** AUSTRIA. I finally had a chance to check out OE1`s token non-German SW broadcasting which has not yet been abolished, to NAm on 7325, UT Thu Jan 29 from tune-in 0003, with multilingual IDs and Blue Danube IS --- but these five minutes are overtly supposed to contain Spanish, so is that gone, or just short? 0005 into Journal program spoken in Austro-German; English news segment ran from 0013:30 to 0016:15 when turned over to French. Yes, these are obviously replays of the 0700+ UT wake-up news on the domestic service and 6155. 8.5 minutes after German started correlates nicely with the original airing of English starting at 0708:30, so I guess the German preceding it as that old, too?
I noted the topics mentioned in English: Israel, Obama, Spain, Updike, Iceland, Afghanistan, octuplets. Not a word about Austria, tho some effort went into the cast, with a couple of axualities, including an Updike clip. And weather forecast, presumably for the day already expired by now; no date mentioned. Presumably all repeated again a semi-hour later, but I also missed checking at 0030 whether Spanish appeared then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. This date, Jan 29, I intuned 9955 earlier to monitor WRMI`s transition from S to NW antenna and from Spanish Cuban to English Czech programming. At 1456, nothing but DentroCuban Jamming Command roaring away. But no sign of a change at 1500. Finally at 1502:40 WRMI flipped on with ID and into relay of yesterday`s R. Prague program. WRMI immediately dominated the jamming and Prague could be copied without a problem, tho with annoyance. Presumably the jamming dwindled during the next quarter-hour as per usual behavior, as if the Cubans want to be absolutely sure this isn`t going to revert to exile programming.
It`s good that WRMI correlates its frequency change times with axual breaks between programs, which often run late, rather than chopping something off incomplete at a set time no matter what, like some more major broadcasters do. 1530 program on this Thursday was Frecuencia al Día, as quickly rechecked at 1545. O, I see that WRMI has another schedule updated Jan 23, now filling in all the blanks at http://www.wrmi.net/program.php?id=94
as to what programs appear M-F at 1530-1700 UT, 10:30 am-noon local:
1530 Studio DX (Mon), Frecuencia al Dia (mar-jue), Wavescan (Fri)
1600 DX Party Line (Mon-Thurs), World Baseball Today (Fri)
1615 Aventura DXista (lun-juev), DX Party Line (Fri)
1630 Reality in Jesus (Mon), World of Radio (Tues-Thurs), Frecuencia al Dia (viernes)
Since the NW antenna is working so much better in covering NAm, I wonder why they don`t stay on it at 1700-2200 M-F during the WRN relays, all in English; nothing audible except weak residual? jamming at 2100 check Jan 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR back on 3215, UT Jan 29 at 0415 check, and again at 0700, after having been only on its double, 6430 for at least two nights. Probably still putting out a weakened harmonic on 6430. BTW, the previous report by Brian Alexander of a spur on 6414.2 UT Jan 25 and 26 can now be explained more likely as a spur of 6430 when that was axually a fundamental, than as the harmonic of a spur of 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. IBOC hiss on 1680 during a fade of KRJO 1680 Louisiana, Jan 29 at 1434 UT, which soon came back up with gospel music. At this time, the dominant 1690 station was R. Disney, i.e. KDDZ Arvada CO, with teeny-bopper music (or is that term passé?), Radio Disney ID, so not only WVON IL but KDDZ are outhashing from 1690, as Greg Hardison outpoints. I had overlooked another `I` symbol for the latter in the NRC AM log; and BTW they both are also shown as $=stereo, so C-QUAM plus IBOC? The two are not mutually exclusive bandwidthwise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
I noted the topics mentioned in English: Israel, Obama, Spain, Updike, Iceland, Afghanistan, octuplets. Not a word about Austria, tho some effort went into the cast, with a couple of axualities, including an Updike clip. And weather forecast, presumably for the day already expired by now; no date mentioned. Presumably all repeated again a semi-hour later, but I also missed checking at 0030 whether Spanish appeared then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. This date, Jan 29, I intuned 9955 earlier to monitor WRMI`s transition from S to NW antenna and from Spanish Cuban to English Czech programming. At 1456, nothing but DentroCuban Jamming Command roaring away. But no sign of a change at 1500. Finally at 1502:40 WRMI flipped on with ID and into relay of yesterday`s R. Prague program. WRMI immediately dominated the jamming and Prague could be copied without a problem, tho with annoyance. Presumably the jamming dwindled during the next quarter-hour as per usual behavior, as if the Cubans want to be absolutely sure this isn`t going to revert to exile programming.
It`s good that WRMI correlates its frequency change times with axual breaks between programs, which often run late, rather than chopping something off incomplete at a set time no matter what, like some more major broadcasters do. 1530 program on this Thursday was Frecuencia al Día, as quickly rechecked at 1545. O, I see that WRMI has another schedule updated Jan 23, now filling in all the blanks at http://www.wrmi.net/program.php?id=94
as to what programs appear M-F at 1530-1700 UT, 10:30 am-noon local:
1530 Studio DX (Mon), Frecuencia al Dia (mar-jue), Wavescan (Fri)
1600 DX Party Line (Mon-Thurs), World Baseball Today (Fri)
1615 Aventura DXista (lun-juev), DX Party Line (Fri)
1630 Reality in Jesus (Mon), World of Radio (Tues-Thurs), Frecuencia al Dia (viernes)
Since the NW antenna is working so much better in covering NAm, I wonder why they don`t stay on it at 1700-2200 M-F during the WRN relays, all in English; nothing audible except weak residual? jamming at 2100 check Jan 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR back on 3215, UT Jan 29 at 0415 check, and again at 0700, after having been only on its double, 6430 for at least two nights. Probably still putting out a weakened harmonic on 6430. BTW, the previous report by Brian Alexander of a spur on 6414.2 UT Jan 25 and 26 can now be explained more likely as a spur of 6430 when that was axually a fundamental, than as the harmonic of a spur of 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. IBOC hiss on 1680 during a fade of KRJO 1680 Louisiana, Jan 29 at 1434 UT, which soon came back up with gospel music. At this time, the dominant 1690 station was R. Disney, i.e. KDDZ Arvada CO, with teeny-bopper music (or is that term passé?), Radio Disney ID, so not only WVON IL but KDDZ are outhashing from 1690, as Greg Hardison outpoints. I had overlooked another `I` symbol for the latter in the NRC AM log; and BTW they both are also shown as $=stereo, so C-QUAM plus IBOC? The two are not mutually exclusive bandwidthwise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
