** CHINA. Firedrake June 4 [hey, it`s TAM Square anniversary time!]:
10970, fair at 1343, not earlier
12270, good at 1251; 1312 retune with OC vs nothing, 1313:24 cut on FD music; good at 1341
13500, very good at 1253; very good at 1341
13800, good at 1253 mixing with kidsing // 13695 WYFR
13850, very good at 1252
13920, very good at 1252
14700, very good at 1257
14900, very good at 1339
14970, very good at 1339
15280, poor with 15279 het at 1337
15430, fair at 1337
15545, very good at 1258; 1308 retune to open carrier, then FD cuts on
15670, good at 1258 atop CNR1 jamming too; 1305 still on but now under CNR1 jamming which is // 11990, 15795, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...
15970, JBA at 1336
16100, poor at 1259
16980, poor at 1259-1300*, weaker than 16100
At 1508 I bandscanned 10-18 MHz again, and no FD heard now.
15330, CNR1 jamming over something June 4 at 1310, i.e. BBC Uzbek via Oman during this semihour only.
13640, CNR1 jamming at 1507 June 4, a reverb apart from // weaker 13675. HFCC and Aoki show what`s happening: the intended victim is R. Free Asia in Mandarin, via Tinian on 13640, Tajkistan on 13675; EiBi shows Tinian for both. CRI English via Kashgar, East Turkistan is supposedly on 13640 during this hour too, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, RHC in English, tuned in just in time June 4 at 0553* to hear a few words, ``Cuba has a lot to learn`` before cut off 53 minutes later than scheduled in Spanish. Presumably had been missing from 6010, but not checked immediately. By 0603 that was on // the overkill three other 49m channels also in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, no signal from RTG June 4 checked as late as 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI weakly audible in Special Japanese around 1249 June 4, but by 1319 during presumed English, nothing but a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, June 4 at 1332, subaudible heterodyne of about 6 Hz between Kuwait and needlessly colliding Spain, both very weak, but noting 13m is trying to recover a bit; poor signals also audible from Saudi 21505, Spain 21610, better Rwanda 21780, but of course no more Portugal 21655. WWV says yesterday`s solar flux was 107, and K indices today went from 0 at 12 to 1 at 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, no signal from R. Mauritanie, June 4 checked as late as 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, June 4 at 0405, ad in Spanish for a cervical cancer doctor (quack?) whose address is on Oaxaca Street, but never caught the city. He also sells books. Went on and on and on, so it`s an informercial, perhaps at least half an hour. Strong steady, dominant signal which does not fit for any listed Mexican, except my prime suspect, XEACH, R. Fórmula in Monterrey NL, running day power 25 kW instead of 1 kW night. Later gave doctor`s appearance dates in June all over Mexico, still no local clues about where this axually come from (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2, June 4 at 1605 as soon as I turn on the analog TV, I see a tit-parade, the Mexicans do so well, yet not sufficiently distracted to miss the XHI-TV bug in the upper right, i.e. Ciudad Obregón, Sonora by sporadic E. During following bihour, various Mexican TV signals in and mostly out, seldom exceeding ch 2, with antenna SSW to SW:
2, at 1610, net-13 bug in UR (the one with two vertical lines and to their right three vertical dots, 5 + 5 + 3 = 13), i.e. Azteca 13, in and out; 1617 during cartoon. Also very distorted audio, maybe from something else. 1752, net-13 shows up again. The website http://www.tvazteca.com/ reveals that the three dots from top to bottom, are blue, red and yellow (instead of green!); my DX TV is B&W.
2, at 1621, `Sabadazo` program bug in LR, net-2 bug in UR, i.e. Televisa, Canal de las Estrellas. Distorted audio definitely does not match this video. Anyone know which Mexican on 2 has this problem? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, KUSH, Cushing OK, weak groundwave signal June 4 at 1517 UT with Amerindian chanting, outroed as ``Southern Thunder``, song or singer? Then seemed about a minute of dead air, more Indian music. Recheck at 1528, news in English about the Sac-Fox Nation, Osage, gam(bl)ing. 1559 more chanting wrapping up, KUSH ID.
The program list here
http://www.1600kush.com/index.php?section=7
is obviously not a full schedule, but fortunately includes:
``Native Air with Hugh Foley
10-11 AM Saturdays
Native American News, Music and more!``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. OKC tropo was up UT June 4 after 0500, as signaled by snowy but visible signal on 48 from KWDW-LP, our main remnant of analog TV, with Univisión, but its unsynchronized DTV duplicate on 36, KCHM-CA also decoding, rather than Bad at best. Reconfirmed their 36-2 is still slides and sound from co-owned KTUZ 106.7 La Zeta.
Ch 21 also decoding DTV from HSN, which is listed as KTOU-LP, but their PSIP is blank! Is that legal? Just DTV 21-1. Maybe they do run some kind of local legal ID on screen at hourtop, unseen yet then. This was analog for a long time, finally flash-cut to digital a few months ago (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, tuning across WWRB, June 4 at 1236 Brother Scare is talking about new broadcasts in Europe, so I force myself to stop, listen and take notes until 1244. In the next week, Alfredo says he will be on AM in Rome 1566, which is just a block from the Vatican but he will then be ``standing before Caesar``, evidently a Biblical reference, which may appeal to him more than confronting the Pope?? And also on 1368 in northern Italy reaching as far as Germany and Sweden.
Furthermore, by a week after that he will be on 7290, a powerful 300,000-watt ``state-of the art`` SW frequency ``in northern Italy``, capable of ``reaching two thirds of the world``! Says he has collected $20 million (total over time?) and has spent every dime on broadcast time, not on worldly things. But needs to cut expenses now and the new 7290 deal will give him better coverage of Europe, ME, N Africa (than M&B via Germany, canceling it??) for somewhat less money, cost $10,000 per month. Payable in advance. He has to send the amount on Monday, and of course wants major donors to pay up now.
This obviously refers to NEXUS-IBA/IRRS, or rather their European Gospel Radio identity, and raises the question of what will become of current public-service unpaid programming on those three frequencies, including WORLD OF RADIO (which is supposed to resume next Saturday at 1800, after `maintenance` this week). I never heard anything specific about how much time $10K/month buys on EGR but it is surely a substantial number of hours per day. ``The only safe investment today is to give to the cause of Christ``. I beg to differ, or is that beg differently?
IRRS/IPAR may have lost Miraya FM, but are about to start milking the cash cow of Brother Scare! Get it while the getting is good. Later mentioned that he is 78, so ``Jesus will return in YOUR lifetime``, but how about his??
If really 300 kW on 7290, it could no longer be a 250 kW SLOVAKIA unit, allegedly run at 150 (unless two combined?? RSI certainly doesn`t need any), but where? We know that IRRS will never tell us (or its monied clients?), but this will be figured out sooner or later.
Retune at 1254, now via 9980 WWCR, BS was talking about this again, and at first thought a playback, but the wording was slightly different. I have mixed his later comments into the summary above. At 1325 he added that his total radio costs run to over $100,000 a month including five different satellites for feeds. ``The bride is making herself ready``, another sexo-biblical allusion.
Nothing yet of course about TOM on the IRRS program schedule starting here,
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/sun.htm
but I took the opportunity to search every day of the week for Tony Alamo, and that monster is finally gone, some two years after entering prison.
I also check TOM website, where it still says ``New Shortwave added, aimed at Europe, Mid East and Africa. 14:00 to 22:00 UTC ----- WWRB ----- 15.795`` with the frequency flashing, even tho it has been missing for more than a week and was starting at 1300, not 1400. Nothing about the above plans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tuning around MW, UT Saturday June 4 at 0440, came upon an interesting discussion about exoplanets on 820, WBAP Fort Worth. Usually a solid signal, occasionally went into deep fades to nothing, but right back up. John Batchelor was interviewing a scientist in Holland. Later researched on WBAP website to:
http://www.wbap.com/showdj.asp?DJID=52867
where he is scheduled UT Tue-Fri 04-05, Sun & Mon 02-05 (after news on the hour?? Who cares about such details?)
Above linx to his own website but WBAP retains framing unless bypassed:
http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/
And here are the details on this segment:
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/schedules/2011/06/friday-3-june-2011/
``Friday/Sat 1235A (935P Pacific Time): Govert Schilling, Science magazine, in re: search for life on exoplanets; multiple-planet systems abound; why a moon may not be needed to stabilize climate and life``. ``In re`` is his favorite Latinism.
Apparently Batchelor originates at WABC, mentions ``(WABC, WMAL, WLS, KSFO, WBAP and so forth)`` for streaming, live at ``01-05`` GMT with conversions including ``8-12 CST``, as he apparently hasn`t figured out that CST is not in effect and would be an hour apart from CDT. Mentions both M-F and Sat-Sun as if really meaning 7 days at this time, unlikely.
So WBAP only carries 25% of him on weeknights. He went to UTS and is married to a reverendess; seems to have a particular interest in space, exploration, so worth monitoring his topix. From this segment I couldn`t really discern his politix, nor from his website.
Anyhow, an improvement from the farrightwingnutwackos WBAP pollutes all day and evening M-F until 11 pm: Rush, Sean, Mark, Laura, plus a Republican local show starting at 8:30 am CDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1567 monitoring: Confirmed on WWCR 12160 after 1600 UT Saturday June 4, excellent signal. Next airings are UT Sunday 0230 on 4840 (revived!), Sunday 0630 on 3215. See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non].
Also confirmed AWR Wavescan added to WWCR schedule 1630-1659 Saturday on 12160; at 1645 monolog by someone from WCBC talking about KNLS, Spanish via WRMI, Madagascar World Voice (pending) and all their other non-SW operations. Sounded as if prompt-questions by interviewer had been outedited, to save time. Jeff White hosts; later the JSWC YL DX report starting with curtailed hours at R. Nikkei. Wavescan repeats at 0200 UT Sunday on 4840. At 1659, WWCR ID announced that they ``will broadcast on 9350 at 4-7 pm = 21-24 UT``, as if it were a change, but it`s not (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, WTWW is back on, with VG signal even in the nightmiddle, June 4 at 0549, Bible in stilted English about asses. Arabic at 1251, 1420 and still at 1508. Not sure if this Arabic is stilted, but surely unQur`anic, not melodious at all, merely spoken. Have Christian Arabs ever tried conveying their Bible that way? Or would that greatly offend hyper-touchy fellow Abrahamists? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNIGN DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, WINB, this being Saturday, stayed on past 1313, gospel huxter with horrible hum, plus WEWN 13580 slush, but WINB was off again at next check 1507, instead of the continuous schedule they claim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
10970, fair at 1343, not earlier
12270, good at 1251; 1312 retune with OC vs nothing, 1313:24 cut on FD music; good at 1341
13500, very good at 1253; very good at 1341
13800, good at 1253 mixing with kidsing // 13695 WYFR
13850, very good at 1252
13920, very good at 1252
14700, very good at 1257
14900, very good at 1339
14970, very good at 1339
15280, poor with 15279 het at 1337
15430, fair at 1337
15545, very good at 1258; 1308 retune to open carrier, then FD cuts on
15670, good at 1258 atop CNR1 jamming too; 1305 still on but now under CNR1 jamming which is // 11990, 15795, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...
15970, JBA at 1336
16100, poor at 1259
16980, poor at 1259-1300*, weaker than 16100
At 1508 I bandscanned 10-18 MHz again, and no FD heard now.
15330, CNR1 jamming over something June 4 at 1310, i.e. BBC Uzbek via Oman during this semihour only.
13640, CNR1 jamming at 1507 June 4, a reverb apart from // weaker 13675. HFCC and Aoki show what`s happening: the intended victim is R. Free Asia in Mandarin, via Tinian on 13640, Tajkistan on 13675; EiBi shows Tinian for both. CRI English via Kashgar, East Turkistan is supposedly on 13640 during this hour too, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, RHC in English, tuned in just in time June 4 at 0553* to hear a few words, ``Cuba has a lot to learn`` before cut off 53 minutes later than scheduled in Spanish. Presumably had been missing from 6010, but not checked immediately. By 0603 that was on // the overkill three other 49m channels also in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, no signal from RTG June 4 checked as late as 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI weakly audible in Special Japanese around 1249 June 4, but by 1319 during presumed English, nothing but a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, June 4 at 1332, subaudible heterodyne of about 6 Hz between Kuwait and needlessly colliding Spain, both very weak, but noting 13m is trying to recover a bit; poor signals also audible from Saudi 21505, Spain 21610, better Rwanda 21780, but of course no more Portugal 21655. WWV says yesterday`s solar flux was 107, and K indices today went from 0 at 12 to 1 at 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, no signal from R. Mauritanie, June 4 checked as late as 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, June 4 at 0405, ad in Spanish for a cervical cancer doctor (quack?) whose address is on Oaxaca Street, but never caught the city. He also sells books. Went on and on and on, so it`s an informercial, perhaps at least half an hour. Strong steady, dominant signal which does not fit for any listed Mexican, except my prime suspect, XEACH, R. Fórmula in Monterrey NL, running day power 25 kW instead of 1 kW night. Later gave doctor`s appearance dates in June all over Mexico, still no local clues about where this axually come from (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2, June 4 at 1605 as soon as I turn on the analog TV, I see a tit-parade, the Mexicans do so well, yet not sufficiently distracted to miss the XHI-TV bug in the upper right, i.e. Ciudad Obregón, Sonora by sporadic E. During following bihour, various Mexican TV signals in and mostly out, seldom exceeding ch 2, with antenna SSW to SW:
2, at 1610, net-13 bug in UR (the one with two vertical lines and to their right three vertical dots, 5 + 5 + 3 = 13), i.e. Azteca 13, in and out; 1617 during cartoon. Also very distorted audio, maybe from something else. 1752, net-13 shows up again. The website http://www.tvazteca.com/ reveals that the three dots from top to bottom, are blue, red and yellow (instead of green!); my DX TV is B&W.
2, at 1621, `Sabadazo` program bug in LR, net-2 bug in UR, i.e. Televisa, Canal de las Estrellas. Distorted audio definitely does not match this video. Anyone know which Mexican on 2 has this problem? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, KUSH, Cushing OK, weak groundwave signal June 4 at 1517 UT with Amerindian chanting, outroed as ``Southern Thunder``, song or singer? Then seemed about a minute of dead air, more Indian music. Recheck at 1528, news in English about the Sac-Fox Nation, Osage, gam(bl)ing. 1559 more chanting wrapping up, KUSH ID.
The program list here
http://www.1600kush.com/index.php?section=7
is obviously not a full schedule, but fortunately includes:
``Native Air with Hugh Foley
10-11 AM Saturdays
Native American News, Music and more!``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. OKC tropo was up UT June 4 after 0500, as signaled by snowy but visible signal on 48 from KWDW-LP, our main remnant of analog TV, with Univisión, but its unsynchronized DTV duplicate on 36, KCHM-CA also decoding, rather than Bad at best. Reconfirmed their 36-2 is still slides and sound from co-owned KTUZ 106.7 La Zeta.
Ch 21 also decoding DTV from HSN, which is listed as KTOU-LP, but their PSIP is blank! Is that legal? Just DTV 21-1. Maybe they do run some kind of local legal ID on screen at hourtop, unseen yet then. This was analog for a long time, finally flash-cut to digital a few months ago (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, tuning across WWRB, June 4 at 1236 Brother Scare is talking about new broadcasts in Europe, so I force myself to stop, listen and take notes until 1244. In the next week, Alfredo says he will be on AM in Rome 1566, which is just a block from the Vatican but he will then be ``standing before Caesar``, evidently a Biblical reference, which may appeal to him more than confronting the Pope?? And also on 1368 in northern Italy reaching as far as Germany and Sweden.
Furthermore, by a week after that he will be on 7290, a powerful 300,000-watt ``state-of the art`` SW frequency ``in northern Italy``, capable of ``reaching two thirds of the world``! Says he has collected $20 million (total over time?) and has spent every dime on broadcast time, not on worldly things. But needs to cut expenses now and the new 7290 deal will give him better coverage of Europe, ME, N Africa (than M&B via Germany, canceling it??) for somewhat less money, cost $10,000 per month. Payable in advance. He has to send the amount on Monday, and of course wants major donors to pay up now.
This obviously refers to NEXUS-IBA/IRRS, or rather their European Gospel Radio identity, and raises the question of what will become of current public-service unpaid programming on those three frequencies, including WORLD OF RADIO (which is supposed to resume next Saturday at 1800, after `maintenance` this week). I never heard anything specific about how much time $10K/month buys on EGR but it is surely a substantial number of hours per day. ``The only safe investment today is to give to the cause of Christ``. I beg to differ, or is that beg differently?
IRRS/IPAR may have lost Miraya FM, but are about to start milking the cash cow of Brother Scare! Get it while the getting is good. Later mentioned that he is 78, so ``Jesus will return in YOUR lifetime``, but how about his??
If really 300 kW on 7290, it could no longer be a 250 kW SLOVAKIA unit, allegedly run at 150 (unless two combined?? RSI certainly doesn`t need any), but where? We know that IRRS will never tell us (or its monied clients?), but this will be figured out sooner or later.
Retune at 1254, now via 9980 WWCR, BS was talking about this again, and at first thought a playback, but the wording was slightly different. I have mixed his later comments into the summary above. At 1325 he added that his total radio costs run to over $100,000 a month including five different satellites for feeds. ``The bride is making herself ready``, another sexo-biblical allusion.
Nothing yet of course about TOM on the IRRS program schedule starting here,
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/sun.htm
but I took the opportunity to search every day of the week for Tony Alamo, and that monster is finally gone, some two years after entering prison.
I also check TOM website, where it still says ``New Shortwave added, aimed at Europe, Mid East and Africa. 14:00 to 22:00 UTC ----- WWRB ----- 15.795`` with the frequency flashing, even tho it has been missing for more than a week and was starting at 1300, not 1400. Nothing about the above plans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tuning around MW, UT Saturday June 4 at 0440, came upon an interesting discussion about exoplanets on 820, WBAP Fort Worth. Usually a solid signal, occasionally went into deep fades to nothing, but right back up. John Batchelor was interviewing a scientist in Holland. Later researched on WBAP website to:
http://www.wbap.com/showdj.asp?DJID=52867
where he is scheduled UT Tue-Fri 04-05, Sun & Mon 02-05 (after news on the hour?? Who cares about such details?)
Above linx to his own website but WBAP retains framing unless bypassed:
http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/
And here are the details on this segment:
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/schedules/2011/06/friday-3-june-2011/
``Friday/Sat 1235A (935P Pacific Time): Govert Schilling, Science magazine, in re: search for life on exoplanets; multiple-planet systems abound; why a moon may not be needed to stabilize climate and life``. ``In re`` is his favorite Latinism.
Apparently Batchelor originates at WABC, mentions ``(WABC, WMAL, WLS, KSFO, WBAP and so forth)`` for streaming, live at ``01-05`` GMT with conversions including ``8-12 CST``, as he apparently hasn`t figured out that CST is not in effect and would be an hour apart from CDT. Mentions both M-F and Sat-Sun as if really meaning 7 days at this time, unlikely.
So WBAP only carries 25% of him on weeknights. He went to UTS and is married to a reverendess; seems to have a particular interest in space, exploration, so worth monitoring his topix. From this segment I couldn`t really discern his politix, nor from his website.
Anyhow, an improvement from the farrightwingnutwackos WBAP pollutes all day and evening M-F until 11 pm: Rush, Sean, Mark, Laura, plus a Republican local show starting at 8:30 am CDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1567 monitoring: Confirmed on WWCR 12160 after 1600 UT Saturday June 4, excellent signal. Next airings are UT Sunday 0230 on 4840 (revived!), Sunday 0630 on 3215. See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non].
Also confirmed AWR Wavescan added to WWCR schedule 1630-1659 Saturday on 12160; at 1645 monolog by someone from WCBC talking about KNLS, Spanish via WRMI, Madagascar World Voice (pending) and all their other non-SW operations. Sounded as if prompt-questions by interviewer had been outedited, to save time. Jeff White hosts; later the JSWC YL DX report starting with curtailed hours at R. Nikkei. Wavescan repeats at 0200 UT Sunday on 4840. At 1659, WWCR ID announced that they ``will broadcast on 9350 at 4-7 pm = 21-24 UT``, as if it were a change, but it`s not (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, WTWW is back on, with VG signal even in the nightmiddle, June 4 at 0549, Bible in stilted English about asses. Arabic at 1251, 1420 and still at 1508. Not sure if this Arabic is stilted, but surely unQur`anic, not melodious at all, merely spoken. Have Christian Arabs ever tried conveying their Bible that way? Or would that greatly offend hyper-touchy fellow Abrahamists? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNIGN DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, WINB, this being Saturday, stayed on past 1313, gospel huxter with horrible hum, plus WEWN 13580 slush, but WINB was off again at next check 1507, instead of the continuous schedule they claim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
