** ALASKA. 9580, April 27 at 1454, ending `Creation Moment`,
anti-science nonsense, then rock music, and KNLS closing with English
schedule for ``New Life Station`` including 13760 at 03 for S Asia,
i.e. via Madagascar. This confirms that not all the English hours from
MWV Mahajanga are African Pathways Radio as one schedule asserted.
Alaska had resumed on April 23 after 3+ weeks off, not clear exactly
why, expenses?

Supposedly current sked for both is here:
https://www.worldchristian.org/welcome/who-we-are/how-to-listen/
including KNLS English: 08 on 9695; 10 on 9580; 12 on 9795 and 7355;
14 on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ALASKA. 9730, April 27 at 1502, rock song at S4-S6, clearly a
station that does not believe in news on the hour --- or any news at
all about the *real* world. 9730 is heavily used by China, North
Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar, but Aoki shows this one-hour window for
KNLS in Russian; only possible competition being SOH Taiwan relaying
RFA up to 20 hours a day including this one. In fact, it`s the same
KNLS-2 transmitter I just heard in English before 1500 on 9580, but
now 30 degrees clockwise at 300 degrees for ``E Central Russia``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 9680, April 27 at 1501, S5-S9 open carrier, presumably CNR1
jammer against Taiwan not turned off yet, but could be vice versa.
Aoki/NDXC shows jammer site as Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 11640, April 26 at 2125, chat in English about the
value of reading books, African accent, S4-S5. It`s CRI via MALI, that
odd half-hour broadcast until 2130, or is it expansion of the previous
one-hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5040, April 27 at 0550, RHC in Spanish instead of English
during this hour, S9+30. Something`s always cockeyed at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13763 & 13637 approx., April 27 at 1406, RHC `Sonido Cubano`
music back on big distorted S9 spurblobs, about plus/minus 63 kHz out
of 13700-AM transmitter. Useless in SSB tuning but audible in AM or
FM, and with the F# tone in FM. JBA on second-orders circa 13573 &
13827. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [non]. 7335, April 27 at 0554, Radio Martí music at S9+20,
apparently hit parade having reached #1, no jamming audible at first
unlike slightly weaker // 7365 S9+10/20. 0559 elaborate ID, ``siempre
contigo``. 0600 becomes `Radio Revoltillo`, show of revolting
comments, dated jueves 23 de abril, so a replay; also counts number of
days to end of year. Jamming now audible under 7335. Nothing on 5980
now except jamming as no RM until 0700; and 6030 audible under
jamming. Comments about how the Great October Revolution was really in
November due to calendar changes. 0613 takes phone call to a 305
number, evidently from another exile; or contact via
radiorevoltillo@gmail.com

RM has other music shows late at night. Better enjoy all this while
you can, as overnight 04-10 UT transmissions on SW are to be canceled
effective May 2, apparently due to a major budget cut. RM is the main
output of Grimesland, vs only a few VOA transmissions in Bambara,
French, Hausa, English, so we fear this could be the beginning of the
end for the ``Greenville`` site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 27 at 0554 tune-in, big VON carrier cuts off
immediately, unknown if ever came back. At least they tried (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday April 27 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 - only, VG via Maine SDR;
repeated at 0230.

Also confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 starting at 0305 on Area 51 via WBCQ,
5130-, stably a few Hz on minus side, after an ancient Jean Shepherd
stream-of-consciousness monolog ran over, concluding with his peppy
themesong - what was it? Axually better here, S9+10/20 than to a
Rochester remote where there were storms. Alternate 6160v NOT on the
air.

WOR 2031 presumably confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 at 0330 on WRMI 9955;
checked previous semihour during RPI it was S9+10. Next:

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. 9955, Sunday April 26 at 2120, WRMI with chat between W&M
about their favorite TV shows; it`s `The Lab` for a semihour, easily
overlooked and last reported in September as in DXLD 19-39, with
quotation from WRMI program page still there, outdated info lacking
this very airing, IDing them as Kate Holiday and Ryan Rivers (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1656 UT April 27
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JRX Logs_ April 26, 2020
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ASCENSION ISLAND
** 11810. Apr 26, 2020. 1903-1913, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Man and woman talk; 1907 Man and woman talk and pieces of songs. Good reception.

AUSTRIA
** 6155. Apr 26, 2020. 0500-0513, Radio Austria International, Moosbrunn-AUT, in German. Woman and man announcers present news; 0508 A classical music. Fair reception.

BULGARIA
** 11680. Apr 26, 2020. 1815-1830, BBC, Sofia-Kostinbrod-BUL, in French. Woman and man announcers talk news; A conversation between them; 1824 Man talks; ID and a african song; 1830 Ends. Fair reception.
Parallel logs on 12005 relay Woofferton, very good reception; And 11875 relay SM di Galeria-CVA, very good reception.

CLANDESTINE
** 11830. Apr 26, 2020. 1853-1859, Dandal Kura Radio, Issoudun-F, in Kanuri. Man and woman in conversation; 1859 A brief song and ends programming. Fair reception.

FRANCE
** 13820. Apr 26, 2020. 1831-1841, Radio Algérienne, Issoudun-F, in Arabic. Man talks - The Qur´an recitation; 1835 ID and begins the Qur´an chant; 1838 A brief recitation, and next, a song by female singer and chorus. Good reception, but the jamming interference continues, since the A20 initial period.

GREAT BRITAIN
** 9800. Apr 26, 2020. 1916-1928, World´s Last Chance Program, Woofferton-G, in Arabic. Men announcers talk, conversation between them during all log. Good reception.
** 9820. Apr 26, 2020. 1842-1852, KBS World Radio, Woofferton-G, in Russian language. Man announcer talks and a brief song; 1843 A song by female singer; 1851 Man and woman talk. Fair reception.

LIBERIA
** 6050. Apr 26, 2020. 1931-1948, ELWA Radio, Monrovia-LBR, in English. Man and woman talk with nice enthusiasm and a musical background. Poor reception.

MALI
** 5995. Apr 26, 2020. 1948-2013, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in French. Musics of the country; 2000 Man talks, ID; Man and woman announcers talk news, say about Ramadan month and more. Fair reception.
Note: All edition in french language, till 2013UTC.

USA
** 6195. Apr 26, 2020. 0407-0430, NHK World Japan, Furman-SC, in Spanish. Woman announcer presents " Boletín Informativo de Radio Japón"; 0410 Program "Buzón de Radio Japón": Culture, history, tourism, music, listener correspondence and reception reports. Good reception.

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SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
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JRX Logs_ April 25, 2020Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ARMENIA** 9880. Apr 25, 2020. 0211-0221, BBC, Gavar-ARM, in Pashto. Woman and man announcers present news, presumed; 0218 ID. Fair reception.Parallel logs on 6195 relay Al-Seela, fair reception; And 7445 relay Al-Seela-OMA, barely audible.** 9880. Apr 25, 2020. 0230-0242, BBC, Gavar-ARM, in Dari. Man talks; A conversation with a man. Poor reception.
FRANCE** 6105. Apr 25, 2020. 0253-0305, NHK World Japan, Issoudun-F, in Japanese. Man talks; 0300 Time pips and man says ID; News by man announcer. Very good reception.
KUWAIT** 15540. Apr 25, 2020. 1650-1705, Radio Kuwait, Kabd-KWT, in Arabic. A song; Man and woman talk - A nice conversation and fast piece of songs; 1654 Man and woman talk; 1659 A brief song; 1700 Time pips; Man announcer talks news, presumably. Good reception.
NIGERIA** 11770. Apr 25, 2020. 1600-1612, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-NIG, in Yoruba. Woman announcer talks and says Nigeria many times; 1604 Abrupt interrruption programming; 1612 No returns programming at this time. Fair reception for these initial four minutes!
TURKEY** 7260. Apr 25, 2020. 0138-0155, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Spanish. Turkish songs; 0153 IS; 0155 Ends programming. Good reception.
UAE** 6070. Apr 25, 2020. 0200-0210, FEBA Radio, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Urdu. IS and ID; Man and woman voices; A very brief song and woman announcer talks; Man voice. Poor reception.** 6070. Apr 25, 2020. 0222-0230, FEBA Radio, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Urdu. Woman voice; 0228 A short song; 0229 IS. Poor reception.
VATICAN** 15565. Apr 25, 2020. 1613-1629, Vatican Radio, SM di Galeria-CVA, in Swahili. Man announcer talks; News, presumably; 1629 IS. Fair reception.** 15565. Apr 25, 2020. 1630-1640, Vatican Radio, SM di Galeria-CVA, in English. ID; Man talks and a religious song; 1633 Woman talks; Returns man voice. Fair reception.

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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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