** AUSTRIA. 15440, Aug 11 at 1411, S Asian music featuring soprano and tabla briefly peaks, then fades out. Scheduled is AWR in Urdu at 1400-1430, due east from Moosbrunn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 11: 8400, very poor with heavy flutter, at 1251. No others found up to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad was reported from Germany Aug 5 at 0023 on 4052, indicating they have finally got the SW transmitter fixed. However, details were sparse and am awaiting any confirmation. On Aug 10 I did not get around to checking 4052.5 until 0557, but nothing there. Nominal schedule is until 0605*.
As of Aug 9 there was nothing on their website http://www.radioverdad.org
or their blog
http://www.radioverdadguatemala.blogspot.com/
about this; I forwarded the report to Dr. Madrid, but no reply from him yet. So we need to keep looking for it earlier in the evening, and also from *1100 Mon-Sat. Nope, nothing there at 0310 Aug 11 either (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Aug 11 at 1334 with Let`s Learn Bahasa Indonesia until 1339 Music Corner starting with child singing off-key (on-key in Indonesian terms?). Language lessons are showing up more lately. Trouble is, even with VG reception, I have trouble understanding the English, let alone the Indonesian. She just pronounces various words in Indonesian, then translates. Not user-friendly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Another open carrier from an OK station: 1490, KMFS Guthrie, the normally heard groundwave signal here in daytime. I was in the car and failed to make notes, so IIRC, the time was 2106 UT Aug 9, but suddenly cut on preacher in progress at 2110. This is the one owned by Jimmy Swaggart, but did not sound like the crybaby at the moment, rather an ilkmate. O well, 4 minutes is better than nothing.
1120, KEOR Sperry-Tulsa also featured OC when checked Aug 10 at 2053; earlier in the hour soul music as usual (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9625, Aug 11 at 1300, CBC NQ with CBC News, fast SAH and CCI from ``Jesus Saves`` IS of FEBC, 1301 latter into hymn in unknown language, listed Hmong in EiBi; enough to ruin CBC reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, KSOK, Arkansas City KS, semilocal missing in caradio bandscan Aug 10 at 2040 UT, audiblizing a weak C&W music station which it ordinarily totally covers. Unfortunately the storm noise level was high and growing; 2059 announcement could not copy any ID, but 2100 back to C&W instead of news; 2105 another announcement and more music. Checking the NRC AM Log 2009, the next closest stations on 1280 are:
KNBY Newport AR, and KDKD Clinton MO, but neither format matches, talk and oldies respectively. Much further and not likely to make it by GW at all is a C&W station, KCNI in Broken Bow NE --- all 1 kW non-direxional. Then there`s 5 kW in Denver KBNO, but it`s Spanish and highly direxional away. Perhaps something closer will click with updated format info. KSOK back on air at next check Aug 11 at 1638.
630, Aug 10 at 2050, tnx to IBOC off WWLS-640 for a change, could make out weak signal here, but again too much storm noise. Prime suspect is KHOW Denver, which is closest and with a lobe in our direxion; plus Denver 670 is audible any day, noise level permitting (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, just like 24 hours earlier, Aug 11 at 0556 open carrier, with 8-at-a-time utebeep ACI on low side, but this time LV de la RASD did not get around to signing on promptly, still OC at 0604 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 11: 8400, very poor with heavy flutter, at 1251. No others found up to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad was reported from Germany Aug 5 at 0023 on 4052, indicating they have finally got the SW transmitter fixed. However, details were sparse and am awaiting any confirmation. On Aug 10 I did not get around to checking 4052.5 until 0557, but nothing there. Nominal schedule is until 0605*.
As of Aug 9 there was nothing on their website http://www.radioverdad.org
or their blog
http://www.radioverdadguatemala.blogspot.com/
about this; I forwarded the report to Dr. Madrid, but no reply from him yet. So we need to keep looking for it earlier in the evening, and also from *1100 Mon-Sat. Nope, nothing there at 0310 Aug 11 either (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Aug 11 at 1334 with Let`s Learn Bahasa Indonesia until 1339 Music Corner starting with child singing off-key (on-key in Indonesian terms?). Language lessons are showing up more lately. Trouble is, even with VG reception, I have trouble understanding the English, let alone the Indonesian. She just pronounces various words in Indonesian, then translates. Not user-friendly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Another open carrier from an OK station: 1490, KMFS Guthrie, the normally heard groundwave signal here in daytime. I was in the car and failed to make notes, so IIRC, the time was 2106 UT Aug 9, but suddenly cut on preacher in progress at 2110. This is the one owned by Jimmy Swaggart, but did not sound like the crybaby at the moment, rather an ilkmate. O well, 4 minutes is better than nothing.
1120, KEOR Sperry-Tulsa also featured OC when checked Aug 10 at 2053; earlier in the hour soul music as usual (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9625, Aug 11 at 1300, CBC NQ with CBC News, fast SAH and CCI from ``Jesus Saves`` IS of FEBC, 1301 latter into hymn in unknown language, listed Hmong in EiBi; enough to ruin CBC reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, KSOK, Arkansas City KS, semilocal missing in caradio bandscan Aug 10 at 2040 UT, audiblizing a weak C&W music station which it ordinarily totally covers. Unfortunately the storm noise level was high and growing; 2059 announcement could not copy any ID, but 2100 back to C&W instead of news; 2105 another announcement and more music. Checking the NRC AM Log 2009, the next closest stations on 1280 are:
KNBY Newport AR, and KDKD Clinton MO, but neither format matches, talk and oldies respectively. Much further and not likely to make it by GW at all is a C&W station, KCNI in Broken Bow NE --- all 1 kW non-direxional. Then there`s 5 kW in Denver KBNO, but it`s Spanish and highly direxional away. Perhaps something closer will click with updated format info. KSOK back on air at next check Aug 11 at 1638.
630, Aug 10 at 2050, tnx to IBOC off WWLS-640 for a change, could make out weak signal here, but again too much storm noise. Prime suspect is KHOW Denver, which is closest and with a lobe in our direxion; plus Denver 670 is audible any day, noise level permitting (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, just like 24 hours earlier, Aug 11 at 0556 open carrier, with 8-at-a-time utebeep ACI on low side, but this time LV de la RASD did not get around to signing on promptly, still OC at 0604 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
