** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 5, before 1200:
7970, fair with flutter at 1145
13920, poor with flutter at 1149
14700, poor with flutter at 1150
15900, fair at 1150
Circa 1230:
15900, fair at 1228
10300, good with flutter at 1235
No others found 7-19 MHz
After 1300:
15280, very poor at 1310 vs 15283 het
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 11750, Sept 4 at 2158, heard a bit of talk with good signal, not enough to decide on the language before cut off the air abruptly at 2159*. HFCC shows it was KSDA in Chinese due northwest. KSDA uses 11750 only at 21-22 and 1300-1330 (Sun -1400) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, Sept 5 at 0539, RTG on earlier than usual, poor signal with hilife music, checked after finding MAURITANIA, q.v., absent from 7245. FWIW, WRTH 2011 shows sign-on times via FM as 0555 weekdays, 0800 Sundays, with 7125 irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Sept 5 at 1313, VOI is fair with flutter peaking S9+22, but you wouldn`t know it by listening, as it`s undermodulated, during `Today in History` about a plane crash; also IADs of up to five seconds at a time; 1316 onto next talk about the University of Indonesia. Reception seems to be gradually improving (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, IRRS via Tiganeshti, ROMANIA, Sept 5 at 1308 is running Brother Scare instead of KQED, so promptly tuned out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 5 at 0538, no signal from IGIM, so I left a BFO on 7244 and heard the carrier cut on at *0542:40, JIP music. They have finally reverted to pre-Ramadan practice of turning it on sometime before 0600, rather than 24 hours. A few minutes later into characteristic chanting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX Sept 5; skipping repeats of several recently logged signals on 610, 650, 770:
540, Sept 5 at 1203 Mexican NA, and ID as XETX, ``La Ranchera de [something], 5000 watts, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Grupo G-M Radio``, then into quick spoken prayer with familiar pronoun tú, and seeming hymn. Cantú shows lower power:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250
5 kW or 1 kW, a nice catch, I think as I continue to be amazed that XEWA SLP is not a problem on 540 with its listed 150 kW day and night; I think that must really be QRP.
710, Sept 5 at 1206, ``Noticias 7-10``, W&M, starting with efemérides items, not exactly news. I assume, but am not positive this was a program on ``XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` which I had heard but not relogged with equally good signal 4 minutes earlier, full ID claiming 7,500 watts
830, Sept 5 at 1201, `La Grande de Sinaloa``, 6:02 time, noticias:
830 XEVQ La Grande de Sinaloa Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 1,000
920, Sept 5 at 1159, ID mentions 104.1 y 920, ``Nueva Nueva``, so:
920 XECQ La Nueva Ranchera + FM 104.1 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 500
1040, Sept 5 at 1218, ``La Once, número uno, la primera`` also mentions 90.1 FM. I think I finally get it, Once = two firsts, 1 and 1 as in the slogan!
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Sept 5 at 1232, open carrier with hum, flutter peaking S9+12, so Dushanbé is back to wasting watts instead of relaying V. of Russia in English as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 17760, Sept 5 at 1152, BBCWS about football, fluttery but readable signal on this 25 degree USward beam from Nakhon Sawan at 09-12, just before sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, Sept 5 at 0538, whew, IWT is back after missing 24.5 hours earlier, music and Arabic talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330, Sept 5 at 0537 no signal from WBCQ (instead of reduced carrier and no modulation); tho 9370 WTJC was in as usual, along with propagation from France, 9535 Algeria relay. Next check at 1317, 9330 back on as usual with distorted music on CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, Sept 5 at 1224, WWCR is inbooming instead of inaudible, tnx to sporadic E activity (there was an opening yesterday evening I totally missed over eastern USA, reaching FM), with gospel huxter, splattering 15800-15840, and also matching modulation spikes circa 15670 vs the Chinese radio war. (Today by 1430, there is more Es on the 50 MHz DX Sherlock map all over central USA.)
Recheck at 1252, `Ask WWCR` in progress, saying that they did test 17580 twice in the 21-24 UT period with the `spare` WWCR-4 transmitter, received no reports except from their own monitoring, got into Slovakia, Germany, western USA, excellent results, and ``may work it into the mix later``. 9350 after 21 is beginning to weaken and may replace it with 5070 soon; also will be using 3195 [which WWRB also says it is using, but really not yet].
Since I had missed the first half, I listened online to the `latest` edition, #346 for Aug 27-Sept 9, but it wasn`t the same! Discussed upcoming HFCC and said this edition might run 3 weeks instead of 2 as they would be away at the conference disrupting usual scheduling. Said ``two Mondays ago in the early evening hours``, CR-1 was down with a blown switch, so they substituted the spare CR-4 transmitter for it and did not lose any airtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 990, Sept 5 at 1212, talk in English about the history of Fort Osage, dominating frequency at the moment, certainly not SS KFCD in TX. There is no 990 in OK, but the closest to Osage country is KRMO in Cassville, SW Missouri. Supposedly has `Hot Country Music` until 1245 weekdays, but probably a brief feature:
http://www.krmo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=66
Fort Osage is/was axually in NW Missouri near Independence where there are no 990s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7970, fair with flutter at 1145
13920, poor with flutter at 1149
14700, poor with flutter at 1150
15900, fair at 1150
Circa 1230:
15900, fair at 1228
10300, good with flutter at 1235
No others found 7-19 MHz
After 1300:
15280, very poor at 1310 vs 15283 het
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 11750, Sept 4 at 2158, heard a bit of talk with good signal, not enough to decide on the language before cut off the air abruptly at 2159*. HFCC shows it was KSDA in Chinese due northwest. KSDA uses 11750 only at 21-22 and 1300-1330 (Sun -1400) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, Sept 5 at 0539, RTG on earlier than usual, poor signal with hilife music, checked after finding MAURITANIA, q.v., absent from 7245. FWIW, WRTH 2011 shows sign-on times via FM as 0555 weekdays, 0800 Sundays, with 7125 irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Sept 5 at 1313, VOI is fair with flutter peaking S9+22, but you wouldn`t know it by listening, as it`s undermodulated, during `Today in History` about a plane crash; also IADs of up to five seconds at a time; 1316 onto next talk about the University of Indonesia. Reception seems to be gradually improving (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, IRRS via Tiganeshti, ROMANIA, Sept 5 at 1308 is running Brother Scare instead of KQED, so promptly tuned out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 5 at 0538, no signal from IGIM, so I left a BFO on 7244 and heard the carrier cut on at *0542:40, JIP music. They have finally reverted to pre-Ramadan practice of turning it on sometime before 0600, rather than 24 hours. A few minutes later into characteristic chanting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX Sept 5; skipping repeats of several recently logged signals on 610, 650, 770:
540, Sept 5 at 1203 Mexican NA, and ID as XETX, ``La Ranchera de [something], 5000 watts, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Grupo G-M Radio``, then into quick spoken prayer with familiar pronoun tú, and seeming hymn. Cantú shows lower power:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250
5 kW or 1 kW, a nice catch, I think as I continue to be amazed that XEWA SLP is not a problem on 540 with its listed 150 kW day and night; I think that must really be QRP.
710, Sept 5 at 1206, ``Noticias 7-10``, W&M, starting with efemérides items, not exactly news. I assume, but am not positive this was a program on ``XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` which I had heard but not relogged with equally good signal 4 minutes earlier, full ID claiming 7,500 watts
830, Sept 5 at 1201, `La Grande de Sinaloa``, 6:02 time, noticias:
830 XEVQ La Grande de Sinaloa Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 1,000
920, Sept 5 at 1159, ID mentions 104.1 y 920, ``Nueva Nueva``, so:
920 XECQ La Nueva Ranchera + FM 104.1 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 500
1040, Sept 5 at 1218, ``La Once, número uno, la primera`` also mentions 90.1 FM. I think I finally get it, Once = two firsts, 1 and 1 as in the slogan!
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Sept 5 at 1232, open carrier with hum, flutter peaking S9+12, so Dushanbé is back to wasting watts instead of relaying V. of Russia in English as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 17760, Sept 5 at 1152, BBCWS about football, fluttery but readable signal on this 25 degree USward beam from Nakhon Sawan at 09-12, just before sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, Sept 5 at 0538, whew, IWT is back after missing 24.5 hours earlier, music and Arabic talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330, Sept 5 at 0537 no signal from WBCQ (instead of reduced carrier and no modulation); tho 9370 WTJC was in as usual, along with propagation from France, 9535 Algeria relay. Next check at 1317, 9330 back on as usual with distorted music on CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, Sept 5 at 1224, WWCR is inbooming instead of inaudible, tnx to sporadic E activity (there was an opening yesterday evening I totally missed over eastern USA, reaching FM), with gospel huxter, splattering 15800-15840, and also matching modulation spikes circa 15670 vs the Chinese radio war. (Today by 1430, there is more Es on the 50 MHz DX Sherlock map all over central USA.)
Recheck at 1252, `Ask WWCR` in progress, saying that they did test 17580 twice in the 21-24 UT period with the `spare` WWCR-4 transmitter, received no reports except from their own monitoring, got into Slovakia, Germany, western USA, excellent results, and ``may work it into the mix later``. 9350 after 21 is beginning to weaken and may replace it with 5070 soon; also will be using 3195 [which WWRB also says it is using, but really not yet].
Since I had missed the first half, I listened online to the `latest` edition, #346 for Aug 27-Sept 9, but it wasn`t the same! Discussed upcoming HFCC and said this edition might run 3 weeks instead of 2 as they would be away at the conference disrupting usual scheduling. Said ``two Mondays ago in the early evening hours``, CR-1 was down with a blown switch, so they substituted the spare CR-4 transmitter for it and did not lose any airtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 990, Sept 5 at 1212, talk in English about the history of Fort Osage, dominating frequency at the moment, certainly not SS KFCD in TX. There is no 990 in OK, but the closest to Osage country is KRMO in Cassville, SW Missouri. Supposedly has `Hot Country Music` until 1245 weekdays, but probably a brief feature:
http://www.krmo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=66
Fort Osage is/was axually in NW Missouri near Independence where there are no 990s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
