** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake Sept 25:
10300, very poor at 1345
12600, good at 1320, fair at 1344
13130, good at 1320
15275, fair with noise jamming too at 1319
15435, poor at 1355 with het from 15432 V. of Tibet
16100, very poor at 1354
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Just outside Tulsa to the west on US 412, around 1730 UT Sept 23 on the way to the first annual Tulsa International Film Festival, I had a beacon audible on the caradio tuned to 1100 kHz, ``OWP``. Must be a harmonic from LW. Chex out as William Pogue airport at Sand Springs, listed at
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
as on 362 kHz, and this source also has it on 362:
http://www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-info
Trouble is, third harmonic of 362 would be 1086. To be heard when tuned to 1100, fundamental should have been around 366 or 367, so has it changed, or varied?
OMG, instead of a harmonic, this must have been a mixing product with nearby KRMG site: 740 + 362 = 1102!
In the same area on 1480 I was hearing a distorted signal // 740 KRMG, i.e. its second harmonic, quite near its 50 kW transmitter site. Perhaps this harmonic is adequately suppressed by the rules, but forget about hearing KQAM Wichita around here which otherwise should have been audible.
600, another anomaly was a mixing product including Spanish on 600. There are so many Spanish stations in Tulsa, and being in motion did not have a chance to search for //, but one explanation I can come up with is 1570 KZLI (Spanish) minus 970 KCFO (English) = 600. Are they at the same site, perchance?
FCC AM Query shows KCFO:
36° 11' 46.00" N Latitude Power: 2.5 kilowatts (kW) Daytime
96° 02' 22.00" W Longitude (NAD 27)
And for KZLI:
36° 15' 55.00" N Latitude Power: 1.0 kilowatts (kW) Daytime
95° 42' 37.00" W Longitude (NAD 27)
So no, they are quite a distance apart. Still could be these two in some kind of external mixing.
But here`s another combo, more likely as in the closer neighborhood: 1340 KJMU Sand Springs minus 740 KRMG = 600. Yes, KJMU was in Spanish altho not shown as such in the 2011 NRC AM Log. It`s the one which was briefly duplicated on 1120 KEOR before it went dark again many months ago. It`s beginning to look like KRMG is involved in all these anomalies.
Tulsa also suffers from horrible IBOC noise surrounding 1430, 1300 and 1170, both day and night. At least KRMG is clean on that score!
105.7, now that KROU has moved to the KFOR-TV tower, altho not increasing power, if has a better signal toward Enid. We can hear it well by Waukomis, on US81 south, as soon as the ACI from the 105.5 Enid translator has faded, solid all the way to OKC.
Also had a chance to check KROU eastward from Enid on US 412, on the way to Tulsa, first time since new site. Close to mid-day Sept 23 when there should not have been any tropo enhancement, I was getting KROU solidly just a few miles out of Enid, but before crossing I-35, had ACI from another 105.5, KGFY in Stillwater, 4.2 kW.
Coming back late at night UT Sept 25 circa 0400 UT, KROU was even better, even east of I-35. It looks like KROU would be audible in Enid proper, if only it weren`t for 105.5, K288FX, 250 watts in ``North Enid``, gospel huxter satellator of so-called Educational Media Foundation. It was bumped up here from some other frequency a few years ago. There may be a case now for bumping it off 105.5 too; I will bring this to attention of KGOU/KROU, public radio from OU. If only KROU could boost power too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9920, Sept 25 at 1253, SE Asian language sort of like Vietnamese? Continuous talk but also continuous jamming by whoop-whoop oscillating tones. According to Aoki, this is the daily Koho language service of FEBC, 100 kW, 280 degrees from Bocaue site. Annoying here, but one could have still copied the broadcast if understanding the language.
So how much jamming is Vietnam carrying out of FEBC, anyway, which languages? Altho Koho is daily, FEBC has numerous other minority languages at 1100-1230 depending on day of week; and collides with KNLS in Chinese at 11-12. At 1303 the jamming had ceased as 9920 was reoccupied from 1300 by KNLS in Chinese, presumably, praise music at the moment, this time in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Sept 25 at 0250, 1 kHz het on 1520 stations, surely BSKSA, the prime pilot for TA propagation, on caradio west of Tulsa; had faded by 0300. Or rather, WRTH shows it signs off at 0300; is that correct? Two megawatts from Duba in the northwest corner on the Red Sea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, Sept 25 at 1328, VOT is still on the air following 1230 English broadcast with IS, and now starting to insert IDs in a Turkic language. They should have changed the frequency by 1325 for the 1330 broadcast in Kazakh on 11880! At 1330 sharp, 15450 finally cut off the air after the first pip of the timesignal, but 11880 must have been late coming up; blocked here by REE/Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 17820, Sept 25 at 1307 I tune across weak DW Hausa via Portugal, and wonder if Greenville will turn on their carrier again. Yes, they do, right away at *1308, for the usual tuneup(?), four hours before the 1700 VOA Portuguese broadcast. While they may avoid modulating, I should think this would still disrupt DW in Hausa-land for a few minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21670, Sept 25 at 1419, gospel huxteress in English, VG signal at least S9+25; axually first noted higher as I tuned down the 13m band as modulation spike spurs around 21720 (also suffering from OTH radar pulses), and then confirmed // 21670, plus spikes in many other spots, 21770-21870, 21600, 21570, 21535, etc.
Per Aoki and HFCC, this 21670 usage of WHRI started Sept 4, on Sat & Sun only, 250 kW, 87 degrees at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1583 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, UT Sunday Sept 25 at 0400, very good reception as usual, and now the transition between programs is smoother, also Thursdays at 2100 on 9479.
Further airings on WRMI 9955: Sunday 1730, Monday 1130, 1530, 2130, Tuesday & Wednesday 1530. On WBCQ Area 51: UT Monday 0300v on 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11665, Sept 25 at 0550, surprised to find a VG signal with gospel rock, sounds like English, on a CVC La Voz frequency not normally on air at this time; 0550 also good on // 9780, 0600 Spanish ID on both, then promo a contest (raffle?) with a $500 prize. E-mail sounded like info @ onechannel2011.net. 9780 had been scheduled at 22-01 only; 11665 at 23-01 only, so has CVC just re-expanded its Spanish hours, or a test? Via CHILE.
CVC has a 24-hour program schedule in Spanish
http://cvclavoz.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Programacion-de-CVC-la-voz.pdf
at least on satellite/internet/affiliates, but just try to find any SW schedule on their website! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17505, Sept 25 at 1352-1359:30* VTC/BaBCock music loop, why and whence? Still nothing scheduled here, as previously logged same Sept 19 at 1329-1330* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
10300, very poor at 1345
12600, good at 1320, fair at 1344
13130, good at 1320
15275, fair with noise jamming too at 1319
15435, poor at 1355 with het from 15432 V. of Tibet
16100, very poor at 1354
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Just outside Tulsa to the west on US 412, around 1730 UT Sept 23 on the way to the first annual Tulsa International Film Festival, I had a beacon audible on the caradio tuned to 1100 kHz, ``OWP``. Must be a harmonic from LW. Chex out as William Pogue airport at Sand Springs, listed at
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
as on 362 kHz, and this source also has it on 362:
http://www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-info
Trouble is, third harmonic of 362 would be 1086. To be heard when tuned to 1100, fundamental should have been around 366 or 367, so has it changed, or varied?
OMG, instead of a harmonic, this must have been a mixing product with nearby KRMG site: 740 + 362 = 1102!
In the same area on 1480 I was hearing a distorted signal // 740 KRMG, i.e. its second harmonic, quite near its 50 kW transmitter site. Perhaps this harmonic is adequately suppressed by the rules, but forget about hearing KQAM Wichita around here which otherwise should have been audible.
600, another anomaly was a mixing product including Spanish on 600. There are so many Spanish stations in Tulsa, and being in motion did not have a chance to search for //, but one explanation I can come up with is 1570 KZLI (Spanish) minus 970 KCFO (English) = 600. Are they at the same site, perchance?
FCC AM Query shows KCFO:
36° 11' 46.00" N Latitude Power: 2.5 kilowatts (kW) Daytime
96° 02' 22.00" W Longitude (NAD 27)
And for KZLI:
36° 15' 55.00" N Latitude Power: 1.0 kilowatts (kW) Daytime
95° 42' 37.00" W Longitude (NAD 27)
So no, they are quite a distance apart. Still could be these two in some kind of external mixing.
But here`s another combo, more likely as in the closer neighborhood: 1340 KJMU Sand Springs minus 740 KRMG = 600. Yes, KJMU was in Spanish altho not shown as such in the 2011 NRC AM Log. It`s the one which was briefly duplicated on 1120 KEOR before it went dark again many months ago. It`s beginning to look like KRMG is involved in all these anomalies.
Tulsa also suffers from horrible IBOC noise surrounding 1430, 1300 and 1170, both day and night. At least KRMG is clean on that score!
105.7, now that KROU has moved to the KFOR-TV tower, altho not increasing power, if has a better signal toward Enid. We can hear it well by Waukomis, on US81 south, as soon as the ACI from the 105.5 Enid translator has faded, solid all the way to OKC.
Also had a chance to check KROU eastward from Enid on US 412, on the way to Tulsa, first time since new site. Close to mid-day Sept 23 when there should not have been any tropo enhancement, I was getting KROU solidly just a few miles out of Enid, but before crossing I-35, had ACI from another 105.5, KGFY in Stillwater, 4.2 kW.
Coming back late at night UT Sept 25 circa 0400 UT, KROU was even better, even east of I-35. It looks like KROU would be audible in Enid proper, if only it weren`t for 105.5, K288FX, 250 watts in ``North Enid``, gospel huxter satellator of so-called Educational Media Foundation. It was bumped up here from some other frequency a few years ago. There may be a case now for bumping it off 105.5 too; I will bring this to attention of KGOU/KROU, public radio from OU. If only KROU could boost power too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9920, Sept 25 at 1253, SE Asian language sort of like Vietnamese? Continuous talk but also continuous jamming by whoop-whoop oscillating tones. According to Aoki, this is the daily Koho language service of FEBC, 100 kW, 280 degrees from Bocaue site. Annoying here, but one could have still copied the broadcast if understanding the language.
So how much jamming is Vietnam carrying out of FEBC, anyway, which languages? Altho Koho is daily, FEBC has numerous other minority languages at 1100-1230 depending on day of week; and collides with KNLS in Chinese at 11-12. At 1303 the jamming had ceased as 9920 was reoccupied from 1300 by KNLS in Chinese, presumably, praise music at the moment, this time in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Sept 25 at 0250, 1 kHz het on 1520 stations, surely BSKSA, the prime pilot for TA propagation, on caradio west of Tulsa; had faded by 0300. Or rather, WRTH shows it signs off at 0300; is that correct? Two megawatts from Duba in the northwest corner on the Red Sea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, Sept 25 at 1328, VOT is still on the air following 1230 English broadcast with IS, and now starting to insert IDs in a Turkic language. They should have changed the frequency by 1325 for the 1330 broadcast in Kazakh on 11880! At 1330 sharp, 15450 finally cut off the air after the first pip of the timesignal, but 11880 must have been late coming up; blocked here by REE/Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 17820, Sept 25 at 1307 I tune across weak DW Hausa via Portugal, and wonder if Greenville will turn on their carrier again. Yes, they do, right away at *1308, for the usual tuneup(?), four hours before the 1700 VOA Portuguese broadcast. While they may avoid modulating, I should think this would still disrupt DW in Hausa-land for a few minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21670, Sept 25 at 1419, gospel huxteress in English, VG signal at least S9+25; axually first noted higher as I tuned down the 13m band as modulation spike spurs around 21720 (also suffering from OTH radar pulses), and then confirmed // 21670, plus spikes in many other spots, 21770-21870, 21600, 21570, 21535, etc.
Per Aoki and HFCC, this 21670 usage of WHRI started Sept 4, on Sat & Sun only, 250 kW, 87 degrees at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1583 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, UT Sunday Sept 25 at 0400, very good reception as usual, and now the transition between programs is smoother, also Thursdays at 2100 on 9479.
Further airings on WRMI 9955: Sunday 1730, Monday 1130, 1530, 2130, Tuesday & Wednesday 1530. On WBCQ Area 51: UT Monday 0300v on 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11665, Sept 25 at 0550, surprised to find a VG signal with gospel rock, sounds like English, on a CVC La Voz frequency not normally on air at this time; 0550 also good on // 9780, 0600 Spanish ID on both, then promo a contest (raffle?) with a $500 prize. E-mail sounded like info @ onechannel2011.net. 9780 had been scheduled at 22-01 only; 11665 at 23-01 only, so has CVC just re-expanded its Spanish hours, or a test? Via CHILE.
CVC has a 24-hour program schedule in Spanish
http://cvclavoz.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Programacion-de-CVC-la-voz.pdf
at least on satellite/internet/affiliates, but just try to find any SW schedule on their website! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17505, Sept 25 at 1352-1359:30* VTC/BaBCock music loop, why and whence? Still nothing scheduled here, as previously logged same Sept 19 at 1329-1330* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
