** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, unlike yesterday, detectable with carrier Oct 12 at 1326, slightly stronger than UK 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE. Now its own radio country as far as ARRL is concerned, but what would NASWA say? Hardly matters, since the only SWBC stations in the ex- ``Netherlands Antilles`` have always been on Bonaire. (Or was there something from Curacao before my time?)
6250, leapfrog mixing product over 6165 Dutch, Oct 12 at 0526-0527* Japanese song toward end of NHK Spanish service from 6080, quite readable on spur. Neither Equatorial Guinea nor Western Sahara [non] on this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 12: none found 18-8 MHz between 1245 and 1253. E Asian conditions were very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055-, R. Verdad still audible with music Oct 12 at 1158-1202+, very slightly on lo side compared to Nikkei 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 12 at 1209 barely audible, but had built up a bit after sunrise at 1239, Indonesian talk, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, Oct 12 at 1300, VG VOI English has het from 9525.0 until its 1301* and there is nothing to account for it in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi. VOI opening Exotic Indonesia hookup with RRI Banjarmasin as usual on Tuesdays, starting with Dina in Banjarmasin, where it is hot, 29 to 32 degrees; and very hot too in Jakarta where the YL anchor again imagines she is on three SW frequencies.
1302 starting news from alternating studios by other announcers. Top story: MOU with Syria about investment and business coöperation between these two Islamic-dominated countries. (MOU: Memorandum of Understanding, an initialism hardly used in US media; and what do MOUs really amount to?) IADs continue, seemingly a bit more frequent from Kalimantan studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search, Oct 12 at 1229-1233 UT, a few minutes before local sunrise: Only detected on 747, 774, 828, 855-, 882, 1044, 1098, 1116.
The one on 855 really stix out, markedly different pitch on BFO at 9-kHz steps. Surely KCBS North Korea, altho the MW offset lists at
http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=
and
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
show:
855.055 KRE KCBS Pyongyang Pangsong (Sangwon) [855.0454-] 2100-2030 2009-01-10
I.e. as of 22 months ago. But I have been reporting it on the low side of 855 instead. Must recheck that. Chuck Hutton in WA reported Sept 19, 2010 to IRCA: ``Absolutely positively and definitely. North Korea 855 has been high forever and stays around 855.045.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX check, Oct 12:
830, at 1226 UT, newscast from the southwest, interview with government official about exporting camarones to US, 6:27 timecheck, local news mentioning Culiacán, next story about thieves stealing copper cables. So this is XEVQ there in Sinaloa, rather than the only other likely, XEDR in Guaymas, Sonora, where it`s 5:27.
870, at 1233, 6:33 timecheck by same YL I have been hearing, presumably XETAR, Guachochi, Chihuahua; then government PSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7350, Oct 12 at 0543, tone test, no doubt from R. Nigeria, Abuja prior to sign-on. Much weaker than DentroCuban jamming overrun pulsing on 7365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, WQCL720, TIS at Great Salt Plains State Park, Oct 11 at 2055 UT relaying NWS originating in Norman via WXL48, 162.475 MHz, Enid (really Drummond site). This was at one particular mobile location in western Enid, and no noise on the frequency; yet a few minutes earlier at an adjacent store, I was hearing only noise. And a sesquihour earlier at another spot, 1928 UT, 1610 had a mixture of some talk and noise carrier making a 42/minute SAH = 0.7 Hz. So the noise source is either intermittent or quite localized, but separate from WQCL720, rather than coming from it (I think). Could be a stray talking house transmitter.
Meanwhile, 1670, the prime talking house frequency in Enid, tnx to realtor Greg Winkeljohn, is coming thru more clearly with message from one particular house as I drive around western Enid, the one at 1317 Cansler, e.g. at 1929 and 2056 UT Oct 11. Perhaps he has turned off at least one of the others putting out all the hash on 1670. See original detailed report in DXLD 10-26 from late June; 1317 Cansler still hasn`t sold (or forgot to turn off that TH; the same transmitter could even have been moved somewhere else with outdated message radiating, as happened with another of his units.) 1670 TH also audible on home rig at 1321 Oct 12 until a local noise source hits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Oct 12 at 1209 YL in English(?), SSOB besides WWRB, which is not saying much, better than 3325 Palangkaraya for a change. I.e. R. East New Britain, Rabaul, gone at next check 1239, presumably having cut off as usual around 1227 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, Oct 12 at 0517, bit of English voiced-over into Arabish, S9+12, weaker than neighbor Australia 13630. 13620 is R. Dabanga, via Madagascar at 0430-0527, ex-13600 per DX Mix News, Bulgaria, and // 13730 via UAE, which was inaudible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9600, Oct 12 at 0520 in Hausa, which would be VOA via São Tomé, but with large SAH of about 7 Hz. Most likely Bulgaria warming up carrier for its German to follow at 0530.
9760 and 7575, VOA International Edition, Oct 12 at 1254 with report from Seoul correspondent about North Korea jamming GPS systems (from trux to a groundwave radius), so beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. After having heard KKOB Albuquerque (or Santa Fe?), 770, the day before at 1229 UT while night pattern prevailed, I wanted to see what would happen at official sunrise there 1315: Oct 12 monitoring from 1312 not much, but a couple sex before 1315, KKOB does pop on, altho only poor signal with local announcements, guest attendance at the [Balloon] Fiesta was up by 40,000 this year.
Meanwhile there was a SAH of approximately 220 per minute = three and two-thirds Hz with weak groundwave dominator KAAM Garland (The Metroplex) TX. At 1323 KKOB had axually improved a little by comparison. By the end of October, with latening sunrises, the 1315 pattern switch should be more helpful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. When stormy weather upped signals from Wichita DTV Oct 10 at 2350 UT, inbringing RF 45, 35 and 19, I looked for the Wichita LP DTV, KGPT-CA, 5.4 kW running Retro TV net on 49 like local KXOK-31 that Dave Pomeroy had pointed out, and was getting a too-weak signal indication from that direxion, but it will take even more intensity to decode it.
We later got some hail which I`m afraid affected my new antenna as some semi-local signals have become weaker, and break up, altho there is no damage visible from the ground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3663, Oct 12 at 1206, WA5BLQ calling CQ 80, VG signal, on AM. I think this is the non-SSB guy I often hear hanging out here; immediately got a reply from WW5K on AM, and the two discussed rainfall amounts. Per ARRL lookup:
THOMAS, LUTHER L, WA5BLQ, HCR 62 BOX 288A, OZONE, AR 72854
COLLIER SR, BRUCE H, WW5K, 1069 PATRICK RD, NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Others keep reporting SASASAM on alternate frequency 6248+, but I keep missing it. Oct 11 at 2313 I do detect a poor signal talking on 6248.24 approximately, using the 40-Hz steps with BFO on the DX-398, but margin of error could put it .1 kHz higher as colleagues have measured more accurately. And nothing on 6297.1. Next check at 0015 Oct 12, still poor and can`t tell if it is Arabish, or as usually reported in final semihour, Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3160, Oct 12 at 1211, some music, S9+15 but not enough vs local noise level; 1213 DJ and ad break, could only copy 53 degree temp mentioned twice in English, 1217 back to music, 1218 fading more vs some ute bursts, 1222 I compare to 1160 and find 3160 is slightly on the hi side.
It`s been a long time since I have IDed any domestic DX on the 2-3 MHz MW second-harmonic band. This is likely 2 x something on 1580, altho could be 4 x 790. I was thinking I had a catch on 3160 years before, but none found in partial DXLD archive.
However, WTTN in Watertown WI was heard last year briefly on 4740 = 3 x 1580. Now all I need is an isotherm map for that moment showing everywhere it was 53 degrees and correlate it with 1580 stations! NWS says it was only 46 degrees, anyway, at Watertown.
3160 will be a hot target the next few mornings. Theoretically starting at 6 am in each zone is prime time for these, as higher day or PSRA powers often start while night conditions still prevail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4920, Oct 12 at 1240 weak talk is barely audible, slightly on hi side compared to something on MW 920. Could be AIR Chennai, grayline, or Lhasa, Tibet, now reactivated per Hiroshi & S. Hasegawa, Ron Howard, and Anker Petersen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** BONAIRE. Now its own radio country as far as ARRL is concerned, but what would NASWA say? Hardly matters, since the only SWBC stations in the ex- ``Netherlands Antilles`` have always been on Bonaire. (Or was there something from Curacao before my time?)
6250, leapfrog mixing product over 6165 Dutch, Oct 12 at 0526-0527* Japanese song toward end of NHK Spanish service from 6080, quite readable on spur. Neither Equatorial Guinea nor Western Sahara [non] on this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 12: none found 18-8 MHz between 1245 and 1253. E Asian conditions were very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055-, R. Verdad still audible with music Oct 12 at 1158-1202+, very slightly on lo side compared to Nikkei 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 12 at 1209 barely audible, but had built up a bit after sunrise at 1239, Indonesian talk, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, Oct 12 at 1300, VG VOI English has het from 9525.0 until its 1301* and there is nothing to account for it in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi. VOI opening Exotic Indonesia hookup with RRI Banjarmasin as usual on Tuesdays, starting with Dina in Banjarmasin, where it is hot, 29 to 32 degrees; and very hot too in Jakarta where the YL anchor again imagines she is on three SW frequencies.
1302 starting news from alternating studios by other announcers. Top story: MOU with Syria about investment and business coöperation between these two Islamic-dominated countries. (MOU: Memorandum of Understanding, an initialism hardly used in US media; and what do MOUs really amount to?) IADs continue, seemingly a bit more frequent from Kalimantan studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search, Oct 12 at 1229-1233 UT, a few minutes before local sunrise: Only detected on 747, 774, 828, 855-, 882, 1044, 1098, 1116.
The one on 855 really stix out, markedly different pitch on BFO at 9-kHz steps. Surely KCBS North Korea, altho the MW offset lists at
http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=
and
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
show:
855.055 KRE KCBS Pyongyang Pangsong (Sangwon) [855.0454-] 2100-2030 2009-01-10
I.e. as of 22 months ago. But I have been reporting it on the low side of 855 instead. Must recheck that. Chuck Hutton in WA reported Sept 19, 2010 to IRCA: ``Absolutely positively and definitely. North Korea 855 has been high forever and stays around 855.045.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX check, Oct 12:
830, at 1226 UT, newscast from the southwest, interview with government official about exporting camarones to US, 6:27 timecheck, local news mentioning Culiacán, next story about thieves stealing copper cables. So this is XEVQ there in Sinaloa, rather than the only other likely, XEDR in Guaymas, Sonora, where it`s 5:27.
870, at 1233, 6:33 timecheck by same YL I have been hearing, presumably XETAR, Guachochi, Chihuahua; then government PSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7350, Oct 12 at 0543, tone test, no doubt from R. Nigeria, Abuja prior to sign-on. Much weaker than DentroCuban jamming overrun pulsing on 7365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, WQCL720, TIS at Great Salt Plains State Park, Oct 11 at 2055 UT relaying NWS originating in Norman via WXL48, 162.475 MHz, Enid (really Drummond site). This was at one particular mobile location in western Enid, and no noise on the frequency; yet a few minutes earlier at an adjacent store, I was hearing only noise. And a sesquihour earlier at another spot, 1928 UT, 1610 had a mixture of some talk and noise carrier making a 42/minute SAH = 0.7 Hz. So the noise source is either intermittent or quite localized, but separate from WQCL720, rather than coming from it (I think). Could be a stray talking house transmitter.
Meanwhile, 1670, the prime talking house frequency in Enid, tnx to realtor Greg Winkeljohn, is coming thru more clearly with message from one particular house as I drive around western Enid, the one at 1317 Cansler, e.g. at 1929 and 2056 UT Oct 11. Perhaps he has turned off at least one of the others putting out all the hash on 1670. See original detailed report in DXLD 10-26 from late June; 1317 Cansler still hasn`t sold (or forgot to turn off that TH; the same transmitter could even have been moved somewhere else with outdated message radiating, as happened with another of his units.) 1670 TH also audible on home rig at 1321 Oct 12 until a local noise source hits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Oct 12 at 1209 YL in English(?), SSOB besides WWRB, which is not saying much, better than 3325 Palangkaraya for a change. I.e. R. East New Britain, Rabaul, gone at next check 1239, presumably having cut off as usual around 1227 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, Oct 12 at 0517, bit of English voiced-over into Arabish, S9+12, weaker than neighbor Australia 13630. 13620 is R. Dabanga, via Madagascar at 0430-0527, ex-13600 per DX Mix News, Bulgaria, and // 13730 via UAE, which was inaudible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9600, Oct 12 at 0520 in Hausa, which would be VOA via São Tomé, but with large SAH of about 7 Hz. Most likely Bulgaria warming up carrier for its German to follow at 0530.
9760 and 7575, VOA International Edition, Oct 12 at 1254 with report from Seoul correspondent about North Korea jamming GPS systems (from trux to a groundwave radius), so beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. After having heard KKOB Albuquerque (or Santa Fe?), 770, the day before at 1229 UT while night pattern prevailed, I wanted to see what would happen at official sunrise there 1315: Oct 12 monitoring from 1312 not much, but a couple sex before 1315, KKOB does pop on, altho only poor signal with local announcements, guest attendance at the [Balloon] Fiesta was up by 40,000 this year.
Meanwhile there was a SAH of approximately 220 per minute = three and two-thirds Hz with weak groundwave dominator KAAM Garland (The Metroplex) TX. At 1323 KKOB had axually improved a little by comparison. By the end of October, with latening sunrises, the 1315 pattern switch should be more helpful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. When stormy weather upped signals from Wichita DTV Oct 10 at 2350 UT, inbringing RF 45, 35 and 19, I looked for the Wichita LP DTV, KGPT-CA, 5.4 kW running Retro TV net on 49 like local KXOK-31 that Dave Pomeroy had pointed out, and was getting a too-weak signal indication from that direxion, but it will take even more intensity to decode it.
We later got some hail which I`m afraid affected my new antenna as some semi-local signals have become weaker, and break up, altho there is no damage visible from the ground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3663, Oct 12 at 1206, WA5BLQ calling CQ 80, VG signal, on AM. I think this is the non-SSB guy I often hear hanging out here; immediately got a reply from WW5K on AM, and the two discussed rainfall amounts. Per ARRL lookup:
THOMAS, LUTHER L, WA5BLQ, HCR 62 BOX 288A, OZONE, AR 72854
COLLIER SR, BRUCE H, WW5K, 1069 PATRICK RD, NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Others keep reporting SASASAM on alternate frequency 6248+, but I keep missing it. Oct 11 at 2313 I do detect a poor signal talking on 6248.24 approximately, using the 40-Hz steps with BFO on the DX-398, but margin of error could put it .1 kHz higher as colleagues have measured more accurately. And nothing on 6297.1. Next check at 0015 Oct 12, still poor and can`t tell if it is Arabish, or as usually reported in final semihour, Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3160, Oct 12 at 1211, some music, S9+15 but not enough vs local noise level; 1213 DJ and ad break, could only copy 53 degree temp mentioned twice in English, 1217 back to music, 1218 fading more vs some ute bursts, 1222 I compare to 1160 and find 3160 is slightly on the hi side.
It`s been a long time since I have IDed any domestic DX on the 2-3 MHz MW second-harmonic band. This is likely 2 x something on 1580, altho could be 4 x 790. I was thinking I had a catch on 3160 years before, but none found in partial DXLD archive.
However, WTTN in Watertown WI was heard last year briefly on 4740 = 3 x 1580. Now all I need is an isotherm map for that moment showing everywhere it was 53 degrees and correlate it with 1580 stations! NWS says it was only 46 degrees, anyway, at Watertown.
3160 will be a hot target the next few mornings. Theoretically starting at 6 am in each zone is prime time for these, as higher day or PSRA powers often start while night conditions still prevail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4920, Oct 12 at 1240 weak talk is barely audible, slightly on hi side compared to something on MW 920. Could be AIR Chennai, grayline, or Lhasa, Tibet, now reactivated per Hiroshi & S. Hasegawa, Ron Howard, and Anker Petersen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
