announcements, i.e. 10 kW ZYE890, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, poorly
audible tho registering S9+15. Propagation disturbance had wiped out most
signals, but this and some other Brazilians were weakly audible, 9645.3,
9565 mixed with offtime Cuban jamming, 9586.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake August 6, found only these in full bandscans 10-18 MHz
following G3 geomagnetic storms, K-index at 12 being 3:
10300, fair at 1225, good at 1258; JBA at 1336
12980, poor at 1227 and 1258
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 45, Aug 6 at 0404 UT, Tulsa tropo visiblizes KOTV`s
three channels, with PSIP IDs:
6-1 KOTV-HD
6-2 KOTV-CW
6-3 Newson6
I stayed with 6-3 for some news? No, commercial after commercial until
finally at 0412 I saw that 10 pm news playback had started, judging from the
clock and temp bug in the LR showing 10:02 and 104 degrees(!!). Grafik style
on KOTV matches co-owned KWTV-39 OKC, especially the 6 and 9 in white with
red background.
Still in next morning at 1351 UT when so-called Newson6 is axually running
animated kidvid, no bugs, not even e/i, and poorly selected advertising for
a Bob Moore car dealership at 1357, then credit roll for `Adventures of
Piggly Wiggly`. 1400 `Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?` -- animation on
that sure is jerky, cheapo.
Several other Tulsa-area DTVs were decoding, not including KRSC-36,
unfortunately, only 144 kW. But yes, unfortunately including KWHB-47, WHT =
World Harvest Television as in WHRI on SW, 47-2 named KWHB-D2 with adstring
at 1349. One can rotate north and often get KSNW-45 from Wichita at the same
time as KOTV-45 is tropo-enhanced. KSNW has no subchannels; what a waste.
But then I can sometimes get KPTS-8 on 8.3 with PBS` Create, which OETA will
not air.
Earlier at 1306 UT, the only analog I was getting, peaking due west was on
ch 53, looked like an infomercial for YLs, but it was breakfast time and
when I rechecked at 1340 it had gone. I would have guessed first K53EE in
Follett TX, 1040 watts of KCIT-15 Amarillo, except there were no signals on
47 and 49 to accompany it as yesterday morning. K53CI in Seiling OK is
closer and should be DXable, 815 watts of KFOR-27, but is southerly from due
west, and KFOR has local news at that hour. One other possibility, much
further, is K53BE, Guymon, 6.56 kW with TBN.
I have also been getting signs of analog video on ch 58, not achieving
horizontal hold, even when there is no tropo, and hard to find a peak
direxion; may be cable radiation? It might also have been a 2 x IF receiver
image, except there are no local analogs to produce it (Glenn Hauser, Enid
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###