** BRAZIL. 11780, Sept 4 at 2057, Brazilian song at S5-S7, as RNA is
back here after a spell on 6180 as others have reported. There are
also reports that Bolsonaro wants to privatize EBC stations, which
would probably put an end to the SW service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Sept 4 at 0623, RHC English, S9+20 but undermodulated,
better than JBA carrier on 6165; 6000 and 5040 off. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13700, Sept 4 at 1325, after resurgence yesterday, no FM spur
constellation from this RHC today. Something`s not wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 15130, Sept 4 at 2055, algo JBA, virtually the OSOB.
Aoki/NDXC shows NHK in Japanese via FRANCE at 1900-2100.

11985, Sept 4 at 2059, French broadcast just ending. This one is NHK
via MADAGASCAR at 2030-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1490, after open carrier/dead air since at least August
30, KMFS Guthrie is finally revived Sept 4 at 1755 UT with some
musical modulation, 1800 UT ID *only* as ``Son-Life Radio, WJFM, 88.5,
Bâton Rouge``, i.e.. flagship station of Jimmy Swaggart network, who
then starts gospelhuxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Sept 3 at 1830 UT, KOKB Blackwell is OFF, while
sibling 1020 KOKP Perry remains nominal; KOKB still off Sept 4 at
1755, 2105 UT: opens frequency for traces of two other groundwave
stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday September 4 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, after IS & ID loop. This
stopped at the end of a cycle right at 2100:00, but WOR playout not
cut on until 2100:03 when I have already reached ``---1997``, my first
eight words upcut, as WRMI automation continues to be out of
synchronization. S5-S8 anyway, much better than simulcast on WBCQ
7490.2, JBA in HNL, but confirmed L&C on webcast. Next:

Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radiosked.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330, Sept 4 at 1355, JBA signal presumed WBCQ relaying NOAA
Weather Radio from Daytona, but too weak to be sure. At 2103 it`s just
as bad but measured down to 9329.94. Will they pick up further NOAA`s
up the GA, SC, NC coasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. During a break in my high local line noise level affecting
MW as well as SW, at midday Sept 3, I decide to try something
different: MW bandscan at 1 kHz below each 10-kHz channel in USB, to
``hear the hets``. Even tho this is far from an ideal quiet location
and far from ideal equipment (R75 with 100` E-W longwire, meaning it`s
a bit deaf to the N/S, such as not hearing 820 WBAP), I listen for
frequencies with more than one carrier beating --- some of them very
slow, to slow, to medium, to fast --- and skipping those with no
signal or definitely only one signal. It would take a *lot* more time
to count the beats and calculate each SAH.

This indicates that there are remnants of groundwave from some
second-tier stations around here I seldom or never hear in the clear.
Of course, I am not interested in amassing station totals so am making
no such claims, just an exercise in monitoring and propagation. I will
include the most likely sources based on proximity, top station first.
Remember that we do have some of the highest inland ground
conductivity around here, in the 30s.

I do this between 1840 and 1903 UT Sept 3, i.e. just after local mean
noon always at 1832 UT, when there will be the *least* possibility of
MW skywave, especially now still in summer. Some frequencies with one
fairly strong semi-local seem to be wobbling; hard to be certain if
transmitter fault or receiver overload. As usual when tuning MW or LW
on this receiver, both Preamp 2 and Preamp 1 are OFF. But further ATT
is not engaged. And of course there is no DFing with the LW.

Quite possibly no other DX editor will wish to dedicate the space to
publish this, but here it is in my original log report, which took at
least twice as long afterwards to compile as to carry out.

Reference for current listings and callsigns: NRC AM Log 2019-2020.

1600, v? KUSH OK
1590, slow: KGVB KS, KWEY OK [closer but not aimed thisaway]
1580, fast, while KOKB OK is OFF!! That leaves KHGG AR, KGAF TX
1570, slow, KTUZ OK, KTAT OK, KBCV MO
1560, fast, KEBC OK, WMBH MO, KABI KS
1540, medium, KNGL KS, KZMP TX
1500, slow, KPGM OK, KJIM TX
1480, irr., KQAM KS, KNGO TX
1460, medium, KZUE OK, KKOY KS, KCLE TX
1450, medium, 3-way, KGFF OK, KSIW OK, KWHW OK, KQYX MO, KWBW KS
1430, medium-fast, KTBZ OK, KALV OK
1420, slow, KTJS OK, KJCK KS, KULY KS
1400, irregular, KWON OK, KREF OK
1350, fast, KMAN KS, KTLQ OK
1340, medium, KGHM OK, KJMU OK
1320, KCLI OK way off frequency
1310, medium, KYUL KS, KZRG MO
1280, slow 2.2 Hz, KSOK KS, KPRV OK
1270, show, KRXO OK, KSCB KS, KFLC TX
1260, fast, KWSH OK, KSGF MO
1250, fast, KYYS MO, KRRD AR
1240, medium, KFH KS, KADS OK
1220, very slow, KTLV OK, KCAX MO, KOFO KS
1190, medium, KFXR TX, KVSV KS
1150, fast, KSAL KS, KNED OK
1140, fast, KRMP OK, KLTK AR
1130, very fast, KLEY KS, KWKH LA
1090, medium, KEXS MO, KVOP TX
1070, KFTI KS way off frequency
1060, medium, KIJN TX, KBFL MO
1050, fast, KGTO OK, KXCA OK
1040, medium, KGGR TX, WHO IA, KGWA 960 OK spur
1030, medium-fast, 3-way, KFAY AR, KBUF KS, KCWJ MO
1010, medium, KTNZ TX, KIND KS
990, medium, KFCD TX, KRSL KS
940, medium, KIXZ TX, KSWM MO
860, irregular, KKOW KS
790, fast, KURM AR, KXXX KS, KFYO TX
760, slow, KCCV KS, KDFD CO
710, slow, KGNC TX, KCMO MO
670, slow, KLTT CO, KHGZ AR, WSCR IL
660, medium, KSKY TX, KCRO NE
640, irregular, KWPN OK
570, very slow, WNAX SD, KLIF TX
560, fast, KWTO MO, KLZ CO
540, medium, KDFT TX, KWMT IA
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060, Sept 4 at 0630 UT, romantic song in Spanish loops
WSW/ENE, fitting KIJN Farwell TX, the perpetually cheating 10 kW
daytimer; repeated lyric, ``Quiero estar contigo``, i.e. Jesus rather
than romantic, and 0633 UT KIJN ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 2325 UT Sept 4
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JRX Logs_ August 29-31, 2019
Receiver (s)_ ICOM IC-R6, Sony ICF-SW7600GR & Tecsun S-2000
Antenna (s)_ Degen DE31 & Longwire

AUSTRIA
** 6155. Aug 30, 2019. 0432-0445, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn-AUT, in French. Woman pastor makes a religious preaching; ID and POBox by male announcer. Good reception, 45444.

BRAZIL
** 145060MHz. Aug 29, 2019. 0045-0100, Echolink-Sala Brasileira, segment "Rodada Interbrasileira". Today, coordinated by Paulinho; Many brasilian ham participation and foreing of Chile and USA. Excellent reception, 55555.

CHINA
** 9525. Aug 29, 2019. 1920-1932 , China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in Russian. Woman and woman announcers talking during this log; 1927 ID Very good reception, 55544.

eSWATINI
** 4770. Aug 30, 2019. 0447-0503, Trans World Radio, Manzini-SWZ, in English. Man pastor makes a sermon in english, with accent; A short song and woman talks ID and website; 0500 Man voice and ID. Fair reception, 45433.

GREAT BRITAIN
** 7345. Aug 30, 2019. 0505-0515, BBC, Woofferton-G, in English. Female announcer makes a interview with a man about Hong Kong crisis and chinese government action in last days. Fair reception, 45433.

MADAGASCAR
** 6180. Aug 30, 2019. 0345-0358, MWV-La Voz Alegre, Mahajanga-MDG, in Spanish. Messages and musics presented by man and woman announcers; ID and addresses to Florida and Cuba. Good reception, 45544.

TURKEY
** 9870. Aug 29, 2019. 0123-0138, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Spanish. A commentary about the turkish by female announcer; 0135 ID and a song. Good reception, 45444.

USA
** 6195. Aug 30, 2019. 0400-0430, NHK World Japan, Furman-SC, in Spanish. Time pips, IS, ID and website; News highlights and on details by man voice; 0415 Japanese Class, Lesson 40 presented by woman and man announcers. Good reception, 45544.
** 7305. Aug 31, 2019. 0102-0125, Vatican Radio, Greenville-NC, in Portuguese. Vatican news by woman and man announcers, including a space dedicated to visit of Pope Francis to Mozambique next week. Good reception, 45544.

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** CUBA. After many months, I`m again hearing multiple FM spurs from
RHC; on almost daily morning bandscans, no sign of them until now,
Sept 3 at 1337 as I am tuning downward, first encountered circa 13830
but covering 10-11 kHz, 13825-13836. Also 13758-13772, 13626-13637,
13562-13572 weaker; trace circa 13500.

Very strong AM signals on both 13740 and 13700 before 1400, but these
FM spurs are obviously out of 13700 at approx. 65 kHz intervals; and
they are still there after 13740 is off at 1400 check.

Then I search further: FM on 13894-13903; trace circa 13963: these two
higher blobs I had not noticed initially. The closer ones are very
strong too. Come to think of it, I did not notice any F# tone along
with them which used to accompany, but rechecking at 1520 they are all
off as is 13700. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Hurricane Watch Net is posting
daily(?) updates about what`s been happening on the HWN; keep
checking:
https://www.hwn.org/policies/activationplans.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. We may relax? Christian Mocanu, Romania, reports Sept 2
via bclnews.it yg: ``My friends at RRI answered my email and I was
pleased to read the following:

"The Board of the Romanian Radio Society rejected the proposal of
closing down any shortwave or mediumwave broadcasts as well as to
disrupt in any way the production of radio programming, instructed the
Management Council and the President-General Manager to reduce costs
in other areas and the President-General Manager to take all the
required measures in order to ensure funding for the Society"`` (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: I missed checking UT Tuesday
Sept 3 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Next:
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full WOR schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330.034V, Sept 3 at 1412, WBCQ relaying NOAA Weather Radio:
typical robotic cadence and intonation, hurricane info; S6-S8 and
difficult to copy from old wavering transmitter, not 500 kW Super! I
do hear a mention of ``eastern Okeechobee county``. Harold Frodge
first reported this:

``9330, WBCQ, Monticello ME; 2047-2203+, 9/2; Relaying NOAA 162.4 MHz,
KIH26, Daytona Beach FL, with Florida Atlantic coast wx & Dorian
update; long loop repeated, but apparently being updated each
round; 5:34 PM EDT TC. No relayer ID break, but e-mail response
from Allan Weiner in just a couple of minutes confirmed it’s
WBCQ. S9 peaks; very fady after 2100. (Frodge-MI)``

WRMI is still on nominally at 1415 Sept 3 check: 9395 good with BS,
15770 JBA with SMTV; 21525 JBA carrier Radio Africa. WRMI will have to
close down if the winds get too high.

At 1505 UT Sept 3 on MSNBC, Al Roker had a map showing ``scattered
power outages`` inland including Okeechobee county (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1544 UT September 3
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Log of Sunday Sept 1st, 05.00 UT - 07.00 UT, made it into remote SDR units
at central Europe, in Doha Qatar ME and Aberdeen-NJ-US east coast.
7325DRM mode    RRO Bucharest in French at 05.00-05.30 UT S=9+25dB in
          WeEUR, target is Iberian peninsula. NOT ON 6080 kHz in DRM mode
          acc HFCC table - latter which is VoA STP English now instead.
          Instead RRO Bucharest on 6015 kHz via Galbeni site ex-6080 kHz
          - since April 11 -. Somehow the frequency request handling of
          the Romanian RadioCom organization is VERY SLOPPY over the
          months since February. 05.15 UT on Sept 1.
15340 CHN  Music of CNR1 px jamming against SOH Taiwan at 05.25 UT Sept 1,
          traced in Doha Qatar ME.
15410 ROU  RRO Bucharest in English towards AUS and NZL Pacific, 
          at 0530 UT on Sept 1. Maybe used Galbeni site exchange instead

          of TIG Tiganesti? S=9+20dB in Doha Qatar ME.
17760 ROU  RRO Bucharest in English via Galbeni requested, but NOT ON AIR,
          I guess TX at Galbeni used instead of RRO French to France
          on 6015 kHz instead. 05.36 UT on Sept 1.
4885.025  BRA  Weak signal on BrasPortuguese program of S=4-5 tiny,
          noted on remote NJ-US state remote SDR at 05.39 UT on Sept 1.
4774.996  SWZ / Eswatini. TWR Manzini English very tiny signal SBA on 
          NB-US, at 05.40 UT S=4 level, some UTE QRM, STANAG on 4812 kHz,

          CODAR QRM 4772 - 4804 kHz S=7 strength.
4840.002  USA  Powerful S=9+25dB of WWCR Nashville TN-US, Joan Baez like
          US singer, at 05.42 UT. 11.4 kHz wideband audio block.
5085even  USA  WTWW En, pop mx, singer group, S=9+25dB at 05.46 UT
          on Sept 1. 12.2 kHz wideband audio signal block visible.
5800.013  ???  Probably?  WRMI Okeechobee, 181degr new horizontal log-
          periodic antenna, in use with TX #14 also on 5010 kHz at other
          times. Weak signal of religious organ music. 05.49 UT Sept 1.
5999.995  CUB  RHC English, S=9+30dB powerful signal in NJ-US state,
          05.51 UT on Sept 1. Via CubanRadio Quivican San Felipe TITAN
          bcast center site. Talk on European Union / GB brexit matter,
          Also EU / Cuban relation economic talk. At 05.55 UT news
          of hurrican weather prediction on Bahamas and US east coast.
           6100even kHz S=9+15dB;  6165even kHz S=8 in NJ-US.
           5040even Bauta site at S=9+15dB level.
6015even  ROU  RRO Galbeni at S=7 signal in NB-US state. 05.54 UT Sept 1
7850even  CAN  CHU Ottawa time standard signel, Poor S=4 under much bad
          condition on Sept 1 at 05.57 UT.
7365even  USA  US IBB BBG Radio Marti opposition radio program in Spanish
          against Cuba Republic in Latin America. Transmit via Greenville
          NC site at 06.00 UT Sept 1. S=9+25dB powerful, weather items
          from Cuba: 24 cent temperatur Celsius at Santa Clara Cuba.
           7334.996 kHz slower at S=9+15dB power level.
          R Marti short noticias block ended at 06.03:50 UT.
11675.705  TUR  TRT Emirler in Turkish, requested at 06.00-11.55 UT slot
          service to NE/ME/CeAS target, S=9+35dB signal on remote SDR
          at Doha Qatar ME unit. 06.11 UT on Sunday Sept 1st.
11710even  ALB  CRI Beijing English program, via European relay site at
          Cerrik-B. S=9+10dB signal noted in Doha Qatar SDR installation.
          Scheduled 05-07 UT. Noted at 06.12 UT on Sunday Sept 1.
11685 to 11780 kHz wideband likely DITTER  JAMMING received at Doha Qatar,
probably against Saudi Army radio service "Al Azm Radio" on 11745 kHz
from Jeddah-ARS towards Yemen civil war area. Heard at 0614 UT on Sept 1.
11880even  AUT  AWR in Arabic via ORS Moosbrunn Austria site, S=9+10dB
          noted in Doha Qatar ME SDR unit. 0605-0705 UT, noted 06.15 UT
          Arabic female voice pastor read ministry.
11884.991  CHN  PBS Xinjiang covered CNR13 program, Uyghur service,
          via Urumqi site at 06.18 UT on Sept 1.  13669.964 kHz Urumqi
          and  13700 kHz S=9 via Lingshi CHN same program too.
11930even  VAT  Vatican Radio, Santa Maria di Galeria, Sunday only mass
          in Ukrainian. S=9 strength noted at 06.19 UT in Doha Qatar ME
11970DRM mode  KWT  Radio Kuwait S=9+10dB or -61dBm digital block visible
          06.20 UT on Sept 1, 
          bad HFCC fq request solution - on side flank of digital sound,
          due of NHK R Japan Arabic service nearby via 
11975even  TDF Issoudun France relay 11975 kHz.
13550even  CHN  CNR1 powerful jamming against co-ch SOH TWN Falun Gong sce
          S=9 in Qatar ME at 06.25 UT. But nothing of SOH px heard so far
13610.042  ARS  SBA via MOCI Riyadh, Radio Saudi AR 1st px. S=9+20dB power
          at 06.26 UT noted in Doha Qatar ME SDR unit.
13635.007  TUR  TRT Emirler Turkish sce scheduled 06.00-12.55 UT towards
          Western Europe audience, noted S=9+10dB on back/sidelobe in
          Doha Qatar ME. 06.28 UT on Sunday Sept 1.
13729.996  IRN  VOIRI via Zahedan site, Arabic scheduled at 05.30-07.30 UT
          S=9+20dB strength in Qatar remote SDR, 20 kHz wideband audio,
          and terrible wideband spurious SCRATCHING spur of 65 kHz apart
          distance on 13660-13770 kHz, and 13790-13800 kHz symmetrical.
9540 kHz RRO Romanian Sunday only "Curierul Romanes" NOT ON AIR on Sept 1,
from 07.00 UT onwards, heard instead on 11790TIG, 13750GAL, and 15200GAL.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1)
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** BAHAMAS [non]. 1540, Sept 2 at 0520 UT, try to hear ZNS which is
reported still on air from Nassau, outside the hurricane, and which
should be on emergency non-direxional antenna making it more audible
in USA --- but no trace of it vs two Spanish stations, likely Texans,
and English, KXEL IA, etc. The only other Bahamian MW is 810 ZNS-3 in
Freeport, now listed as gospel format so not normally relaying Nassau;
rather dedicated to praying away Dorian? cursory check there not
expecting to hear it even if not yet blown off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Sept 1 at 2134, RHC is dead air; 11850 just barely
modulated, 9640 undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9640, Sunday September 1 at 2253, RHC `En Contacto`, Arnie
with ham news, citing a postal address in Matanzas -- pen pal? 2253
Marta introduces a fibre-optic connexion --- big deal! --- to Arnie
for propagation info, but he`s soon mumbling something about
Zacatecas, QSL on-the-air? 2257 outro (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, UT Monday September 2 at 0510, RHC English starting
`DXers Unlimited`, initially about Dorian which is totally missing
Cuba, but Arnie recalls previous storms and ham activity. This
frequency barely strong enough vs HLNL, not 6165 or 6000; normally
strongest would be 5040 but it seems still to be in wrong language,
Spanish. DXUL upwraps already at 0518. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Further chex for the Hurricane
Watch Net finally get something, Sept 2 at 2137: 14325-USB, reading a
notice in Spanish with rainfall predixions in pulgadas, VP fading out
and in.

7268-LSB, also VP, in English at 2138 Sept 2 reading a warning.
Constant monitoring might turn up real-time reports from places being
hit?

Dino Bloise, FL, reported early UT Sept 2: ``Confirmed. The Net is
Active on 7268 LSB, 0015 UT operated by AC0ML`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1490, Sept 1 at 1434 UT check, KMFS Guthrie is *still*
open carrier/dead air. Ditto at 2248 UT Sept 1 and 1753 UT Sept 2
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 17 DTV, Sept 2 at 1400 UT, after a week of total
breakup, trying to cram multiple satellite channels, K17JN-D Enid has
been fixed but still anomalous. Now both the STBox and the Sanyo DTV
get the same subchannels, no longer the extra ones up to -202.

This is obviously still our local K17JN-D satellator from same site
just west of Enid, N of Chestnut Ave, W of Boomer and E of St Hwy
152.

But now it`s identifying as KCYH-LD!!! and remapping to ch 41!!!
That`s really the Clarion Broadcasting Group parent station in Ardmore
at the other side of Oklahoma. FCC TV Query shows it on RF 34, but a
CP for 41, and yes, that CP is still at G.C. for Ardmore, not Enid;
and FCC still lists K17JN-D with its near-Enid G.C.

When tuned directly to 41-2 and 41-4, the STB shows no signal on RF
34, but that may be saved from some DX long ago.

Here`s the lineup now, not breaking up at all:

41-1, KCYH-LD, 3ABN bug LR
41-2, [blank]
41-3, AmFacts, AFTV bug LR with Unsupported Audio Codec on the Sanyo
41-4, [blank]
41-5, Hope201, Hope Channel bug UR
41-6, LLBN-EN, HisWord bug LR
41-7, 3ABN-RD, Audio only
41-8, 3ABN-RL, Audio only, Spanish
41-9, Radio74, Audio only, English
And nothing further (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 6040, Sept 2 at 0043, JBA carrier presumed RRI English to
N America, but not detected on // 7375. My high local noise level
combines with degraded propagation, but Ivo has also been reporting
some of their transmitters off the air the past few days.

RRI also plans to close down shortwave!!! Here`s translation of the
union`s objexion, from the press agency, originally via Roberto
Scaglione, bclnews.it:

``Press release - MediaSind 2019-08-26 14:40:17

Play [button to javascript: is there really audio of this in Rom.?]

https://www.agerpres.ro/stiri/2019/08/26/comunicat-de-presa-mediasind--360115

DO NOT DESTROY RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL!

The Romanian Syndicate of Journalists MediaSind, through the Radio
Romania Branch, expresses its concern at the intention of the SRR
president-general director, Georgică Severin, to suspend the shortwave
broadcast of the Radio Romania International station.

Due to the superficiality with which the responsible factors of the
institution treated the problem of the allocated budget, the Romanian
Broadcasting Society lost, at the last rectification, 10 million lei,
an amount without which the good functioning of the company cannot be
ensured.

In order to cover this consistent deficit, according to some public
statements of the President - General Manager, the expenses with the
shortwave transmitters owned by Radiocom, which broadcasts Radio
Romania International (RRI) programs in 13 languages, would be cut.
dialects.

The 'solution' to closing the shortwave emission, even if it is the
most handy, having immediate effect, is a totally wrong one. Indeed,
as hypocritically motivated by the Georgica Severin decision, these
transmitters are not useful in the country, with the expansion of the
FM network.

The gravity of the decision of the Radio management is, however, a
huge one, undermining even the national interest, with which even
Georgică Severin has no right to play. Let us not forget that Romania
has the second diaspora in the world, as a percentage of the
population, after Syria. From the recent estimates of the Ministry for
Romanians Everywhere, around the country live about 9.7 million
countrymen whom we have to treat as Romanians with full rights, who
have the right to information, including by Radio Romania
International.

The head of the SRR, Georgică Severin, had to make energetic and
repeated requests from the Government in order to obtain sufficient
funds for the good functioning of the institution, including for the
antennas, taking into account the future presidential elections of
2019 and parliamentary from 2020. Why Is the main means of
transmitting messages to Romanians abroad exactly during this
pre-election period being abolished? Should we consider this gesture
merely as a sign of disrespecting the diaspora?

On the other hand, it should be noted that RRI issues programs for the
Aromanian communities in the world, as well as for foreigners, in
general, interested in Romania and the geographical area in which we
are, RRI being thus an efficient polyglot software soft diplomacy
tool. .

Let us not forget then that the shortwave broadcast has a strategic
character, because, in case of necessity, of disasters, of calamities,
but also of suspension, by hostile decisions of Romania, of the
Internet, the Romanian state can communicate with the Romanians from
abroad and with the world at large. As it is known, the Internet is
extremely vulnerable to political decisions. Also, in the case of
catastrophic floods, earthquakes, conflicts, short waves remain the
only reliable way to communicate with the world.

Therefore, the idea of ​​stopping the shortwave broadcast, coupled
with another simplistic idea that RRI will successfully broadcast on
the Internet, can produce serious effects, jeopardizing Romania's
national security.

Exiting the Internet only means, in fact, closing the RRI station,
which is in contravention of Law 41. According to art. 1 of the law,
SRR makes programs for abroad, not online content; broadcast means
radio broadcast, not online!

The exit of the RRI from the shortwave frequencies (this is a heritage
of about 7,000 frequencies that are traded biannually by international
broadcasters) will result in the loss of frequencies in favor of other
countries. At the same time, Radiocom stations in Ţigăneşti, Săftica
and Galbeni, where the 5 stations used for RRI are located, will be
closed and Radiocom employees will be relocated or even fired. And as
according to a harmful Romanian tradition, any provisional decision
becomes final, it is hard to believe that it will return to the
previous situation, to the issuance on short waves, even if the
Government would allocate the necessary funds.

Closing the shortwave transmitters, without offering other means of
transmission in exchange, would practically equate to the
disappearance of the station; radio means broadcast on radio waves,
analog or digital; a station on the Internet is no longer radio, it's
just a multimedia product.

The next logical step, after a possible shutdown of the shortwave
emission at RRI, will be the personnel restructuring. See the unhappy
experience with Radio3Net station, which is only online and
experimentally on DAB, in Bucharest, which has under-sized staff, even
under the conditions of online production.

We consider that giving up the short wave, in whole or in part, is not
a decision that falls within the competence of a president-general
director because it concerns Romania's strategic interests. In this
situation, the CSAT opinion should be requested and, in the
Parliament, the Law on the organization and functioning of the SRR
should be changed. Or, Georgică Severin is far from having the
agreement of these institutions.

The role of RRI has been and is very important: promoting the country
abroad and spreading Romania's opinions worldwide. By giving up any
transmitter, whether from long, short or medium waves, the main object
of activity of the SRR is affected, which is the realization and
dissemination of programs (according to art. 15 of law 41).

Taking into account the serious situation that could arise as a result
of the decision of the head of SRR, MediaSind Radio Romania requests
the Parliament of Romania to intervene in an emergency regime to stop
the destruction of the Radio Romania International station.

Communication Department MediaSind Bucharest, August 26, 2019``

RRI has NOT been totally closed down yet, as some posts imply!

``6040 in French on-air now; 7420 in Romanian on-air now. Logs at
0102-0128 UT Sep 2, 2019. Greetings, José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB,
Brazil``

Here`s the full A-19 schedule of RRI, to keep checking out:
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=RRO

However, Ivo Ivanov: ``Frequency change of RRInter from August 20:
1100-1156 NF 11990 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu English, ex 15130
11990 is unregistered in HFCC Database, but mentioned on RRI site
11990 is inactive at present, but here my two videos on August 27

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-change-of-radio-romania.html
1000-1056 on 9790 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu French - inactive``

If Romanian SW sites be totally closed, IRRS will also be out of luck
for relays such as 7290 for WORLD OF RADIO Mondays at 1816.5; maybe
they will switch to Secretbrod, Bulgaria? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1997 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
Sept 1 at 2155 the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair, only by checking UTwente
SDR toward which it`s aimed; at 2130 only a JBA carrier here, not
enough to audiblize even with noise reduxion.

Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S7-S9; and
JBA in HLNL on 7780. (Neither of these audible at UTWente SDR, 0150)

Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 vs
HNLN, after ``Everglades`` ID.

Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 from 0320 until 0329.5 concluding
Area 51 webcast which must have started almost on-time 0300; as for
WBCQ 5130.4, JBA carrier at earlier 0249 check in HLNL, nor could
detect any signal on 6160v. BTW, 5130.4 not making it to UTwente SDR.

Also confirmed UT Monday September 2 at 0330 on WRMI webcast,
interrupting canned ID so WOR Opening is not upcut. Earlier at 0313
check, 9955 was VP S3-S4.

Tim Gaynor posted a late decision to keep Unique Radio on 5045-USB
instead of 3210 on his first day back on air, including WOR at 0930 &
1130 Monday September 2. Next:

Confirmed Monday September 2 at 1816.5 on IRRS 7290 via ROMANIA, VG
after 1813 open carrier, 1814 JIP fragment report about testing
patients for some illness, 1815 cut to Aïda, 1816.5, WOR 1997 starts
[doomed? See ROMANIA]

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio NSW 5045- or 3210-USB ND [2 episodes]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full WOR schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1090, Sept 2 at 0248 UT, dead-air, loops E-W, no doubt KAAY
Little Rock again; understation something in Spanish, most likely KMXA
Aurora CO, ESPN-D, 50000/500 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 1130, Sept 1 at 2248 UT, and Sept 2 at 1754 UT chex, music
from KLEY Wellington KS, still not off the air again (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1821 UT September 2
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