** ALBANIA. Generally poor reception, especially from Europe, June 21 led me to expect to strain to hear R. Tirana English at 1430 on 13755; but instead, good signal S9+12 at 1428 tune-in to worn-out IS recording; they never back-time it, so it`s interrupted at 1430 for sign-on music and announcements. There was slight QRM from 13760 North Korea, and 13740 CRI via CUBA splash.
I am pleased finally to hear the current A-10 English schedule announced after at least a sesquiweek of reciting the expired B-09 schedule. To celebrate, I will quote the now correct schedule dated 28 March to 30 October 2010:
``1845-1900 to UK on 13640, 7520
2000-2030 on 7465
To USA [what about Canada? CIRAF 9 is an official target, Maritimes]:
1430-1500 13755
2000-2030 13640
0030-0045 9860
0145-0200 7425
0230-0300 7425
0330-0400 7425
Monday-Saturday, and to North America, Monday-Sunday``.
There, Canada gets included. But Monday-Sunday does not mean 7 days a week! It means the first broadcast is on Monday at 1430 and the last one UT Sunday until 0400, really taking a full day off.
1432 program summary and into news; first item about a deal with Croatia so visas not required of Albanians during holidays starting July 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Sporadic-E analog TV DX, channels 2-6, mainly from Ontario June 18-19. Full report at http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 21:
9000, JBA at 1343
14700, VP at 1354 after hearing 14980. Extreme disparity between these two signals on nearby frequencies, due to?? Radically different transmitter sites/propagation paths, powers, azimuths? Were // synchro 14700 still audible at 1408, 1414 after 14980 quit, 1434
14960, fair at 1434. Maybe it shifted from 14980 at 1413? Unchecked
14980, VG at 1354, also 1405-1413* abrupt cutoff as I listened
None others audible up to 19 MHz by 1358 or later
CNR1 jamming:
15530, June 21 at 1356 with motorboating noise added but victim inaudible. VG // 15285 CNR1 jammer without motorboating. 1400 3-pips, full timesignal truncated? Both that and the noise cut off the air at exactly the same time, so emanating from single transmitter. Unheard here before, but Aoki is right on what is happening:
15530*VOICE OF TIBET 1330-1400 1234567 Chinese 100 131 Tashkent UZB 06909E 4113N VOTi a10 Jun.15- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Surprise2, RHC Spanish on 9112 kHz, which was inbooming the morning of June 20 as in previous report, is missing June 21 around 1345, but 11760 is back.
The RHC English webpage
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
is finally accessible June 21, and tho autodated currently, still displays long gone English schedule, such as 13790 which was replaced by 5040 months ago, ditto 6140 with 5970, in usual confusing format:
``Río de Janeiro 13790 22 23–24 UTC
América del Norte 6140 / 6000 / 6060 31 / 49 05–07/01– 05/ 05-07 UTC
San Francisco 6010 49 05-07 UTC``
Don`t you believe it! And it simply ignores the 2030-2100, now 2000-2100 broadcast on 11760, which it seems has always been marginal, on the verge of deletion? A dress rehearsal?
There is another link, to DXers Unlimited,
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_unlimited/unlimited.htm
but the latest script is from 28-29 November 2009! Arnie does slightly better by posting some of them occasionally on his blog, but why not on the RHC site itself? Because it`s AFU!
OTOH, the link to English programming
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_programacion/programacion.htm
appears to be the new one-hour-only schedule with exact times at 2300-2400, as if that were the first broadcast, repeated over and over. It shows DXer`s [sic] Unlimited Sundays at 2312, Tuesdays at 2341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI in stark contrast to yesterday, just barely detectable carrier June 21 at 1347, not 9525. Further confirmed to be on the air at 1412 by producing het against weak but audible CRI Russian on 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Lots of TV and FM DX June 18-20, from Yucatán, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Sonora, Baja California Norte: fully detailed reports at http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Have not reported on the anomalous stations lately, so as of the afternoon of June 21:
1120, KEOR Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa is still off the air.
1580, KOKB Blackwell is still on the air with overmodulation distortion, sportstalk // 1020 KOKP Perry.
97.7, ``WECS`` part 15 Enid is still on the air, but instead of kids we have a teacher speaking coherently in a 1-minute loop, no made-up call ID from her, but just ``Voice of Emmanuel Christian School``. Range remains a few blox on caradio, no problem for DX beyond that, and I got several from Mexico, USA on 97.7.
99.9, GCN Pirate in Enid is still active. Local hash/mixing products can overwhelm it depending on antenna orientation with DX-398. Better on caradio, but there are dead zones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. While DXing for Es from far beyond, AZ, CA and NW Mexico, UT Monday June 21 at 0019 I come upon an interesting show on 99.5, fadey signal which might have been Es, but it stays in at average level, so it`s just the turbulent atmosphere on a hot summer afternoon. Interview about John Ford`s Western films, and Ben Johnson, who died in Pawhuska [OK, Osage country]. 0023 sad song ``The Campfire Has Gone Out`` by Don Edwards. 0029 show ID as ``The Cowboy Corner``, ad for NationalCowboyMuseum.org in OKC, feedyards in Hereford TX, a town on US 60 like Enid, but stinx a lot more. Brits please note: pronounced Her-ferd.
Anyhow, Googling on the program name finds it on some 160 stations, originates in east Texas, but damned if I can find an affiliate list, let alone a website of its own. Interviewer/host was named Red, i.e. Red Steagall, also with lots of hits on him.
But this must have been via KXBL 99.5 Henryetta OK, which has a country format, 7-8 pm CDT Sundays like on some other stations. Given the topic, I at first guessed it might have been ``Chronicles of the Old West``, as on KGGF 690, Sunsounds of Arizona, but evidently it`s the competition. Worth locating on some other station with better reception or webcast (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Observations about DTV peculiarities from here and neighboring states: http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. My first DTV ID by sporadic E, WBRA Roanoke VA, channel 3; miscellaneous FM DX from SC, TX, AZ, CA, June 18-20: http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
I am pleased finally to hear the current A-10 English schedule announced after at least a sesquiweek of reciting the expired B-09 schedule. To celebrate, I will quote the now correct schedule dated 28 March to 30 October 2010:
``1845-1900 to UK on 13640, 7520
2000-2030 on 7465
To USA [what about Canada? CIRAF 9 is an official target, Maritimes]:
1430-1500 13755
2000-2030 13640
0030-0045 9860
0145-0200 7425
0230-0300 7425
0330-0400 7425
Monday-Saturday, and to North America, Monday-Sunday``.
There, Canada gets included. But Monday-Sunday does not mean 7 days a week! It means the first broadcast is on Monday at 1430 and the last one UT Sunday until 0400, really taking a full day off.
1432 program summary and into news; first item about a deal with Croatia so visas not required of Albanians during holidays starting July 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Sporadic-E analog TV DX, channels 2-6, mainly from Ontario June 18-19. Full report at http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 21:
9000, JBA at 1343
14700, VP at 1354 after hearing 14980. Extreme disparity between these two signals on nearby frequencies, due to?? Radically different transmitter sites/propagation paths, powers, azimuths? Were // synchro 14700 still audible at 1408, 1414 after 14980 quit, 1434
14960, fair at 1434. Maybe it shifted from 14980 at 1413? Unchecked
14980, VG at 1354, also 1405-1413* abrupt cutoff as I listened
None others audible up to 19 MHz by 1358 or later
CNR1 jamming:
15530, June 21 at 1356 with motorboating noise added but victim inaudible. VG // 15285 CNR1 jammer without motorboating. 1400 3-pips, full timesignal truncated? Both that and the noise cut off the air at exactly the same time, so emanating from single transmitter. Unheard here before, but Aoki is right on what is happening:
15530*VOICE OF TIBET 1330-1400 1234567 Chinese 100 131 Tashkent UZB 06909E 4113N VOTi a10 Jun.15- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Surprise2, RHC Spanish on 9112 kHz, which was inbooming the morning of June 20 as in previous report, is missing June 21 around 1345, but 11760 is back.
The RHC English webpage
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
is finally accessible June 21, and tho autodated currently, still displays long gone English schedule, such as 13790 which was replaced by 5040 months ago, ditto 6140 with 5970, in usual confusing format:
``Río de Janeiro 13790 22 23–24 UTC
América del Norte 6140 / 6000 / 6060 31 / 49 05–07/01– 05/ 05-07 UTC
San Francisco 6010 49 05-07 UTC``
Don`t you believe it! And it simply ignores the 2030-2100, now 2000-2100 broadcast on 11760, which it seems has always been marginal, on the verge of deletion? A dress rehearsal?
There is another link, to DXers Unlimited,
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_unlimited/unlimited.htm
but the latest script is from 28-29 November 2009! Arnie does slightly better by posting some of them occasionally on his blog, but why not on the RHC site itself? Because it`s AFU!
OTOH, the link to English programming
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_programacion/programacion.htm
appears to be the new one-hour-only schedule with exact times at 2300-2400, as if that were the first broadcast, repeated over and over. It shows DXer`s [sic] Unlimited Sundays at 2312, Tuesdays at 2341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI in stark contrast to yesterday, just barely detectable carrier June 21 at 1347, not 9525. Further confirmed to be on the air at 1412 by producing het against weak but audible CRI Russian on 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Lots of TV and FM DX June 18-20, from Yucatán, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Sonora, Baja California Norte: fully detailed reports at http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Have not reported on the anomalous stations lately, so as of the afternoon of June 21:
1120, KEOR Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa is still off the air.
1580, KOKB Blackwell is still on the air with overmodulation distortion, sportstalk // 1020 KOKP Perry.
97.7, ``WECS`` part 15 Enid is still on the air, but instead of kids we have a teacher speaking coherently in a 1-minute loop, no made-up call ID from her, but just ``Voice of Emmanuel Christian School``. Range remains a few blox on caradio, no problem for DX beyond that, and I got several from Mexico, USA on 97.7.
99.9, GCN Pirate in Enid is still active. Local hash/mixing products can overwhelm it depending on antenna orientation with DX-398. Better on caradio, but there are dead zones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. While DXing for Es from far beyond, AZ, CA and NW Mexico, UT Monday June 21 at 0019 I come upon an interesting show on 99.5, fadey signal which might have been Es, but it stays in at average level, so it`s just the turbulent atmosphere on a hot summer afternoon. Interview about John Ford`s Western films, and Ben Johnson, who died in Pawhuska [OK, Osage country]. 0023 sad song ``The Campfire Has Gone Out`` by Don Edwards. 0029 show ID as ``The Cowboy Corner``, ad for NationalCowboyMuseum.org in OKC, feedyards in Hereford TX, a town on US 60 like Enid, but stinx a lot more. Brits please note: pronounced Her-ferd.
Anyhow, Googling on the program name finds it on some 160 stations, originates in east Texas, but damned if I can find an affiliate list, let alone a website of its own. Interviewer/host was named Red, i.e. Red Steagall, also with lots of hits on him.
But this must have been via KXBL 99.5 Henryetta OK, which has a country format, 7-8 pm CDT Sundays like on some other stations. Given the topic, I at first guessed it might have been ``Chronicles of the Old West``, as on KGGF 690, Sunsounds of Arizona, but evidently it`s the competition. Worth locating on some other station with better reception or webcast (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Observations about DTV peculiarities from here and neighboring states: http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. My first DTV ID by sporadic E, WBRA Roanoke VA, channel 3; miscellaneous FM DX from SC, TX, AZ, CA, June 18-20: http://www.w4uvh.net/ghtvfmdx.txt
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
