** EAST TURKISTAN. Xinjiang PBS reported by Dr Hj Biener to have
resumed its lower 60ish mb winter frequencies, so I make my annual
check of them shortly after sign-on circa local sunrise when it`s
grayline to me circa local sunset, Nov 15 {not 14 as in original
report} at 0040 UT:
5060, JBA Chinese, a bit stronger of course than the rest:
4980, JBA algo, Uyghur service
4850, JBA algo, Kazakh service
4500, JBA carrier, Mongolian service, vs CODAR
With nothing further identifiable, this quartet make it obvious
whence.

Ron Howard got the new schedule as of Nov 14 from Hiroshi, sign-on
times:
5060, 2310- 4980, 2310- 4850, 2315- 4500, 2315-
Current Aoki:
5060, 2310- 4980, 2315- 4850, 2315- 4500, 2315-
EiBi has nothing anywhere on all four frequencies. Anyway, all should
be on by 2315. All of them have several higher frequencies, and the
lower ones again in the local evening, impossibly midday here.

Gaisma.com shows today`s Nov 15 sunrise at Urumqi, ``China``: 0103-
UT. In a bimonth will be near its latest, 0141-, i.e. 9:41 am by local
clock required to be on Beijing time of UT+8 rather than when it
should be, UT+6. Due to imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs
and other Moslems.

WRTH 2023 dispenses with any sked info and lists all four not at
Urumqi, but ``Changji``! Is that the same as Changzhi in gaisma.com?
But that`s way off in east China near Beijing.

Mauno Ritola replies: ``Changji is at 43 58.5N 87 15E, 35 km
east-southeast of the FS and MW site, so clearly a separate site. Best
regards, Mauno`` i.e. near Urumqi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Re 1520, KOKC allegedly back to 50 kW DA-N:
Mike Beu at 0144 Nov 15: ``Hey Glenn: Interesting info about KOKC
antenna pattern change - definitely weaker down south in Austin, Texas
- easier now to DX the channel. KRHW Sikeston, MO with C&W music is
frequently audible under KOKC including now at 0144 UTC, here in
Austin. Receiving Equipment: Drake R8B, Terminated Delta (17ft apex
and 28ft base) -, northeast, Mini-Flag (7ft by 15ft) - southeast.
Pennant (14ft by 29ft) - southeast. 73, Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin,
Texas``

And on the WOR iog in EST: ``1520 KOKC OK Oklahoma City 11/14, 2330
{0430 UT Nov 15}. Chad Benson talk program, in and out, over/under
co-channel QRM. Man at 2359. "KOKC...95 point 3 and 15-20 AM".
Stronger signal than we usually get here post-tornado, but not really
as strong as pre-tornado. A hard call to make, this listening session,
if they really at full power. Monitored on Grundig Satellit 205 and
internal loop. -- Rick Barton-AZ``

>From IRCA iog Nov 14: ``Last night and this morning KOKC 1520 did not
appear to be back to normal. Weak signal compared to what it was
before the tornado took down towers. -- John Johnson DXing from Mesa,
Arizona, SDRplay RSPduo, Wellbrook ALA1530LNP``

``Paul B. Walker, Jr., Alaska: ``They might be doing some final fine
turning before turning things up for good.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2216 monitoring: confirmed UT
Wednesday November 15 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+25/15 into Missouri
SDR.

Not confirmed Wednesday November 15 at 2200 on WBCQ 7490v; at first no
signal audible on BSR1 caradio or DX398 portable; nor by 2230 on
5130v, but a trace of something on 7490. Could anyone hear WOR? `BCQ
had been missing from 7490 but at last previous check was back on.
Also confirmed on at 0048 November 16 about 7490.06 direct on the plus
side for a change. Maryland SDR shows 7490.073; 5130 back to T****,
5130.308. Next:fs

0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0230 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

One may contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

UNIDENTIFIED. 610, Nov 15 at 0657 UT, Mexmx unusual, dominating, 0700
very brief announcement in a fade. NRC AM Log shows the only USSS are
in GA and OR, both unlikely; and only five Mexicans, XEGS Guasave,
Sinaloa probably most likely, and four others (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1440, caradio on an expedition 30km N of Enid, two weak
signals interfading, one religious, the other talk, likely early
skywave from KEXP Metroplex TX, 50 kW day power; and KMAJ Topeka KS,
respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

LANGUAGE LESSONS

``Anti-Semitism`` and ``Islamophobia`` are being treated under current
circumstances as equivalent and certainly both to be condemned. But
they are not equivalent. Islamophobia means *fear* of Islam, so should
there be a corresponding way to say fear of Judaism? Or are we really
trying to talk about hate, not fear. In the latter case, an
appropriate Latinate construxion would be Islamodium. But what about
the other? Anti-Semitism has always been problematic, but is so
ingrained that we are unlikely to get rid of the term. You see, both
most Jews and Arabs are Semitic, so it`s nonsensical to apply it only
to Jews. How about Judodium to go with Islamodium? (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0130 UT November 16

** FRANCE. 21640+, Nov 14 at 1546, JBA carrier direct, presumably
MiniTransAt sailboat race still underway from Canarias to Guadeloupe.
Had not checked for it since Nov 6, over a week. Signature
off-frequency. The other Issouduns at this hour are much stronger with
modulation, 21485 and 21690. The 15-16 bilingual weather and race info
hour on 21640 should be over at latest by Nov 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1520, Nov 14 at 0746, KOKC OKC seems stronger than usual,
S9+45/35 direct in talk. Paul Walker heard that it had finally resumed
50 kW direxional westward at night. For years was on STA 12 kW ND
after antenna damage. Back in the glory days as KOMA with rock, was a
powerhouse in western N America, and of course on to Down Under. Now
there is QRM from a music understation, I wonder what. Even with DA-N
we are not getting the full brunt of it thisaway to the NNW (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.005, Nov 14 at 2300, VOT English not off the
air, S9+20/30 between line noise bursts. Measured at 2351 via UTwente,
S9+35/40. 2352 s/off mangled with usual wrong time schedule by
ignorant clueless announcer; IS briefly and off before 2355*
uncovering the CCCCCCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2216 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening
Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees,
Dear Glenn: WRMI:
5850, 0131, 0144, 0156 (45433), 0159, November 11 UTC 2023 [Sat]
9955, 0101, 0129 (45433), QRN, beamed SSE, hard to copy, November 12
[Sun]
9395, 0130, (45433), S8.5, S9 signal, 0159, November 14 UTC 2023
[Tue]
(Lemke, Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard``

Confirmed UT Tuesday November 14 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9+20/15 into
Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed UT Tuesday November 14 at 0330 on WRMI 7780, S9/S6 into
Missouri SDR with usual noise blast QRM first 14 seconds and
sporadically later.

Also confirmed Tuesday November 14 at 1400 on WRMI 9955, S9 direct.
Next:

0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2215]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW -- OR, 5130v
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0230 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

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Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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** U S A. 5130.21 approx., Nov 14 at 0756, WBCQ with S9+10 of dead air
instead of T**** or TOMBS; 7490- programming had been moved here but
would be off the air anyway long before this hour.

7490- is back on Nov 14 at 2259 after a few days AWOL, S9+20 and still
off-frequency-minus.

5130.2, Nov 14 at 2307 is too weak direct and vs line noise level, but
probably back to T**** cultism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4941.00, Nov 14 at 2304, S9+10 open carrier, then off. No
sign of 4940 Venezombia unless this were it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5050, Nov 14 at 2306, JBA carrier, surely too weak to be
WRMI, not sked anyway until *0200. Possibly Beibu Bay Radio, China
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Lots of 2-way activity below the official CB, Nov 14 at
2309-2318:

25985-LSB, maybe Brasuguese, autobeeps at cambios
26320-FM, music at first but not a studio link, switch to 2-way talk,
lang?
26375-LSB, lots of Spanish? 2-way upward from here
26555-LSB, pileup of Spanish and?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0025 UT November 15

** CHINA. 9985, Nov 13 at 0728, VP signal with talk, music, not
noticed before. EiBi shows it`s merely a CNR1 jammer vs Sound of Hope
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** FRANCE [and non]. Re: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 6085-6090-6095, Nov 12 at
0745, DRM noise S6. Nothing listed, but clues: Nov 11 HFCC shows
FRANCE testing DRM at other hours:...``

``I can confirm this is TDF - I received it here in NZ last night. Any
other details unknown. TDF seem to consider their DRM test schedule a
closely guarded state secret.``

As for Russia DRM on any frequency: ``These haven't been reported for
years. Purga in DRM was never regular anyway, normally just popping up
for a few days around the change of broadcast seasons on a selection
of frequencies totally unrelated to any registrations. I've seen no
sign of them this time on any SDRs around the place. Cheers, Chris --
Chris Mackerell, Sandy Bay-Marahau Road, Marahau, RD2, Motueka 7197,
New Zealand chris@owdjim.gen.nz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6935 USB, Nov 12 at 2338, S9/+10 pirate seems a
novelty song. 2341 echoey unreadable announcement. Many logs here as
WENO Shortwave:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,121132.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, Mon Nov 13 at 2300, token English from SNR, correct
timesignal unlike Turkey; news mainly about new government compromise
in Spain. 2307 feature is interview with co-authors of ``Why Empires
Fall`` just published in Spanish version; VG direct (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Nov 12 at 2335 check, VOT is not off the air, VP talk
direct.

5960.005, Nov 13 at 2259, not off the air with timesignal about 15
seconds early, usual sign-on with English schedule, local times
mislabeled UTC. Something`s always awry at Ankara. At S9/+10 direct
might have been sufficient were it not for OG&E linenoise bursts
hitting S9+30/40. Later via UTwente at 2336, S9+25/35 `New Day, New
Choices` until 2338 music; 2343 `always-by-your-side` promo; 2344 `Did
You Know That` angora rabbits are from Ankara? music; 2352 s/off again
with times wrongly; 2354 IS starts; 2355* off revealing the CCCCCCI
understation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 28202 CW, Nov 12 at 2320, EEEEEEEEEE DE WA7JYK/B, among lots
of 10m beacons beeping, I pick one. WI5V list: ``28.2020 WA7JYK C
Joseph, Oregon 10w 43'vertical formerly WB7EUX. 23 JUL 2023`` ---
QRZ.com:
``WA7JYK USA flag USA, TOM S BINGHAM, 406 E Third St, PO BOX 368,
JOSEPH, OR 97846, USA --- I changed my callsign from WB7EUX to WA7JYK
effective per FCC 7/11/23. WA7JYK is the original General Class call I
had when in high school back a LONG time ago. Beacon at 28.202.
Activated 12/3/2022. Please send me a signal report. 73!`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 28216.5 CW, Nov 13 at 2306, dash and ID, N7MA call repeated
but not copied full loop; heard before. Per WI5V: ``28.2165 N7MA C
ROSE LAKE, IDAHO # 5W, VERTICAL New 23 December 09``. Seemed closer
to 28217.0 to me but not measured (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 35790, Nov 13 at 2317, intriguing JBA carrier again,
probably from R. Martí 3 X 11930 as discovered by Don Moman. Sporadic
E should audiblize it here eventually. Meanwhile we should also look
for other 3rd harmonix from Grimesland. Checking total spans of all
``GB`` 11 MHz channels in HFCC:

35160 = 3 X 11720, 2100-2200 only, VOA music
35580 = 3 X 11860, 1500-2300 RM
35640 = 3 X 11880, 0100-0200 only, Korea in Spanish
35790 = 3 X 11930, 1400-0100 RM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2216 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
November 12 at 2100 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, S9+10 into
nearby Noale SDR, this time with NO QRM: can only assume the Romanian
station extends a different schedule on Sundays than Fridays.

Also confirmed UT Monday November 13 at 0040 the 0030 on WRMI 7780,
S5/S7 into NH SDR way offbeam, with constant QlickRM, OTH radar?

Also confirmed UT Monday November 13 from 0400 sharp after JL gotta go
on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160 -67 Hz = 6159.933, S7/S9 into NH SDR. Next:

0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [irregular?]
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2215]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW -- OR, 5130v
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0230 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

One may contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 7489.9v, Nov 12 at 2310, this WBCQ is still AWOL for the
second day. Is on, weak 5130.357, S9+10 direct but VP vs noise level,
music, not T****, must be `Ginga Brasil`, since this is the second
Sunday. And next hour, `Le Show` with Harry Shearer has also moved,
0026 UT Mon Nov 13 into NH SDR measures 5130.346. Is there anything
about this on the WBCQ homepage? NO. Has AW twitted about it? I am not
about to sign up for disgraced X in order to access him; but will
accept second-hand info from those who are in/on it.

BTW, last night UT Sun when criminal T**** was replaced by more or
less ``liberal`` J P Ferraro on WBCQ 5130+, his cultists must have
been shocked by the sudden change. Hey, it`s all about Free Speech!
And keeping the ``7490`` primary program stream running, somewhere.
Altho Angela/T**** was not webcast, 7490-via-5130 is.

7490- still off the air Nov 13 at 2317 but 5130.293 is on at 2320, VP
direct, doesn`t sound like T**** and presumably still with `7490`
programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Nov 12 at 2326, WTWW back on air tonight, missing last
night; gospel huxter at S9+40/50 direct. He`s trying to relate the
space shuttle Columbia to Obadiah IV if he can find it. It`s PPPP,
from shortly after the disaster of Feb 1, 2003, over a bidecade ago.
Who cares now what he said then about it? Who cared, then? But
curious, I uplook the quotation in KJVish: ``Though thou exalt thyself
as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence
will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.`` Ah, so God is against space
travel! Serves `em right! The Continental guy has also revived the JBA
spurcarriers about 5072.1 and 5097.9.

5085, Nov 13 at 2319, WTWW on air again with passé Pastor Pete Peters,
S9+10/30 direct. Did not notice 9475 back earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

This report dispatched at 0044 UT November 14

** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Remember Radio Sohl, the American psyops station
for Afghanistan? Closed down almost a sesquidecade ago at the end of
2008y.
Played some great Bollywood songs, over and over, and this is a
version of one of them + video, Chunnari Chunnari. R.I.P. Radio Sohl.
Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/6z1U-kJ3xJE

I assume such joyful heterosexual celebration would be anathema to the
Taliban. And here`s another one, Temptation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSco0oUym9I
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2216 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday November 12 at 0100 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9 into Maryland SDR; no
signal into Vilhenha Brasil SDR where it`s aimed.

Also confirmed UT Sunday November 12 at 0540 about 11 minutes into so
started way later than nominal 0415, circa 0529 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM,
MO. Previous ham shows running long, but this time WOR not shifted
earlier to circa 0330. Next:

2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy [ex-2000]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW [irregular?]
0400vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [irregular?]
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2215]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0230 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

One may contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 5130.356, Nov 12 at 0424, surprise, on WBCQ, Radio T**** has
been replaced by J.P. Ferraro on `SW Saturday Night` which is supposed
to be on 7490 - but NO signal there. Must have crashed, so programming
moved to 5130+ while 6160- continues with something else. At 0459
brought up 7490 webcast a bit too late while playing ``Dixie``, and I
think ID by JPF before switch to another canned TimTron ID and into
TOMBS, still pre-empting T****! Frequency as above measured at 0509
into Maryland SDR; at first I estimated it at 5130.34; had been
5130.2+ below 5130.3, never .0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Nov 12 at 0009, 0304 chex, no signal from WTWW, off
the air again after resuming last night. Nor on 9475 Sunday morning
churchgoin time circa 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6085-6090-6095, Nov 12 at 0745, DRM noise S6. Nothing
listed, but clues: Nov 11 HFCC shows FRANCE testing DRM at other
hours:

6090 1700 1800 27SE,28SW,37NE ISS 100 148 0 146 1234567 291023 300324
N 8500 Fra F TDF TDF 4322 DRM TES
6090 2300 2400 28SE,38N,39NW ISS 100 115 0 146 1234567 291023 300324
N 4950 Fra F TDF TDF 4323 DRM TES

But also this one fitting time, not marked as N=DRM:
6090 0700 1000 43,44 KHB 100 218 0 217 1234567 291023 300324 D Rus RUS
VOR GFC 1121

KHB = Khabarovsk, and in latest RUS-DX this entry as the *only* SWBC
left from Russia, in DRM only, not with this frequency, but at same
site:

Radio Purga (Radio Chukotka).
20.00-22.00 UTC / 5935-DRM, 6025-DRM / 20 kW / Komsomolsk-on-Amur
(Khabarovskiy kray)
22.00-01.00 UTC / 5935-DRM, 11860-DRM / 20 kW / Komsomolsk-on-Amur
(Khabarovskiy kray)
01.00-10.00 UTC / 5935-DRM / 20 kW / Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Khabarovskiy
kray)

Aoki: also France but not Russia; still has Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla
on 6090! EiBi: neither France nor Russia; nor Anguilla! (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1953 UT November 12