** BONAIRE. 6250.0, NHK Spanish reading reception reports complete with SINPOs as if the worldwide audience should care about those, UT Sunday Oct 24 at 0526 // 6080 Bonaire relay which leaps over RNW Dutch on 6165 to land on 6250, and as usual cut off at 0527* before Spanish show is finished, since the 6165 fulcrum goes off then. Thence, nothing on 6250, as Equatorial Guinea is rarely on this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13921.6 is the approximate center of the RHC spur today, Oct 24 at 1313, up about 1 kHz from yesterday, much weaker than the leapfrog on 13880.
It`s Sunday, so RHC flips to El Hugazo mode, whether or not he is going to show up later. Instead of 13680, the Sunday-only frequency 13750 is up already at 1403, going from open carrier to // 13780, 17750, 12010 with RHC`s own programming. Next check 1544, still all // with no Aló, Presidente yet, 17750, 15380, 13750, 12010, 11760, 11730, and probably two or three others but not 13680 or 11690.
Next check at 1654, all those still // with RHC mailbag replay, but now there is an open carrier, presumably Cuban, on 11690 vs RTTY.
Final check at 1716, now 11690 is RHC modulating too // all the others, discussing Oriente province; 12010 now has severe ACI from Greenville English 12015, and 17750 is colliding with WYFR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad barely audible Oct 24 at 0605 when I can recognize a few notes of the national anthem. This is the tentative target date for reactivating main transmitter on 4052.5 with new antenna, but of course it could slide if there are more unforeseen problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. Unlike 24 hours earlier, nothing on 7245 Oct 24 at 0603, nor at 0607 when I QRT; nothing on 4845 either. Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal also monitored Oct 23 and found 7245 on the air from 1803 till he quit at 2337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. As I am hunting for Spanish sunrise skip from Mexico on MW, without much luck in poor conditions Oct 24 at 1226 UT, on 930 I hear English! WKY is just ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine``, I think it was called, immediately back to La Indomable ID and Spanish programming. Is there anything about this, let alone a plain old program schedule at their website http://www.laindomable.com/default.asp --- of course not! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT again on correct frequency instead of 7225, Oct 24 at 0523 check, Arabic music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on WWCR-3 webcast from 0230, presumably also 4840, UT Sunday Oct 24 at 0250.
Sunday Oct 24 at 1542 check, WORLD OF RADIO 1535, insufficiently audible on 9955 WRMI, but occasional fade-ups slightly vs fast SAH of some 10 Hz, and ``Amazing Grace`` instrumental co-channel, i.e. Family Radio in Russian via Tainan, TAIWAN; no jamming audible, at least.
The Oct 20 WRMI schedule at
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0
shows the next airings are Tue 1530, 2230, UT Wed 0030, 1530, and a new time of UT Thursday 0330, altho I aim to have new editions up and ready by 1530 Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 24 at 1243 I can detect a weak signal apparently from KDWN night pattern with null, as hearing the same voices after day pattern without null cuts on much stronger at 1244:40, Heidi Harris discussing Harry Reid with Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston --- once again illegally on day pattern one hour too early. If FCC fined them for every such infraxion, what would it add up to? Dream on. Not audible after 1300.
770, standby by for KKOB Albuquerque NM cut to non-direxional day-pattern at 1315 UT Oct 24, but no show. By 1318 a weak signal is fading in with SAH vs Texas. Perhaps the KKOB signal happened to be in a fade at 1315, but I am not sure they always hit the button right on time.
1040, not getting much from Mexico on MW, so have to settle for Spanish from elsewhere --- Oct 24 at 1250 sermon with musical background, a bit overmodulated, looping NW/SE so probably Colorado. Then promo for some fin-de-semana program at 9 am on Radio Vida, 10-40; 1300 Spanish gospel music across hourtop, 1303 finally legal ID in English as KCBR, Monument-Colorado Springs. Was making SAH of about 1 Hz with mostly-nullable WHO.
Searching for website I try first http:/www.kcbr.org but that goes to Kittitas County Barrel Racers, and they assume everyone knows what that is and where that is, so I locate it in central Washington State; but I digress; seems to involve horses.
The real website of KCBR is http://www.1040kcbr.com/ which shows it`s religion in English M-F, but Vida 1040, all day Saturday and Sunday.
1090, at 1231 Oct 24, KEXS Excelsior Springs MO, daytimer sign-on message, 8000 watts, owned and operated by Catholic Radio Network; immediately into citing John IV.
1360, at 1306 Oct 24, open carrier; then I hear a couple dings, so I figure it`s one of those Catholic masses better suited to TV, with long boring pauses on radio. Then when something is spoken, there is an echo, and furthermore it`s // to 11550 WEWN but slightly more out of sync. Therefore these are my two closest 1360s, which can also be heard in parts of NW OK on full-day groundwave echoing against each other, both carrying EWTN Radio --- KDJW Amarillo TX, and KAHS El Dorado KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 24 at 1236-1239 upward in USB mode on DX-398: only very weakies detectable on 585, 594, 828, not 747 or 774. At 1239-1241 downward in LSB: none. Local sunrise today 1247 UT, getting 1 minute later every morning. K-index at 1200 UT was 3, down from 4 previously, suppressing hi-latitude paths; SW also very below par this morning from 120 to 16m, and 13m dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1200, Oct 24 at 1225 UT, handbells with hymn, seems unlikely for WOAI, and loops more E/W than N/S. Perhaps WAMB Nashville TN, 50 kW daytimer already on the air. Sundays are risky for matching format listings, as a lot of non-religious stations divert to such stuff on the alleged holyday of mainstream Christians. NRC AM Log says WAMB`s is Nostalgia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6935.0-SSB, Oct 24 at 0525 hard rock music overdriving modulation, S9+15, still at 0533; 0541 computerized vocalization one note at a time, not quite so dense, punxuated by ``Oh, yeahs``. Was hard to tune with no carrier, but music sounded about right when zero-beat on 5935 WWCR 1.000 MHz down. Cut off in mid-music at 0549:40*. Never heard any announcements from this pirate, but maybe someone else got it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA. 13921.6 is the approximate center of the RHC spur today, Oct 24 at 1313, up about 1 kHz from yesterday, much weaker than the leapfrog on 13880.
It`s Sunday, so RHC flips to El Hugazo mode, whether or not he is going to show up later. Instead of 13680, the Sunday-only frequency 13750 is up already at 1403, going from open carrier to // 13780, 17750, 12010 with RHC`s own programming. Next check 1544, still all // with no Aló, Presidente yet, 17750, 15380, 13750, 12010, 11760, 11730, and probably two or three others but not 13680 or 11690.
Next check at 1654, all those still // with RHC mailbag replay, but now there is an open carrier, presumably Cuban, on 11690 vs RTTY.
Final check at 1716, now 11690 is RHC modulating too // all the others, discussing Oriente province; 12010 now has severe ACI from Greenville English 12015, and 17750 is colliding with WYFR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad barely audible Oct 24 at 0605 when I can recognize a few notes of the national anthem. This is the tentative target date for reactivating main transmitter on 4052.5 with new antenna, but of course it could slide if there are more unforeseen problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. Unlike 24 hours earlier, nothing on 7245 Oct 24 at 0603, nor at 0607 when I QRT; nothing on 4845 either. Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal also monitored Oct 23 and found 7245 on the air from 1803 till he quit at 2337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. As I am hunting for Spanish sunrise skip from Mexico on MW, without much luck in poor conditions Oct 24 at 1226 UT, on 930 I hear English! WKY is just ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine``, I think it was called, immediately back to La Indomable ID and Spanish programming. Is there anything about this, let alone a plain old program schedule at their website http://www.laindomable.com/default.asp --- of course not! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT again on correct frequency instead of 7225, Oct 24 at 0523 check, Arabic music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on WWCR-3 webcast from 0230, presumably also 4840, UT Sunday Oct 24 at 0250.
Sunday Oct 24 at 1542 check, WORLD OF RADIO 1535, insufficiently audible on 9955 WRMI, but occasional fade-ups slightly vs fast SAH of some 10 Hz, and ``Amazing Grace`` instrumental co-channel, i.e. Family Radio in Russian via Tainan, TAIWAN; no jamming audible, at least.
The Oct 20 WRMI schedule at
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0
shows the next airings are Tue 1530, 2230, UT Wed 0030, 1530, and a new time of UT Thursday 0330, altho I aim to have new editions up and ready by 1530 Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 24 at 1243 I can detect a weak signal apparently from KDWN night pattern with null, as hearing the same voices after day pattern without null cuts on much stronger at 1244:40, Heidi Harris discussing Harry Reid with Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston --- once again illegally on day pattern one hour too early. If FCC fined them for every such infraxion, what would it add up to? Dream on. Not audible after 1300.
770, standby by for KKOB Albuquerque NM cut to non-direxional day-pattern at 1315 UT Oct 24, but no show. By 1318 a weak signal is fading in with SAH vs Texas. Perhaps the KKOB signal happened to be in a fade at 1315, but I am not sure they always hit the button right on time.
1040, not getting much from Mexico on MW, so have to settle for Spanish from elsewhere --- Oct 24 at 1250 sermon with musical background, a bit overmodulated, looping NW/SE so probably Colorado. Then promo for some fin-de-semana program at 9 am on Radio Vida, 10-40; 1300 Spanish gospel music across hourtop, 1303 finally legal ID in English as KCBR, Monument-Colorado Springs. Was making SAH of about 1 Hz with mostly-nullable WHO.
Searching for website I try first http:/www.kcbr.org but that goes to Kittitas County Barrel Racers, and they assume everyone knows what that is and where that is, so I locate it in central Washington State; but I digress; seems to involve horses.
The real website of KCBR is http://www.1040kcbr.com/ which shows it`s religion in English M-F, but Vida 1040, all day Saturday and Sunday.
1090, at 1231 Oct 24, KEXS Excelsior Springs MO, daytimer sign-on message, 8000 watts, owned and operated by Catholic Radio Network; immediately into citing John IV.
1360, at 1306 Oct 24, open carrier; then I hear a couple dings, so I figure it`s one of those Catholic masses better suited to TV, with long boring pauses on radio. Then when something is spoken, there is an echo, and furthermore it`s // to 11550 WEWN but slightly more out of sync. Therefore these are my two closest 1360s, which can also be heard in parts of NW OK on full-day groundwave echoing against each other, both carrying EWTN Radio --- KDJW Amarillo TX, and KAHS El Dorado KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 24 at 1236-1239 upward in USB mode on DX-398: only very weakies detectable on 585, 594, 828, not 747 or 774. At 1239-1241 downward in LSB: none. Local sunrise today 1247 UT, getting 1 minute later every morning. K-index at 1200 UT was 3, down from 4 previously, suppressing hi-latitude paths; SW also very below par this morning from 120 to 16m, and 13m dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1200, Oct 24 at 1225 UT, handbells with hymn, seems unlikely for WOAI, and loops more E/W than N/S. Perhaps WAMB Nashville TN, 50 kW daytimer already on the air. Sundays are risky for matching format listings, as a lot of non-religious stations divert to such stuff on the alleged holyday of mainstream Christians. NRC AM Log says WAMB`s is Nostalgia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6935.0-SSB, Oct 24 at 0525 hard rock music overdriving modulation, S9+15, still at 0533; 0541 computerized vocalization one note at a time, not quite so dense, punxuated by ``Oh, yeahs``. Was hard to tune with no carrier, but music sounded about right when zero-beat on 5935 WWCR 1.000 MHz down. Cut off in mid-music at 0549:40*. Never heard any announcements from this pirate, but maybe someone else got it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
