** 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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** CANADA. 248 kHz, April 23 at 0622 UT, ND beacon dash and WG, which
is 1000 watts from WinnipeG; not often heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non?]. 15110, April 23 at 1455-1500* Chinese talk at S9+10,
cut off at ToH amid first/one timepip. Presumably CNR1 jammer against
VOA Chinese via Philippines, this hour only, same as heard yesterday
but now much better, and no signal from a second station; nor any
similar signals on the 15 or 13 MHz bands. A pipeline, from where?

11675, April 23 at 1541, one Chinese signal at S6-S7, CNR1 jammer
against RFA Saipan, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
2031)

** CUBA. 6060 & 6000, April 23 at 0612, RHC English is OFF these two,
still on 6100 & weaker 6145; 5040 also off. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. 13840.007, April 24 at 0129, RNZI S9-S7 better than
usual on this channel, and very slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 267 kHz, April 23 at 0623 UT, NDB HET, which is 25 watts
from HenryEtTa OK, not often heard. I was tuned to 265-USB, but 2 kHz
away it was as weak as could be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 14902-USB, Thursday April 23 at 1855, YL as Triblade 19, so
a Civil Air Patrol net, calling Red Fire and several other tactical
handles; long silence until 1900 she asks for relays, with Triblade
31, White Tail 51; agree to QSY to secret frequency designated N-E-H,
for traffic, calls for more traffic or relays; 1902 Yosemite 80 with
Triblade 60. Red Fire is Indiana; Yosemite of course California (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 contents: Antarctica,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bougainville, Bulgaria, China, Congo DR, Cuba,
Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Italy and
non, Japan non, Korea South & North, Madagascar, Malaysia, México,
Mongolia, New Zealand, Nigeria, North America, São Tomé, Sa`udi
Arabia, Somalia, Thailand, Tinian, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA and non,
Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder

WOR 2031 is available as of 0215 UT Friday April 24
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [maybe 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 [maybe 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. 6159.917V, April 24 at 0134, WBCQ-#? is on and wavering
off-frequency with talk show, presumably Hal Turner, whom I have no
interest in hearing; and without // matching, sounds like same thing
on 5130 and on 7490.110v; and 9455 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 570, April 23 at 0630 UT ``We`re the Voice of the Midwest,
570 WNAX`` and 0631 locally originated ``WNAX News`` presumably during
break in some talk show.

Not the only slogan in NRC AM Log for 570 in Yankton SD, ``Your
5-state neighbor`` --- tho who knows, it may also be uttered.

Wikipedia agrees that Voice of the Midwest is the slogan of WNAX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNAX_(AM)

Searching also leads to Voice of the Midwest as title of a 1953y book
about WLW Cincinnati. I think only those east of Ohio could think of
it as Midwest.

``Midwest`` is certainly an ill-defined term. One source shows all the
states within a ND-KS-OH triangle. But SD and others can also be
considered in the Great Plains, or North Central region. Certainly not
OK, tho we are the only state with a Midwest City = OKC suburb.

NRC DX News of April 14, AM Switch reported:
``Applications to extend existing STA received:
570 WNAX SD Yankton – Applies to extend STA, U1 5000/1250``

WNAX nominal parameters: 5000/5000 U2, i.e. ND daytime, direxionanl
nighttime, majorly toward NNE with two minor southish lobes.

Where`s KLIF Dallas? Twice as close. Only WNAX heard now on the E-W
longwire which should be equally unfavorable for both.

Both day and night patterns of KLIF are nullish toward here, but in
the daytime it`s atop WNAX, always audible underneath via
high-ground-conductivity path, and of course the only SD day signal
arriving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0318 UT April 24
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