley in WOR iog for initial tip)
4) Lao - Lao National R: Added links for this station (with thanks to
David Kernick, Interval Signal Online, via WOR iog for initial tip)
5) UK - BBC WS: Updated link to "regional schedules"
6) UK - European Music R: Deleted entry (the former archived
website/domain has now been deleted)
7) USA - R Free Asia: Added link to RFA website (thanks to an initial
tip by Bill Harms in faceBook group)
8) USA - WEWN: Updated link to frequency schedules

Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be late
May. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, April 25)

** CUBA. 11880, April 25 at 2232, RHC Portuguese is S9+20 but very
distorted. 11 seconds later the same thing is heard on 11700 at S9+10,
a bit crackly but not distorted. The former bodes ill for the quality
of English to follow at 2300. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370
also supposed to be on now but a JBA carrier and nothing else on 19m
is any better, degraded propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760 // suptorted 15140, April 26 at 1512 check, RHC in
Spanish, another Sunday missing Esperanto. Plenty of it can be read
at
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo
including items with recent dates and linx to audio of April 5, 12 and
19 shows, and maybe will add 26 yet missing from SW. Something`s
always wrong at Radio Havano Kubo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, April 26 at 1932, NO signal from RHC English. But:
15370, April 26 at 1932, RHC French is S9+20, OK modulation.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. On rare occasions 15140 programs go
out instead on spy-numbers frequency 16180, but not now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 15130, April 26 at 1932, JBA music S2-S3; listed as NHK
Japanese relay; hardly anything else trans-Atlantic on band and even
Cuba missing from 15140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 26 at 0616, TGAV is still on late and
stronger than usual at S9+10/20 during sermon in Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** HAWAII. 5000, April 26 at 0619, WWVH with jittery Doppler flutter
on carrier when heard with BFO, sign of severe prop disturbance, very
unusual over such a low-latitude path; and NO signal from WWV Colorado
which is normally atop here; it can be heard on 2500 tho weaker than
usual. Just missed the 0618 propagation report on WWV, but 3-hourly
e-mail from WWV says at 0600 the K-index was only 2, SF 69, and no
storms observed or predicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 7310, Sat April 25 at 2245, RRI S3-S7 poor concluding DX
Mailbag until 2246 just as in DX/SWL/MEDIA programs starting at 2240
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 25 at 2228, VOT English is on today, Turkish
songs at S7-S9; no RTTY now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday April 26 starting at 0311, good on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via
Edinburgh IN SDR south of Indianapolis. Next:

0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? 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 this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 9330, April 25 at 1824, WLCR via WBCQ is in English, not
German as previously scheduled, only fair S5-S8. Their sked now shows
German at 19-22 UT and wrong conversion to 8-11 pm local, tho they got
French to France right with a 2-hour difference (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 15770, April 26 at 1439, no signal from this WRMI which
normally achieves at least a JBA carrier; also no signal at 1512 via
remotes in Maine, Holland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1951 UT April 26
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** AUSTRALIA. 12362-USB, April 25 at 1432, S2-S3, coastal marine
weather in Oz-accented robOM, mostly wind direxions and speeds in
knots, seas in metres, times in UTC? forecasts at least until Tuesday;
geographical references unrecognized, except 1434 two tones, then
Northern Territory. EiBi shows it`s VMW, Wiluna WA on air 24 hours.
Nothing heard from companion VMC Charleville QL on 12365-USB
supposedly also on air now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** JAPAN [non]. 5985 WRMI & 6195 WHRI, April 25 at 0400-0429, NHK
relay entirely in Spanish, no English insert here like in so many
other language services.

6105 Japanese via FRANCE went off at 0400 April 25. Ira Holmes in
central Florida reported that on April 23, 6105 had English at
0415-0500; but it was off April 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. Correxion: off at 2253.7* not 2353.7* of course; fixed:
9830, April 24 at 2247, checking VOT English via Bonaire
SDR, Turkish music and just in time for YL sign-off claiming again
this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450! NOT. IS plays until
2253.7*, shux, no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 9410, April 25 at 1446, tune-in to end of a song,
sounds like Nat-King Cole, then a non-English song, S5-S9. Of course,
it`s VOA Korean via PHILIPPINES, also // weaker 12080 at 1451 check.

If you hear classic tunes from The American Songbook, chances are it`s
VOA Korean service, which plays a lot of it. Is this a big thing among
Koreans, or by the VOA-K music director; or retaliation for K-pop?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 12098-USB, Sat Apr 25 at 1436, CAP net, YL NCS
Aspen Gold 99, each transmission ending with beep rather than
``over``; classic paramilitary lingo like ``wilco``; Yellowbird 73
one contact; 1439 asks for relays before we close. No, off at 1440*
with net ID as Heartland. Aspen Gold is the Rocky Mountain Region
tactical callsign, not specifically Colorado which is Blue Mesa. Maybe
it was Yellow Brick, which is Kansas, get it? It seems we never hear
any real axion on these CAP nets, such as rushing to scenes of plane
crashes, but rather extremely rigid pro-forma exchanges.

No problem from the weak SWBC on 12095, which would be BBC Somali;
HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all agree that on Saturdays only during this hour,
BOTH Madagascar and Uzbekistan sites are in use. Surely it`s only one
or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
April 25 at 1134 the 1130 on WRMI 9955, S3-S6 vs pulse jamming.

April 25 at 1300 on WRMI 15770: JBA carrier here at 1305. Barely
better in Bulgaria, reports Ivo Ivanov:
``Reception of World of Radio#2031 via WRMI-09 Okeechobee, April 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGlIQkk5gw&feature=youtu.be

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/04/reception-of-world-of-radio2031-via.html
1300-1330 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Sat, very weak`` -
Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? 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 this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 17775-, April 25 at 1457, KVOH on already and propagating
S9! musical prélude to weekly Saturday English block, the SSOB with
traces of 17815 WHRI? and 17615+ Sa`udi Arabia. Wavescan supposed to
air at 1500, and confirmed a few minutes later when checked on a
Kentucky KiwiSDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1040, April 25 at 0603 UT, WHO Des Moines IA with dead air
until 0606 comes to life, blasting ever-changing opening music of
C2CAM // many others but not synchronized, 1100, 1110, 1000, etc.,
guest host tonight Jimmy Church. What would Ronald Reagan say? Is no
human paying attention at WHO to its output? I should have hastened to
pull something else thru it. Maybe will recur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11785, April 25 at 1442, open carrier with flutter,
S1-S5. VOA Chinese via Philippines ends at 1400 and so too should the
CNR1 or Firedrake jamming. Nothing after 1400, except in EiBi, CRI
Chinese via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of imprisoning and
brainwashing Uyghurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1657 UT April 25
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser via groups.io" Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020

Subject: [WOR] Glenn Hauser log roundup April 16-23, 2020
MEXICO. 6185, April 18 at 0535, S8-S9 of dead air from XEPPM. May
have been refurbished and extended schedule to 0800 but still needs
some work! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

MEXICO  Noted also 6184.973 MEX R Educacion in Spanish, S=8 in New Jersey
remote Perseus unit, Spanish talk at 04.17 UT, April 25. (wb)

NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 20 at 0555, no signal from VON, and I
believe it was also absent last night. Admittedly propagation is
degraded, little from Europe or even CFRX, K index 3 at 0600. Always
unreliable, but wonder if staying off? How about the other frequency?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

NIGERIA   7254.939  VoNigeria Abuja, Hausa sce, mens talk at 06.03 UT,
S=8 strength on remote SDR unit in southern Germany April 25. (wb)

SUDAN 7205even Sudan National BC Omdurman back on regular sce in 41 mb,
S=6-7 or -96dBm fair signal after gray line now westerly at present
at 0604 UT on April 25. (wb)
ROMANIA. 11950, fair April 18 at 1457, two rock songs, language
uncertain until 1500 timecheck in Romanian, and presumed news but
chopped off at 1500:15*. Yes, RRI scheduled 1300-1500, 285 degrees
from Galbeni to CIRAF 27SE = France. Romanian expatriates are among
the most fortunate to have SW linx from the patrie. And there are a
lot of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_diaspora
including 700K+ in USA & Canada (Glenn Hauser
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
ROMANIA  7325DRM mode of RRI Tiganesti in German digital sce, S=9+35dB
powerhouse 10 kHz wide signal at 0606 UT this morning. (wb)
U S A. 7570, April 20 at 0557, TOMBS on this WRMI aimed right at us
is normally inbooming, but now is only S5-S7 very poor. K-index of 3
and SF of 69 will do it, per WWV at 0600, MUF way down
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

USA   7570even TOM BS roarer on this WRMI Okeechobee noted at 06.20 UT
on April 25, BUT SUFFERS HEAVILY by UTE QRM disturbtion, some high speed
ditter signals 10 x strings each 27 Hertz distance apart between 7570.870
and 7571.120 kHz measured strings. S=8-9 annoying ditter UTE signals.

USA  7335even USA GM Greenville NC signal of Radio Marti Spanish US sce,
across the Atlantic into southern Germany, S=9+10dB, and similar strength
also 
7365even also from Greenville NC site, but latter suffer some scratch Cuban?
jamming underneath accompanied. Heard bad news for R Marti budget planned to
be lowered from 29 to 11 mill $  annually ?
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 25) 


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** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Sat April 25 just after 0100, via WRMI,
RAE ATTW in English, and also in English closing at 0128 as ``lockdown
edition #2``, so maybe the entire semihour was English. 0129 the way
outdated ``Son-power Radio`` WRMI ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, April 24 at 0541, R. Rebelde is S9 but just barely
modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 24 at 1849, S9+10 signal but just
barely modulated, Qur`an? Dengê Welat expected, via France or maybe
Pridnestrovye, and subject to Turkish blockage; but suspect the bigsig
suppressing atop is the Cuban numbers transmitter which is supposedly
not on 11530 now, but earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 11650, April 24 at 2055, S6-S7 open carrier, somewhat
noisy; what`ll it be? 2058 RRI IS and 2100 opening Spanish via
Tsiganeshti (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11820.042, April 24 at 1818, for the first
time this year, I think, decent S9/+10 signal from the HQS,
sufficiently soporific music for a nap; a Ramadan gift? Always
off-frequency+plus here; 2 minutes of pause from 1838 before
resuming.

// 11914.987 is always weaker, S4-S7, at 1845 April 24.

ARS is still absent from A-20 HFCC info, but in B-19, both 500 kW from
BSKSA Riyadh at 320 and 295 degrees respectively, with 320 closer to
OKward, altho intended only for W Europe. Spans for both were 18-23 UT
and probably still are. By 2053 recheck, however, 11820.042 has faded
to S4-S6 and anyhow are now in W&M talk. Originally it was the best
signal on band from beyond the Atlantic. So how about the other
Sa`udis?

11745.002, April 24 at 1846, presumably the AFRTS of SA, Al-Azm for
the forces attacking Yemen, music at S6-S8 with a fast SAH from USAGM
in Chinese Mandarin, 250 kW, 70 degrees from KUWAIT; or vice versa.
Not in B-19 HFCC, and classified as clandestine by WRTH 2020 on page
516 along with the next one:

11860, Republic of Yemen Radio, strangely enough, was not even
registered in B-19, since it`s clandestine, but everyone thinx it`s
also via Riyadh --- and totally inaudible here vs Cuban jamming and
Radio Martí. Not even its off-frequency carrier as measured by
Wolfgang Büschel, ``11859.965 kHz 14.57 UT on April 18`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 24 at 2247, checking VOT English via Bonaire
SDR, Turkish music and just in time for YL sign-off claiming again
this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450! NOT. IS plays until
2353.7*, shux, no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed first US
SWBC, Friday April 24 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: Bonaire SDR hears it OK
over Cuban jamming; Pardinho, Brasil better without jamming; while
direct to here, only a JBA carrier under the jamming.

Also confirmed UT Sat Apr 25 at 0130 on 3 x WRMI: 7780, poor with
storm noise; 5010 better S9+10/20 but also storm noise; and 5850 VG
S9+20/30 yet not enough to overcome all the storm noise. Blitzortung
shows a heavy band of lightning from SW MO to NE TX, along the OK/AR
border and the TX/LA border. Next:

0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? 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 this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 9330, April 24 at 2102, WBCQ in German, only fair S5-S8. The
flat-earth wackadoodles of World`s Last Chance used to be in Arabic,
but having moved that to a closer site Woofferton, have favored the
Germans with three hours here from 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Welcome back to John Carver with computer fixed, notes on
WBCQ`s AAAWWW UT Saturday April 25 at 0000:

``Tonight's show started on time on 7490 and 5130. Allan and Angela in
the studio. Show opens with a bit of talk about the Canadian shooter.
Phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Talk about some of the old programs
from the station that are contained in the archives. Phone call at
0015 from a new listener in Indiana asking for information about the
station which quickly changed to a talk about cars.

Phone call at 0036 from Ramsey which continued the car talk. Freddie
called again at 0042 and the talk this time was about tractors.
Reading of emails at 0055. Very quick prayer and off the air 0100.

Have read most of the reports of AAWWW and the only other thing of
interest was last week's show when Angela told her tale of being
outside before the show and seeing sparks down the street. She went
down to look and a tree limb had fallen into the "hydro" lines and
they were arcing and sparking. Allan explained that they weren't
called hydro lines down here in the States and Angela showed him a
piece of charred tree limb she'd brought back home with her to show
him. Allan called the power company and he got a robo call from the
power company about half way through the show telling him that the
problem had been fixed. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0210 UT April 25
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Yes, the FCC has blown it several times in recent years.  They seem to have trouble with states that start with M because there are so many.  From what I was told, somebody mistook MS for being Missouri instead of Mississippi.  There was new TV station that was granted a K call, but they ended up changing it to a W before it went on the air.  Undoubtedly, the same thing happened with the AM station in Michigan that was given a K call.  The person who did it must have thought MI stood for Missouri or Minnesota, but the station still operates with the K call.  About 10 years ago there were two new FM stations in Iowa that were granted W calls, but the FCC found out about that before they were built and made them change to K calls.

    Kit

On Thursday, April 23, 2020, 3:54:46 PM MDT, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com> wrote:


It was moved from Chicago in 1926, so it’s grandfathered.  
I know several Mississippi stations.... licensed to towns in MS... that have had K call letters granted in the last 15 years 
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:38 PM Kit via Hard-Core-DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:

 The original call sign for this station was KQYX, but it was changed to WMBH in 2001.  Doesn't anyone at the FCC ever look at a map?  Why would a station in Joplin qualify for a W call???

      Kit

    On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 9:30:51 PM MDT, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com> wrote: 

WMBH-AM 1560 Joplin, MO 500 Watt non directional daytimer at 720pm central. Been chasing a sports station under KNZR and KGOW for a week or two but could never nail it down as there were two possibilities and I couldnt rule either one out based on location. Finally heard a mention of Joplin in a radio commercial tonight. 

Paul WalkerLaramie, wY Icom IC746pro and massive loop antenna in the front yard 

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