** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun May 17 at 0014, The Mighty farty KBC via GERMANY [ex-EAST], is S9+10/20, inbooming this week for the first time on its summer frequency after nogood past two weeks. But will it hold up into deep North America until 0200*? At 0157 still there but weaker at S9-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, May 17 at 0039 tune-in to only pirate around this Saturday night, S5-S6 of hard rock, DJ announcements. No problem overcoming local KCRC fifth harmonic, but I have Alexandria SDR up so tune to that, where it`s VG, incessant hard rock and frequent DJ talkovers with WDOG IDs and/or SFX of barx, whines. Even some songs about dogs. 0050 ID; 0100 ToH ID saying this WDOG is east of the Mississippi, so KDOG should stay on the other side. 0113 barx and yelps; 0114 comment and song re dogs; 0124 for first time hear a WDOG ID in CW mix with music, again at 0128, 0129. 0131 voice ID, thanks for tuning in on ladies` night; 0144 ID and woofs; 0150 ID, etc, etc. Many more logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67172.0.html and it seems the counterpart KDOG was on 6925-USB, https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67176.0.html Not checked here until 0158 when there`s an AM carrier on 6924.73, but KDOG went off at 0145 after some SSTV of its fiery four letters one by one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, May 16 at 2200, no signal from VOT English to North America, tuned via Alexandria SDR, but plenty of RTTY from NAU Isabela, Puerto Rico. Usually I dismiss VOT as another day off but this time I leave 9829-USB on in the background, and at *2236 VOT suddenly cuts on amid music adding to the RTTY. 2249 the virus hints. 2252 multi-lingual ID reel mixed with music --- Ivo says there are 36 of them. No sign-off heard but at 2254.5 already playing IS; 2256 restart IS in time for one ID in German before chopped off at 2257* --- and today RTTY is still running past 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 16 at 1303 on WRMI 15770, JBA here; Ivo Ivanov reports: ``Fair signal of World of Radio#2034 via WRMI-9, May 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvEhtbM3M8&feature=youtu.be
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/fair-signal-of-world-of-radio2034-via.html
1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat`` Next:
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 [NEW] to SSE
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
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 Chris Campbell, Columbus OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime``
PsyPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7490+, Sat May 16 at 2308, moanin-n-groanin on WBCQ, got to be vespers from TOM, yes indeed // 9455 WRMI. No wonder I haven`t heard `Great Sounding Oldies` as still on WBCQ sked at 2200-2340 --- unless that refer to dulcet tones of BS and his psychophants instead of classic tunes as I had assumed. TOM supposedly runs Saturdays at 1600 only until 2200.
[and non] 7490+, UT Sun May 17 at 0038, WBCQ with an AAAWWW filling an Available Time Slot, probably replay from 24 hours ago. So, what else? VP 5130 not // music, presumably Area 51. VP 6160 not // either YL talking --- but wait, checking that at 0042 via Alexandria, it`s in Turkish, so Iran for Ramadan one more week, no WBCQ to het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 17775, Sat May 16 at 1508, NO signal, not even a JBA carrier from KVOH, which is supposed to start its weekly English broadcast at 1500 with Wavescan. Not unusual to have no signal here less than 2 megameters from Rancho Simi, too close for F2 skip? There is lots of HF sporadic E today but mostly east of here rather than west. When there is some westward Es, can give KVOH a good boost into OK. Now the only 16 mb signals are bits from far Sa`udi Arabia on 17895 and 17615+; JBA carriers where nothing is listed now on 17690, 17880.
KVOH target is Cuba and beyond at appropriate F2 skip distance. No KiwiSDRs in Cuba of course, but also absolutely zero signal into Miami and into TWR Dominican Republic. I keep checking these periodically at 1530, 1605, 1657, 1920. Supposed to run until 2000. At 1612 I also check the closest SDR I can find to KVOH, at Laguna, but opposite side across the vast LA metro area, so maybe groundwave would not reach there anyway.
So all the evidence is that KVOH is not on the air, and this is not unusual per my occasional chex of 17775 on various days. So Ray, is it just off today, or more often, or continuously, and for what reason? Is Covid-19 indirectly responsible as several SW stations say, or pervasive transmitter problems? The website describes it as ``(Shoffner-Harris)`` --- that variety is a new one on me, more about it? Searching on that combo of names leads to some individuals but nothing about transmitters. Maybe SCG named it for some benefactor? Claims 100,000 watts at 100 degrees central beam with potential audience of 900,000,000 --- minus one. {2010 combined population N & S America was just over 1 gigaperson.} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_population
I should add another possibility --- the F2 MUF eastward from L.A. is so low below 17 MHz even by local noontime today that all 100,000 watts are heading out into space with no ionospheric refraxion. Maybe makes it to Moon when properly aligned?
Ray Robinson of KVOH soon replies on the WOR iogroup: ``Hi, Glenn. KVOH has been off the air for a few days due to a component failure in the transmitter, for which repairs are ongoing. We hope to be back on again by Monday or Tuesday. Ray`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1190, May 16 at 0611 UT, dominant signal is `Clair de Lune` on piano, very nice to hear some classical on MW; but whence? 0613 ends with EWTN ID and into `Stories from the Heart`. The lovely piece is only 5+ minutes long, so I hope they played the whole thing. My opinion of EWTN has just ascended a notch. This is of course KDMR Kansas City MO, U2 5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0225 UT May 17
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, May 17 at 0039 tune-in to only pirate around this Saturday night, S5-S6 of hard rock, DJ announcements. No problem overcoming local KCRC fifth harmonic, but I have Alexandria SDR up so tune to that, where it`s VG, incessant hard rock and frequent DJ talkovers with WDOG IDs and/or SFX of barx, whines. Even some songs about dogs. 0050 ID; 0100 ToH ID saying this WDOG is east of the Mississippi, so KDOG should stay on the other side. 0113 barx and yelps; 0114 comment and song re dogs; 0124 for first time hear a WDOG ID in CW mix with music, again at 0128, 0129. 0131 voice ID, thanks for tuning in on ladies` night; 0144 ID and woofs; 0150 ID, etc, etc. Many more logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67172.0.html and it seems the counterpart KDOG was on 6925-USB, https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67176.0.html Not checked here until 0158 when there`s an AM carrier on 6924.73, but KDOG went off at 0145 after some SSTV of its fiery four letters one by one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, May 16 at 2200, no signal from VOT English to North America, tuned via Alexandria SDR, but plenty of RTTY from NAU Isabela, Puerto Rico. Usually I dismiss VOT as another day off but this time I leave 9829-USB on in the background, and at *2236 VOT suddenly cuts on amid music adding to the RTTY. 2249 the virus hints. 2252 multi-lingual ID reel mixed with music --- Ivo says there are 36 of them. No sign-off heard but at 2254.5 already playing IS; 2256 restart IS in time for one ID in German before chopped off at 2257* --- and today RTTY is still running past 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 16 at 1303 on WRMI 15770, JBA here; Ivo Ivanov reports: ``Fair signal of World of Radio#2034 via WRMI-9, May 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvEhtbM3M8&feature=youtu.be
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/fair-signal-of-world-of-radio2034-via.html
1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat`` Next:
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 [NEW] to SSE
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
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 Chris Campbell, Columbus OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime``
PsyPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7490+, Sat May 16 at 2308, moanin-n-groanin on WBCQ, got to be vespers from TOM, yes indeed // 9455 WRMI. No wonder I haven`t heard `Great Sounding Oldies` as still on WBCQ sked at 2200-2340 --- unless that refer to dulcet tones of BS and his psychophants instead of classic tunes as I had assumed. TOM supposedly runs Saturdays at 1600 only until 2200.
[and non] 7490+, UT Sun May 17 at 0038, WBCQ with an AAAWWW filling an Available Time Slot, probably replay from 24 hours ago. So, what else? VP 5130 not // music, presumably Area 51. VP 6160 not // either YL talking --- but wait, checking that at 0042 via Alexandria, it`s in Turkish, so Iran for Ramadan one more week, no WBCQ to het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 17775, Sat May 16 at 1508, NO signal, not even a JBA carrier from KVOH, which is supposed to start its weekly English broadcast at 1500 with Wavescan. Not unusual to have no signal here less than 2 megameters from Rancho Simi, too close for F2 skip? There is lots of HF sporadic E today but mostly east of here rather than west. When there is some westward Es, can give KVOH a good boost into OK. Now the only 16 mb signals are bits from far Sa`udi Arabia on 17895 and 17615+; JBA carriers where nothing is listed now on 17690, 17880.
KVOH target is Cuba and beyond at appropriate F2 skip distance. No KiwiSDRs in Cuba of course, but also absolutely zero signal into Miami and into TWR Dominican Republic. I keep checking these periodically at 1530, 1605, 1657, 1920. Supposed to run until 2000. At 1612 I also check the closest SDR I can find to KVOH, at Laguna, but opposite side across the vast LA metro area, so maybe groundwave would not reach there anyway.
So all the evidence is that KVOH is not on the air, and this is not unusual per my occasional chex of 17775 on various days. So Ray, is it just off today, or more often, or continuously, and for what reason? Is Covid-19 indirectly responsible as several SW stations say, or pervasive transmitter problems? The website describes it as ``(Shoffner-Harris)`` --- that variety is a new one on me, more about it? Searching on that combo of names leads to some individuals but nothing about transmitters. Maybe SCG named it for some benefactor? Claims 100,000 watts at 100 degrees central beam with potential audience of 900,000,000 --- minus one. {2010 combined population N & S America was just over 1 gigaperson.} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_population
I should add another possibility --- the F2 MUF eastward from L.A. is so low below 17 MHz even by local noontime today that all 100,000 watts are heading out into space with no ionospheric refraxion. Maybe makes it to Moon when properly aligned?
Ray Robinson of KVOH soon replies on the WOR iogroup: ``Hi, Glenn. KVOH has been off the air for a few days due to a component failure in the transmitter, for which repairs are ongoing. We hope to be back on again by Monday or Tuesday. Ray`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1190, May 16 at 0611 UT, dominant signal is `Clair de Lune` on piano, very nice to hear some classical on MW; but whence? 0613 ends with EWTN ID and into `Stories from the Heart`. The lovely piece is only 5+ minutes long, so I hope they played the whole thing. My opinion of EWTN has just ascended a notch. This is of course KDMR Kansas City MO, U2 5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0225 UT May 17
