** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Aug 15 at 1910, no signal from LRA36 into Argentine remote, just S5 of noise. If it`s Tuesday, must have been Base Esperanza, reported earlier at 1640 by Manuel Méndez direct to Spain. Is it now every day, almost? Last week I caught it on Thursday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BOTSWANA. 13830, Aug 15 before & after 0630, S7/S9 of dead air. That would be VOA French at 0530-0630 M-F but not turned off yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 3330 RC USB, Aug 15 at 1459, Ottawa VE3HOA SDR is getting 3330 and the other CHUs, so back on air; after Richard Langley reported System Status finally acknowledged the offage once it were onagain: ``Should be back on now. Here's the latest status report: Off: 2023-08-09 @ 00:00 --- On: 2023-08-15 @ 11:00 3.330 MHz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17765, Aug 15 at 1722, S7/S9 with flutter in song, sounds Chinesish, among few sigs on 16m. Aoki shows CRI French at 1600-1757 via Kashi-Saiba; land of ChiCom imperialist genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems. And nothing else anywhen on 17765; it was once the 16m home of AFRTS, Delano, California (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1140 & 1490, Aug 15 at 1705 UT, KRMP OKC & KMFS Guthrie are back on air at normal levels after yesterday`s anomalies, QRP and QRT respectively (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Aug 15 at 1718 UT, dominant KGHM has SAH ~counting 7 Hz from a second station, presumably next-closest KJMU Sand Springs, especially on my favorable E/W longwire. KJMU listed strangely as 500 watts day/1000 night in last year`s NRC AM Log, but it`s had lots of problems as recounted six times this year in NRC DX News with FCC info, most currently the Aug 14 issue: ``1340 KJMU OK Sand Springs – Granted STA, D1 125 from backup transmitter``. And previously: ``1340 KJMU OK Sand Springs – Silent since Jan. 8; on the air with U1 125/250 May 24.`` Supposedly Spanish; radio-locator calls it Radio La Raza, which of course is not to be taken as racist. About the SAH, mwoffsets has no entry for any OK but KGHM, which was 0.4 Hz high as of 2018-01-23 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, Aug 15 at 1708 UT, as far as I can tell, KOCD Okeene still dead air, weak signal with occasional airplane surges, or MS burst QRM. But also traces of another fringer. In OK there are three translators and another Spanish, 6.2 kW in Collnsville; while Kansas has three non-translators, most likely another Spanish, KSMM Liberal, which I caught July 12 q.v., despite WTFDA DB *still* listing it as silent since 4/28/22 due to xmtr failure which was/is? 100 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.009, Aug 15 at 2200, VOT English is not off the air today, VG S9+45/50 into UTwente, also good modulation. Sign/on by badax as always canned, but then News read by guy with clear English. 2211 going from `Review of the Turkish Press` which is always very brief, into 2-minute multi-lingual ID filler reel; 2213 song. 2216 `Weekly Commentry` read by badax, penned by British scholar Hakim? ----, specializing in African affairs: UN says Aug 23 is International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Evolution. A curriculum being established about this history in Britain. Need to change from Euro-centric. About University of Chichester; all this has no Tuerkiyeish angle. By concentrating I manage to understand most of it. Aug 23 is anniversary of Haitian? revolution in 1791. 2227 song, now overmodulated/distorted. 2231 `Turkey`s Geomarked [sic] Products` about --something-- cheese candy. 2233 again! 2-minute multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2236 ``Always by your side`` promo, songs. 2240 for third time! multi-lingual ID filler reel: enough is enough is enough! 2242 another song. And nothing but more songs until 2252 canned s/off by badax. 2254 IS plays for a fraxion more than once and off* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130 kHz, Aug 15 at 1705 UT, KLEY Wellington KS still dead air another day (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2203 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday August 15 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10 into Virginia SDR. Next: 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB ex-LSB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB ex-LSB [previous #2202] 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW Thanks this week to Kenneth Brookner for a generous contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com, ``Thanks for all of the WOR since 1975. It`s really nice to see you still at it and I`m enjoying working my way back through the podcasts.`` One may also contribute via MO or check on a US bank in US funds to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9980, Aug 15 at 1620 and still 1727, 1806, WWCR-4 is off again today. Wonder if TOMBS has deliberately cut back? They never understood the pointlessness, wastefulness of many duplicative frequencies on US SW stations, but they were rolling in dough from deceptees. Transmitter sked dated June 1-August 31 still shows 9980 at 1200-2400. But program sked dated August 1 admits it`s OFF AIR M-F 7-9 am & 11 am-3 pm Central, misconverted like everything as 13-15 & 17-21 UT. Which one are we to believe? On weekdays there are several other huxters, even Tony Alámo on WWCR-4, but Sat & Sun 5890/9980/7520 are 24h nothing but TOMBS. Aug 15 at 2018, 9980 is back on already with `Financial Survival`, which is at ``3:00P`` Central, so if you read that as CDT instead of CST, it`s correct while ALL the UTC in the right column are WRONG, and must be read as one real hour earlier than shown! After all these years, WWCR still hasn`t understood UT conversion. Reminds me of WINB 9265 several weeks ago, with similar confusion, making it hard to correlate what was being heard with schedule. Now they have an August 6 version showing correct 4-hour difference between EDT and UT. NO, it`s still a mess. At 2300 English intro to some Spanish huxter from Texas. Sked shows no Spanish now, but 2230-2400 `The Essentials of Life and Wellness`. Listening to webcast. O, o, at 2305 he switches to English. No more info at WINB about that show but search on title leads to a Dr William Wong, about health and medicine, not religion, and not Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7640, Aug 15 at 0641, S9+10/20 of open carrier. Probably ute, like idle RTTY but not noticed before, rather than a new broadcast intruder (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2314 UT August 15 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html