** ALBANIA [and non]. 9915 via ASCENSION, BBCWS news in English mentioning people killed in violent Tirana demonstrations, Jan 21 at 2202. How did R. Tirana report on this? Missed monitoring that day, but remaining Saturday chances before the Sunday day-off are:
1945-2000 7465, 11635
2100-2130 7530, 9895
0130-0145 6130
0245-0300 6130
0330-0400 6100
0430-0500 6100
Here`s VOA`s report on what is happening:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/International-Concern-Over-Deadly-Protests-in-Albania---114418539.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9380, Jan 22 at 1357, Firedrake with good signal; seems // the weaker FD in the mix on 6030; 9380 went off a few sex before 1400*.
The jammee on 9380 must be Deutsche Welle, in Chinese, 100 kW, 71 degrees via Tajikistan at 13-14, the only thing scheduled here.
There has been FD on 9380 before, in A-10, but I think against something else. Is ChiCom jamming of DW anything new? Check the other frequencies. Their entire Mandarin schedule per WRTH 2011 is:
1300-1330 12010-Singapore
1300-1400 6225-Kazakhstan, 9380-Tajikistan, 11945 & 13735-Sri Lanka
2300-2400 6090-Korea S, 9865-Singapore, 11830-Petropavlovsk, Russia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5745, DCJC noise about equal level with Harold Camping, Jan 22 at 0642. What WYFR gets for time-sharing a frequency with R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 6270, Jan 21 at 2212 open carrier, no doubt R. Cairo; 2214 timesignal audible, and then a trace of talk, i.e. the usual off-time pips introducing news circa the quarter-hour. At least we can imagine what they are broadcasting from long experience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, poor signal Jan 21 at 2156, ``Tony Alámo`` audio cutting in and out as carrier also drops down and up. But some carrier always remains, presumably R. Inconfidência, whose call ZYE522 is typoed in the WRTH 2011 as ZYE622.
Alamo is serving 175 years in Terre Haute federal prison for child sexual abuse, transporting girls across state lines for sex, but R. Africa tries its best to keep this monster on the air. From *2157, huge carrier from WHRI 15180 becomes a problem, apparently active Fridays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9870, instead of predominant Indian popular music on the AIR Vividh Bharati Service, Sat Jan 22 at 1416, there is a talk in Hindi frequently mentioning English terms ``mobile service provider``, ``mobile number portability``, ``prepaid``, all of which are presumably impossible to express in pure Hindi. I just wonder how they write English in the script, transliterated to Hindi letters or not? At first assumed to be a commercial, but same topic still going at 1419. After 1430 a drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Until recently, Univisión had been visible on both ch 36 and 48 low-powers from OKC in analog, but lately only on 48. Now we know why. When tropo bumped up the signal from 48 Jan 22 at 1530 UT, I scanned the UHF channels in DTV, and found UNI barely decoding on 36, displayed as 36-1 KCHM-CA, so that one has finally flash-cut from NTSC to ATSC.
According to W9WI.com listings, the old KCHM-CA had 12.53 kW ERP, while the new digital KCHM-CA (same call suffix) has 7.33 kW. But they are from slightly different transmitter sites.
OLD: 35-24-52.40N 97-30-32.00W
NEW: 35-24-53.80N 97-30-35.90W
The hotlinx to maps from coordinates on W9WI.com are Not Found. But the FCC Google map link shows both on the south side of OKC.
I wonder if they plan to keep 48 in analog as long as possible for the non-DTV OTA crowd, if any? It`s on the north side in Nichols Hills.
While pointed toward this, also had a `bad` DTV signal on 38, and OETA Ponca City was up strong when aimed toward it. Listed as analog 38 in OKC is KOHC-CA, 50 kW with Azteca América, but I have never seen it; is it really on the air?
I also looked for KUOK-35 Woodward, which is supposedly the home full-power station being relayed by 36 and 48 in OKC, but no signal from it, so still way underpowered, while its LP neighbor, KOMI-34 was decoding as 24-1 KOMI-SD, infomercial at 1544.
Another remaining analog in OKC, KUOT-CA on 19 had sufficient tropo-enhanced signal, around 1540 UT, continuous religious audio, but mostly black screen with occasional flashes of video being transmitted! Hello?
Daystar`s KOCM, OKC DTV on 46 was still on the edge of decoding or not
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Jan 22 at 1355 bits of music mixing with the motorboat from R. Rossii, Pet/Kam; late time-signal at 1400, and stayed on until 1401:17* mixing with Taiwan/ChiCom just starting. Still no sign of 8GAL on 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLLINA [non]. 9385, WWRB, Jan 22 at 1449, Brother Scare with his insurmountable ego advises us to wait for him, The Overcomer, to proclaim when Passover will really begin this year, April 18 or 19, depending on sighting of the Moon. Attention, World Jewry!! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND [and non]. 9725, R. Thailand, with flutter, Jan 22 at 1407 YL with accented but clearly-enunciated world news in English, items about China, Lukashenko, 11-metre catamaran en route from Guam to Cebu missing. 1410 ending news, into feature on cable and satellite broadcasting in China, Bangkok. 1411 hit by open carrier atop, brief tone test at 1411.5. Likely tune-up by the next occupant of 9725, VOA Vietnamese via PHX, Tinang, Philippines, scheduled from 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 12035, Jan 22 at 1420, instrumental music with a clearly Christian tone, certainly not the kind of music VOT would ever play, altho surely in Turkish fill music at this minute toward the end of English broadcast. Yes, at 1422 W&M in Chinese, i.e. KSDA GUAM as scheduled 1400-1500, 100 kW, 300 degrees from Agat. There was however, a SAH of about 150/minute = 2.5 Hz, no doubt from poor VOT way underneath. At least their first half-hour from 1330 should be in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1548 monitoring: Friday Jan 21 at 2145, back on WWCR 7465, very strong, and this is the transmitter with squeal, plus spur slightly below 7450, putting het on Greece.
I missed checking Sat Jan 22 at 1700 on 12160 to confirm whether that had been resumed as promised; did anyone hear it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ has been missing some airtime; problems there? Friday Jan 21 at 2148 no signal on 7415, still nothing at 2204 when ``Behaviour Night`` should be on. Must have come on shortly, as next check at 2300 BN`s antique music is still playing until 2305 WBCQ ID, so running 5 minutes late. Then William Tell Overture, and we know what that means: Allan Weiner Worldwide at an unscheduled fill time, and then he starts talking about the wonderful medium of radio.
At first I wondered if WBCQ had more ``available time slot`` when they just turn off the transmitter like Thursdays 2200-2415 UT but the current sked at
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7415
still shows on Friday:
Fr 7415 04:00PM 05:00PM ET 2100 2200 UTC Financial Survival
Fr 7415 05:00PM 06:00PM ET 2200 2300 UTC Behavior Night
Fr 7415 06:00PM 07:00PM ET 2300 0000 UTC Antenna4
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
1945-2000 7465, 11635
2100-2130 7530, 9895
0130-0145 6130
0245-0300 6130
0330-0400 6100
0430-0500 6100
Here`s VOA`s report on what is happening:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/International-Concern-Over-Deadly-Protests-in-Albania---114418539.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9380, Jan 22 at 1357, Firedrake with good signal; seems // the weaker FD in the mix on 6030; 9380 went off a few sex before 1400*.
The jammee on 9380 must be Deutsche Welle, in Chinese, 100 kW, 71 degrees via Tajikistan at 13-14, the only thing scheduled here.
There has been FD on 9380 before, in A-10, but I think against something else. Is ChiCom jamming of DW anything new? Check the other frequencies. Their entire Mandarin schedule per WRTH 2011 is:
1300-1330 12010-Singapore
1300-1400 6225-Kazakhstan, 9380-Tajikistan, 11945 & 13735-Sri Lanka
2300-2400 6090-Korea S, 9865-Singapore, 11830-Petropavlovsk, Russia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5745, DCJC noise about equal level with Harold Camping, Jan 22 at 0642. What WYFR gets for time-sharing a frequency with R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 6270, Jan 21 at 2212 open carrier, no doubt R. Cairo; 2214 timesignal audible, and then a trace of talk, i.e. the usual off-time pips introducing news circa the quarter-hour. At least we can imagine what they are broadcasting from long experience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, poor signal Jan 21 at 2156, ``Tony Alámo`` audio cutting in and out as carrier also drops down and up. But some carrier always remains, presumably R. Inconfidência, whose call ZYE522 is typoed in the WRTH 2011 as ZYE622.
Alamo is serving 175 years in Terre Haute federal prison for child sexual abuse, transporting girls across state lines for sex, but R. Africa tries its best to keep this monster on the air. From *2157, huge carrier from WHRI 15180 becomes a problem, apparently active Fridays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9870, instead of predominant Indian popular music on the AIR Vividh Bharati Service, Sat Jan 22 at 1416, there is a talk in Hindi frequently mentioning English terms ``mobile service provider``, ``mobile number portability``, ``prepaid``, all of which are presumably impossible to express in pure Hindi. I just wonder how they write English in the script, transliterated to Hindi letters or not? At first assumed to be a commercial, but same topic still going at 1419. After 1430 a drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Until recently, Univisión had been visible on both ch 36 and 48 low-powers from OKC in analog, but lately only on 48. Now we know why. When tropo bumped up the signal from 48 Jan 22 at 1530 UT, I scanned the UHF channels in DTV, and found UNI barely decoding on 36, displayed as 36-1 KCHM-CA, so that one has finally flash-cut from NTSC to ATSC.
According to W9WI.com listings, the old KCHM-CA had 12.53 kW ERP, while the new digital KCHM-CA (same call suffix) has 7.33 kW. But they are from slightly different transmitter sites.
OLD: 35-24-52.40N 97-30-32.00W
NEW: 35-24-53.80N 97-30-35.90W
The hotlinx to maps from coordinates on W9WI.com are Not Found. But the FCC Google map link shows both on the south side of OKC.
I wonder if they plan to keep 48 in analog as long as possible for the non-DTV OTA crowd, if any? It`s on the north side in Nichols Hills.
While pointed toward this, also had a `bad` DTV signal on 38, and OETA Ponca City was up strong when aimed toward it. Listed as analog 38 in OKC is KOHC-CA, 50 kW with Azteca América, but I have never seen it; is it really on the air?
I also looked for KUOK-35 Woodward, which is supposedly the home full-power station being relayed by 36 and 48 in OKC, but no signal from it, so still way underpowered, while its LP neighbor, KOMI-34 was decoding as 24-1 KOMI-SD, infomercial at 1544.
Another remaining analog in OKC, KUOT-CA on 19 had sufficient tropo-enhanced signal, around 1540 UT, continuous religious audio, but mostly black screen with occasional flashes of video being transmitted! Hello?
Daystar`s KOCM, OKC DTV on 46 was still on the edge of decoding or not
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Jan 22 at 1355 bits of music mixing with the motorboat from R. Rossii, Pet/Kam; late time-signal at 1400, and stayed on until 1401:17* mixing with Taiwan/ChiCom just starting. Still no sign of 8GAL on 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLLINA [non]. 9385, WWRB, Jan 22 at 1449, Brother Scare with his insurmountable ego advises us to wait for him, The Overcomer, to proclaim when Passover will really begin this year, April 18 or 19, depending on sighting of the Moon. Attention, World Jewry!! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND [and non]. 9725, R. Thailand, with flutter, Jan 22 at 1407 YL with accented but clearly-enunciated world news in English, items about China, Lukashenko, 11-metre catamaran en route from Guam to Cebu missing. 1410 ending news, into feature on cable and satellite broadcasting in China, Bangkok. 1411 hit by open carrier atop, brief tone test at 1411.5. Likely tune-up by the next occupant of 9725, VOA Vietnamese via PHX, Tinang, Philippines, scheduled from 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 12035, Jan 22 at 1420, instrumental music with a clearly Christian tone, certainly not the kind of music VOT would ever play, altho surely in Turkish fill music at this minute toward the end of English broadcast. Yes, at 1422 W&M in Chinese, i.e. KSDA GUAM as scheduled 1400-1500, 100 kW, 300 degrees from Agat. There was however, a SAH of about 150/minute = 2.5 Hz, no doubt from poor VOT way underneath. At least their first half-hour from 1330 should be in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1548 monitoring: Friday Jan 21 at 2145, back on WWCR 7465, very strong, and this is the transmitter with squeal, plus spur slightly below 7450, putting het on Greece.
I missed checking Sat Jan 22 at 1700 on 12160 to confirm whether that had been resumed as promised; did anyone hear it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ has been missing some airtime; problems there? Friday Jan 21 at 2148 no signal on 7415, still nothing at 2204 when ``Behaviour Night`` should be on. Must have come on shortly, as next check at 2300 BN`s antique music is still playing until 2305 WBCQ ID, so running 5 minutes late. Then William Tell Overture, and we know what that means: Allan Weiner Worldwide at an unscheduled fill time, and then he starts talking about the wonderful medium of radio.
At first I wondered if WBCQ had more ``available time slot`` when they just turn off the transmitter like Thursdays 2200-2415 UT but the current sked at
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7415
still shows on Friday:
Fr 7415 04:00PM 05:00PM ET 2100 2200 UTC Financial Survival
Fr 7415 05:00PM 06:00PM ET 2200 2300 UTC Behavior Night
Fr 7415 06:00PM 07:00PM ET 2300 0000 UTC Antenna4
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###