** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Sat May 15 at 1442 tune-in via Brasília #2 KiwiSDR, LRA36 is underway, only S1-S4 but noise level is low enough that it`s partially readable; talking about a birthday; 1445 music; 1501 ID, this-day-in-Argentine-history mentioning events in 1994, 1904, 1909, etc., W&M alternating items. 1506 contact info, song; 1511 ``Nacional Antártida Argentina, en todo el país, la radio pública``, one of several canned IDs. Then mostly alternating songs and IDs. 1514 as LRA36, 1518, 1522. 1523 says this will repeat Saturday at 11 horas [= 14 UT], and be back next Wednesday; Antártida song stops at 1527, and no more modulation; but switching to 15475.00-USB I can tell the reduced carrier stays on past 1549 when I quit, but gone at recheck 1621. (I didn`t check on Wed May 12) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA [non]. 15700 & 11880, May 15 at 1525 check, CRI Plus English relay via CUBA is still missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13670 & 13810, May 15 at 2152, JBA telltale spurblobs plus and minus 70 kHz from RHC 13740 on air now at S9+10/20. No program modulation or F# tones but no doubt. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6865-USB, May 16 at 0049, pirate music at S9 vs storm noise; 0053 crossfade to anther tune; 0053 YL talx over mx, ``Thank you for listening to Mix Radio`` - not International, 0056 record offer like a commercial; 0125 still going. Many more logs here, a few matching my details: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,81684.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, May 16 at 0050, Petula Clark, ``Don`t Sleep on the Subway``, S9+10; 0059 ``Wolverine Radio``. Many more logs here headed 6960-USB but certainly AM for me: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,81684.0.html No one contradicted USB, tho some admired the audio. Theme was various modes of transportation. Off at my 0125 check. Had ended at 0109 with SSTV; three images posted, one of them sharp, of a Model T traffic jam (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 24 OKC, KOKH on 25-2 with CHA/RGE! channel, May 15 at 1627 UT, exhibits strange closed captioning, white on green background and flashing. I did nothing to provoke this on my Sanyo screen; but other channels such as 25-3 are ``normal``, white on black background and not flashing. Something peculiar to Charge? I never watch it for any length of time and never seen anything like this on any channel before. CHA/RGE! is also on cable 139 where checked later at 1910 the captioning is normal. Then rechecking RF 24 off the air again, green/on/white flashing (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 13, KETA ``13`` OKC, our OETA/PBS station dumps off the air about 2305 UT May 15 during `Oklahoma News Report`. It`s gone both from air and from cable: must be serious. Storming is predicted for the next several days, but none at the moment over OKC to explain this. Fortunately there`s another repeat Sunday at 1830-1930 UT if back by then. I could have watched OETA live video online, which is still funxioning, also for PBS News [semi]Hour Weekend-Saturday at 2330. It`s also available ondemand from PBS but not put up immediately, so after 0000 May 16 I stream instead last Sunday`s edition of May 9,
https://www.pbs.org/video/may-9-2021-pbs-newshour-weekend-full-episode-1620598892/ which I usually miss since OETA refuses to air it: no news on Sunday! I`m not sure I ever convinced OETA that there are *two different* Weekend shows. This allows sped-up playback too, as much as 2X; I find 1.5X about right, still quite understandable and timesaving. Voices are condensed but pitch is not sesquied; and it seems theme music stays normal. Later I`ll get the May 15 edition. Later2, still not posted by 0400. These expire after one month. I`m busy with other audioviewing until 0300 UT May 16 when I find OETA restored on air and cable (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 17, K17JN-D, the 3ABN translator in Enid missing for a few days, is born again the afternoon of May 15, as before the usual five channels, one of which is silent with an ``unsupported audio codec``. Strangely, Suddenlink must not carry this local signal basically, altho 3ABN is on a higher tier, probably off the bird (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830, Sat May 15 at 2248, VOT is already in IS after English, VG via UTwente, S9+25/35, much better than direct to this target. Keeps going instead of closing down, and at 2258.3 starts interspersing GERMAN IDs about twice a minute. Timesignal ends at 2300:04 but including internet delay, and opening German which he says this hour will include `Briefkasten`, the reactivated mailbag repeat; 2300.8 into Nachrichten news rather than satellite parameters. But chopped off the air at 2304*, so the sloppyrators at Emirler, where something is always erroneous, are not so sleepy tonight. And the Brazilians are out of luck for accidental Portuguese an hour later. BTW, to time the timesignal I found CHU readable on 7850 while WWV on 5 and 10 was not, into ATS-909 rx beside noisy TVs and computer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2086 monitoring: Not confirmed UT Sat May 15 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, a new time which only started last week. Instead some rock music program. Jeff White explains that a new booking came up unexpectedly for this and the next three weeks. Apparently it may extend beyond then depending on response.
Confirmed Sat May 15 at 1300 on WRMI 15770, but VP here as I was unfortunately awake.
Also confirmed Sat May 15 from 1943.5 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, VG via nearby KB0FX remote.
Also confirmed Sat May 15 at 2030 on IRRS via Italia-AM, 918 kHz, VG S9+25 via nearby Noale remote. This airing was temporary substitute fot 1801 UT Sat, which should resume next week along with SW 7290; which was confirmed today carrying something else.
Missed checking the WA0RCR repeat until 0400 May 16, presumably aired closer to 0315-0345. Heavy storm noise into his neighborly Kiwi even tho no Blitz closer to there than just north of Enid in KS; but lots more on a line thru western KS, OK, TX panhandle. Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy
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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** U S A. 5085, May 15 at 2157, since it`s Saturday with ham stuff, WTWW-2 is on already and detectable but VP in noise level despite S9/+10. A week ago per other monitoring, they tried 9930 instead which should work much better in the daytime except in the skip zone. By 2321, 5085 has become VG and 9930 is still off.
5085, UT Sun May 16 at 0025, now `Theater Organ Under the Arch` is already running, but too distorted on SW; I check again the TX2 live stream, and finally it`s not blocked by BrowserGuard, so I listen in pristine $tereo: more George Wright recordings, or repeat. Was Bob Heil`s ``mentor, teacher, great friend``. Went on to Hammond stuff by other thorganists, some sounding pianic, ending with his own composition at 0040-0042.5, whence WTWW hurries to fulfill an alleged rock request on their automated system (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5050, May 15 at 2321, WWRB weekend-only broadcast is on, songs, inoffensive enough tho presumably hymns if I could make out the lyrix, VG S9+10/20. After pause, 2328 a gospel huxter starts with no intro except TG. Eventually wife reminds him to do so: Brother Jerry, and wonderful wife Rosie, from a ministry in zip 44631. Hmm, what would the wife of a brother be? Surely not a sister - that would be incestuous; sister-in-law? But as a preachess herself would never self-identify as an in-law; hmm, conundrum (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0505 UT May 16
