** CUBA [and non]. 6190, the RHC leapfrog of 6000 over 6095, weakly audible again Jan 21 at 1228, but from 1230 underneath Korean making it a SAH. That would be NHK at 290 degrees from Yamata (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, N1NR who sounds like a clandestine broadcaster, saying in Spanish that as of March 1, 1.3 megaCubans will be ``on the streets``, losing their formerly state-provided jobs, and crime will likely increase (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Jan 21 at 1551, very poor with M preacher in English, no doubt R. Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad, Jan 21 at 0559 seems unSpanish; IDs, contact info in several languages, including, I think, Italian and Japanese. 0603 a bit of Hammond organ music, final announcement definitely in English, ``good night``, then national anthem until 0608, and carrier stays on a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Jan 21 at 1403, Shiokaze via JSR JAPAN is in English as usual on Fridays, YL with very brief headlines, almost all attributed to ``Daily NK``, interspersed with newsy sounders, but not quickly enough to keep up the pace. Somewhat undermodulated, along with only fair signal and her accent make them difficult to follow. 1407 better-audible OM says ``That ends the flash-news``, ID, then back to YL for longer more detailed items (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
** LIBYA. 21695, VOAf, Jan 21 at 1547 poor with English talk about --- Africa! SSOB, compared to JBA Spain on 21610, 21570. Also on 17725 at about equal level. Wolfgang Büschel was hearing Libya on 11800 Jan 20 in French until 1800, then Hausa, perhaps another test of their alternate sked like last July, so I was wondering whether English would still be on as usual at 14-16 on 21695, 17725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Jan 21 at 1317 UT music, ``aquí en Delicias``, so XEACB, Cd. Delicias, Chihuahua. Several of the other usual XE suspects were in on 650, 710, 730, 770, 870, 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925+AM, Jan 21 at 0612, novelty song; 0615 segué to ``Cotton-Eyed Joe`` with harmonica; 0618 outro as by Red Necks, ID as Pan Global Wireless, panglobal @ wbcq.us or P O Box 1101, Faribault MN, 5---- (should be 55021 or vicinity), offering QSL. SIO was 243, occasional ute QRM. 0619 back to music. Frequency slightly on hi side. 0622 weakening due to desensitization of the FRG-7 fed by 110` mostly E-W longwire, from extremely strong RTI Spanish via WYFR on 6875. Didn`t hear it long, but sure enjoyed ``Cotton-Eyed Joe`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, Jan 21 not checked until 1554, just in time to hear the bells, R. Blagovest ID in Russian concluding the 1500 broadcast via RVA, still on the air for third day in a row. In last report I omitted the frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 12005, Jan 21 at 1558, nice orchestral ME music past 1600, no timesignal, 1601 talk in Arabic, poor, but no doubt RTT, as scheduled 1600-2000 here and typically turned on a few minutes earlier.
Still no English on SW, but Mike Cooper hears some on satellite, also webcast, believed to be scheduled at 1900-1930 via http://rtci.fm/ but it`s mostly music after a few minutes of news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6940, Jan 21 at 0611, weak mix of two WWCR programs, 3 and 4, even when switched to full attenuation, from excessively strong signals on 4840 leaping over 5890 another 1050 kHz higher. A frequency pirates should therefore avoid 02-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7190.0, two hams on AM, KD8OJX, Sean in Dayton OH has stronger signal but lower fi than KX5JT, who worx nites as dispatcher for 75 tow trux, but this is his nite off. Contact concludes at 0631*. ARRL shows KD8OJX, Sean W. Darrah is really in Beavercreek OH, and KX5JT is John D. Tate in Maurice LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, inaudible 24 hours earlier, but Jan 21 at 0632, WINB is S9+22, discussion in echoey hall about conversion, one preacher saying 50-70% of his myriad congregation in an Hispanic area are ex-Roman Catholix.
WINB programming is changing from one day to the next. Are they all mixed up, or giving trial runs to potential clients?? Jan 20 we were surprised to find The Power Hower on 13570 as well as on WWCR 7490 and 13845, but Jan 21 not so:
At 1346 on 13570, some preacher, unseems Radio 2:11 style, but WBCQ 9330-CUSB inaudible and presumably not yet on for comparison. 1358 outro as Call to Worship, http://www.calltoworship.org and Michigan address. 1359 WINB ID, 1400 to another preacher. Not checked again until 1508 and now WINB is in Spanish! Not previously at this hour, Bible reading, also from YFR? At 1553, ``welcome to 66-40`` gospel huxter in English, mentions Psalms, so name derives from such a verse? No, this explains it, at http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/ ---
``66/40 with Chuck Missler, Getting Serious about the Bible
The great discovery is that the Bible is a message system: it's not simply 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, the Bible is an integrated whole which bears evidence of supernatural engineering in every detail!`` Yeah, right.
Meanwhile I keep checking 9330 for WBCQ. Still nothing at 1513, but at 1555 it is on running 10 sex behind WINB 13570, so both must now be Radio 2:11 from Good Friends Radio Network. I suppose some of the foregoing could also have been under GFRN aegis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, Jan 21 at 1244, WTJC playing military music medley including Anchors Aweigh, Marine Hymn, Off We Go; undermodulated. Have heard them do this before, apparently a regular patriotic feature (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, KJES not heard much lately, but audible Jan 21 at 1602 with a few Spanish kids singing with guitar accompaniment, steady S9+18 but undermodulated, no QRM. 1604 to adult M in Spanish apparently citing some 10 Commandments, including about ox, male and female slave (``buey, esclavo y esclava``).
That would be from #10 about coveting, translated into KJV English as ``manservants, maidservants``, as by then the Christians could not be seen as condoning slavery! See
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1548 monitoring: confirmed on 3185 WWRB and webcast after 0430 UT Friday Jan 21. Also on 9955 WRMI at 1556 Jan 21, poor but not jammed, with overload from 9980 more of a problem, just as gh was citing the Media Network item about the Stinson family in Lebanon, Virginia, Baptist, saying they are going to put on a new worldwide multilingual SW station, God having provided funding.
Next WOR chances on WRMI: Sat 0900, 1500, 1830; Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. On WWCR: Fri 2130 on 7465, Sat 1700 on 12160, Sun 0730 on 3215. Also on the ACB Radio Mainstream webcast every two hours Friday thru 2430, confirmed at 1800 via http://www.acbradio.org (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Jan 21 a bit before 1330 UT, Star Spangled Banner is playing, presumably KRVA, The Metroplex, TX as heard yesterday but a few minutes later. A semi-minute later now, low het cuts on the frequency, and ``Rolling on the River`` plays, 1332 ``Real Oldies 1600`` ID, weather hi in the 50s; and then Vietnamese talk starts to dominate from KRVA. No RVN anthem heard meanwhile today.
The off-frequency has been pinned previously on KMDO Fort Scott in SE KS. NRC AM Log 2010-2011 does show it as OLDies format, but we know for sure that KRKE Albuquerque uses that slogan, so that may not be associated with the het.
Furthermore, today`s hi in ABQ is predicted in the 50s, vs 30s in Fort Scott. 1330 UT is indeed the official January sunrise time for KMDO, when it would be bumping up twenty-two-fold from 35 to 770 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1670, Jan 21 I tune in an hour earlier than yesterday for the unID Spanish religion station: at 1254 UT audible in null of WTDY Madison WI making a fast SAH during Spanish talk. When the Spanish strengthens, it does seem to be coming from WSW, not south as would be the new XEANAH, which is not religious, anyway. So can only assume it is KHPY (for Happy?), Moreno Valley CA serving LA, supposedly with direxional beam nowhere near OKward; maybe out of whack? Only a few 1670s in US, and no others known to be Spanish.
1300 praise music in Spanish past hourtop, now stronger than WTDY, but no ID heard. 1321 W&W conversation, now WTDY is gone. How well do others find KHPY getting out to the east? Here`s the FCC nite pattern plot showing a null at 75 degrees, toward us, tho not as deep as one toward Redding:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/622323-77871.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9259.8, Jan 21 at 1354 past 1400, open carrier with lite fades; no, not WINB from 9265, as still going on 13570. This far down, could be ute rather than broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, N1NR who sounds like a clandestine broadcaster, saying in Spanish that as of March 1, 1.3 megaCubans will be ``on the streets``, losing their formerly state-provided jobs, and crime will likely increase (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Jan 21 at 1551, very poor with M preacher in English, no doubt R. Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad, Jan 21 at 0559 seems unSpanish; IDs, contact info in several languages, including, I think, Italian and Japanese. 0603 a bit of Hammond organ music, final announcement definitely in English, ``good night``, then national anthem until 0608, and carrier stays on a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Jan 21 at 1403, Shiokaze via JSR JAPAN is in English as usual on Fridays, YL with very brief headlines, almost all attributed to ``Daily NK``, interspersed with newsy sounders, but not quickly enough to keep up the pace. Somewhat undermodulated, along with only fair signal and her accent make them difficult to follow. 1407 better-audible OM says ``That ends the flash-news``, ID, then back to YL for longer more detailed items (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
** LIBYA. 21695, VOAf, Jan 21 at 1547 poor with English talk about --- Africa! SSOB, compared to JBA Spain on 21610, 21570. Also on 17725 at about equal level. Wolfgang Büschel was hearing Libya on 11800 Jan 20 in French until 1800, then Hausa, perhaps another test of their alternate sked like last July, so I was wondering whether English would still be on as usual at 14-16 on 21695, 17725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Jan 21 at 1317 UT music, ``aquí en Delicias``, so XEACB, Cd. Delicias, Chihuahua. Several of the other usual XE suspects were in on 650, 710, 730, 770, 870, 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925+AM, Jan 21 at 0612, novelty song; 0615 segué to ``Cotton-Eyed Joe`` with harmonica; 0618 outro as by Red Necks, ID as Pan Global Wireless, panglobal @ wbcq.us or P O Box 1101, Faribault MN, 5---- (should be 55021 or vicinity), offering QSL. SIO was 243, occasional ute QRM. 0619 back to music. Frequency slightly on hi side. 0622 weakening due to desensitization of the FRG-7 fed by 110` mostly E-W longwire, from extremely strong RTI Spanish via WYFR on 6875. Didn`t hear it long, but sure enjoyed ``Cotton-Eyed Joe`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, Jan 21 not checked until 1554, just in time to hear the bells, R. Blagovest ID in Russian concluding the 1500 broadcast via RVA, still on the air for third day in a row. In last report I omitted the frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 12005, Jan 21 at 1558, nice orchestral ME music past 1600, no timesignal, 1601 talk in Arabic, poor, but no doubt RTT, as scheduled 1600-2000 here and typically turned on a few minutes earlier.
Still no English on SW, but Mike Cooper hears some on satellite, also webcast, believed to be scheduled at 1900-1930 via http://rtci.fm/ but it`s mostly music after a few minutes of news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6940, Jan 21 at 0611, weak mix of two WWCR programs, 3 and 4, even when switched to full attenuation, from excessively strong signals on 4840 leaping over 5890 another 1050 kHz higher. A frequency pirates should therefore avoid 02-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7190.0, two hams on AM, KD8OJX, Sean in Dayton OH has stronger signal but lower fi than KX5JT, who worx nites as dispatcher for 75 tow trux, but this is his nite off. Contact concludes at 0631*. ARRL shows KD8OJX, Sean W. Darrah is really in Beavercreek OH, and KX5JT is John D. Tate in Maurice LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, inaudible 24 hours earlier, but Jan 21 at 0632, WINB is S9+22, discussion in echoey hall about conversion, one preacher saying 50-70% of his myriad congregation in an Hispanic area are ex-Roman Catholix.
WINB programming is changing from one day to the next. Are they all mixed up, or giving trial runs to potential clients?? Jan 20 we were surprised to find The Power Hower on 13570 as well as on WWCR 7490 and 13845, but Jan 21 not so:
At 1346 on 13570, some preacher, unseems Radio 2:11 style, but WBCQ 9330-CUSB inaudible and presumably not yet on for comparison. 1358 outro as Call to Worship, http://www.calltoworship.org and Michigan address. 1359 WINB ID, 1400 to another preacher. Not checked again until 1508 and now WINB is in Spanish! Not previously at this hour, Bible reading, also from YFR? At 1553, ``welcome to 66-40`` gospel huxter in English, mentions Psalms, so name derives from such a verse? No, this explains it, at http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/ ---
``66/40 with Chuck Missler, Getting Serious about the Bible
The great discovery is that the Bible is a message system: it's not simply 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, the Bible is an integrated whole which bears evidence of supernatural engineering in every detail!`` Yeah, right.
Meanwhile I keep checking 9330 for WBCQ. Still nothing at 1513, but at 1555 it is on running 10 sex behind WINB 13570, so both must now be Radio 2:11 from Good Friends Radio Network. I suppose some of the foregoing could also have been under GFRN aegis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, Jan 21 at 1244, WTJC playing military music medley including Anchors Aweigh, Marine Hymn, Off We Go; undermodulated. Have heard them do this before, apparently a regular patriotic feature (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, KJES not heard much lately, but audible Jan 21 at 1602 with a few Spanish kids singing with guitar accompaniment, steady S9+18 but undermodulated, no QRM. 1604 to adult M in Spanish apparently citing some 10 Commandments, including about ox, male and female slave (``buey, esclavo y esclava``).
That would be from #10 about coveting, translated into KJV English as ``manservants, maidservants``, as by then the Christians could not be seen as condoning slavery! See
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1548 monitoring: confirmed on 3185 WWRB and webcast after 0430 UT Friday Jan 21. Also on 9955 WRMI at 1556 Jan 21, poor but not jammed, with overload from 9980 more of a problem, just as gh was citing the Media Network item about the Stinson family in Lebanon, Virginia, Baptist, saying they are going to put on a new worldwide multilingual SW station, God having provided funding.
Next WOR chances on WRMI: Sat 0900, 1500, 1830; Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. On WWCR: Fri 2130 on 7465, Sat 1700 on 12160, Sun 0730 on 3215. Also on the ACB Radio Mainstream webcast every two hours Friday thru 2430, confirmed at 1800 via http://www.acbradio.org (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Jan 21 a bit before 1330 UT, Star Spangled Banner is playing, presumably KRVA, The Metroplex, TX as heard yesterday but a few minutes later. A semi-minute later now, low het cuts on the frequency, and ``Rolling on the River`` plays, 1332 ``Real Oldies 1600`` ID, weather hi in the 50s; and then Vietnamese talk starts to dominate from KRVA. No RVN anthem heard meanwhile today.
The off-frequency has been pinned previously on KMDO Fort Scott in SE KS. NRC AM Log 2010-2011 does show it as OLDies format, but we know for sure that KRKE Albuquerque uses that slogan, so that may not be associated with the het.
Furthermore, today`s hi in ABQ is predicted in the 50s, vs 30s in Fort Scott. 1330 UT is indeed the official January sunrise time for KMDO, when it would be bumping up twenty-two-fold from 35 to 770 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1670, Jan 21 I tune in an hour earlier than yesterday for the unID Spanish religion station: at 1254 UT audible in null of WTDY Madison WI making a fast SAH during Spanish talk. When the Spanish strengthens, it does seem to be coming from WSW, not south as would be the new XEANAH, which is not religious, anyway. So can only assume it is KHPY (for Happy?), Moreno Valley CA serving LA, supposedly with direxional beam nowhere near OKward; maybe out of whack? Only a few 1670s in US, and no others known to be Spanish.
1300 praise music in Spanish past hourtop, now stronger than WTDY, but no ID heard. 1321 W&W conversation, now WTDY is gone. How well do others find KHPY getting out to the east? Here`s the FCC nite pattern plot showing a null at 75 degrees, toward us, tho not as deep as one toward Redding:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/622323-77871.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9259.8, Jan 21 at 1354 past 1400, open carrier with lite fades; no, not WINB from 9265, as still going on 13570. This far down, could be ute rather than broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###