DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS update overhaul for B-16 and post-DST season:
ALAN
ROE`s HITLIST OF SW STATION WEBSITES, updated Nov 2:
**
ALBANIA. 7475, Nov 4 at 0253, R. Tirana is still nothing more than a JBA carrier
during rescheduled North American service. Not enough to evaluate the
modulation. Is anyone further east hearing it better? Propagation has been poor
since B-16 began, but suspect Shijak is also seriously underpowered, and its
antenna apparently has been damaged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 6090, Nov 4 at 0113, University Network during music
fill is quite distorted // 5935 WWCR somewhat less distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476-USB, Nov 3 at 1930,
2034, still no trace of LRA36 here. Bryan Clark in New Zealand says he is
getting a trace.
15476-USB, Nov 4 at 2001 & 2034 chex, still nothing,
while RAE is a JBA carrier around 15345.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15590, Nov 4 at 1358, South Asian music, 1400
``Goodbye for Now`` twice in English, S9, more talk and songs in non-English,
despite HFCC registration as English only! from KNX, meaning Kununurra, HCA,
meaning HCJB-Australia despite rebirth as Reach Beyond, Australia, at 1255-1445,
100 kW, 310 degrees daily to CIRAFs 44, 45, 50 and 54. Via the WORLD OF RADIO
Hitlist
we
immediately reach the RBA language schedule for B-16
which
is extremely convoluted and complex, depending on day of week. Since this was
Friday, at 1400, 15590 is going from Tamil to Marathi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, Nov 4 at 0554, R. Rebelde is still off,
while 5040 is on with RHC English. See also PERU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9625, Nov 3 at 1149, Indonesian at S9, R. Japan
via PALAU at 1115-1200. In HFCC this single transmission gets three entries, one
from FCC, one from BaBcoCk, and one from NHK. They almost agree on the details,
all due west except for designated CIRAF target areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17570, Nov 4 at 1959, open carrier S8-S9
comes to life at 2000 in African language but mentioning ``Radio Mondiale
Adventiste`` in French and some percussion. HFCC B-16 shows it`s AWR, 2000-2030
daily, to CIRAF 46 = southern part of W Africa, 250 kW, 305 degrees from
MADAGASCAR and thus carrying on well to Enid, in the ``Mos`` language. What`s
that? EiBi`s key shows ``MOO Moore/Mòoré: Burkina Faso (5 million) [mos]``.
Apparently a brand-new service as I find no such language abbr. in their B-15
WRTH schedule, nor in A-16 HFCC. A first! More Adventist converts on the way in
Ouagadougou (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 7390,
Nov 4 at 0337, a JBA carrier in margin of bit 7385 WHRI, maybe MWV Spanish as
now scheduled 0200-0400; with Iran ending Pashto at 0320, RFI starting French at
0400 --- except for 10 kW AIR Port Blair, ANDAMAN & NICOBAR Islands,
supposedly starting day frequency at 0315. I`d prefer that – but AIR domestic
day frequencies are extremely rare over here.
17640, Nov 4 at 2000, no
sign of MWV as B-16 scheduled for new English broadcast, nor the original one at
1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5024.919, Nov 3 at
1133, weak signal with some talk, in absence of 5025 R. Rebelde, presumably R.
Quillabamba still propagating, despite Cusco sunrise of 1013! Marred by nearby
storm noise.
5024.895, approx., Nov 4 at 0051, Rebelde still off
allowing very poor broadcast signal from same. Stephen C Wood in Harwich MA was
listening about the same time and reported to the DXLDyg:
``5024.9 - R.
Quillabamba, Quillabamba, Perú at 0027 Nov. 4, 2016 - OM with announcements in
Spanish followed by music, Andean style children vocal // station website.
Signal only poor/fair at S5/6 level. Static is high leading to barely
discernible audio. Extensive announcements after 0030 with possible ads. Audio
is continually falling below noise floor. Tough listening but I was able to
verify with the website during musical segments. No sign of R. Rebelde at this
time. Perseus SDR with 25x50 terminated superloop antenna``
BTW, station
is celebrating its 50th anniversary now with an exhibition including DX reports
it has received:
RADIO QUILLABAMBA INAUGURA MUSEO Y MUESTRA FOTOGRÁFICA
Tnx
Hansjoerg Biener for link (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PERU. 5980, Nov 4 at 0101, wasteful Cuban pulse jamming is too heavy to detect
even a JBA carrier from Chaski (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SAIPAN [and non]. 9825, Nov 3 at 1144, two signals mixing in Chinese, one with a
brief English clip, adding up to S9+10, so RFA as scheduled 1100-1500, the other
CNR1 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA
[non]. 15710, Nov 3 at 1931, huge S9+45 signal with The Overcomer Ministry, //
17790 WRMI but not synch. It`s WHRI as now available 14-22 UT, 100 kW at 315
degrees. Apparently replaces 17765, and its terrible splatter, no longer
listed.
21675, Nov 3 at 1932, more TOM here, but not BS himself at the
moment, and not synch or // 15710. It seems TOM is plugged in at various times
to the Radio Africa Network service, perhaps as filler.
Also, Ivo Ivanov
explains why I was hearing Brother HyStairical on 9800 at 2155 Nov 1, and not
via Armenia as registered until 2100:
``SECRETLAND Reception of Brother
HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod Nov 3
2000-2200 9800 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg
WeEu ex 1900-2100 in A-16
2000-2200 19600 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu 2nd
harmonic of 9800 kHz``
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non] & SUDAN [non].
7315, Nov 4 at 0338, collision between WHRI, and R. Tamazuj, making a SAH of 2.8
Hz. A failure of frequency management. Ivo Ivanov reported as of Nov 3
``From
Oct. 30 no signal of R. Tamazuj & R. Dabanga`` while giving the registered
schedule including 7315, 250 kW, 146 degrees via VATICAN at 0330-0600, shifting
from 146 to 151 degrees at 0400 and from Tamazuj to Dabanga at 0430. The also
shifting parallels from SMG, France, Madagascar and Germany, 9600, 13800, and
15550 are not heard here and hardly likely to be over low MUF winter night
paths.
I recheck at 0453, when 7315 is in the clear, but poor in Arabic.
At 0541, still algo on 7315 but very poor. At 0556-0557* I barely detect the
Radio Dabanga jingle reading a generous S9. I had also checked this Nov 2 at
0555 and heard nothing, so at that point Ivo may have been correct that the
Sudanese target services were missing. (Brother Scare doesn`t start via WHRI
7315 until 0600.)
The evening pair of broadcasts are now scheduled
1430-1630 on 13800 and 15550: 13800 from Nauen to Madagascar at 1500; 15550 from
Issoudun to Vatican at 1500; and all from Tamazuj to Dabanga at 1530. Is that
unclear? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15580,
Fri Nov 4 at 1930, VOA in Spe-cial Eng-lish with report on the anti-Hillary FBI
scandal; good signal from BOTSWANA via the BST-1 caradio. Spl Eng consistently
heard at this time at least on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1850 monitoring: confirmed Thursday
November 3 at 2130 on WRMI 13695, excellent. Also confirmed Thu Nov 3 at 2330 on
WBCQ, 9329.950v-CSB, fair. Also confirmed Fri Nov 4 at 2330 on WBCQ,
9329.987v-CUSB, fair. Next:
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0800
Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1200 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1530
HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 0830 Unique Radio
NSW 3210 ND
[North American standard time shifts start here]
Mon
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon
0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030
WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Nov 3 at 2025, news about
Asia/Pacific, outro by Keith Perron as `Focus Asia Pacific` which is one of the
PCJ Radio International programs, unexpectedly occupying the designated `Media
Network Plus` hour on WRMI, Thu 20-21; 2029 on to an old `Media Network` with
Marks discussing AM stereo and the four incompatible systems the FCC was leaving
to the market to select (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
7730, UT Fri Nov 4 at 0048, this WRMI is playing ``Hotel California`` song in
unknown language, part of the `World Music` rotation which shows up from time to
time. Only the UT Wed and UT Fri 00-01 hours of 7730 on the skedgrid are now
unlabeled, still subject really to World Music concerts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490+, UT Fri Nov 4 at 0046, WBCQ playing
back part of a recent `Allan Weiner Worldwide` I recognize, as filling in this
hour of the schedule, open for new business (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9605, Nov 4 at 0116, S4 open carrier dead air from WHRI
instead of KBS World Radio relay in Spanish. Not the first time such has been
observed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, 13830,
12050, 11870, 11550, 11520, Nov 4 at 1948, WEWN missing from all possible
daytime frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM
[non]. 7315, Nov 4 at 0043, VOV in Spanish via WHRI, vs Romania in Spanish,
colliding about equal S9 levels. RRI is B-16 scheduled to be on 7335 instead.
The same anomaly happened in B-15, but VOV was not a victim then. Anyhow,
despite incomplete scheduling, VOV via WHRI continues on 7315 at both hours
00-02 UT, alternating English and Spanish; at 0120 clear in English but only S6
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Nov 4 at
1950, 2001 and 2034 chex, no signal from ZBC, nor heard at random chex the past
few days. On Nov 3, Ivo Ivanov reported it had not been heard since Nov 1:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1590: Having seen my
earlier report on the ``Bollywood`` station, John Reed in Shawnee OK replied Nov
2:
``Maybe this is what I heard:
It
looks like they were doing Bollywood music then, but may have switched formats
this month. That signal’s power and distance sounds more like what I was
hearing. 73, John``
Pertinent quote at end of wikipedia
article:
``In mid October 2016, Radio Aleluya programming was replaced
with brokered South Asian programming "Radio Dabang" which had aired on Siga
Broadcasting station [1480] KLVL in Pasadena. This was done in an effort to
provide better nighttime service to the southwest areas of Houston that KLVL was
unable to cover after sunset.``
The radioaleluya website now shows 980
KQUE as the main station, and with coverage maps
of
16 stations in the market, mostly FM translators, no 1590, and only two on AM,
980 KQUE and 1380 KRCM (but a while ago that was split off to a separate ``Radio
Viva``, so may not be up to date.)
KMIC had crossed my mind but as far as
I knew it was R. Aleluya, at least from early this year, and with an extremely
unfavorable night pattern SE into the GOM. That would explain why the only Asian
music I have been hearing loops toward Chicago rather than Houston. Getting a
bearing on whatever is heard on 1590 would go a long way toward resolving
this.
The R. Dabang website http://radiodabang.com now greets us
with
``RADIO DABANG is now on the BIGGER, BETTER and STRONGER
1590AM!
About The Radio Dabang --- Radio Dabang is presented to you by
Bollywood Show 4 U which is a renowned entertainment management company based
out of Houston Texas. Radio Dabang is Houston’s top South Asian Bollywood Radio
station. It has been an industry leader and dominating the Bollywood radio
category in Houston since its inception with over 2 million listeners. Read
More`` [which leads to a 404]
So indeed John could have been hearing this
since mid-October on 1590, but the ``Bollywood`` station heard for ``years``
before would have to be something else, like WCGO which has been ETHnic for a
long time including partially Bollywood (but rather Assyrian at the time of his
log, as I researched before).
Then I check the Houston-Galveston board
at
``10-12-2016,
09:02 PM #1 Mediafrog+
Radio Dabang moves from 1480 to 1590
KLVL 1480
is running looped messages from Radio Dabang telling listeners to tune to 1590.
And checking KMIC the regular Radio Dabang programming has indeed moved there.
The announcement loop mentions that listeners had complained about the 1480
signal, especially the inadequate nighttime coverage. Not a surprise, as the
1480 night signal starts to die west of downtown Houston, and is buried in the
co-channel pileup when you get to the West Loop. As most of the South Asian
community is in the southwest part of the market, Radio Dabang couldn't reach
them after sunset. So a format change for KMIC 1590, and it would appear that
KLVL 1480 is looking for a new tenant``
1590, Nov 4 at 0100 UT thru
hourtop check, someone is playing Elvis` ``All Shook Up``, unlikely any of these
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5100.00, Nov 3 at
1236, strong open carrier, S9 to S9+20, a broadcaster testing?? Also the same
Nov 4 at 0553.
5125.00, Nov 4 at 0050, very strong open carrier, just
like the 5100.00 one yesterday, but S9+30. This could bother 5130v WBCQ if on at
the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
7200-LSB, Nov 4 at 1317, country-rock music, with some pretty deft
guitar-plucking. Altho there is also a very weak carrier, lacking USB, I
conclude this is someham, and not Myanmar. Finishes at 1320 and another ham
opines ``ear-bleedin` crappy D-104`` -- referring to a microphone? And utters a
callsign, perhaps his own, K9RSY, which ARRL/FCC lookup shows as: ``CHUROVICH
419, DANIEL G, K9RSY, RIPLEY, TN 38063`` --- yes, 419 as part of his surname.
7200 is the 40m hangout for hams(?) eager to violate the rules (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 2358 UT November 4
