** ANGUILLA. 6090, DGS/PMS/TUN/CB still off the air another night, Sept 3 at 0613 check; and likewise day frequency 11775 at 1223.
11775, back on the air Sept 4 at 1326 with PMS, but seems weaker than before; perhaps only able to resume at reduced power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Fri Sept 3 at 1228 fair with music, ranging S3-S9, stronger than hetted 15480. Never heard anything but pop, romantic music at further chex 1230, 1249, 1304, 1328. RNASG could be doing so much more to promote and disseminate Antarctican culture (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 3:
8400, poor at 1217; no other found
Firedrake Sept 4:
8400, good at 1316
10500, very poor at 1323
11500, very poor at 1336, slightly weaker than // 10500
16100, good at 1333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13580, Sept 4 at 1452, continuous 1-kHz tone test, poor signal. Fortunately, RHC 13680 was off, so no leapfrog on 13580 mixing with 13780 still on, as heard earlier on other side 13880; 1459 to open carrier; then timesignal ending early at 1459:32! And R. Cairo opening presumed Albanian as scheduled; heard Qahira, kHz mentioned. This is 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zabaal, consequently also USward just a bit beyond Albania. Modulation seemed sufficient in this unusual case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.9, VOI, Sept 3 at 1316, Focus segment on monitoring emissions of gh gases (with a long A). VG signal unlike yesterday, but with hum, and split-second audio dropouts every few sex. It`s always something. Also again hearing lite het from nothing scheduled on 9525.0.
9525.9, VOI, Sept 4 at 1312 still suffering frequent audio drop-outs more annoying during music than talk; Today in History mainly about ex-colonial mistress Queen Wilhelmina and her long reign. Again am hearing slight het from something unknown on 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. Hmong World Christian Radio missing from WHRI 11785 during its previously scheduled Sat 1300-1330 transmission; just hearing // 11805 etc., CNR1 jammer against VOA Chinese via Thailand during this hour (not Tinang as in Aoki).
Indeed this has disappeared from WHR online program skeds; WHRI-6 on 11785 at 1300-1330 Saturday now shows Lester Sumrall Teachings, but when it`s only unpaid WHR filler they don`t bother to turn on the SW transmitters.
Searching on Hmong, one gets only this via Angel 3, 9930, i.e. T8BZ Palau:
2200-2230 6:00-6:30 PM Fr,Sa,Su Hmong World Ministries Gia Tou Lee
That presumably means local Sat, Sun, Mon mornings in target area; goodbye, Hminnesota (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI with coverage of the quake around Christchurch (whose name seems not to have been a deterrent), Sept 4 at 0533, interviews with people and officials in the area. I expect a lot of regular programming got preëmpted, and fortunately Rangitaiki is unmarred on the North Island. By 1339 check of fair 6170, however, it was back to music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa has been on most of the time but signal seems weaker than before, such as Sept 2 around 2030 UT; sometimes hard to tell on caradio. But Sept 3 at 1952 check it was definitely missing, no carrier or modulation.
1580, KOKB, Blackwell, continues to lose modulation for large amounts of airtime, but carrier stays on. Noted that way sometime on Sept 2, but at 1950 UT on Sept 3 (over)modulated sports talk was back. Back to OC Sept 4 morning, reaudiblizing the no longer unID Spanish sportstalk: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Brother Scare during Sabbath service after amateur Hammond(?) organ performance, circa 1350 UT Sept 4 asking if anyone is hearing 9980, please phone report! Shows how little BS still knows about SW: of course we are hearing this super-signal from WWCR; in fact, we have to attenuate the entire 31m band to avoid hearing crosstalk from BS underneath Indonesia or anything else! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17585, VOA Greenville, worth listening to only on weekends when instead of Music Mix, to deprive African targetees of hearing anything off-topic about Asia, they bring real talk programming: On the Line, axually a TV soundtrack, Saturdays at 1405-1427. Sept 4 tune-in 1410 about the IPCC and whether its head should be removed. Never explained what IPCC stands for after initial reference I missed. Video/audio autolaunches from
http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/tv/64969652.html
where you have to right-click on the image even to find a pause control, as I was listening to Beethoven`s Ninth from BBC Proms!
IPCC = the UN`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
1427-1429 USG editorial about Al-Shabaab not observing Ramadan, tsk2, by attacking Aug 24 in Somalia. Axually, both Shia and Sunni are exempt from Ramadan if they are in jihad --- look it up. This must be the one: text, and audio does not auto-launch:
http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Violence-During-Ramadan-102029918.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13680, in absence of RHC which supposedly stays here until 1500, altho 13780 was still on, Sept 4 at 1452 was hearing CNR1 jammer, presumably against Sound of Hope as in Aoki only until 1300, and also trouncing R. Liberty Russian via Rampisham, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC off the air for a second day, Sept 3 at 1220 check. Back on Sept 4 at 1317, overconfident preacher somewhat undermodulated but not very distorted; and still off frequency a bit to the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9479, WTWW airing, what else? PPPP, ``Rawhide`` tune with new anti-government lyrix, like ``tax the hair off their hide``. Ha, ha. Axually we need MORE taxes to get out of the mess we are in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1580, Saturday Sept 4 at 1324, incompetent KOKB Blackwell OK once again wasting watts with open carrier, audiblizing the formerly mysterious Spanish sports talk I had been hearing almost every Saturday (only) for months, mentioning deportes. Tnx to Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa, who was able to hear it last Saturday by nulling his local on 1570, and by his Googling, we now know it`s coming from KHGG Fort Smith AR (city of license Van Buren):
http://www.bridgingthegapconsultinginc.com/Release.pdf
[LA ZONA DEPORTIVA logo]
For Immediate Release Contact: Leo Cruz 479-466-2211
Bridging the Gap Consulting, Inc. a marketing and advertising company
focusing in assisting businesses in reaching the ever-growing Hispanic market is proud to announce the launch of the all-Spanish local sports
website: http://www.lazonadeportiva.com
This is dedicated to the local sporting news and events that feature
Latino athletes. La Zona Deportiva will be supported by three Spanish
radio stations that are in Northwest Arkansas, Ft Smith River Valley
and Central Arkansas. We will have highlights, latest news and a
community photo gallery featuring our young Latino youths in sports.
Coming in April every Saturday from 8am to 10am [13-15 UT], La Zona Deportiva will launch an all-Spanish live sports talk show on the following Spanish radio stations: La Pantera 1440 AM in central Arkansas, ESPN Deportes 1580 AM in Ft Smith and the River Valley and Las Más Mexicana 1140 AM in Northwest Arkansas.
## Bridging The Gap Consulting, Inc.
http://www.bridgingthegapconsultinginc.com
Following their denial of such Spanish sports, previously had virtually ruled out KGAF Gainesville TX, which is almost exactly the same distance from here as KHGG, another prime suspect --- but never found anything about KHGG switching to a bit of Spanish Saturday mornings only, on their own website.
1580 gets short shrift compared to the other four stations in the Fort Smith Radio group`s website http://www.sportshog1031.com/ --- still can`t find anything about the Spanish diversion, let alone a program schedule for 1580 in particular.
So there are two other AR frequencies doing it too.
1140, KLTK Centerton (studio Rogers), 5 kW daytime
1440, KTUV Little Rock, 5 kW
Both of which are already full Spanish, per NRC AM Log 2010-2011.
So I no longer need to chase the 1580 Spanish as unID. Since the press release refers to 1580 as `ESPN Deportes 1580`, I wonder if there are other Spanish hours under different sponsorship; whenever else I have heard KHGG, has still been in English sports talk, or gospel huxter Sunday morning, not CNN Headline News 24h as in NRC AM log.
Coördinates in FCC AM Query indicate it is definitely on the AR side of the border, 1 kW non-direxional, but of course no longer any Tiger Maps; Radio-locator shows it:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KHGG&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, chanting at 0614 UT Friday Sept 3; fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15679, Sept 4 at 1406, intermittent 2-way Spanish SSB, het something on 15680, listed R. Farda via Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
11775, back on the air Sept 4 at 1326 with PMS, but seems weaker than before; perhaps only able to resume at reduced power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Fri Sept 3 at 1228 fair with music, ranging S3-S9, stronger than hetted 15480. Never heard anything but pop, romantic music at further chex 1230, 1249, 1304, 1328. RNASG could be doing so much more to promote and disseminate Antarctican culture (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 3:
8400, poor at 1217; no other found
Firedrake Sept 4:
8400, good at 1316
10500, very poor at 1323
11500, very poor at 1336, slightly weaker than // 10500
16100, good at 1333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13580, Sept 4 at 1452, continuous 1-kHz tone test, poor signal. Fortunately, RHC 13680 was off, so no leapfrog on 13580 mixing with 13780 still on, as heard earlier on other side 13880; 1459 to open carrier; then timesignal ending early at 1459:32! And R. Cairo opening presumed Albanian as scheduled; heard Qahira, kHz mentioned. This is 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zabaal, consequently also USward just a bit beyond Albania. Modulation seemed sufficient in this unusual case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.9, VOI, Sept 3 at 1316, Focus segment on monitoring emissions of gh gases (with a long A). VG signal unlike yesterday, but with hum, and split-second audio dropouts every few sex. It`s always something. Also again hearing lite het from nothing scheduled on 9525.0.
9525.9, VOI, Sept 4 at 1312 still suffering frequent audio drop-outs more annoying during music than talk; Today in History mainly about ex-colonial mistress Queen Wilhelmina and her long reign. Again am hearing slight het from something unknown on 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. Hmong World Christian Radio missing from WHRI 11785 during its previously scheduled Sat 1300-1330 transmission; just hearing // 11805 etc., CNR1 jammer against VOA Chinese via Thailand during this hour (not Tinang as in Aoki).
Indeed this has disappeared from WHR online program skeds; WHRI-6 on 11785 at 1300-1330 Saturday now shows Lester Sumrall Teachings, but when it`s only unpaid WHR filler they don`t bother to turn on the SW transmitters.
Searching on Hmong, one gets only this via Angel 3, 9930, i.e. T8BZ Palau:
2200-2230 6:00-6:30 PM Fr,Sa,Su Hmong World Ministries Gia Tou Lee
That presumably means local Sat, Sun, Mon mornings in target area; goodbye, Hminnesota (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI with coverage of the quake around Christchurch (whose name seems not to have been a deterrent), Sept 4 at 0533, interviews with people and officials in the area. I expect a lot of regular programming got preëmpted, and fortunately Rangitaiki is unmarred on the North Island. By 1339 check of fair 6170, however, it was back to music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa has been on most of the time but signal seems weaker than before, such as Sept 2 around 2030 UT; sometimes hard to tell on caradio. But Sept 3 at 1952 check it was definitely missing, no carrier or modulation.
1580, KOKB, Blackwell, continues to lose modulation for large amounts of airtime, but carrier stays on. Noted that way sometime on Sept 2, but at 1950 UT on Sept 3 (over)modulated sports talk was back. Back to OC Sept 4 morning, reaudiblizing the no longer unID Spanish sportstalk: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Brother Scare during Sabbath service after amateur Hammond(?) organ performance, circa 1350 UT Sept 4 asking if anyone is hearing 9980, please phone report! Shows how little BS still knows about SW: of course we are hearing this super-signal from WWCR; in fact, we have to attenuate the entire 31m band to avoid hearing crosstalk from BS underneath Indonesia or anything else! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17585, VOA Greenville, worth listening to only on weekends when instead of Music Mix, to deprive African targetees of hearing anything off-topic about Asia, they bring real talk programming: On the Line, axually a TV soundtrack, Saturdays at 1405-1427. Sept 4 tune-in 1410 about the IPCC and whether its head should be removed. Never explained what IPCC stands for after initial reference I missed. Video/audio autolaunches from
http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/tv/64969652.html
where you have to right-click on the image even to find a pause control, as I was listening to Beethoven`s Ninth from BBC Proms!
IPCC = the UN`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
1427-1429 USG editorial about Al-Shabaab not observing Ramadan, tsk2, by attacking Aug 24 in Somalia. Axually, both Shia and Sunni are exempt from Ramadan if they are in jihad --- look it up. This must be the one: text, and audio does not auto-launch:
http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Violence-During-Ramadan-102029918.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13680, in absence of RHC which supposedly stays here until 1500, altho 13780 was still on, Sept 4 at 1452 was hearing CNR1 jammer, presumably against Sound of Hope as in Aoki only until 1300, and also trouncing R. Liberty Russian via Rampisham, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC off the air for a second day, Sept 3 at 1220 check. Back on Sept 4 at 1317, overconfident preacher somewhat undermodulated but not very distorted; and still off frequency a bit to the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9479, WTWW airing, what else? PPPP, ``Rawhide`` tune with new anti-government lyrix, like ``tax the hair off their hide``. Ha, ha. Axually we need MORE taxes to get out of the mess we are in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1580, Saturday Sept 4 at 1324, incompetent KOKB Blackwell OK once again wasting watts with open carrier, audiblizing the formerly mysterious Spanish sports talk I had been hearing almost every Saturday (only) for months, mentioning deportes. Tnx to Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa, who was able to hear it last Saturday by nulling his local on 1570, and by his Googling, we now know it`s coming from KHGG Fort Smith AR (city of license Van Buren):
http://www.bridgingthegapconsultinginc.com/Release.pdf
[LA ZONA DEPORTIVA logo]
For Immediate Release Contact: Leo Cruz 479-466-2211
Bridging the Gap Consulting, Inc. a marketing and advertising company
focusing in assisting businesses in reaching the ever-growing Hispanic market is proud to announce the launch of the all-Spanish local sports
website: http://www.lazonadeportiva.com
This is dedicated to the local sporting news and events that feature
Latino athletes. La Zona Deportiva will be supported by three Spanish
radio stations that are in Northwest Arkansas, Ft Smith River Valley
and Central Arkansas. We will have highlights, latest news and a
community photo gallery featuring our young Latino youths in sports.
Coming in April every Saturday from 8am to 10am [13-15 UT], La Zona Deportiva will launch an all-Spanish live sports talk show on the following Spanish radio stations: La Pantera 1440 AM in central Arkansas, ESPN Deportes 1580 AM in Ft Smith and the River Valley and Las Más Mexicana 1140 AM in Northwest Arkansas.
## Bridging The Gap Consulting, Inc.
http://www.bridgingthegapconsultinginc.com
Following their denial of such Spanish sports, previously had virtually ruled out KGAF Gainesville TX, which is almost exactly the same distance from here as KHGG, another prime suspect --- but never found anything about KHGG switching to a bit of Spanish Saturday mornings only, on their own website.
1580 gets short shrift compared to the other four stations in the Fort Smith Radio group`s website http://www.sportshog1031.com/ --- still can`t find anything about the Spanish diversion, let alone a program schedule for 1580 in particular.
So there are two other AR frequencies doing it too.
1140, KLTK Centerton (studio Rogers), 5 kW daytime
1440, KTUV Little Rock, 5 kW
Both of which are already full Spanish, per NRC AM Log 2010-2011.
So I no longer need to chase the 1580 Spanish as unID. Since the press release refers to 1580 as `ESPN Deportes 1580`, I wonder if there are other Spanish hours under different sponsorship; whenever else I have heard KHGG, has still been in English sports talk, or gospel huxter Sunday morning, not CNN Headline News 24h as in NRC AM log.
Coördinates in FCC AM Query indicate it is definitely on the AR side of the border, 1 kW non-direxional, but of course no longer any Tiger Maps; Radio-locator shows it:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KHGG&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, chanting at 0614 UT Friday Sept 3; fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15679, Sept 4 at 1406, intermittent 2-way Spanish SSB, het something on 15680, listed R. Farda via Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
