** ALGERIA [non]. 11985, May 21 at 0616, Arabic talk sounds a lot like BBC on 11820, but not //. HFCC and WRTH Update show it`s new since May 1 for the TDA relays via FRANCE, 0600-0700, 500 kW, 194 degrees; the only frequency during this hour, ex-9535, which continues at 05-06 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580 and 9590, May 21 at 1330, R. Australia VG with `Saturday Night Country`, blissfully unaware that everything in the UT+10 zone was certainly destroyed by Harold Camping`s earthquakes at 0800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 21:
7970, fair at 1253
12240, very good at 1258
13130, very good at 1258
13920, very good at 1258
14970, very good at 1258
15430, fair-good at 1341
15540, poor at 1341, down from 15545
15545, fair at 1258; fair-good at 1319
15970, very good at 1259
16100, fair at 1259
16980, very good at 1259
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9305, May 21 at 0621, S9+10 but JBA music, presumably Cairo still running until 0700* since there is no DST in 2011 in Egypt per http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2011.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 11995, May 21 at 0612, fair with Horn-of-Africish music, but must really be Hausa music, as that is the language scheduled from RFI at 0600-0630 daily, 170 degrees from Issoudun; vs 135 for English until 0457 on same. HFCC also indicates that not until Sept 4 will the 0500-0600 gap will be filled by more English on 11995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 21 at 1254, no trace of VOI again today. http://rri.jpn.org/ confirms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. It`s 6 pm in New Zealand, so the country must have been destroyed by Harold`s Earthquakes; yet May 21 at 0600, RNZI on 11725 is acting as if nothing has happened, world and domestic newscast with no mention of Rapture! Including getting more than one elephant for the Auckland zoo. Must be a fake RNZI by Satan, which immediately took over the frequency to fool us all. 0604:30 program promo, 0605 regional forecasts from the Met Service, ignoring earthquakes. RNZ National ID and 0606 `Brief Encounters` hilites of past week`s interviews (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, KOSR, the newish fill-in transmitter on the OSU campus in Stillwater, since moving their main 91.7 signal halfway to OKC made the signal too weak at homebase on crummy radios, inside buildings, May 21 around 0300 UT I was driving in range of it on I-35, and noticed that programming on 91.7 was running about 2 seconds behind 88.3, why? KOSU 91.7 already has a built-in deliberate digital delay of 7-8 seconds compared to network programming on unrelated stations, in order to match its own HD signal. IDs by Jennifer Reynolds, KOSU alumna, indicate KOSR also has HD, but not the full-power Ketchum-Tulsa relay on 107.5, KOSN.
KOSR is blocked in Enid by Family Radio translator, but on the outskirts of Enid it had heavy QRM from a third 88.3 station, luckily IDing at 0402 UT as KTGS, Tishomingo-Ada-Paris. Meanwhile, FR (not Camping himself) was still begging for donations as Rapture Day was already sweeping the world, not quite here yet. BTW, OK has a lot of minor earthquakes all the time, no big deal, lately increasing tnx to fracking?
89.3, KALU at Langston University, 150 watts can`t make it to Enid vs all the ACI and CCI, but I confirmed it was still active, with rock music, in the stretch of I-35 around Guthrie where it is audible, circa 0300 UT May 21, overcoming some gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Tnx to high humidity and foggy weather, area tropo built up on May 21, besides the usual Tulsa signals:
At 0415 UT, 12, KXII Ardmore with CBS Letterman // 11 KTVT Dallas.
12-1 says KXIICBS
12-2 says KXIIMYT
12-3 says KXIIFOX
26, KTEN Ada says:
10-1 KTENNBC
10-2 KTEN-CW
10-3 KTENABC
At the same time, normally solid OKC channels 24, 27 and 29 were not decoding, either messed up by CCI from TX, or ``tropped out``
47, OETA at 0420, can only be K47KI-D, Duncan OK in the south, 9.84 kW. OETA is not helpful with any specific PSIP IDs on the translators.
45, after IDing KBSD, the REAL channel 6, with antenna still aimed at Dodge City, KOTV was also visible as virtual 6, KOTV-HD, after 0530. Needless to say, Enid`s translator on 45 is still long inactive.
Next morning at 1429 UT,
11, KSWO Lawton as:
7-1, KSWO
7-2, TELEMUN do with infomercial in Spanish
Same market KFDX Wichita Falls also in on 28; see U S A for non-OK logs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare acquires another transmitter: see U S A: WWRB
** UGANDA [non]. 17770, very poor signal with some talk audible, May 21 at 1702. Per Ivo Ivanov, this is the first broadcast of a new service via TDP via Samara, RUSSIA, ``Radio Ndiwulira in Luganda, new station from May 21 (not from May 17), 1700-1730 on 17770 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Sat``
See http://www.airtime.be/schedule.html
for this and all other TDP clients currently. Ndiwulira is not yet included in the logo-and-link gallery at
http://www.airtime.be/whose.html
most of which are no longer active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non?]. 11820, May 21 at 0613, Arabic news about Obama, Syria, Sudan, etc., 0614 BBC news sounder similar to those heard in English, and yes, it is BBC, per HFCC during this hour since 11 April scheduled both via Rampisham, 250 kW, 140 degrees, and via Cyprus, 250 kW, 101 degrees; but no echo or signs of a second signal here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, May 21 at 1344, R. Sawa via KUWAIT, good signal with Arabic rock, very little fading; 1345 cut to R. Sawa ID, akhbar; 1350 already back to music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, May 21 at 0622 dead air from Radio 2:11 on WBCQ; OK at next tuneby 1254 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC missing May 21 at 1254, not even a carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15795, after testing this frequency for a week or so, WWRB has started regular programming. Guess what, it`s Brother Scare! Not surprised, but Dave wasn`t letting on beforehand what would be on it, as he sought monitoring reports from DX listeners, who may now ignore it.
Despite WWRB ``no longer operated as a ministry``, with Dave ranting against deadbeat gospel huxters who don`t pay their bills, he`s sticking with the BS cash cow, now on TWO frequencies all day, // 9385, with 15795 destined for Europe.
Tune-in at 1314, it was colliding with but well atop India`s Chinese service plus ChiCom jamming until 1315*, as I knew it would if WWRB would come on as early as 1300; however, in HFCC it`s now registered from 1000 to 0100, not necessarily using that full span yet.
15795 had some Es help so now the signal is S9+18, initially a lot stronger than 15825 WWCR until the latter also got its signal into the Es patch a few minutes later, with `Musical Memories`.
Conveniently, Brother Scare was talking about this new frequency at 1317, said would be on the rest of the day until 20 or 21, 7 days a week for Europe. Repeated it at least a semidozen times in a row, along with others, including 9385, 9980, 9655, 13810, 17485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 20000, WWV, May 21 at 1304 survey announcement; usually inaudible, skipping over here, but Es must have helped. Wish they would resume 25000 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1290, UT Saturday May 21 at 0320-0325+ am hearing a less-than-1-kHz tone for 17 seconds, 5 seconds of silence, and alternating with ``This is TSS(?) Service Channel 6, Houston Astros``, occasionally dominating the CCI briefly. The `ID` could have been TSN or CSN, something fonetikally similar.
This was previously pinned on KIVY Crockett TX, the only Astros affiliate listed on that frequency,
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/hou/schedule/radio_affiliates.jsp
reported by Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, to NRC, UT Thursday April 7 at 0255, and UT Sunday April 10 at 0348-0353, also heard on the later date by Steve Ponder, Houston, at 0410-0425.
Crockett is in east Texas, between Grapeland and Lovelady. Another unattended automated station failing to switch programming after a certain satellite feed --- or it could be some other station which programmed in the wrong satellite channel altogether, but this is obviously happening again and again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Random tuning on May 21 shows WYFR still on its usual frequencies, including at 1327, 11830, 11910, not // 11865 in English. Brother Camping already taped his ``last Open Forum`` but there must be a huge stockpile of them if needed, and habitually many of the latest broadcasts have been months-old repeats. His earthquakes are to destroy WYFR at 2200 UT today (and everything else in the UT-4 zone), so be sure to tune in. Will Lake Okeechobee flood Florida too?
I hope the WYFR staff in Okeechobee are not quaking in their boots too much; surely must have more sense than the HQ honcho in Oakland --- altho, his background is as an `engineer`! But it will be interesting to hear if there are any disruptions henceforth in WYFR or numerous overseas relay broadcasts, and/or how FR explains still being there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1565 monitoring: confirmed on WWCR 12160 webcast, Saturday May 21 at 1702; missed checking the Friday 2030 on 15825: if anyone noticed anything amiss, let us know. Next repeat is Sunday 0630 on 3215. On 9955 WRMI: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On IPAR: Saturday 1800 on 7290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Finally some Tropo DTVDX after a long dry spell here --- on May 20 we got 4.1 inches of rain in Enid, causing some local flooding.
May 21 at 0415 UT, I find 11 bears KTVT DFW with Letterman; 0429 on 14, KERA Dallas with ID, BBC World News --- I wonder if that`s live, or delayed from when? In OK we have to put up with a sesquihour delay from 2000 to 2130 UT. A number of stations from southern OKLAHOMA [q.v.] not normally seen were also in.
From the other direxion, on 6, Dodge City KS was barely decoding with antenna still pointed south at 0532, solid when pointed NW, with 6-1 KBSD-HD and 6-2 KBSD WX = relaying KWCH from Wichita. A number of other KS signals were too Bad to decode, not including 22 KSNC Great Bend which broke thru.
Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps correlate well with this opening, continuing the following morning:
Not often do I see a signal bar on channel 5, but there it is at 1418, tho too Bad to decode; peaks from the south, not east, north or west, so I am quite sure it was KCWX Fredericksburg TX, the only full power in TX, besides a few translators, unless it was KXXF-LP in Abilene; and zero channel 5s in Oklahoma.
Next morning after 1430 UT:
28, KFDX Wichita Falls TX as:
3-1, KFDX-DT, NBC kids `e`
3-2, KJBO-DT, disguise balding women infomercial with Joan Rivers
also intriguing unID bad signal on RF 9. See also OKLAHOMA 11, KSWO
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** AUSTRALIA. 9580 and 9590, May 21 at 1330, R. Australia VG with `Saturday Night Country`, blissfully unaware that everything in the UT+10 zone was certainly destroyed by Harold Camping`s earthquakes at 0800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 21:
7970, fair at 1253
12240, very good at 1258
13130, very good at 1258
13920, very good at 1258
14970, very good at 1258
15430, fair-good at 1341
15540, poor at 1341, down from 15545
15545, fair at 1258; fair-good at 1319
15970, very good at 1259
16100, fair at 1259
16980, very good at 1259
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9305, May 21 at 0621, S9+10 but JBA music, presumably Cairo still running until 0700* since there is no DST in 2011 in Egypt per http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2011.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 11995, May 21 at 0612, fair with Horn-of-Africish music, but must really be Hausa music, as that is the language scheduled from RFI at 0600-0630 daily, 170 degrees from Issoudun; vs 135 for English until 0457 on same. HFCC also indicates that not until Sept 4 will the 0500-0600 gap will be filled by more English on 11995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 21 at 1254, no trace of VOI again today. http://rri.jpn.org/ confirms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. It`s 6 pm in New Zealand, so the country must have been destroyed by Harold`s Earthquakes; yet May 21 at 0600, RNZI on 11725 is acting as if nothing has happened, world and domestic newscast with no mention of Rapture! Including getting more than one elephant for the Auckland zoo. Must be a fake RNZI by Satan, which immediately took over the frequency to fool us all. 0604:30 program promo, 0605 regional forecasts from the Met Service, ignoring earthquakes. RNZ National ID and 0606 `Brief Encounters` hilites of past week`s interviews (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, KOSR, the newish fill-in transmitter on the OSU campus in Stillwater, since moving their main 91.7 signal halfway to OKC made the signal too weak at homebase on crummy radios, inside buildings, May 21 around 0300 UT I was driving in range of it on I-35, and noticed that programming on 91.7 was running about 2 seconds behind 88.3, why? KOSU 91.7 already has a built-in deliberate digital delay of 7-8 seconds compared to network programming on unrelated stations, in order to match its own HD signal. IDs by Jennifer Reynolds, KOSU alumna, indicate KOSR also has HD, but not the full-power Ketchum-Tulsa relay on 107.5, KOSN.
KOSR is blocked in Enid by Family Radio translator, but on the outskirts of Enid it had heavy QRM from a third 88.3 station, luckily IDing at 0402 UT as KTGS, Tishomingo-Ada-Paris. Meanwhile, FR (not Camping himself) was still begging for donations as Rapture Day was already sweeping the world, not quite here yet. BTW, OK has a lot of minor earthquakes all the time, no big deal, lately increasing tnx to fracking?
89.3, KALU at Langston University, 150 watts can`t make it to Enid vs all the ACI and CCI, but I confirmed it was still active, with rock music, in the stretch of I-35 around Guthrie where it is audible, circa 0300 UT May 21, overcoming some gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Tnx to high humidity and foggy weather, area tropo built up on May 21, besides the usual Tulsa signals:
At 0415 UT, 12, KXII Ardmore with CBS Letterman // 11 KTVT Dallas.
12-1 says KXIICBS
12-2 says KXIIMYT
12-3 says KXIIFOX
26, KTEN Ada says:
10-1 KTENNBC
10-2 KTEN-CW
10-3 KTENABC
At the same time, normally solid OKC channels 24, 27 and 29 were not decoding, either messed up by CCI from TX, or ``tropped out``
47, OETA at 0420, can only be K47KI-D, Duncan OK in the south, 9.84 kW. OETA is not helpful with any specific PSIP IDs on the translators.
45, after IDing KBSD, the REAL channel 6, with antenna still aimed at Dodge City, KOTV was also visible as virtual 6, KOTV-HD, after 0530. Needless to say, Enid`s translator on 45 is still long inactive.
Next morning at 1429 UT,
11, KSWO Lawton as:
7-1, KSWO
7-2, TELEMUN do with infomercial in Spanish
Same market KFDX Wichita Falls also in on 28; see U S A for non-OK logs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare acquires another transmitter: see U S A: WWRB
** UGANDA [non]. 17770, very poor signal with some talk audible, May 21 at 1702. Per Ivo Ivanov, this is the first broadcast of a new service via TDP via Samara, RUSSIA, ``Radio Ndiwulira in Luganda, new station from May 21 (not from May 17), 1700-1730 on 17770 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Sat``
See http://www.airtime.be/schedule.html
for this and all other TDP clients currently. Ndiwulira is not yet included in the logo-and-link gallery at
http://www.airtime.be/whose.html
most of which are no longer active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non?]. 11820, May 21 at 0613, Arabic news about Obama, Syria, Sudan, etc., 0614 BBC news sounder similar to those heard in English, and yes, it is BBC, per HFCC during this hour since 11 April scheduled both via Rampisham, 250 kW, 140 degrees, and via Cyprus, 250 kW, 101 degrees; but no echo or signs of a second signal here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, May 21 at 1344, R. Sawa via KUWAIT, good signal with Arabic rock, very little fading; 1345 cut to R. Sawa ID, akhbar; 1350 already back to music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, May 21 at 0622 dead air from Radio 2:11 on WBCQ; OK at next tuneby 1254 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC missing May 21 at 1254, not even a carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15795, after testing this frequency for a week or so, WWRB has started regular programming. Guess what, it`s Brother Scare! Not surprised, but Dave wasn`t letting on beforehand what would be on it, as he sought monitoring reports from DX listeners, who may now ignore it.
Despite WWRB ``no longer operated as a ministry``, with Dave ranting against deadbeat gospel huxters who don`t pay their bills, he`s sticking with the BS cash cow, now on TWO frequencies all day, // 9385, with 15795 destined for Europe.
Tune-in at 1314, it was colliding with but well atop India`s Chinese service plus ChiCom jamming until 1315*, as I knew it would if WWRB would come on as early as 1300; however, in HFCC it`s now registered from 1000 to 0100, not necessarily using that full span yet.
15795 had some Es help so now the signal is S9+18, initially a lot stronger than 15825 WWCR until the latter also got its signal into the Es patch a few minutes later, with `Musical Memories`.
Conveniently, Brother Scare was talking about this new frequency at 1317, said would be on the rest of the day until 20 or 21, 7 days a week for Europe. Repeated it at least a semidozen times in a row, along with others, including 9385, 9980, 9655, 13810, 17485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 20000, WWV, May 21 at 1304 survey announcement; usually inaudible, skipping over here, but Es must have helped. Wish they would resume 25000 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1290, UT Saturday May 21 at 0320-0325+ am hearing a less-than-1-kHz tone for 17 seconds, 5 seconds of silence, and alternating with ``This is TSS(?) Service Channel 6, Houston Astros``, occasionally dominating the CCI briefly. The `ID` could have been TSN or CSN, something fonetikally similar.
This was previously pinned on KIVY Crockett TX, the only Astros affiliate listed on that frequency,
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/hou/schedule/radio_affiliates.jsp
reported by Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, to NRC, UT Thursday April 7 at 0255, and UT Sunday April 10 at 0348-0353, also heard on the later date by Steve Ponder, Houston, at 0410-0425.
Crockett is in east Texas, between Grapeland and Lovelady. Another unattended automated station failing to switch programming after a certain satellite feed --- or it could be some other station which programmed in the wrong satellite channel altogether, but this is obviously happening again and again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Random tuning on May 21 shows WYFR still on its usual frequencies, including at 1327, 11830, 11910, not // 11865 in English. Brother Camping already taped his ``last Open Forum`` but there must be a huge stockpile of them if needed, and habitually many of the latest broadcasts have been months-old repeats. His earthquakes are to destroy WYFR at 2200 UT today (and everything else in the UT-4 zone), so be sure to tune in. Will Lake Okeechobee flood Florida too?
I hope the WYFR staff in Okeechobee are not quaking in their boots too much; surely must have more sense than the HQ honcho in Oakland --- altho, his background is as an `engineer`! But it will be interesting to hear if there are any disruptions henceforth in WYFR or numerous overseas relay broadcasts, and/or how FR explains still being there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1565 monitoring: confirmed on WWCR 12160 webcast, Saturday May 21 at 1702; missed checking the Friday 2030 on 15825: if anyone noticed anything amiss, let us know. Next repeat is Sunday 0630 on 3215. On 9955 WRMI: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On IPAR: Saturday 1800 on 7290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Finally some Tropo DTVDX after a long dry spell here --- on May 20 we got 4.1 inches of rain in Enid, causing some local flooding.
May 21 at 0415 UT, I find 11 bears KTVT DFW with Letterman; 0429 on 14, KERA Dallas with ID, BBC World News --- I wonder if that`s live, or delayed from when? In OK we have to put up with a sesquihour delay from 2000 to 2130 UT. A number of stations from southern OKLAHOMA [q.v.] not normally seen were also in.
From the other direxion, on 6, Dodge City KS was barely decoding with antenna still pointed south at 0532, solid when pointed NW, with 6-1 KBSD-HD and 6-2 KBSD WX = relaying KWCH from Wichita. A number of other KS signals were too Bad to decode, not including 22 KSNC Great Bend which broke thru.
Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps correlate well with this opening, continuing the following morning:
Not often do I see a signal bar on channel 5, but there it is at 1418, tho too Bad to decode; peaks from the south, not east, north or west, so I am quite sure it was KCWX Fredericksburg TX, the only full power in TX, besides a few translators, unless it was KXXF-LP in Abilene; and zero channel 5s in Oklahoma.
Next morning after 1430 UT:
28, KFDX Wichita Falls TX as:
3-1, KFDX-DT, NBC kids `e`
3-2, KJBO-DT, disguise balding women infomercial with Joan Rivers
also intriguing unID bad signal on RF 9. See also OKLAHOMA 11, KSWO
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###