World of Radio

** CAYMAN ISLANDS. Re ZF2RX: “Hi, I saw your comment about my QRZ page, and the fact that it was empty. I will fill it in soon. I only got the call for the ARRL DX SSB contest, and haven’t had time to do a page. I am operating from the station of ZF9CW, located on Cayman Brac. If you …

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, May 11 at 1528, NO signals from LRA36 into 8 KiwiSDRs, 4 in Argentina, 4 in Brasil. Manuel Méndez got a whatsapp notification yesterday that RNASG was going to broadcast this Wednesday at 1500 repeating the Saturday show. They started to, says Kari Kallio, Finland, but dumped off the air already at 1508*. That explains it …

** OKLAHOMA. May 10 at 1715 UT on caradio in garage, another FM check compared to yesterday noon: 93.9, KIMY Watonga has now managed to modulate, as one of thegospelstation.com acknowledging support from the Pollard Theater, Guthrie, which I had assumed was a secular institution. Website has a coverage map centred in OK but with outliers in TX, AR, OH, …

** EGYPT. 9439.995, May 9 at 2150, R. Cairo in English, S9+30 into UTwente but with extreme distortion and whine; was JBA checked a few minutes earlier direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, May 9 at 1528 via S India SDR, Voice of Martyrs Korea, S9/+20 but noisy, usual YL preaching in Dhivehi, contrary to the only …

** CUBA. 6000, May 8 at 0553, RHC S9+10/20 of dead air in English; music in presumed English service remains on 6060, S9+10; 6100 is off; 6165 undermodulated music; 11670 S9+10 of dead air, presumably was English as recently, but now no 11880 nor any 13s; 11670 is off by 0602. And 5040 is in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at …

** ANDORRA [non]. 13730, May 7 at 2142, another R. Andorra music special is S6-S9 direct, scheduled 21-24 UT today only. Except it`s all-talk in French right now. Also had it earlier on 6180, VG into UTwente, both out of Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Saturday May 7 at 1435, LRA36 is on already with …

I am told the KNLS transmitter problem is a modulation transformer failure in the Continental 418, and a that a search is underway for a replacement, probably from one that is out of service and being used as a “parts car”. Modulation transformer failures in high level plate modulated AM transmitters are not all that uncommon, even in well manufactured …

Testing before going live: My Mothers Day show, 30 minutes before on the air, can start test at 1730 UT anytime, usually music first, then audio adjustments. This can last a few minutes, or more. It can sometimes last to 2 minutes before broadcast. After I test, I close down stream on my end, then open it up at the …

WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update. https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) ~Aggregator – WRN: Updated links to the regional schedules for the A-22 season 2) Germany – Welle 370/MuseumFunkerberg: New entry to list 3) Nigeria – V of Nigeria: Re-instated link to V of Nigeria home page at www.von.gov.ng as site is now working again (Thanks to Hansjoerg Biener) …

My Show Is For Mother’s Day Music For the Past, Present, & Future Mothers, We are on from 1800 UT Sun to 22:00 plus, on 5035 kHz. Remember, USB & always our live digital stream : UT Sunday May 8 My Mother’s day Special from 1800 UT to 2200 plus, part one all about Mom, part two the Real Deal …

** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, May 4 at 1525, VOMK Maldives with usual YL in Dhivehi, secret site S9 +5/20 into Coimbatore SDR; 1529 outro in English finishes just in time for *1530 Vatican in Arabic on weaker signal but no perceptible break (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, May 4 at 2020, REE to N America is back on; …

** BRAZIL. 28410 USB, May 3 at 2321, PY2ZZ calling CQDX, QRZ, working an N5 in Oklahoma. QRZ.com: PY2ZZ Brazil flag Brazil W2CCW-MANAGER MARIO “MAR” Crivelaro 184 Agostinho Lattari SAO PAULO, SP 03125080 Brazil A few evening TE signals manage to sneak thru on 10m; another PY2 on 28400, but soft-spoken and could not copy full call (Glenn Hauser, OK, …