** CHINA. 9480, April 22 before and after 1830, S6-S3 in French, i.e. CRI at 18-20 via Xianyang 59 site in north central China, of all places, 500 kW, 317 degrees toward France. VP reception today, hardly anything else extracontinental on any band except 13670 Madagascar (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, April 22 at 0446 past 0506 UT and later, dead air from KOSU instead of `The Spy`; everyone asleep depending on automation? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** SUDAN [and non]. 7205, April 23 at 0301, S8-S9 open carrier, surely Sudan Radio, Omdurman; someham pretends to be AM by tuning his LSB-only signal here, but no QRM on USB. At prime time in the morning, also JBA carriers on 7180 > 7140 presumed VOBMEritreans. By 0328 maybe trace of music. 0342 I switch to UTwente SDR in Holland, where 7205 is S9 but clearly barely modulated, occasional talkwords peaking, 0345 bit of music. WRTH says irr. from *0300; Eibi says from *0257; Aoki from *0200. At 0350 & 0356, I JB hear some Horn-of-Africash music. A 4+1 timesignal at 0400 cuts thru, 11 seconds late. Don`t rely on this for navigation! Then some mumbletalk, news in Arabic? I daresay even nearby one would have to turn the volume up full and hope for the best. Dumps off air abruptly at 0405:15*. I switch to offset BFO to hear any carrier come back, which it finally does at *0423, again/still, JBM. I must also say, the FPU stations do a much better job of broadcasting to Sudans from outside. Manuel Mendez, Spain, hears 7205 in his evenings, and also the external service grandiosely appelled ``Voice of Africa`` on 9505 going from French to English at 1715. I wonder if that modulation be any better (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2082 monitoring: a delayed report from Ken Zichi, Michigan about Saturday April 17 at 1300: ``15770 WRMI FL Okeechobee w/’crash start’ in the middle of SW Radiogram #200 repeat. Missed GH’s WOR and the first minute or so of the Radiogram. 3+4+4+44 *1332-1400 17/Apr RSPdx +SDRuno +FLDigi +randomwire --Zichi MI2``
Also confirmed final repeat UT Thu Apr 22 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S7-S9 into Bonaire SDR.
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WORLD OF RADIO 2083 contents: Afghanistan, (Andorra non), Antarctica, Bolivia, Brasil, Canada, (China), Colombia, Cuba, France/Germany, Guatemala, Guinea, India, Italy and non, Japan non, Korea North, Kuwait, Mali, México, Myanmar and non, Nigeria, North America, Perú, (Philippines), Portugal, Romania, Sudan, Tibet, Turkey, USA and non, Uzbekistan, Vatican, Vietnam; 1982 WOR recordings off WRNO; propagation outlook. (Parenthesized countries are mentioned somewhere out of alfabetical order, related to other items.)
The shortwave broadcasts should be:
0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday April 23 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct, and good S7-S9 even in wrong direxion to Bonaire SDR; 7780, S9/+20 into UTwente SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0457 UT April 23
