** CHINA. Firedrake [non], August 15:
Nothing found 8-16 MHz 1315-1343 --- except:
14970, a regular FD frequency, instead had continuous Chinese talk at 1335. Was it really Sound of Hope? Of course not! // 11990, 11805, 11785, so CNR1 jammer is running instead. No trace of another station on 14970. Recheck 1359, still talk, without the usual CNR1 produxion hype, probably subdued due to National Day of Mourning; 4-pip timesignal and off at 1400* sharp, and still no trace of even a carrier from SOH; still off at final check 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS, Aug 14 at 1338 heard regular news announcer, not live coverage of President`s Independence Day speech, as presumably on most/all AIR domestic SW outlets. Poor reception, usual hum, and hard to follow on 9690, but barely audible 9870 not // and nothing on 9425, let alone tropical bands at this hour. At 1353 heard some military band, commands yelled, commentary from studio; 1355 speech by OM [?] in reverby locale, alternating with YL studio commentary, so is this now live coverage? Or does AIR GOS repackage due to scheduling restraints. Ron Howard says the Hindi version aired on 9425 and tropical channels at 1330, English version from 1353. And he refers us to http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp140810-2.html
for text of her full speech (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, had resumed open carrier, Sunday Aug 15 at 1344 UT; underneath no Spanish but two gospel huxters mixing in English. BTW, when modulating later on Aug 14, KOKB mentioned its studios in downtown Stillwater, so both it and KOKP 1020 Perry are merely relays of 105.1 KOSB. Also, a small correxion to my Aug 14 report: ESPN Deportes show Mano a Mano is on their schedule as 9 am (EDT), not 10 am, and 1300+ UT is when I was hearing it. I hope next Saturday at 13-14+ UT some other DX listeners in adjacent states will check 1580 for Spanish; it`s somebody`s local or semi-local (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KXOK-LP 32 Enid was first noted off the air Aug 14, and continued missing Aug 15 --- have they reached the point of closing down analog for good? You never know with this erratic operation.
KXOK-LD is on 31 with 40 watts, CP for 3.7 kW, but with a little tropo, on 31 we get Univisi 1000 kW from Derby/Wichita, almost north, better than KXOK from a sesquimile away. It`s far too weak to block DX. UT Aug 15 at 0400 I rotated the antenna to see if KXOK-LD was still operational. Yes, but antenna positioning is very touchy, and still get best signal from off the direct path! --- more toward N Enid. Unless station has really an unauthorized second site for the DTV antenna, this must be an anomaly of propagation. Perhaps the best signal with least multipath is reflecting off some struxure, altho there doesn`t appear to be anything except some trees possibly in the way direct.
At 0400 UT, KXOK-LD 31 was running RTV`s Off Beat Cinema. Altho it was hard for me to keep a decode on direct antenna, it was OK to the local cable headend which is only a couple blox away from the listed transmitter site, and has an outside receiving antenna aimed right at the 40 watts.
Suddenlink, which converted to digital last month, is still sending basic channels only down the line in analog, 2-22 with some blanx, but higher ones have been deleted, except ch C70, which is EWTN, for some strange reason, and the home-shoppers on 98 and 99, which are really in the FM band. This includes KXOK on C15 analog, as well as C15 digital. I found these were running about one word apart, DTV behind analog, but both were seven seconds behind my direct DTV on 31. Apparently cable systems are required to keep basic channels only available in analog. This includes all the off-air OKC stations.
With KXOK off 32, that leaves us with NO analog TV signals into the antenna. When tuning for analog TVDX we can no longer punch 32 to be sure the antenna is properly connected. Next best is ch 36 Univisión LP in OKC, but in dead conditions it`s hard to tell it`s there (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Another Sunday without El Hugazo, SOB! Aug 15 at 1635 checking scheduled Cuban relay frequencies 12010, 13750, 17750, zilch, no ``Aló, Presidente`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
Nothing found 8-16 MHz 1315-1343 --- except:
14970, a regular FD frequency, instead had continuous Chinese talk at 1335. Was it really Sound of Hope? Of course not! // 11990, 11805, 11785, so CNR1 jammer is running instead. No trace of another station on 14970. Recheck 1359, still talk, without the usual CNR1 produxion hype, probably subdued due to National Day of Mourning; 4-pip timesignal and off at 1400* sharp, and still no trace of even a carrier from SOH; still off at final check 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS, Aug 14 at 1338 heard regular news announcer, not live coverage of President`s Independence Day speech, as presumably on most/all AIR domestic SW outlets. Poor reception, usual hum, and hard to follow on 9690, but barely audible 9870 not // and nothing on 9425, let alone tropical bands at this hour. At 1353 heard some military band, commands yelled, commentary from studio; 1355 speech by OM [?] in reverby locale, alternating with YL studio commentary, so is this now live coverage? Or does AIR GOS repackage due to scheduling restraints. Ron Howard says the Hindi version aired on 9425 and tropical channels at 1330, English version from 1353. And he refers us to http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp140810-2.html
for text of her full speech (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, had resumed open carrier, Sunday Aug 15 at 1344 UT; underneath no Spanish but two gospel huxters mixing in English. BTW, when modulating later on Aug 14, KOKB mentioned its studios in downtown Stillwater, so both it and KOKP 1020 Perry are merely relays of 105.1 KOSB. Also, a small correxion to my Aug 14 report: ESPN Deportes show Mano a Mano is on their schedule as 9 am (EDT), not 10 am, and 1300+ UT is when I was hearing it. I hope next Saturday at 13-14+ UT some other DX listeners in adjacent states will check 1580 for Spanish; it`s somebody`s local or semi-local (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KXOK-LP 32 Enid was first noted off the air Aug 14, and continued missing Aug 15 --- have they reached the point of closing down analog for good? You never know with this erratic operation.
KXOK-LD is on 31 with 40 watts, CP for 3.7 kW, but with a little tropo, on 31 we get Univisi 1000 kW from Derby/Wichita, almost north, better than KXOK from a sesquimile away. It`s far too weak to block DX. UT Aug 15 at 0400 I rotated the antenna to see if KXOK-LD was still operational. Yes, but antenna positioning is very touchy, and still get best signal from off the direct path! --- more toward N Enid. Unless station has really an unauthorized second site for the DTV antenna, this must be an anomaly of propagation. Perhaps the best signal with least multipath is reflecting off some struxure, altho there doesn`t appear to be anything except some trees possibly in the way direct.
At 0400 UT, KXOK-LD 31 was running RTV`s Off Beat Cinema. Altho it was hard for me to keep a decode on direct antenna, it was OK to the local cable headend which is only a couple blox away from the listed transmitter site, and has an outside receiving antenna aimed right at the 40 watts.
Suddenlink, which converted to digital last month, is still sending basic channels only down the line in analog, 2-22 with some blanx, but higher ones have been deleted, except ch C70, which is EWTN, for some strange reason, and the home-shoppers on 98 and 99, which are really in the FM band. This includes KXOK on C15 analog, as well as C15 digital. I found these were running about one word apart, DTV behind analog, but both were seven seconds behind my direct DTV on 31. Apparently cable systems are required to keep basic channels only available in analog. This includes all the off-air OKC stations.
With KXOK off 32, that leaves us with NO analog TV signals into the antenna. When tuning for analog TVDX we can no longer punch 32 to be sure the antenna is properly connected. Next best is ch 36 Univisión LP in OKC, but in dead conditions it`s hard to tell it`s there (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Another Sunday without El Hugazo, SOB! Aug 15 at 1635 checking scheduled Cuban relay frequencies 12010, 13750, 17750, zilch, no ``Aló, Presidente`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
