** CUBA. 9885 and 9805, Oct 26 at 0543, lite pulse jamming against nothing; 9805 is an ex-Martí frequency but never at this hour, and 9885 is currently VOA French to Africa via Vatican, unheard. Something`s always wrong at the Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) Date correct, omitted from previous report
** OKLAHOMA. Except for a split-second glitch, we haven`t yet lost power in this part of Enid, unlike 4 to 6 thousand other OG&E customers; but circa 2300 UT Oct 27, my main 100-foot longwire antenna for the R75 is broken and on the ground under tree debris felled by severe ice storm. With a lot of icing on it, had been supported by three trees in a row; and before that the last segment was already down; once warmed up and cleared, fixing it or replacing it is not a very big job, but I am so sad for our poor trees! Meanwhile I can still try to use it, or switch to ``indoor longwire`` strung around the ceilings of two rooms. A third wave of freezing rain is on the way from El Paso (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** PERU [and non]. 4764, Oct 28 at 0002, VP signal from presumed Radio Huanta 2000, before Cuba sometimes start Progreso at 0030 on 4765, tnx to tip from LOB in Brasil who was getting it a few minutes earlier, and has not been active every night. I`m listening via a remote not far from him which is getting it better than another remote which is closer to Perú. To boot, it also gets a weaker het/carrier from 4765 and it`s still not Cuba. Must be TAJIKISTAN which per EiBi, not Aoki, comes on at 2259. Here direct at 0017 via broken wire, I only have JBA carrier on 4764 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 11720, Oct 27 at 2124, VOA rock music S9+30, as B-season-only hour in English via Grimesland has resumed, 250 kW due east and thus also with a bigsig opposite off the back at ideal skip distance. This also means that on Fridays at 2105-2200 we may again easily hear `Music Time in Africa` unlike in the A-seasons when the only SW frequency is JBA 15580 Botswana --- and I bet hostess hyper Heather is still unaware of this outsending. Now if I can only remember, at an inconvenient time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [non]. 12075, Oct 27 at 2112, S9+10 English lesson for French about buying shoes: it`s VOA, 100 kW, 350 degrees via BOTSWANA M-F at 2100-2130, and followed by Bambara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2057 monitoring, next:
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?] [NEW]
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Contributions to support these non-commercial services may be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily in US funds
One may also contribute via money order or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VENEZUELA. 6905.930v-RCUSB, Oct 28 at 0057 via TWR Bonaire SDR, peppy tropical tunes mostly vocal at S6-S7. At 0100 a 5+1 timesignal which must be crosstalk from something, mixing with continuing music. 0105 automated timecheck for 9:04, and others are consistently one minute slow. Canned IDs of 3 or 4 varieties play between every 2 or 3 songs, None mentioning Venezuela 93.7 nor the next station to be relayed, LV del Tigre 980 --- just ``ROCV, 6906``. At 0111, grandiose ``transmitiendo a nivel mundial`` and contact info for reports too rapid for me to copy and I`m as usual not recording, seeming e-mail, phone, postal? ``Sus reportes son importante para nosotros`` but not explicitly promising any QSL. 0119 another ID, etc., etc., and 0204 again the one with contact info (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
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Right-wing U.S. Christians have engineered an almost parallel version of the faith, writes Michael Coren · for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Oct 27, 2020 4:00 AM ET |
...One of the ironies of the United States is that a country that so roars about the concept of the separation of church and state has a political system so drenched in religiosity. The divinity's followers vote in enormous numbers and many U.S. politicians are genuine believers, whatever their party allegiance.
And then there is Donald Trump. Even though he won the support of more than 80 per cent of white evangelicals in 2016 and is still highly popular with Christians of many denominations, there's little sign that he's an authentic person of faith. His personal behaviour is unusual for someone who says he is a Christian, and his policies routinely appear to be the antithesis of the Gospel values of peace, love, and justice... https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-christian-conservative-support-donald-trump-1.5776988 (via Richard Langley, NB)
This report dispatched at 0420 UT October 29
