** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 20 at 1423: just barely audible on 8400; nothing on 9000, 10210 or 11300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, R. San Carlos presumed, 2 X 1429.9, Spanish peaking above the local noise level at a quick monitoring check 0102 UT Dec 20. I moved to what I thought would be a quieter location but by then, 0115 nothing was audible, nor back at the first location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 21690, Sunday Dec 20 at 1818, RFI in French via GUIANA FRENCH, good signal. Was checking out Stewart MacKenzie`s Dec 18 report of an unknown station in an unknown country at 1808 in Spanish. Perhaps that should have been unknown language as well; RFI used to have Spanish at 1800 but abolished a few seasons ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 13730 at 1430 tune-in Dec 20, open carrier except for occasional unID noises, 1431 start up Dr. Kathy studying Psalms CXIX, flutter and echo. This is the weekend-only Bible Voice Broadcasting due east via Wertachtal, GERMANY; I`d rather hear Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 9935, Xmas music in English, Dec 20 around 1415 such as Lennon`s ``Happy Christmas``, but war isn`t exactly over; a jazzy song in English spanned the 1500 hourtop, 1501 ID in Greek for Makedonias station, mentioned FM, 1502 news.
HFCC claims this is a 250 kW transmitter at Thessaloniki, 315 degrees, but it seems to me this was changed years ago to one of the 100 kW at Avlis whence the other ERA SW transmissions emanate, and so shown in WRTH 2010; plus Aoki which lists 1100-1650, 100 kW, 285 degrees. Adjacent to VOA English 9930 via Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Don`t know about DXing with Cumbre, which some report has been missing for a few weeks, but heard Marie Lamb doing her Saturday morning classical music shift on WCNY, via webcast, Dec 19 including live timechex and current local weather around 1700 UT, and she sounds fine to me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15420, Dec 20 at 1817, WBCQ with anapaestic Fence Lake NM preacher, ``Global Spirit Proclamation``, 50 kW, 245 degrees usward, about equal level with BBCWS in English via SOUTH AFRICA, 250 kW at 5 degrees, 1700-1900. If I really wanted to hear the gospel huxter, I would find this an intolerable collision.
I would really want to hear BBCWS, but there are alternatives for that and BBCWS does not want me to hear them. Since WBCQ is on ``compatible upper sideband`` one should get rid of it and hear BBC in the clear by invoking LSB, but that is not the case. Tho much weaker, there is still some WBCQ to be heard on the LSB of the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, at 1817 UT check Sunday Dec 20, just barely audible, sounds like English intonation, cannot be anything but WJHR Milton FL. One kW may be plenty for a ham station, but not for an audience-seeking international broadcaster except as a DXperiment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. X-band scan in the caradio afternoon of Dec 19; it`s harder and harder to find a quiet spot in Enid covering the entire MW band, with all the Xmasdex, powerline and trafficlites, but at 2052 UT I was getting a clear steady signal on 1680 with ad for a jeweler in Vicksburg MS, huh? On 1680? Then another ad for In Style hairdresser mentioning the 318 area code, which is northern LA. At 2053 ``The music you grew up with, Old School 1680 AM``. Has to be KRJO Monroe LA, which NRC AM Log 2009 says is // 1360 KBYO Tallulah LA, but it was silent as of 6/2009 and not cross-referenced to 1680. Address is same for both in Monroe, but different formats.
Tallulah is a lot closer to Vicksburg eastward on I-20. (I made the mistake of driving across LA on I-20 years ago; did they ever get it smoothed out?). Since the slogan heard on 1680 mentioned 1680, yet the 1360 transmitter would (better) serve Vicksburg, is that on the air or not, and which one is the primary station?
FCC shows KBYO with a different licensee, ``FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF TULLULAH, LOUISIANA`` altho the town is spelt Tallulah. It`s not on the 12/1/09 edition of silent AM stations:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/status/silentAM.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, R. San Carlos presumed, 2 X 1429.9, Spanish peaking above the local noise level at a quick monitoring check 0102 UT Dec 20. I moved to what I thought would be a quieter location but by then, 0115 nothing was audible, nor back at the first location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 21690, Sunday Dec 20 at 1818, RFI in French via GUIANA FRENCH, good signal. Was checking out Stewart MacKenzie`s Dec 18 report of an unknown station in an unknown country at 1808 in Spanish. Perhaps that should have been unknown language as well; RFI used to have Spanish at 1800 but abolished a few seasons ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 13730 at 1430 tune-in Dec 20, open carrier except for occasional unID noises, 1431 start up Dr. Kathy studying Psalms CXIX, flutter and echo. This is the weekend-only Bible Voice Broadcasting due east via Wertachtal, GERMANY; I`d rather hear Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 9935, Xmas music in English, Dec 20 around 1415 such as Lennon`s ``Happy Christmas``, but war isn`t exactly over; a jazzy song in English spanned the 1500 hourtop, 1501 ID in Greek for Makedonias station, mentioned FM, 1502 news.
HFCC claims this is a 250 kW transmitter at Thessaloniki, 315 degrees, but it seems to me this was changed years ago to one of the 100 kW at Avlis whence the other ERA SW transmissions emanate, and so shown in WRTH 2010; plus Aoki which lists 1100-1650, 100 kW, 285 degrees. Adjacent to VOA English 9930 via Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Don`t know about DXing with Cumbre, which some report has been missing for a few weeks, but heard Marie Lamb doing her Saturday morning classical music shift on WCNY, via webcast, Dec 19 including live timechex and current local weather around 1700 UT, and she sounds fine to me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15420, Dec 20 at 1817, WBCQ with anapaestic Fence Lake NM preacher, ``Global Spirit Proclamation``, 50 kW, 245 degrees usward, about equal level with BBCWS in English via SOUTH AFRICA, 250 kW at 5 degrees, 1700-1900. If I really wanted to hear the gospel huxter, I would find this an intolerable collision.
I would really want to hear BBCWS, but there are alternatives for that and BBCWS does not want me to hear them. Since WBCQ is on ``compatible upper sideband`` one should get rid of it and hear BBC in the clear by invoking LSB, but that is not the case. Tho much weaker, there is still some WBCQ to be heard on the LSB of the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, at 1817 UT check Sunday Dec 20, just barely audible, sounds like English intonation, cannot be anything but WJHR Milton FL. One kW may be plenty for a ham station, but not for an audience-seeking international broadcaster except as a DXperiment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. X-band scan in the caradio afternoon of Dec 19; it`s harder and harder to find a quiet spot in Enid covering the entire MW band, with all the Xmasdex, powerline and trafficlites, but at 2052 UT I was getting a clear steady signal on 1680 with ad for a jeweler in Vicksburg MS, huh? On 1680? Then another ad for In Style hairdresser mentioning the 318 area code, which is northern LA. At 2053 ``The music you grew up with, Old School 1680 AM``. Has to be KRJO Monroe LA, which NRC AM Log 2009 says is // 1360 KBYO Tallulah LA, but it was silent as of 6/2009 and not cross-referenced to 1680. Address is same for both in Monroe, but different formats.
Tallulah is a lot closer to Vicksburg eastward on I-20. (I made the mistake of driving across LA on I-20 years ago; did they ever get it smoothed out?). Since the slogan heard on 1680 mentioned 1680, yet the 1360 transmitter would (better) serve Vicksburg, is that on the air or not, and which one is the primary station?
FCC shows KBYO with a different licensee, ``FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF TULLULAH, LOUISIANA`` altho the town is spelt Tallulah. It`s not on the 12/1/09 edition of silent AM stations:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/status/silentAM.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
