** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 carrier just barely detectable Oct 22 at 1348, weaker than UK on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190, straining to detect R. Inconfidência, at the daypart I originally heard it, after WYFR 0045* --- Oct 22 at 0050, there is a trace of a carrier, maybe this, maybe not. Nothing at all active on 19m from South America to compare it with! Cuba 15380 is poorly audible; SRDA extremely distorted spur from 11765 on 12175v is inbooming, plus the much weaker twin on 11355v; Argentina good on 11711v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 22:
10500, poor but definitely there with drumming segment, fluttery at 1340. No others found 8-18 MHz in the next few minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9965, surprised to find no jamming here at 1430 Oct 22, as I was checking out WOR on 9955. DCJC has been wall of noise on 9965 from *1358 for many weeks, against R. República as announced. This did not mean we could hear R.R. on 9965 at last; zilch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9425, AIR National Channel, Oct 22 at 1432 during brief news in English, something about Pakistan; flutter and too poor to follow, but much better than GOS on 9690; worse than VBS on 9870 with music; all from Bengaluru site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 21560, NHK World, Oct 22 at 1427 with classical guitar music fill, 1429 outro weekday program Focus to 1430*. Poor-to-fair, should be better in ENAm. What other choice do we have for English at 1400, since R. Japan cancelled Sackville for that? 21560 has been via FRANCE, but will be gone in B-10, as the complete English schedule extracted by Alan Roe for DXLD shows:
0500-0530 EU/AS/NAM 5975uk 6110sa 15205ta 17810
1000-1030 AS/OC 9605 9625 9840 11780ta
1200-1230 NAM/OC/AS/EU 6120sa 9625 9695 9790ge
1300-1330 AS 9875
1400-1430 AS 5955 9875
uk = UK, sa = Canada, ta = Uzbekistan, ge = Germany; otherwise direct
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7350, R. Nigeria, Abuja, back to near-inaudibility, Oct 22 at 0553 just a very poor carrier, no comparison e.g. to 7340 RFI 500 kW in French, 160 degrees from Issoudun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I have now located the photo of the wasp nest (not hornet; I misspoke), at the 1317 Cansler talking house on 1670 (which continues to be well heard over much of Enid):
http://www.w4uvh.net/1670th1317wasp.jpg
I have no reason to believe it is a disguised antenna exceeding Part 15 parameters. Even at night now, its QRM can be heard upon WTDY Madison WI (Glenn Hauser, UT Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I continue to get KUOK, Univisión for OKC on channel 48 from the northeast, unknown transmitter, generally stronger than when aimed directly at OKC for KWDW relaying the same.
Until recently, the other KUOK relay in OKC on channel 36, KCHM-CA, had always been stronger than KWDW-LP, but for the last several days I have not been getting 36 at all. It had been my most reliable analog TV signal left. I see in W9WI.com that KCHM at 12.53 kW has an APP for 30 kW from a slightly different site, and a CP for DC (digital) 7.33 kW from yet a third site, all on channel 36:
LIC: 12.53, 35-24-52, 97-30-32
APP: 30, 35-27-10, 97-27-41
CP : 7.33, 35-24-54, 97-30-36
So it may be off the air in process of installing DTV transmitter, or could already be on DTV but no longer receivable here without tropo help. Oct 22 at 1500 UT, I am not getting any signs even of a `bad` DTV signal on 36 from that direxion, but conditions are dead if not impaired while it`s raining. Unlike some other LPs or CAs, KCHM is not moving to another channel as DTV (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, Oct 22 at 1350, weak signal with David Miranda wailing fading up recognizably, and once again this third harmonic of R. Victoria, 6020.3, is definitely on the low side of 18058 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. RTT continues to alternate between 7275 and mistaken 7225 from one night to the next. Oct 22 at 0551 check with Arabic music, it`s back on 7275, and a few minutes later joined by // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on ACB Radio webcast, UT Friday Oct 22 after 0300, repeated 2-hourly to 2330; also on WWRB 3185 webcast at 0330, long dead air after me, as usual.
1430 Friday Oct 22, gh audible on 9955 WRMI, no jamming, fading in and out, weaker as usual than Taiwan transmitters on 9950 and 9960; also blasted by overload from WWCR 9980 BS.
Next SW airings of WOR are Friday 2030 on WWCR 15825; Saturday 0800, 1400, 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1600 on WWCR 12160; Saturday 0800 on IRRS 9515 (we hope, since it`s fourth Sat), and 1800 on IRRS 7290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 12155, Oct 22 at 1342, heavy flutter, instrumental Christian hymn, 1343 brief announcement unseems English, more music. Early A-10 schedules had Family Radio via Tajikistan, English to S Asia at 13-14. However, Eibi has YFR site as Almaty, Kazakhstan, language unknown. Perhaps they switched sites when ready to go with another language than English? Meanwhile, 12140, RFA Burmese via Tinian, was flutter-free (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, WWRB with open carrier at tunebies (tunebys?), Oct 22 around 1335, 1433, 1632, so was it unmodulated for 3+ hours by Brother Scare, or was I just lucky? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. To reconfirm that KDWN Las Vegas is illegally switching to non-direxional 50 kW day pattern one hour too early, I am waiting for it on 720 at 1243 UT Oct 22 --- no signals. KDWN pops on at 1244:39 amid Heidi Harris talking: she does not even greet all her new undeserved listeners to the east, mainly me. Soon over to traffic report, even tho it`s only 5:45 am PDT there.
October official sunset is 5:00 pm PST = 0100 UT. So is KDWN an hour fast then too, cutting to night pattern at 0000 UT? That would be hard to tell from here. In November, LV SR & SS are 6:15 am and 4:30 pm PST = 1415 and 0030 UT. During the first week of Nov when silly DST is still in effect, KDWN might still be an hour early in the mornings, i.e. 1315 UT to day pattern, but from Nov 7 back in step?? If they think all that matters is the local clock.
Still in at 1300 UT when ID claims she is ``Las Vegas`s only live local talk show host``. Period, without qualification as to time. Is this true? If so, poor Las Vegas, getting Harry Reid trashed and Sharron Angle built up. However, in news on the hour, K-Dawn had some clips of Reid denouncing Angle, from his appearance on MSNBC`s The Ed Show, yesterday originating from Henderson. Heidi has allegedly appeared on The Ed Show from time to time [22-23 UT M-F], but I don`t recall ever seeing her.
FCC entry for KDWN at
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=54686
shows they have a CP for some changes both day and night, but I haven`t tried to figure out what the point of them is. Can anyone? Parameters superficially look about the same, before and after.
Since I did not hear 770 KKOB Albuquerque NM yesterday when it normally cuts to non-direxional day pattern at 1315 UT, I am standing by for it Oct 22: and so it does appear today, amid discussion of magnifying hardware in elexion booths for tiny-print ballots. Even tho it is half a timezone east of Las Vegas, KKOB goes to day pattern a semihour later as it should (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 22 at 1230: very weak ones detectable on 648, 666, 747, 828, 882, 972, 1008, 1035, 1044, 1098, 1125, 1134; and at 1235 on 1566. I see the last one has been of particular interest to Pacific Northeast DXers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190, straining to detect R. Inconfidência, at the daypart I originally heard it, after WYFR 0045* --- Oct 22 at 0050, there is a trace of a carrier, maybe this, maybe not. Nothing at all active on 19m from South America to compare it with! Cuba 15380 is poorly audible; SRDA extremely distorted spur from 11765 on 12175v is inbooming, plus the much weaker twin on 11355v; Argentina good on 11711v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 22:
10500, poor but definitely there with drumming segment, fluttery at 1340. No others found 8-18 MHz in the next few minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9965, surprised to find no jamming here at 1430 Oct 22, as I was checking out WOR on 9955. DCJC has been wall of noise on 9965 from *1358 for many weeks, against R. República as announced. This did not mean we could hear R.R. on 9965 at last; zilch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9425, AIR National Channel, Oct 22 at 1432 during brief news in English, something about Pakistan; flutter and too poor to follow, but much better than GOS on 9690; worse than VBS on 9870 with music; all from Bengaluru site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 21560, NHK World, Oct 22 at 1427 with classical guitar music fill, 1429 outro weekday program Focus to 1430*. Poor-to-fair, should be better in ENAm. What other choice do we have for English at 1400, since R. Japan cancelled Sackville for that? 21560 has been via FRANCE, but will be gone in B-10, as the complete English schedule extracted by Alan Roe for DXLD shows:
0500-0530 EU/AS/NAM 5975uk 6110sa 15205ta 17810
1000-1030 AS/OC 9605 9625 9840 11780ta
1200-1230 NAM/OC/AS/EU 6120sa 9625 9695 9790ge
1300-1330 AS 9875
1400-1430 AS 5955 9875
uk = UK, sa = Canada, ta = Uzbekistan, ge = Germany; otherwise direct
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7350, R. Nigeria, Abuja, back to near-inaudibility, Oct 22 at 0553 just a very poor carrier, no comparison e.g. to 7340 RFI 500 kW in French, 160 degrees from Issoudun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I have now located the photo of the wasp nest (not hornet; I misspoke), at the 1317 Cansler talking house on 1670 (which continues to be well heard over much of Enid):
http://www.w4uvh.net/1670th1317wasp.jpg
I have no reason to believe it is a disguised antenna exceeding Part 15 parameters. Even at night now, its QRM can be heard upon WTDY Madison WI (Glenn Hauser, UT Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I continue to get KUOK, Univisión for OKC on channel 48 from the northeast, unknown transmitter, generally stronger than when aimed directly at OKC for KWDW relaying the same.
Until recently, the other KUOK relay in OKC on channel 36, KCHM-CA, had always been stronger than KWDW-LP, but for the last several days I have not been getting 36 at all. It had been my most reliable analog TV signal left. I see in W9WI.com that KCHM at 12.53 kW has an APP for 30 kW from a slightly different site, and a CP for DC (digital) 7.33 kW from yet a third site, all on channel 36:
LIC: 12.53, 35-24-52, 97-30-32
APP: 30, 35-27-10, 97-27-41
CP : 7.33, 35-24-54, 97-30-36
So it may be off the air in process of installing DTV transmitter, or could already be on DTV but no longer receivable here without tropo help. Oct 22 at 1500 UT, I am not getting any signs even of a `bad` DTV signal on 36 from that direxion, but conditions are dead if not impaired while it`s raining. Unlike some other LPs or CAs, KCHM is not moving to another channel as DTV (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, Oct 22 at 1350, weak signal with David Miranda wailing fading up recognizably, and once again this third harmonic of R. Victoria, 6020.3, is definitely on the low side of 18058 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. RTT continues to alternate between 7275 and mistaken 7225 from one night to the next. Oct 22 at 0551 check with Arabic music, it`s back on 7275, and a few minutes later joined by // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on ACB Radio webcast, UT Friday Oct 22 after 0300, repeated 2-hourly to 2330; also on WWRB 3185 webcast at 0330, long dead air after me, as usual.
1430 Friday Oct 22, gh audible on 9955 WRMI, no jamming, fading in and out, weaker as usual than Taiwan transmitters on 9950 and 9960; also blasted by overload from WWCR 9980 BS.
Next SW airings of WOR are Friday 2030 on WWCR 15825; Saturday 0800, 1400, 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1600 on WWCR 12160; Saturday 0800 on IRRS 9515 (we hope, since it`s fourth Sat), and 1800 on IRRS 7290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 12155, Oct 22 at 1342, heavy flutter, instrumental Christian hymn, 1343 brief announcement unseems English, more music. Early A-10 schedules had Family Radio via Tajikistan, English to S Asia at 13-14. However, Eibi has YFR site as Almaty, Kazakhstan, language unknown. Perhaps they switched sites when ready to go with another language than English? Meanwhile, 12140, RFA Burmese via Tinian, was flutter-free (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, WWRB with open carrier at tunebies (tunebys?), Oct 22 around 1335, 1433, 1632, so was it unmodulated for 3+ hours by Brother Scare, or was I just lucky? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. To reconfirm that KDWN Las Vegas is illegally switching to non-direxional 50 kW day pattern one hour too early, I am waiting for it on 720 at 1243 UT Oct 22 --- no signals. KDWN pops on at 1244:39 amid Heidi Harris talking: she does not even greet all her new undeserved listeners to the east, mainly me. Soon over to traffic report, even tho it`s only 5:45 am PDT there.
October official sunset is 5:00 pm PST = 0100 UT. So is KDWN an hour fast then too, cutting to night pattern at 0000 UT? That would be hard to tell from here. In November, LV SR & SS are 6:15 am and 4:30 pm PST = 1415 and 0030 UT. During the first week of Nov when silly DST is still in effect, KDWN might still be an hour early in the mornings, i.e. 1315 UT to day pattern, but from Nov 7 back in step?? If they think all that matters is the local clock.
Still in at 1300 UT when ID claims she is ``Las Vegas`s only live local talk show host``. Period, without qualification as to time. Is this true? If so, poor Las Vegas, getting Harry Reid trashed and Sharron Angle built up. However, in news on the hour, K-Dawn had some clips of Reid denouncing Angle, from his appearance on MSNBC`s The Ed Show, yesterday originating from Henderson. Heidi has allegedly appeared on The Ed Show from time to time [22-23 UT M-F], but I don`t recall ever seeing her.
FCC entry for KDWN at
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=54686
shows they have a CP for some changes both day and night, but I haven`t tried to figure out what the point of them is. Can anyone? Parameters superficially look about the same, before and after.
Since I did not hear 770 KKOB Albuquerque NM yesterday when it normally cuts to non-direxional day pattern at 1315 UT, I am standing by for it Oct 22: and so it does appear today, amid discussion of magnifying hardware in elexion booths for tiny-print ballots. Even tho it is half a timezone east of Las Vegas, KKOB goes to day pattern a semihour later as it should (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 22 at 1230: very weak ones detectable on 648, 666, 747, 828, 882, 972, 1008, 1035, 1044, 1098, 1125, 1134; and at 1235 on 1566. I see the last one has been of particular interest to Pacific Northeast DXers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
