** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, UT Monday May 27 at 0058, LTA with play-by-play in Argentine Spanish of something involving a pelota, at least two very excited announcers, still going past 0102. First time heard in several weeks, as I seek this every evening along with my Chaski-chex on 5980. 15345v LRA also audible in AM on its Sunday night extension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 27 at 1359, BB IS is JBA with flutter; enough to make out the timesignal ending at 1359:41.5, way early as usual. Had not been audible at all for a few days. The ionosphere is behaving as if we are at solar max (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming May 27 with continued poor propagation:
11500, poor at 1326; it`s // CNR1 on 11785, but about 2 seconds behind it; so not to be misassumed as Sound of Hope which is only the target
13920, fair at 1329; none in the 12s or 14s
13970, poor at 1329 // synchro with 11785 jammer
15115 & 15195 CNR1 also audible at 1330 as usual, none in 16s or 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, May 27 at 0452, RHC with good signal level but distorted, ruining Cuban music, which is just fine on // 11760.
9790, May 27 at 0454, CRI relay is still on with huge unmodulated carrier, causing desensitization on the FRG-7 out to plus/minus 35 kHz or so. This thing must be aimed right at us with 250 kW and high-gain curtain. Yes, the only HAB entries in HFCC are relays of CRI, provided by the source station: 9790 is 250 kW, 305 degrees at 03-04 in English, 04-05 Chinese. Why was modulation already over at 0454? Carrier often stays on beyond 0500 too.
15200-15260, May 27 at 1319, approx. range of buzz emanating from defective 15230 RHC transmitter, which is not especially strong itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF ch 40, May 26 at 2300 UT, KAUT, ``Freedom 43`` is very unusually carrying banal NBC network programming, shifted to here since it`s a subsidiary of KFOR 27, pre-empting NBC for the Moore memorial service from a Baptist church for a sesquihour (KAUT had been scheduled with syndicated: Are We There Yet?, Love-Raymond, Friends). Service starts with the pastor bashing non-believers, lauds governess for being an unashamed Baptist, prompting a quick tune-out. Beats me why the Moore victims aren`t railing against god instead of praising it.
Also carried live on 7 KOCO, 39 KWTV and 13 OETA. KFOR keeps Antenna TV on 4.2 instead of firing up a 4.3, or pre-empting ATV like KOCO 7 had done with Indy 500 onto 5.2 instead of METV earlier in the day for Obama visit coverage on 5.1. KWTV as usual shifted CBS (only a 60 Minutes rerun) to 9.2 instead of replaying old newscasts. Unlike most of the OKC channels, KAUT itself runs no secondary or tertiary channel, for some reason.
Meanwhile during the same hour, RF 51, KSBI 52.1 ran the final college and HS quiz shows of the season as usual; inserting a promo by owner Vince Orza saluting the *other* TV stations in the market for their tornado weather coverage, even with clips of their logos. (KSBI made a brief try at local weather a few years ago, but soon ceded.) The HS quiz has a much better master, but who still slips up on some pronunciations. In my opinion, on both, most of the questions are too hard for the cream of our crop students, but the high-schoolers are usually more impressive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 27 at 0055, R. Chaski is still making it with some Spanish talk and music; 5990 China via CUBA splash is off by 0100 this time, facilitating capture of the exact second when Chaski turns off: 0100:59* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2 9930, Sunday May 26 starting at 2331:11, instead of expected 2328:44 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 27 at 1359, BB IS is JBA with flutter; enough to make out the timesignal ending at 1359:41.5, way early as usual. Had not been audible at all for a few days. The ionosphere is behaving as if we are at solar max (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming May 27 with continued poor propagation:
11500, poor at 1326; it`s // CNR1 on 11785, but about 2 seconds behind it; so not to be misassumed as Sound of Hope which is only the target
13920, fair at 1329; none in the 12s or 14s
13970, poor at 1329 // synchro with 11785 jammer
15115 & 15195 CNR1 also audible at 1330 as usual, none in 16s or 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, May 27 at 0452, RHC with good signal level but distorted, ruining Cuban music, which is just fine on // 11760.
9790, May 27 at 0454, CRI relay is still on with huge unmodulated carrier, causing desensitization on the FRG-7 out to plus/minus 35 kHz or so. This thing must be aimed right at us with 250 kW and high-gain curtain. Yes, the only HAB entries in HFCC are relays of CRI, provided by the source station: 9790 is 250 kW, 305 degrees at 03-04 in English, 04-05 Chinese. Why was modulation already over at 0454? Carrier often stays on beyond 0500 too.
15200-15260, May 27 at 1319, approx. range of buzz emanating from defective 15230 RHC transmitter, which is not especially strong itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF ch 40, May 26 at 2300 UT, KAUT, ``Freedom 43`` is very unusually carrying banal NBC network programming, shifted to here since it`s a subsidiary of KFOR 27, pre-empting NBC for the Moore memorial service from a Baptist church for a sesquihour (KAUT had been scheduled with syndicated: Are We There Yet?, Love-Raymond, Friends). Service starts with the pastor bashing non-believers, lauds governess for being an unashamed Baptist, prompting a quick tune-out. Beats me why the Moore victims aren`t railing against god instead of praising it.
Also carried live on 7 KOCO, 39 KWTV and 13 OETA. KFOR keeps Antenna TV on 4.2 instead of firing up a 4.3, or pre-empting ATV like KOCO 7 had done with Indy 500 onto 5.2 instead of METV earlier in the day for Obama visit coverage on 5.1. KWTV as usual shifted CBS (only a 60 Minutes rerun) to 9.2 instead of replaying old newscasts. Unlike most of the OKC channels, KAUT itself runs no secondary or tertiary channel, for some reason.
Meanwhile during the same hour, RF 51, KSBI 52.1 ran the final college and HS quiz shows of the season as usual; inserting a promo by owner Vince Orza saluting the *other* TV stations in the market for their tornado weather coverage, even with clips of their logos. (KSBI made a brief try at local weather a few years ago, but soon ceded.) The HS quiz has a much better master, but who still slips up on some pronunciations. In my opinion, on both, most of the questions are too hard for the cream of our crop students, but the high-schoolers are usually more impressive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 27 at 0055, R. Chaski is still making it with some Spanish talk and music; 5990 China via CUBA splash is off by 0100 this time, facilitating capture of the exact second when Chaski turns off: 0100:59* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2 9930, Sunday May 26 starting at 2331:11, instead of expected 2328:44 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
