** ALBANIA. R. Tirana: No signal on 9860 or 7425 at 0020 UT Aug 27. No signal on 7425 at 0333 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, Aug 27 at 1241, PMS is back on, over Cuban nonsensical pulse jamming a semiday out of phase from when it is really `needed` against R. Martí. Has Anguilla considered economic sanxions or at least diplomatic protests against Cuba for this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, Aug 27 at 1248, HCJB sufficient in English, rarely audible, but it`s just a sermon. If they really wanted to lure in secular listeners, they should not have abandoned stealth evangelism by cancelling `DX Partyline`. Meanwhile the other transmitter was providing a hefty het upon Morocco 15341; long paths? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160, Aug 27 at 1223, talk in accented English about women`s rights (or lack thereof) in Brasil, fading in and out. Must be CBC Overnight via CKZU Vancouver; 1228 outro show as `Women in the Spotlight`, I think; 1229 intro `World Football` from BBCWS. That`s around 5:30 am PDT Saturday; this schedule
http://www.cbc.ca/overnight/schedule.html
shows `Witness` before 5:30 am, could be, altho I do not find that topic shown on the BBCWS programme site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Most Firedrake frequencies missing Aug 27; what`s going on? Certainly not due to propagation as numerous usual CNR1 jammers and CRI frequencies were still audible up to 18 MHz. See TAIWAN 10300.
1240-1250, NO Firedrake found 10-19 MHz, but among many others:
1246, Chinese CCI on 15795 and 15670, CNR1 jammers
1248, Chinese CCI also on 15250, 15115, CNR1 jammers
1250, CRI in Chinese on 17650, English on 17490, via EAST TURKISTAN
After 1300, found just a couple, in-banders:
15280, poor at 1322-1330*, vs het on 15282; no jump found after 1330; at 1332 carrier/het on 15288, and algo on 15290, not Firedrake
15285, very poor at 1358, not earlier; no others up to 19 MHz (this was the only FD that S. Handler in IL found today in a 2-hour sweep)
12025, very poor at 1326 mixing with CNR1 jamming
No others 10-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, Aug 27 at 1259 open carrier, 1300 opening in Korean with music, good signal enough to shoulder aside the DentroCuban jamming on 9955; is via TAIWAN, Nippon no Kaze, as it is known in Japanese, anti-kidnapping service, but could not make out such an ID nor in Korean. HFCC misleadingly lists this transmission as Babcock via CHINA in Japanese! See also TAIWAN 9960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Sunrise skip MW DX:
610, Aug 27 at 1159, ``Sólo por la G-S``, 5:59 time, therefore per Cantú: 610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
But did not hear ``La Ley`` mentioned; still vigent?
1160 mystery, solved: not a Mexican: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Surprised to see KFOR-27 OKC with totally green screen and nothing else during the `Tonight Show`, UT Saturday Aug 27 at 0408, and kept that way almost until 0426, dead audio too until suddenly rejoined during Richard Engel interview rerun. Both OTA RF 27, and via Suddenlink cable. Meanwhile, OTA 4.2 had usual continuous weather, and 4.3 with Ant TV, `Benny Hill`, no greenscreens there.
This is a favorite time of night for EAS tests to interrupt programming (tho I hadn`t noticed it on any other station), so I wonder if the EAS thingie got stuck?? They do use a similar shade of green for background of crawlers at screentop when funxioning normally. Was no one paying attention at KFOR master control?? Hmmm, are EAS tests not required on subchannels too?
Earlier in the afternoon, the finale of Jeopardy on Channel 4 had `technical difficulties` so on the following newscasts KFOR had to apologetically tell viewers who won, twice! Meanwhile, KROU 105.7 antenna is being installed upon the KFOR tower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 10300, Aug 27 at 1239, weak Chinese, no Firedrake, presumed Sound of Hope. Firedrake was also widely absent today; see CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9960, Aug 27 at 1301, Vietnamese squeezed between DentroCuban Jamming Commands on 9955 and 9965; not in HFCC, but Aoki as Family Radio via Tainan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9890, Aug 27 at 1235, R. Thailand in fairly well during English news about a bombing; at first thought re Pakistan, but apparently in Thailand itself, southern unrest vs new government, then other political news of Thailand. By 1258 more flutter in talk about heart attacks, ulcers. BTW, VOA was missing from 9885, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, Sat Aug 27 at 1248, VOT talking about R. Free Asia, perhaps its special off-topic Japanese QSL this weekend, so must be an on-week for `DX Corner`; poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, Aug 27 at 1203, 7:03 time on ``La Super Equis, 11-60 AM`` in KSL null, then live YL DJ. Cantú has 5 Mexicans on 1160, none with this slogan, nor any X in the callsigns after the first letter! How about the one in X-alapa, Veracruz, XEBE, Radio Perote? That`s really too far east at this hour, and too far-fetched.
Could it be a US domestic? Googling finds Super X was the name of Albuquerque 1190 a dekayear ago, and currently of 1250 in Kansas City, but that`s no help. Maybe it`s a syndicated/group name? It`s in the CDT zone. There are two Texans: KVCE in Highland Park, address in Houston; and KRDY San Antonio as in Radio Disney per last year`s NRC AM Log. Has one of those Hispanicized?
Aha, got it, by changing the Google from Equis to X: it`s merely Kansas City, http://www.lasuperx1160.com/ Just try to find a callsign on that website! Last year`s NRC-AM log has KCTO, Cleveland MO, address in Liberty MO, talk/oldies format. FCC AM Query shows it`s still KCTO, COL Cleveland. That`s such a speck, it`s not in the Rand McNally index, but finally found it south of KC MO on the MO side of the border, while address in Liberty KS is way up on the NE side of KC. But is the site in KS or MO? Longitude is 94-36-28. This source
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ks_geography.htm
says Kansas starts at 94 degrees 38 minutes west, so that puts it in MO, barely.
So what has become of KYYS 1250 Kansas City KS, which had been ``La Super Equis``? It`s easy to hear here but had not paid much attention to current sloganeering; still in Spanish, anyway. Domain http://www.lasuperx1250.com/ has expired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN, all three transmitters missing earlier on Aug 26, but at 2124 found 15610 back on, poor in English about Guatemala; 13830 very poor in Spanish, nothing on 12050. So one transmitter is down, two are back.
Then UT Aug 27 still found on two out of three:
0537 on 11870, usual poor signal in Spanish, but nothing on 7555
1231, nothing on 7555
1240, 12050 fair with organ music during morning mass; squeal at 1356
1244, 13580 with same mass in original English, peaking S9+10 and cannot hear any +/- 9 kHz spurs, making me wonder if they have swapped transmitters while one of them is down?
1325, 13580 is stronger now, still no spurs audible, but:
1357, 13580 now is strong enough to audiblize the spurs; never mind
1358, 15610 weak but audible with Regina Cœli IS, ex-13580; nothing on 11550 after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, Aug 27 at 1239, VOA Spanish missing, but still going with weekend music fill on 13750, 15590. Hurricane Irene is now buffeting Greenville-B, but ancient transmitters are subject to breakdown anyway. See my yesterday`s report for full Greenville schedule, more frequencies to check if missing.
UNC-TV has produced a video visit to VOA GB, must see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0Wdg0rwgk
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, Aug 27 at 1233 and 1355, no signal from WTJC; no doubt off due to Hurricane Irene. Newport is at the southern end of the Cape, only a few miles inland. God`s wrath for daring to represent Him without permission? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, Aug 27 at 1241, PMS is back on, over Cuban nonsensical pulse jamming a semiday out of phase from when it is really `needed` against R. Martí. Has Anguilla considered economic sanxions or at least diplomatic protests against Cuba for this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, Aug 27 at 1248, HCJB sufficient in English, rarely audible, but it`s just a sermon. If they really wanted to lure in secular listeners, they should not have abandoned stealth evangelism by cancelling `DX Partyline`. Meanwhile the other transmitter was providing a hefty het upon Morocco 15341; long paths? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160, Aug 27 at 1223, talk in accented English about women`s rights (or lack thereof) in Brasil, fading in and out. Must be CBC Overnight via CKZU Vancouver; 1228 outro show as `Women in the Spotlight`, I think; 1229 intro `World Football` from BBCWS. That`s around 5:30 am PDT Saturday; this schedule
http://www.cbc.ca/overnight/schedule.html
shows `Witness` before 5:30 am, could be, altho I do not find that topic shown on the BBCWS programme site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Most Firedrake frequencies missing Aug 27; what`s going on? Certainly not due to propagation as numerous usual CNR1 jammers and CRI frequencies were still audible up to 18 MHz. See TAIWAN 10300.
1240-1250, NO Firedrake found 10-19 MHz, but among many others:
1246, Chinese CCI on 15795 and 15670, CNR1 jammers
1248, Chinese CCI also on 15250, 15115, CNR1 jammers
1250, CRI in Chinese on 17650, English on 17490, via EAST TURKISTAN
After 1300, found just a couple, in-banders:
15280, poor at 1322-1330*, vs het on 15282; no jump found after 1330; at 1332 carrier/het on 15288, and algo on 15290, not Firedrake
15285, very poor at 1358, not earlier; no others up to 19 MHz (this was the only FD that S. Handler in IL found today in a 2-hour sweep)
12025, very poor at 1326 mixing with CNR1 jamming
No others 10-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, Aug 27 at 1259 open carrier, 1300 opening in Korean with music, good signal enough to shoulder aside the DentroCuban jamming on 9955; is via TAIWAN, Nippon no Kaze, as it is known in Japanese, anti-kidnapping service, but could not make out such an ID nor in Korean. HFCC misleadingly lists this transmission as Babcock via CHINA in Japanese! See also TAIWAN 9960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Sunrise skip MW DX:
610, Aug 27 at 1159, ``Sólo por la G-S``, 5:59 time, therefore per Cantú: 610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
But did not hear ``La Ley`` mentioned; still vigent?
1160 mystery, solved: not a Mexican: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Surprised to see KFOR-27 OKC with totally green screen and nothing else during the `Tonight Show`, UT Saturday Aug 27 at 0408, and kept that way almost until 0426, dead audio too until suddenly rejoined during Richard Engel interview rerun. Both OTA RF 27, and via Suddenlink cable. Meanwhile, OTA 4.2 had usual continuous weather, and 4.3 with Ant TV, `Benny Hill`, no greenscreens there.
This is a favorite time of night for EAS tests to interrupt programming (tho I hadn`t noticed it on any other station), so I wonder if the EAS thingie got stuck?? They do use a similar shade of green for background of crawlers at screentop when funxioning normally. Was no one paying attention at KFOR master control?? Hmmm, are EAS tests not required on subchannels too?
Earlier in the afternoon, the finale of Jeopardy on Channel 4 had `technical difficulties` so on the following newscasts KFOR had to apologetically tell viewers who won, twice! Meanwhile, KROU 105.7 antenna is being installed upon the KFOR tower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 10300, Aug 27 at 1239, weak Chinese, no Firedrake, presumed Sound of Hope. Firedrake was also widely absent today; see CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9960, Aug 27 at 1301, Vietnamese squeezed between DentroCuban Jamming Commands on 9955 and 9965; not in HFCC, but Aoki as Family Radio via Tainan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9890, Aug 27 at 1235, R. Thailand in fairly well during English news about a bombing; at first thought re Pakistan, but apparently in Thailand itself, southern unrest vs new government, then other political news of Thailand. By 1258 more flutter in talk about heart attacks, ulcers. BTW, VOA was missing from 9885, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, Sat Aug 27 at 1248, VOT talking about R. Free Asia, perhaps its special off-topic Japanese QSL this weekend, so must be an on-week for `DX Corner`; poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, Aug 27 at 1203, 7:03 time on ``La Super Equis, 11-60 AM`` in KSL null, then live YL DJ. Cantú has 5 Mexicans on 1160, none with this slogan, nor any X in the callsigns after the first letter! How about the one in X-alapa, Veracruz, XEBE, Radio Perote? That`s really too far east at this hour, and too far-fetched.
Could it be a US domestic? Googling finds Super X was the name of Albuquerque 1190 a dekayear ago, and currently of 1250 in Kansas City, but that`s no help. Maybe it`s a syndicated/group name? It`s in the CDT zone. There are two Texans: KVCE in Highland Park, address in Houston; and KRDY San Antonio as in Radio Disney per last year`s NRC AM Log. Has one of those Hispanicized?
Aha, got it, by changing the Google from Equis to X: it`s merely Kansas City, http://www.lasuperx1160.com/ Just try to find a callsign on that website! Last year`s NRC-AM log has KCTO, Cleveland MO, address in Liberty MO, talk/oldies format. FCC AM Query shows it`s still KCTO, COL Cleveland. That`s such a speck, it`s not in the Rand McNally index, but finally found it south of KC MO on the MO side of the border, while address in Liberty KS is way up on the NE side of KC. But is the site in KS or MO? Longitude is 94-36-28. This source
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ks_geography.htm
says Kansas starts at 94 degrees 38 minutes west, so that puts it in MO, barely.
So what has become of KYYS 1250 Kansas City KS, which had been ``La Super Equis``? It`s easy to hear here but had not paid much attention to current sloganeering; still in Spanish, anyway. Domain http://www.lasuperx1250.com/ has expired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN, all three transmitters missing earlier on Aug 26, but at 2124 found 15610 back on, poor in English about Guatemala; 13830 very poor in Spanish, nothing on 12050. So one transmitter is down, two are back.
Then UT Aug 27 still found on two out of three:
0537 on 11870, usual poor signal in Spanish, but nothing on 7555
1231, nothing on 7555
1240, 12050 fair with organ music during morning mass; squeal at 1356
1244, 13580 with same mass in original English, peaking S9+10 and cannot hear any +/- 9 kHz spurs, making me wonder if they have swapped transmitters while one of them is down?
1325, 13580 is stronger now, still no spurs audible, but:
1357, 13580 now is strong enough to audiblize the spurs; never mind
1358, 15610 weak but audible with Regina Cœli IS, ex-13580; nothing on 11550 after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, Aug 27 at 1239, VOA Spanish missing, but still going with weekend music fill on 13750, 15590. Hurricane Irene is now buffeting Greenville-B, but ancient transmitters are subject to breakdown anyway. See my yesterday`s report for full Greenville schedule, more frequencies to check if missing.
UNC-TV has produced a video visit to VOA GB, must see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0Wdg0rwgk
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, Aug 27 at 1233 and 1355, no signal from WTJC; no doubt off due to Hurricane Irene. Newport is at the southern end of the Cape, only a few miles inland. God`s wrath for daring to represent Him without permission? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###