** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 carrier detectable at 1253 Oct 13, but no UK on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 13: none found 8-19 MHz at 1248-1255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomaly check Oct 13 at 0611: English on 6150-undermodulated, 6060, 6010 and 5970; Spanish on 6120 and 5040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.00, Oct 13 at 1132, R. Verdad, very weak talk, music and carrier matches Nikkei 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HONDURAS. 3250, while concentrating on WPJK 3160 [see USA], quick check for HRPC, and there it is, Oct 13 at 1140, OM preacher in English with consecutive translation by YL in Spanish, a staple of this station; some ute beeps on hi side. Gone a few minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 13 at 1256, Indonesian talk, fair at S9+15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 855, re previous TP bandscans finding a carrier here, presumably off-frequency NK: Oct 13 around 1210 I am not getting any TPs but this weak carrier is showing steadily, and can`t make a null on it. It`s on the hi side of 855, but at 1245 on the lo side.
I must conclude it`s of local origin, perhaps even a DX-398 birdie. I see that DXers in the Pacific Northeast reporting lots of Japanese and other East Asians don`t often include 855 NK, despite being listed in WRTH as 500 kW, in external sexion only, as Pyongyang Pangsong, Sangwon site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Sunrise MW DX Oct 13: trouble is, too many stations in too brief a window, so definite IDs are sparse. On DX-398 inside, AC power, built-in ferrite antenna only:
580, at 1226 Mexican music on guitar plus combo from the west, dominating WIBW which is easily nulled. XEFI Chihuahua, Chihuahua most likely, R. Mexicana.
640, Spanish at 1222 easily in null of WWLS OK before day signal; KFI underneath. One of two Chihua2 stations, more likely XEJUA Juárez.
650, at 1234, several news items concerning Sinaloa, starting with a road to Chihuahua. Stingers between every item; 6:35 timecheck en el ``noticiero número uno de Sinaloa en Doble-U Radio, Radio 65``. Definitely XETNT, Los Mochis.
770, at 1232 from WSW, Spanish atop KKOB (Santa Fe?) which 5 minutes earlier was atop with Albuquerque traffic report. Talk about women`s duties vs men`s. 1238 discussion still going on among several people in studio. Based on direxion, the only fit is XEREV, Los Mochis, Sinaloa (and 650 there was also in), but this would be a departure from Los 40 Principales (top 40 format). Certainly worth further pursuit. No, there is no SS US station on 770.
850, Spanish music at 1228 from WSW in null of KOA, most likely XEM Chihuahua.
870, at 1229 YL announcements in Spanish, just about alone on frequency, presumed XETAR, Chihuahua. This one held up a bit longer than the others.
900, at 1230, DJ with phoner, repeatedly uses expression ``que dice``, probably XEDT, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua as before. Maybe meant, ``what do you say?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575: Mark Taylor in WI reported an unID at 2332-2359 Oct 9, in Portuguese with Brasilian music, blocked by Medi 1 from 2359; nothing listed.
I started to check this out Oct 11 at 2315, found only a weak carrier, no Portuguese detectable, but didn`t get back to it later that hour.
So try again Oct 12, at 2345: there is romantic music playing, I think at the moment with English lyrix; 2347 announcement but I am not convinced it is Portuguese. Check RDPI just in case: not // 9715. Talk modulation is somewhat muffled, over music at 2355; some bother from DentroCuban Jamming Command 9565 pulsebleed. But nothing compared to the two adjacent carriers on from *2359, CRI via ALBANIA on 9570, and RRI via Tiganeshti on 9580, both about to start English.
At 0000 Oct 13, 9575 resumes talking for a while, perhaps news, but now way too much ACI to copy it. However, as far as I could tell, it was the same station on 9575 before and after 0000, so I think on this date at least, it was just Radio Médi-1, Morocco, which after all is supposedly running 24 hours on this frequency per Aoki and WRTH. No Brazilians are listed on 9575 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3160, checking out yesterday`s MW harmonic unID, tuning in much earlier Oct 13: nothing there around 1128. Should have stayed on frequency as apparently signed on at 1130. Next check 1136 there is a surprisingly fair signal, S9+20 with soul/gospel music, segué to another at 1139. WWRB 3185 runs S9+25+ by comparison. At 1142, DJ break, southern black accent with timecheck for 7:42 so it`s in the EDT zone, mentions date, Wednesday, October 13, so must be live!
Show is called Gospel Train; ad for something with one-dollar items, phone 803-526-something. Area code 803 means South Carolina. I had not dreamt it could be that far away. 1148 another ad for same, a restaurant with $1 breakfasts; weather forecast, 63 degrees; 1149 YL canned PSA about children in poverty (for whom the dollar breakfasts should be a draw).
1151 into another gospel song. By 1155 it is weakening a bit to S9+15, barely above noise level, still at 1200 but becoming JBA. 1201 a W- ID but could not copy call, 8:00 TC in Gospel Train, and heard a couple of monotone whistles. 1202 bothered briefly by `running water` ute QRM. More music.
That should be plenty to ID it, so looked up in the 2010-2011 NRC AM Log, on 1580, finding WPJK, Orangeburg SC, which has urban contemporary/gospel format. There is another SC on 1580, but it`s Spanish religious. WPJK is a daytimer, sunrise-sunset, 1 kW non-direxional.
However, the 526 exchange in the 803 AC is in York SC, in the NE, far from Orangeburg but also far from WDAB Travelers Rest in the NW, which various sources maintain is Spanish. Maybe I misunderstood the phone number; sure wish I had got the name of that $1-breakfast-restaurant. Might be worth a trip there. Or it could just be McDonalds, which has had such a promotion, but they don`t want phone calls, do they?
FCC AM Query says WPJK has a `plan` to operate also at night with 15 watts. And it`s licensed to an administratrix: ERMMA BARTON GOWDY.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=6447
Radio Locator lists an address for her in Augusta GA.
I`ll bet 1130 UT is the official local WPJK sunrise for October. Yes:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/srsstime?dlat=33&mlat=28&slat=43.00&dlon=80&mlon=52&slon=46.00&tzone=A
November will be 1200, December 1215, January 1230, February 1215 UT.
So Brother Scare has some company on 90m from a real South Carolina SW station. Orangeburg is about halfway between Columbia and Walterboro off I-26. Distance from Enid is 1580 km or 982 statute miles.
If anyone else hear it, please do NOT seek a QSL or contact WPJK about this, as that could lead to elimination of this harmless harmonic and its DXability (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 13 at 1239, fair signal in English alone on frequency, Heidi Harris talk show with phone ending in -KDWN, political discussion; seems she is against ``Obama-care``.
Her show is weekdays at 5-9 am PDT per
http://www.kdwn.com/index.php?page=106
i.e. 12-16 UT, winters 13-17 UT. Heidi and a Snake! ---
http://www.kdwn.com/multimedia/images_dj/djAlbum__ed4aebf263.jpg
KDWN also features the ilk of Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller and Michael Savage. I think I`ll pass. Unless they wear pythons, which I would encourage them to try.
Nevada is not exactly easy to MWDX here, altho have heard KDWN before.
50 kW should be on night pattern, just barely sunrise here, well before Las Vegas sunrise, deep null 75 degrees toward Chicago, which also means only slightly less null toward Enid in cardioid pattern:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1347186-109908.pdf
I wonder why these FCC `electric field strength pattern plots` always show an almost current date (10 Oct 2010 in this case) as if they are constantly subject to change?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 9660, Oct 13 at 1304, S Asian vocal music, heavy flutter; 1305 announcement seems Hindi. Yes, it`s CVC at 11-14, 100 kW, 153 degrees from Tashkent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM back to this frequency Oct 13 at 0609 check, going from chant to YL announcement, plus usual ute beeps aside (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8840-SSB, Oct 13 at 1222, 2-way conversation between two guys with exaggerated (but not to them) southern-hick accents, discussing generators, clearance for one`s belly. One a lot stronger than the other, using ``comeback`` instead of ``over`` as no doubt escapees from CB. Klingenfuss lists this as an AMS frequency (aeronautical mobile service) but I would have guessed marine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 13: none found 8-19 MHz at 1248-1255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomaly check Oct 13 at 0611: English on 6150-undermodulated, 6060, 6010 and 5970; Spanish on 6120 and 5040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.00, Oct 13 at 1132, R. Verdad, very weak talk, music and carrier matches Nikkei 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HONDURAS. 3250, while concentrating on WPJK 3160 [see USA], quick check for HRPC, and there it is, Oct 13 at 1140, OM preacher in English with consecutive translation by YL in Spanish, a staple of this station; some ute beeps on hi side. Gone a few minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 13 at 1256, Indonesian talk, fair at S9+15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 855, re previous TP bandscans finding a carrier here, presumably off-frequency NK: Oct 13 around 1210 I am not getting any TPs but this weak carrier is showing steadily, and can`t make a null on it. It`s on the hi side of 855, but at 1245 on the lo side.
I must conclude it`s of local origin, perhaps even a DX-398 birdie. I see that DXers in the Pacific Northeast reporting lots of Japanese and other East Asians don`t often include 855 NK, despite being listed in WRTH as 500 kW, in external sexion only, as Pyongyang Pangsong, Sangwon site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Sunrise MW DX Oct 13: trouble is, too many stations in too brief a window, so definite IDs are sparse. On DX-398 inside, AC power, built-in ferrite antenna only:
580, at 1226 Mexican music on guitar plus combo from the west, dominating WIBW which is easily nulled. XEFI Chihuahua, Chihuahua most likely, R. Mexicana.
640, Spanish at 1222 easily in null of WWLS OK before day signal; KFI underneath. One of two Chihua2 stations, more likely XEJUA Juárez.
650, at 1234, several news items concerning Sinaloa, starting with a road to Chihuahua. Stingers between every item; 6:35 timecheck en el ``noticiero número uno de Sinaloa en Doble-U Radio, Radio 65``. Definitely XETNT, Los Mochis.
770, at 1232 from WSW, Spanish atop KKOB (Santa Fe?) which 5 minutes earlier was atop with Albuquerque traffic report. Talk about women`s duties vs men`s. 1238 discussion still going on among several people in studio. Based on direxion, the only fit is XEREV, Los Mochis, Sinaloa (and 650 there was also in), but this would be a departure from Los 40 Principales (top 40 format). Certainly worth further pursuit. No, there is no SS US station on 770.
850, Spanish music at 1228 from WSW in null of KOA, most likely XEM Chihuahua.
870, at 1229 YL announcements in Spanish, just about alone on frequency, presumed XETAR, Chihuahua. This one held up a bit longer than the others.
900, at 1230, DJ with phoner, repeatedly uses expression ``que dice``, probably XEDT, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua as before. Maybe meant, ``what do you say?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575: Mark Taylor in WI reported an unID at 2332-2359 Oct 9, in Portuguese with Brasilian music, blocked by Medi 1 from 2359; nothing listed.
I started to check this out Oct 11 at 2315, found only a weak carrier, no Portuguese detectable, but didn`t get back to it later that hour.
So try again Oct 12, at 2345: there is romantic music playing, I think at the moment with English lyrix; 2347 announcement but I am not convinced it is Portuguese. Check RDPI just in case: not // 9715. Talk modulation is somewhat muffled, over music at 2355; some bother from DentroCuban Jamming Command 9565 pulsebleed. But nothing compared to the two adjacent carriers on from *2359, CRI via ALBANIA on 9570, and RRI via Tiganeshti on 9580, both about to start English.
At 0000 Oct 13, 9575 resumes talking for a while, perhaps news, but now way too much ACI to copy it. However, as far as I could tell, it was the same station on 9575 before and after 0000, so I think on this date at least, it was just Radio Médi-1, Morocco, which after all is supposedly running 24 hours on this frequency per Aoki and WRTH. No Brazilians are listed on 9575 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3160, checking out yesterday`s MW harmonic unID, tuning in much earlier Oct 13: nothing there around 1128. Should have stayed on frequency as apparently signed on at 1130. Next check 1136 there is a surprisingly fair signal, S9+20 with soul/gospel music, segué to another at 1139. WWRB 3185 runs S9+25+ by comparison. At 1142, DJ break, southern black accent with timecheck for 7:42 so it`s in the EDT zone, mentions date, Wednesday, October 13, so must be live!
Show is called Gospel Train; ad for something with one-dollar items, phone 803-526-something. Area code 803 means South Carolina. I had not dreamt it could be that far away. 1148 another ad for same, a restaurant with $1 breakfasts; weather forecast, 63 degrees; 1149 YL canned PSA about children in poverty (for whom the dollar breakfasts should be a draw).
1151 into another gospel song. By 1155 it is weakening a bit to S9+15, barely above noise level, still at 1200 but becoming JBA. 1201 a W- ID but could not copy call, 8:00 TC in Gospel Train, and heard a couple of monotone whistles. 1202 bothered briefly by `running water` ute QRM. More music.
That should be plenty to ID it, so looked up in the 2010-2011 NRC AM Log, on 1580, finding WPJK, Orangeburg SC, which has urban contemporary/gospel format. There is another SC on 1580, but it`s Spanish religious. WPJK is a daytimer, sunrise-sunset, 1 kW non-direxional.
However, the 526 exchange in the 803 AC is in York SC, in the NE, far from Orangeburg but also far from WDAB Travelers Rest in the NW, which various sources maintain is Spanish. Maybe I misunderstood the phone number; sure wish I had got the name of that $1-breakfast-restaurant. Might be worth a trip there. Or it could just be McDonalds, which has had such a promotion, but they don`t want phone calls, do they?
FCC AM Query says WPJK has a `plan` to operate also at night with 15 watts. And it`s licensed to an administratrix: ERMMA BARTON GOWDY.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=6447
Radio Locator lists an address for her in Augusta GA.
I`ll bet 1130 UT is the official local WPJK sunrise for October. Yes:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/srsstime?dlat=33&mlat=28&slat=43.00&dlon=80&mlon=52&slon=46.00&tzone=A
November will be 1200, December 1215, January 1230, February 1215 UT.
So Brother Scare has some company on 90m from a real South Carolina SW station. Orangeburg is about halfway between Columbia and Walterboro off I-26. Distance from Enid is 1580 km or 982 statute miles.
If anyone else hear it, please do NOT seek a QSL or contact WPJK about this, as that could lead to elimination of this harmless harmonic and its DXability (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 13 at 1239, fair signal in English alone on frequency, Heidi Harris talk show with phone ending in -KDWN, political discussion; seems she is against ``Obama-care``.
Her show is weekdays at 5-9 am PDT per
http://www.kdwn.com/index.php?page=106
i.e. 12-16 UT, winters 13-17 UT. Heidi and a Snake! ---
http://www.kdwn.com/multimedia/images_dj/djAlbum__ed4aebf263.jpg
KDWN also features the ilk of Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller and Michael Savage. I think I`ll pass. Unless they wear pythons, which I would encourage them to try.
Nevada is not exactly easy to MWDX here, altho have heard KDWN before.
50 kW should be on night pattern, just barely sunrise here, well before Las Vegas sunrise, deep null 75 degrees toward Chicago, which also means only slightly less null toward Enid in cardioid pattern:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1347186-109908.pdf
I wonder why these FCC `electric field strength pattern plots` always show an almost current date (10 Oct 2010 in this case) as if they are constantly subject to change?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 9660, Oct 13 at 1304, S Asian vocal music, heavy flutter; 1305 announcement seems Hindi. Yes, it`s CVC at 11-14, 100 kW, 153 degrees from Tashkent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM back to this frequency Oct 13 at 0609 check, going from chant to YL announcement, plus usual ute beeps aside (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8840-SSB, Oct 13 at 1222, 2-way conversation between two guys with exaggerated (but not to them) southern-hick accents, discussing generators, clearance for one`s belly. One a lot stronger than the other, using ``comeback`` instead of ``over`` as no doubt escapees from CB. Klingenfuss lists this as an AMS frequency (aeronautical mobile service) but I would have guessed marine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
