** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, May 16 at 1928 quick check into
Argentine SDR, LRA36 is on at S3/S5 during scheduled Thursday 18-20 UT
broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. First major sporadic E FM DX opening of the
season, May 16 from 2259 UT past 0110 UT May 17, at least from
Campeche, Yucatán, Flórida; to be researched and compiled for my next
report (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 89.3, May 16 at 0241 UT, KIEL Loyal, the R. 74
International 3ABN station must get a bit of tropo boost so it`s
strong enough to muscle aside local 89.1 translator, allowing me to be
sure that KIEL, even with music, is in MONO. This fact is not shown in
the WTFDA Database. That should be in the MODE field, blank in most
cases meaning surely plain old $ tereo. Searching on Mono and OK gets
not a single hit tho there are more than 250 in the whole DB (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11935, May 16 at 1915, neither horrible buzzroar nor
Rep. of Yemen Radio, no signal from Riyadh into UTwente (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** SPAIN. 15390, May 16 at 2116, this REE to Africa is still missing,
but others 15520, 17715, 17855 are in use tho poor to very poor into
UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2242 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday May 16 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S9/+15 into Bonaire SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday May 16 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S8/9+10 into
Peoria SDR.

NOT confirmed Thursday May 16 at 1630 on SW Gold Radio, Germany, 6160,
NO signal into UTwente; nor on 3975

WORLD OF RADIO 2243 contents: Algeria, Australia, (Bangladesh),
Brasil, Canada, (Chile), (China), Finland, Germany, Indonesia,
Kyrgyzstan, México, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panamá, (Philippines),
Sa`udi Arabia, Slovakia non, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, USA and
non, Vanuatu, Vietnam and non; dismal propagation, outlook -
(countries mentioned along with others not in order)

Note: At 10:00 into show, I misspeak date for RRI Nabire: May 11, not
17.

WOR 2243 available from 0400 UT Friday May 17:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2243.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2243.mp3
Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.
Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also webcast, phonecast; jammed?];
2230 UT Friday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0400 UT Saturday WTWW 5085;
1430 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1730 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM;
0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
0230vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0500];
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2130 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW;
0830 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW [irregular];
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.

As noncommercial services, financial support appreciated, by MO or
check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702.
Thanks this week to Sheldon Harvey, Québec who sent a box of
equipment.

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

** U S A. 5130.3v, May 16 at 0631, still no signal from WBCQ A*ATT;
6160- is nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** U S A. Re KBCV-1570: ``Just catching up on some of your reports
from earlier this week. Hollister, MO is very close to (butts right up
against actually) Branson, not Springfield. Both about 40 miles from
SGF. So KCBV should be considered part of the Branson market. 73,
Randy Stewart`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. DXMAP shows sporadic E between OK and CA up to 96 MHz so at
0240 UT May 16 I hasten to the caradio: of course, nothing unusual
heard until 0256, but I make some nearby notes: at 0242 a distorted
signal I can`t pinpoint to 92.7, 92.9 or 93.1 is concluding an Amber
Alert distorted with 3 tones, and nothing further as if turned off.
All the while a 92.9 was audible under, probably KRQV Tulsa. MAYBE the
nearest 92.7, KWME Welllington KS, was bleeding as I listen further.
On 92.7 itself, too much ACI from 92.5 KOMA. BTW on this caradio,
there is always more ACI splash on the plus than the minus side of any
given frequency. I suspect the digital tuning be slightly misaligned.
See also OKLAHOMA. Then I receive this:

``Hello Glenn, My name is Mat (N6AVI), and I have been an avid FM DXer
for the past few years now here in sunny southern California. I wanted
to let you know that there is currently an Es opening to your area of
Oklahoma (according to a fellow WTFDA member), I even caught KNID FM
[107.1] just a moment ago. Thought I'd let you know. Happy DX! Mathew
Amador`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1549.91, May 16 at 0627 UT, het upon 1550.00 signals;
what could it be? Nothing close in mwoffsets nor in my archive search
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10091 USB, May 16 at 0649, 2-way bits sound Portuguese,
English. In aero band. Nothing on this exact frequency in Klingenfuss,
EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12001 USB, May 16 at 0655, 2-way INTRUDERS in colloquial
Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, May 16 at 1928 quick check into
Argentine SDR, LRA36 is on at S3/S5 during scheduled Thursday 18-20 UT
broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. First major sporadic E FM DX opening of the
season, May 16 from 2259 UT past 0110 UT May 17, at least from
Campeche, Yucatán, Flórida; to be researched and compiled for my next
report (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 89.3, May 16 at 0241 UT, KIEL Loyal, the R. 74
International 3ABN station must get a bit of tropo boost so it`s
strong enough to muscle aside local 89.1 translator, allowing me to be
sure that KIEL, even with music, is in MONO. This fact is not shown in
the WTFDA Database. That should be in the MODE field, blank in most
cases meaning surely plain old $ tereo. Searching on Mono and OK gets
not a single hit tho there are more than 250 in the whole DB (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11935, May 16 at 1915, neither horrible buzzroar nor
Rep. of Yemen Radio, no signal from Riyadh into UTwente (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** SPAIN. 15390, May 16 at 2116, this REE to Africa is still missing,
but others 15520, 17715, 17855 are in use tho poor to very poor into
UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2242 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday May 16 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S9/+15 into Bonaire SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday May 16 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S8/9+10 into
Peoria SDR.

NOT confirmed Thursday May 16 at 1630 on SW Gold Radio, Germany, 6160,
NO signal into UTwente; nor on 3975

WORLD OF RADIO 2243 contents: Algeria, Australia, (Bangladesh),
Brasil, Canada, (Chile), (China), Finland, Germany, Indonesia,
Kyrgyzstan, México, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panamá, (Philippines),
Sa`udi Arabia, Slovakia non, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, USA and
non, Vanuatu, Vietnam and non; dismal propagation, outlook -
(countries mentioned along with others not in order)

Note: At 10:00 into show, I misspeak date for RRI Nabire: May 11, not
17.

WOR 2243 available from 0400 UT Friday May 17:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2243.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2243.mp3
Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.
Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also webcast, phonecast; jammed?];
2230 UT Friday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0400 UT Saturday WTWW 5085;
1430 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1730 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM;
0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
0230vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0500];
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2130 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW;
0830 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW [irregular];
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.

As noncommercial services, financial support appreciated, by MO or
check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702.
Thanks this week to Sheldon Harvey, Québec who sent a box of
equipment.

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

** U S A. 5130.3v, May 16 at 0631, still no signal from WBCQ A*ATT;
6160- is nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2243)

** U S A. Re KBCV-1570: ``Just catching up on some of your reports
from earlier this week. Hollister, MO is very close to (butts right up
against actually) Branson, not Springfield. Both about 40 miles from
SGF. So KCBV should be considered part of the Branson market. 73,
Randy Stewart`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. DXMAP shows sporadic E between OK and CA up to 96 MHz so at
0240 UT May 16 I hasten to the caradio: of course, nothing unusual
heard until 0256, but I make some nearby notes: at 0242 a distorted
signal I can`t pinpoint to 92.7, 92.9 or 93.1 is concluding an Amber
Alert distorted with 3 tones, and nothing further as if turned off.
All the while a 92.9 was audible under, probably KRQV Tulsa. MAYBE the
nearest 92.7, KWME Welllington KS, was bleeding as I listen further.
On 92.7 itself, too much ACI from 92.5 KOMA. BTW on this caradio,
there is always more ACI splash on the plus than the minus side of any
given frequency. I suspect the digital tuning be slightly misaligned.
See also OKLAHOMA. Then I receive this:

``Hello Glenn, My name is Mat (N6AVI), and I have been an avid FM DXer
for the past few years now here in sunny southern California. I wanted
to let you know that there is currently an Es opening to your area of
Oklahoma (according to a fellow WTFDA member), I even caught KNID FM
[107.1] just a moment ago. Thought I'd let you know. Happy DX! Mathew
Amador`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1549.91, May 16 at 0627 UT, het upon 1550.00 signals;
what could it be? Nothing close in mwoffsets nor in my archive search
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10091 USB, May 16 at 0649, 2-way bits sound Portuguese,
English. In aero band. Nothing on this exact frequency in Klingenfuss,
EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12001 USB, May 16 at 0655, 2-way INTRUDERS in colloquial
Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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JRX Logs: May 15 & 16, 2024
Receiver (s): Tecsun S-2000
Antenna: Longwire 10m
All times Universal Time

AUSTRIA
** 11955. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1841-1850, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn-AUT, in Arabic. Man makes a preaching, presumed; 1850 He says ID. Fair reception: 45533.

CHINA
** 11650. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1751-1757, China Radio International, Xian-CHN, in Esperanto. A song, the same recorded song! 1757 Sign-off. Poor reception: 35322.
** 11695. Thu, May 16, 2024. 2000-2010, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in French. IS and ID; Man and woman announcers present news. Fair reception: 35433.
** 11775. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1811-1820, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in German. No regular programming, but chinese instrumental music, only! Fair reception: 35533.
** 17880. Wed, May 15, 2024. 0048-0056, China Radio International, Beijing-CHN, in Portuguese. Chinese instrumental music, only, a long time! 0054 Recorded: Man announcer says CRI A24 sked in portuguese; 0056 IS. Very good reception: 55555.

ROMANIA
** 11975. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1851-1905, Radio Romania International, Galbeni-ROU, in Romanian language. Man announcer in conversation with a external reporter news collaborator, presumably; 1855 A song by female singer; 1858 Other song; 1900 Woman says ID and the highlights news; 1901 Woman and man announcers present news in details. Fair to good reception: 45533 to 45544.

VATICAN CITY STATE
** 11875. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1821-1829, BBC, Santa Maria di Galeria-CVA, in French. BBC News; Man announcer interviews a man; 1829 Man says ID: BBC Afrique and sign-off. Fair reception: 35533. Parallel on 13630kHz, Talata Volonondry, 45544.

VIETNAM
** 11885. Thu, May 16, 2024. 1831-1840, Voice of Vietnam, Son Tay-VTN, in German. Woman announcer presents a newsletter. Poor reception: 25422.

JRX Callsign: PR7036SWL
DX Map Location: HI22NX

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** ALGERIA. 17599.998, May 15 at 1738, Ifrikya FM, S8/9+5 of music we
think of as `Horn of Africa` but this is not from the Horn; have also
heard the style well inland into Sudan/South e.g. I shall keep an ear
on it via UTwente for some English to come: not at 1803, just music
still at 1808; French ID at 1814; 1820-1825 brief floating English
segment: about Nigeria (not Algeria) economic problems, naira, IMF,
etc. YL has a good accent but speaks too fast making her hard to
follow; also some overmodulation distortion and annoying continuous
music mixing. I suspect that some ESL speakers try to impress us with
their fluency by speaking as rapidly as possible rather than aiming
for clarity. Gives her name and ``signing off`` already at 1824; then
ID in English, ``from north to south, east to west`` with FM
frequencies 105.6, 98.?, 93.2, 89.9 in different cities including
Oran, 1825 back to music and French talk segments past 1854 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11934.998, May 15 at 1737, Riyadh with Qur`an,
S9+5/15 into UTwente but noisy and undermodulated; rather than
horrible buzzroar at the moment. Presumably still Rep. of Yemen relay;
if you listen long enough, you should hear an Arabic ID mentioning
Yemen (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SLOVAKIA [non]. Re far-right PM Fico, shot in an assassination
attempt, I mentioned previously in connexion to trying to take over
RTVS and consequently RSI: I pronounced his name incorrectly as
`Fee-koh`, but the -c- is really pronounced as -ts- unless there be a
cap on it, -ch-.
https://mylanguages.org/slovak_alphabet.php
In the news, BBC? I heard the ts, but PBS Newshour was still saying
Fiko. We should know better if we paid attention to RSI via WRMI,
where they probably pronounce him correctly despite antipathy. English
from the source: 1900 Internet only; 2200 on 5850; 0030 on 15770,
7730?, 5850; 0130 Tue-Sat on 5800; 0300 on 7730, 7780; daily u.o.s.
per skedgrid, not all confirmed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. REE chex before 18 UT May 15 find it nowhere into UTwente,
since the WHem channels do not start earlier on weekdays and the two
EHem channels are still OFF. At 1805, 17715 for SAm is on, VG
S9+30/40, as is 17855 for NAm, S9+20 while 15520 & 15390 are silent.
Eds. note: do not change ``NAm`` to Nam -- it means North America with
a capital A, not Nam as in Viet!

17855, Wed May 15 at 2200, token English from SNR, sufficient but
fadey direct into DX-390 portable: no news, but part 2 of Alison
Hughes` old report about US/Spain relations during the Cold War/Franco
era, including a nuclear accident (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, May 15 at 2200, VOT English JBA direct due to
noise level. S9+35 via UTwente from 2224 when measured, Badax
concluding algo, music. 2228 `The Middle East and Turkey`, about
relations with Algeria, which Turkey/TOE once ruled. Guess what: Libya
may be considered ME, but Algeria would really be pushing it.
Something`s always awry at Ankara. Series resumes next week, same
time, same day? 2233 music. 2242 `Sports Panorama`. 2249 music. 2253
no headlines, s/off as if just the 1230 on 17620. 2253.7 IS until
chopoff at 2255.5* in time to avoid extra German (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2242 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday
May 14 at 2330 on SW Gold Radio, Germany, 3975.002, S8/9+5 into
UTwente.

Also confirmed Tuesday May 14 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S6/S9 into Peoria
IL SDR.

Also confirmed Wednesday May 15 at 1930 on SW Gold Radio, Germany,
6160.000, S9+15 into UTwente, and switching to 3975.001, weaker S9+10
and a couple words behind: is that an artifact, really not
synchronized if heard direct on two identical receivers at once?

Also confirmed Wednesday May 15 at 2128 the 2100 on WBCQ 7489.928, VG
S8/S9 into NH SDR. Next:

0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.

As noncommercial services, financial support appreciated. Thanks
this week for a contribution from Russ Lay, VA? via PayPal to:
woradio at yahoo.com

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

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