** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, May 24 at 0151, dramatic narration with sombre music, S9+10 heavy storm noise level obscures where the SSB peaks are, maybe S9; hard to follow, but mentions New World Order and that space travel is a ``big charade``, so safe to conclude he`s a wacko. ``Remember when ---`` over and over; 0157 just music; 0157.5 SSTV beepery, 0201 more music. These start as unID, eventually ID as Wasteland Radio per SSTV image among several fuzzies: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,82008.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 7, May 23 at 2119 UT, my TV set with rabbit ears only which due to its elevation gets some OKC signals better than the roof hi VHF/UHF yagi, lands on virtual 5-3 as I bandscan. I`ve long wondered why KOCO bothered with only one subchannel, METV on 5-2. Now there`s a 5-3, occupied by Shop LC. More totally worthless waste of digital spectrum. Must be recent addition, but rabbitears.info already has it. LC now stands for Low-Cost; ex-Liquidation Channel. Looks like they specialize in jewelry.
I also scan thru a couple of the other multichannels: KOPX ``62`` on RF 18 has six channels as shown in rabbitears so I won`t go thru them. Pax/Ion used to have a second entertainment/rerun channel but that is long gone.
``43``, KAUT is convoluted since its real transmitter is one of the still few converted to ATSC-3 and therefore invisible on ordinary tuners. Besides duplicating KAUT itself, Rabbitears shows that RF 19 KAUT really contains ATSC-3 versions of KFOR as well as extreme competitor KOCO; and KOCB `34`` CW, and a subchannel of the station it is owned by, KOKH, Cha/Rge!
Main-channel 43-1 KAUT independent programming ``Freedom 43`` is axually on RF 27 as part of the package on its overlord, KFOR. 43-2 Court TV is axually on another station, RF 24 KOKH ``25``. So is 43-3 Escape (Mystery).
K17JN-D, Enid, May 23 at 2130 UT, is *still* black and silent on all five 3ABN channels, on the air with strong signal metering but conveying nothing, as it has been since at least May 12. Probably has no local engineer-in-charge, and nearly no local would-be viewers to complain, nor know where to do so (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** U S A. 18160-USB, May 23 at 2142, ``17 meter DX net``, but I hear only a presumed US ham asking for non-US contacts; he makes a couple but I never hear them, nor is he in any hurry to utter his own call. BTW, 18.16 MHz = 16.52 metres using the 300/ conversion factor. You don`t get to the real start of the *17* mb, until below 17647 kHz. Meanwhile we have the nonsensical situation of the ``17`` m hamband being by frequency, above instead of below the *16* m broadcast band. But in numbering their bands, hams have ignored such details; ``15`` metres has to be below 20000 kHz, let alone below 21000. 21450 is almost at the start of the *14* m band below there. At least ``12m`` is correct just below 25 MHz where AAMOF I haven`t heard any activity in ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 28268.5-CW, May 23 at 2145, only one 10m beacon is JBA, WB0BIN, alternating fast and slow WPM markers. Sounds familiar: yes, I logged this a few times last July and once in August: 28.2865 WBØBIN C SABIN, MINNESOTA # 7W, GP VERTICAL New 22 April 18. Reports for QSL were invited on website, but I never got a reply. When that happens I am likely to conclude it`s another ham who discriminates against ``inward-only monitors``, even tho beacons are outward-only, impossible for two-way contacts. Sabin is in WC MN, just SE of Moorhead/Fargo ND, 1159 km = 720 miles. Nor have I received even an e-reply from WA6APQ beacon. Why bother; why bother.
Just before that I had only one phone signal on 18 MHz, but some pileups on 27-MHz CB channels like 27025. No phone signals higher in the 10m band, either. DXMAP keeps showing sporadic E MUFs just below 88 MHz FM band in spots, mostly much lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2087 monitoring: not confirmed Sunday May 23 at 2200 on Area 51 via WBCQ! 6159.899 is on the air, S7 into Virginia SDR, but NO modulation, soon up to S9+5/10 but dead air until at least 2225. Recheck at 2228, now I hear the tail end with propagation outlook, just in time for HRI to air next.
Meanwhile, WOR 2087 was running OK on the A51 webcast as well as the other WBCQ from 7488.839 with UBMP to which I mainly listened online tho also audible poorly on SW.
WOR 2087 confirmed Sun May 23 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, S9+20/30 into VA.
Also confirmed UT Mon May 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct.
Also confirmed UT Mon May 24 at 0130 on WRN North America webcast.
Also confirmed UT Mon May 24 at 0230 on WRMIs direct: 7780 S9/+10 and 5800 S9+20 but both with severe storm noise level -- none really close but a large line from the Dakotas to western Kansas. Next:
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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This report dispatched at 0312 UT May 24
