ALAN ROE`S HITLIST UPDATED
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ALBANIA [non]. 5850, Tuesday May 2 at 2300, WRMI carrier is already on in time
for R. Tirana relay but I don`t get away from the computer noise until 2301 when
the program preview is spoken on F-G signal: Cultural Activities, and Sports
Roundup. Oh oh, that`s the Monday lineup, so this is a playback of 24 hours ago
instead of a new file! News about the Macedonian elexion, and the mayor of
Tirana getting an honorary degree from Grand Valley State University in the USA.
Never heard of it, until yesterday on RTSH3, so this time I look up where it is:
Allendale MI 49401, west of Grand Rapids. I find their site and search on Tirana
to find what the Albanian connexion is:
``Join
current GVSU President Tom Haas, his wife Marcia, and other GVSU alumni in
Tirana, Albania on 13 May, 2017. Fellow GVSU alumni are eager to welcome you to
the lovely capital city of Albania, Tirana, including:
Erion Veliaj (B.A.,
2002), the current Mayor of Tirana
Eglantina Gjermeni (MSW, 1997), current
Minister of Urban Development
Last summer, Erion Veliaj (PLS ’02) was
elected mayor of Tirana, Albania’s capital city. The Tirana municipality is
Albania’s largest, with a population of over 800,000. Before becoming mayor, Eri
was a member of the Albanian parliament and the Minister of Social Welfare and
Youth in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Edi Rama`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [non]. 11580, May 2 at 2007, on the BST-1
caradio and later on the R75, WRMI with ``Jazz [from the Left]`` as scheduled.
Checking because on Monday May 1, Mark Coady in Ontario was hearing an
unexpected prepeat of the new RAE relay (instead of Russian DX program Radio
Panorama), but before 2100 he says 11580 was back to Wavescan.
9395, May
3 at 0112 I tune in late to the next RAE ATTW relay, but just in time to hear an
interview with the director of the station, Adrián Corol (sp?) in Spanish, by
Fernando in English, and then translating his answers. It`s as if today is the
first day of the new SW relays rather than the second day.
Summarizing:
Several thank-yous to Jeff White, manager of WRMI for the new relays at 100 kW.
Waiting on repairing own transmitter, as they want to get the other 6 languages
back on the air. Once it`s back, they will evaluate whether also to continue via
WRMI, but they do have all these other platforms now, podcasts, phone. Any
program content changes? Actualidad DX in all languages on Fridays. New feature
will be ``Argentines that Touch the World``, not only famous ones like some
soccer player, Pope Francis, Che Guevara, but lesser-known ones.
Now
seems they have modified QSL policy. Special numbered QSLs will be sent not only
for postal reports, but for e-reports if an mp3 sample of reception is attached,
or link to a YT clip, etc. (So I still don`t qualify, and no reply at all to my
yesterday`s report I copied onto their form; altho a lot fewer multilingual ID
crutches heard tonight.)
0126 the interview ends, MLID#1 that I hear but
there may have been several more in the first dodekaminute I missed; song; 0132
MLID#2;
0133 YL with long feature on Jaime Torres, ``the magician of the
charango``, about him and the instrument originating in the Andes, provinces of
Salta and Jujuy, lots of such music but mostly talked over including old
interviews with Torres, and translated. He was born 1938 in Bolivia but grew up
in Bs As; 0136-0141 longest uninterrupted music; 0141 El Condor Pasa played and
discussed; 0149 closing credits for feature, more music.
0152 news
headlines: labor day, US does something, tourism industry earns 1,440 megapesos
(with inflation I have no idea what that amounts to, but probably less than it
seems.) 0153 MLID#3, wrapup transmission, plug USA phone number once,
641-####-8099 at local call cost. Announcer name now sounds like Fernando
Farrías, and credits sound engineer Jorge Falcón. I hunt for correct spelling of
station staff names, but do not find any of them at
which
BTW I easily reached via Alan Roe`s updated Hitlist.
This time at 0155 a
BB WRMI ID, clearly marking end of RAE and transition back to Oldies. Tonight
I`ve been listening on the sufficient PL-880 with reelout clipon, while the
NRD-545 is bandscanning for pirates and whatever else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 13855, May 2 at 1357, bit of music
before carrier cut. HFCC shows CRI via Kashgar, 500 kW, 308 degrees in ``Chn``
language -- ?? You might think that`s simply Chinese, but Mandarin is
abbreviated in HFCC as cmn according to Eibi`s readme.txt, and nothing keyed as
chn. Apparently a typo as Aoki does list this as merely Chinese (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7254.939, May 2 at 0600, VON with VG
signal opening Hausa hour. Wolfgang Büschel also measured it exactly there with
the VE6JY SDR about 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6939.95-AM, May 3 at 0118, JBA pirate music
registering S9 including noise level. These logs on 6940 say it was Radio
Illuminati:
6924.95-AM,
May 3 at 0120, JBA pirate music. No logs of this on HFU.
6880.0-AM, May 3
at 0123, pirate song at S9+15, better than the other two. As expected on this
frequency, it`s Unknown Name Radio Network:
I
have mainly been paying attention to Argentina via WRMI on 9395 during this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 42, May 2 after
1430 UT, a bit of enhanced tropo over OK on Hepburn`s map, so I expect to see
some yellow bars on the DTV converter bandscan: and one of them decodes briefly
and erratically, with seven subchannels, all PSIP as KBZC-LD. It`s the OKC
station I have seen a few times before, and seems about the same
lineup:
1 - a dance competition, no bug
2 - ad with no bug
3 - ad,
later BUZZR, game show channel
4 - Country - music videos
5 - QVC
6 - Q
another QVC
7 - jewelry shopping
Nothing about this on the final (?) DTV
repack info for OK, so I guess it will be going off once 42 is denied to TV
stations (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 15110,
May 2 at 1345, M&W in Chinese at S9+20 with rumble, but can`t make a // to
the China radio war with Taiwan on 9680, so this is probably really VOA Mandarin
hour, 250 kW, 14 degrees via Udorn, and also aimed right across North America
beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO
1875 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday May 2 at 1106 the 1100 airing on WRMI 9955
and S6-S9, and // 9455 at S6-S8. (Amazing, at 1113, WWV on 10000 blasting in at
S9+30.) WOR also confirmed Tue May 2 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, poor, and // 15770
JBA. Also confirmed Tue May 2 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.10v-CUSB, good, and frequency
moving during the few seconds I listen. Next:
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW,
9455? to WNW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, May 2 at 2028 check, WTWW-1 is AWOL, but 12105
WTWW-3 is on with Portuguese, and 9930 WTWW-2 with Ramsey. No, nothing on night
frequency 5830 either.
By 0124 UT May 3, 12105 is still on but with
S9+35 of dead air; 5085 is on with ham talk; and 9475 is S9+45 of SFAW
modulation.
This is also the time I hear a wideband RF burst from my
streetlight igniting just after sunset. And wideband, but e.g. on an open
frequency circa 12 MHz, I count the unID electric fence pops at the rate of 46
per minute, barely enough to overcome the line and storm noise levels (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 7305, May 3 at 0140,
only a JBA carrier here, certainly not Greenville-B warming up for 0145 VR relay
in Spanish, which often starts as early as 0130. Still no VR by 0147. It remains
on the A17 schedule per Aoki. So has VR cut this transmission according to SS
Pope`s desires to phase out SW; or just missing now?
Radio Martí is on
7365 this hour, and used to produce a leapfrog mixing product with 7305 landing
on 7425, where I find another very weak signal, with some talk, so what are
these?
7305 has VOA Burmese via Thailand at 0130-0230.
7425 has Iran in
Arabic via Zahedan, both per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7200-LSB, May 3 at 0150, unID ham accuses another
of being a hater, a white-separatist, presumably the weaker one he is
overriding; and others chime in on one side or another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0404 UT May 3
