** CANADA. 750, Oct 17 at 1202 UT, amid QRM, Canadian news in English about HIV outbreak in Ottawa from unlicenced clinic; temps in Celsius, but could not catch any locations. Since it`s inconceivable any American or Mexican station would do this, fortunately there is only one Canadian possibility: CKJH Melfort, Sask., 25000/25000 U3. Per NRC AM Log, 24 hours as ``CK 750, The Greatest Hits Of All Time``. A new one here; NRC Pattern Book shows all the night signal going just east of due north, yeah right, but non-direxional daytime which it is not yet. It`s certainly not CBGY in Newfoundland, nor one of two 40-watt LPRTs in Quebec/Québec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1190, Oct 17 at 1219, pizza ad with phone 848-5000, AM-1190 ID, C&W music from N/S. Leads to Weyburn, Sask, and a Facebook item from August:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=250555248308868&id=111247462239648
``Call 848-5000 or play along on the AM 1190 Facebook page. The winner will be given the title od [sic] Coffee Row Genius of the Day and win lunch at T & C Dallas Pizza in downtown Weyburn. Good luck! - Corey``
So it`s another unexpected Canadian, CFSL, Weyburn SK, 10000/5000 U2, C&W 24h, ``AM 1190`` per NRC AM Log. If I had heard ``Dallas Pizza`` mentioned that would really have led to a wild goose chase. Like CKJH-750, CFSL-1190 night pattern is supposed to throw all the signal slightly east of due north, yeah right2; daytime non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 17, before 1200:
12230, very poor at 1142; no others found 7-17 MHz by 1151. Higher bands still mostly dead before sunrise
Before 1300:
7970 and 10300: nothing at 1250
12230, very good at 1256
13970, very good at 1257
16100, very good at 1258
18200, good at 1259-1300*. Yes, 18200, not 18180; none on other bands
Before 1400:
16700, very good at 1348; yes, not 16900
16100, very good at 1348; none in the 15s, 17s, 18s
14700, very good at 1351
13970, very good at 1354
13920, very good at 1354
12230, very poor at 1354; none in the 11s, 10s, 9s, 8s, 7s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, Oct 17 at 0347, I can detect a carrier here under heavy jamming (not 5955), presumably still R. República via ELCOR. I hear that their schedule has been reduced to roughly 0200-0400, and no longer on daytime 9965, which also continues to be fiercely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6150, Oct 17 at 0523, RHC`s crummy squealing and undermodulated transmitter is gone! But probably not for good. English remained on redundant 6010, 6050 and 6060. This allowed AUSTRIA to be unimpeded in German on 6155.
13880, Oct 17 at 1353 I am not hearing RHC`s leapfrog mixing product altho fundamentals 13680 and 13780 are strong enough, S9+22. Can RHC have suppressed it? Or made some change in transmitters and/or antennas which are less subject to intermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 25985-26010, Oct 17 at 1411, OTH radar pulses presumed from here; no others at the moment from 22 to 27 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. So much for personal diplomacy. Despite my explaining the collision on 11920 both to delegates from RRI and from VIRI at Dallas HFCC a month ago, they are still both on the frequency. Oct 17 at 0348, ``Voice of Justice`` in English is good and clear on 11920, stronger than // 9605, but at 0358 recheck, as usual RRI is on early with domestic service relay in Romanian, music and announcements before 0400, and is stronger than Iran, a bad mixture.
Who cares about the listeners? It`s so much easier not to do anything, and just wait for the next seasonal change to take care of it. For B-11, neither will be on 11920. VIRI plans to move English back to 0130-0230 on 7220 Kamalabad, 333 degrees, and 7230, Sirjan 313 degrees, both for N America, and the latter also for Europe; While RRI plans to have an English broadcast at 0400-0500, on 6130 and 7305 to NAm, 11895 and 15220 to Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 17, UT, with Cantú then IRCA lookups:
670, Oct 17 at 1206 UT, TC as 7:06, ``la voz del pueblo`` slogan again twice, maybe a program title which seemed to be ending, full ID as Radio Ranchito, mil watts, including street address in Colonia Ampliación Los Ángeles, Torreón, Grupo Radio México. Then to live DJ mentioning date 17 de octubre
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR
So they claim only 1000 watts, not 5000, and it sounds like the lower
680, Oct 17 at 1210 UT, greeting listeners who are pescadores, or in Municipio de Angostura; 1212 mentions ``el sur de Sonora, y Chihuahua``; loops E/W or so. Greeting fishermen implies it`s near the coast. Altho there are surely several Angosturas, there is one SE of Guasave near Guamuchil, so these clews lead once again to:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
680 XEORO Sin Guasave 1000 500 La Mera Jefa, X-E-oro 1200-0600 RAN RDIO
680, Oct 17 at 1228 UT with KNBR nulled, TC for 6:29, ``noticias en punto``, news of an event Thu-Sun, norte de México, mentions people coming from diverse states including BCS, Hidalgo, Durango. CCI from another Mexican with music. XEORO is also UT -6 but now it`s likely the more northerly one:
680 XEFO Éxtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
680 XEFO Chih Chihuahua 1000 250 W Radio, Éxtasis Digital 1200-0100 JUV CIMA
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 17 at 0535, VON is the SSOB at S9+8, report in English on banking, with background noise, distortion, awful hum. Became slightly better when returned to the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 9610, Oct 17 at 0530, fair signal and good modulation with Hamada Radio International ID immediately in Hausa, the clandestine, oops target broadcast via RMI via M&B due south from Wertachtal, GERMANY, M-F 0530-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 32, since first noticed last week, KXOK-LD, Enid has continued to broadcast RTV in DTV both on RF channel 31 as listed, and on weaker RF 32, such as Oct 17 at 1445-1700+ UT. I dropped by the TV-OK office in the Broadway Tower Friday afternoon, but it was dark. Now I phone them and the person who answers is unaware of this, but the CE Shawn (Sean?) is supposed to call me back.
I asked Doug Smith of WSMV and W9WI.com and he cannot imagine how there could be a DTV image or spur on an adjacent channel to the real one. 32 was their original analog channel. Perhaps the old 40-watt transitional DTV transmitter on 31 has been moved to 32 as a standby/backup? But it still ought to be on 31 as authorized, not 32.
FCC TV Query has KXOK only on 31; on 32 in OK there are 5 LP CPs, none near here, and one LP DTV licensed in Altus, certainly not what I am getting (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. See IRAN [and non] re 11920 collision all A-11
** RUSSIA. 28555-USB, Oct 17 at 1407, RN3AC, George in Moscow, making hasty contacts, `beaming stateside` but interrupted for a quickie in Italian, then English with KA1SJD, Jim in Massachusetts. QRZ.com:
RN3AC
George B. Melnikov
Rossoshansky pr. 2-2-153
117535, Moscow
Russia
Lots more signals on 10m up to 28600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9575, Oct 17 at 1358, gong IS and English ID as ``HSK9, Radio Thailand`s World Service, broadcasting from the Public Relations Department in Bangkok``, repeat IS and ID. Good and clear signal right after Australia closed 9580. However, off at 1359* and back on weaker at *1400 just in time for pips, ID as ``Radio Thailand, AM 9-18, time for the 8 pm news magazine``. Must be delayed an hour since local time is now 9 pm (UT +7). And Udorn must have been late, making the beam switch from 54 degrees for the 1330-1400 Thai broadcast to 132 degrees for the 1400-1430 English. Should have done so before the IS/ID break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9540, Oct 17 at 1357, VOT IS, Arabic ID, fair. Could be long-path; is 250 kW, 150 degrees from Emirler at 14-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, Oct 17 at 1315-1320, R. Sawa interrupts pop music for fast-paced newscast including axualities, one of them Sarkozy starting to speak French. Previously heard the other hourly newscast lasting only one minute at :45. 17530 is 13-15, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Kuwait, and well heard even here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW DX 9-kHz-step scan on DX-398 with internal antenna only in offset USB mode, Oct 17 at 1225-1228 UT: very weak carriers on 1044, 828, 774, 747, 738 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17535, Oct 17 at 1304-1305* and right back on *1305-1306*, strong and steady open carrier, just like Greenville used to do a few minutes later on 17820 preparing for the 1700 VOA Portuguese service. Then I check 17820 for a few minutes past 1315, but DW Hausa is not impeded by an OC, so maybe GB got my message and decided to find a clear frequency for warmup? Still on 17820 at 1725 check. HFCC A-11 has Riyadh registered on 17535 at 12-14, but I`ve never heard it there, so presumably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1190, Oct 17 at 1219, pizza ad with phone 848-5000, AM-1190 ID, C&W music from N/S. Leads to Weyburn, Sask, and a Facebook item from August:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=250555248308868&id=111247462239648
``Call 848-5000 or play along on the AM 1190 Facebook page. The winner will be given the title od [sic] Coffee Row Genius of the Day and win lunch at T & C Dallas Pizza in downtown Weyburn. Good luck! - Corey``
So it`s another unexpected Canadian, CFSL, Weyburn SK, 10000/5000 U2, C&W 24h, ``AM 1190`` per NRC AM Log. If I had heard ``Dallas Pizza`` mentioned that would really have led to a wild goose chase. Like CKJH-750, CFSL-1190 night pattern is supposed to throw all the signal slightly east of due north, yeah right2; daytime non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 17, before 1200:
12230, very poor at 1142; no others found 7-17 MHz by 1151. Higher bands still mostly dead before sunrise
Before 1300:
7970 and 10300: nothing at 1250
12230, very good at 1256
13970, very good at 1257
16100, very good at 1258
18200, good at 1259-1300*. Yes, 18200, not 18180; none on other bands
Before 1400:
16700, very good at 1348; yes, not 16900
16100, very good at 1348; none in the 15s, 17s, 18s
14700, very good at 1351
13970, very good at 1354
13920, very good at 1354
12230, very poor at 1354; none in the 11s, 10s, 9s, 8s, 7s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, Oct 17 at 0347, I can detect a carrier here under heavy jamming (not 5955), presumably still R. República via ELCOR. I hear that their schedule has been reduced to roughly 0200-0400, and no longer on daytime 9965, which also continues to be fiercely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6150, Oct 17 at 0523, RHC`s crummy squealing and undermodulated transmitter is gone! But probably not for good. English remained on redundant 6010, 6050 and 6060. This allowed AUSTRIA to be unimpeded in German on 6155.
13880, Oct 17 at 1353 I am not hearing RHC`s leapfrog mixing product altho fundamentals 13680 and 13780 are strong enough, S9+22. Can RHC have suppressed it? Or made some change in transmitters and/or antennas which are less subject to intermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 25985-26010, Oct 17 at 1411, OTH radar pulses presumed from here; no others at the moment from 22 to 27 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. So much for personal diplomacy. Despite my explaining the collision on 11920 both to delegates from RRI and from VIRI at Dallas HFCC a month ago, they are still both on the frequency. Oct 17 at 0348, ``Voice of Justice`` in English is good and clear on 11920, stronger than // 9605, but at 0358 recheck, as usual RRI is on early with domestic service relay in Romanian, music and announcements before 0400, and is stronger than Iran, a bad mixture.
Who cares about the listeners? It`s so much easier not to do anything, and just wait for the next seasonal change to take care of it. For B-11, neither will be on 11920. VIRI plans to move English back to 0130-0230 on 7220 Kamalabad, 333 degrees, and 7230, Sirjan 313 degrees, both for N America, and the latter also for Europe; While RRI plans to have an English broadcast at 0400-0500, on 6130 and 7305 to NAm, 11895 and 15220 to Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 17, UT, with Cantú then IRCA lookups:
670, Oct 17 at 1206 UT, TC as 7:06, ``la voz del pueblo`` slogan again twice, maybe a program title which seemed to be ending, full ID as Radio Ranchito, mil watts, including street address in Colonia Ampliación Los Ángeles, Torreón, Grupo Radio México. Then to live DJ mentioning date 17 de octubre
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR
So they claim only 1000 watts, not 5000, and it sounds like the lower
680, Oct 17 at 1210 UT, greeting listeners who are pescadores, or in Municipio de Angostura; 1212 mentions ``el sur de Sonora, y Chihuahua``; loops E/W or so. Greeting fishermen implies it`s near the coast. Altho there are surely several Angosturas, there is one SE of Guasave near Guamuchil, so these clews lead once again to:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
680 XEORO Sin Guasave 1000 500 La Mera Jefa, X-E-oro 1200-0600 RAN RDIO
680, Oct 17 at 1228 UT with KNBR nulled, TC for 6:29, ``noticias en punto``, news of an event Thu-Sun, norte de México, mentions people coming from diverse states including BCS, Hidalgo, Durango. CCI from another Mexican with music. XEORO is also UT -6 but now it`s likely the more northerly one:
680 XEFO Éxtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
680 XEFO Chih Chihuahua 1000 250 W Radio, Éxtasis Digital 1200-0100 JUV CIMA
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 17 at 0535, VON is the SSOB at S9+8, report in English on banking, with background noise, distortion, awful hum. Became slightly better when returned to the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 9610, Oct 17 at 0530, fair signal and good modulation with Hamada Radio International ID immediately in Hausa, the clandestine, oops target broadcast via RMI via M&B due south from Wertachtal, GERMANY, M-F 0530-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 32, since first noticed last week, KXOK-LD, Enid has continued to broadcast RTV in DTV both on RF channel 31 as listed, and on weaker RF 32, such as Oct 17 at 1445-1700+ UT. I dropped by the TV-OK office in the Broadway Tower Friday afternoon, but it was dark. Now I phone them and the person who answers is unaware of this, but the CE Shawn (Sean?) is supposed to call me back.
I asked Doug Smith of WSMV and W9WI.com and he cannot imagine how there could be a DTV image or spur on an adjacent channel to the real one. 32 was their original analog channel. Perhaps the old 40-watt transitional DTV transmitter on 31 has been moved to 32 as a standby/backup? But it still ought to be on 31 as authorized, not 32.
FCC TV Query has KXOK only on 31; on 32 in OK there are 5 LP CPs, none near here, and one LP DTV licensed in Altus, certainly not what I am getting (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. See IRAN [and non] re 11920 collision all A-11
** RUSSIA. 28555-USB, Oct 17 at 1407, RN3AC, George in Moscow, making hasty contacts, `beaming stateside` but interrupted for a quickie in Italian, then English with KA1SJD, Jim in Massachusetts. QRZ.com:
RN3AC
George B. Melnikov
Rossoshansky pr. 2-2-153
117535, Moscow
Russia
Lots more signals on 10m up to 28600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9575, Oct 17 at 1358, gong IS and English ID as ``HSK9, Radio Thailand`s World Service, broadcasting from the Public Relations Department in Bangkok``, repeat IS and ID. Good and clear signal right after Australia closed 9580. However, off at 1359* and back on weaker at *1400 just in time for pips, ID as ``Radio Thailand, AM 9-18, time for the 8 pm news magazine``. Must be delayed an hour since local time is now 9 pm (UT +7). And Udorn must have been late, making the beam switch from 54 degrees for the 1330-1400 Thai broadcast to 132 degrees for the 1400-1430 English. Should have done so before the IS/ID break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9540, Oct 17 at 1357, VOT IS, Arabic ID, fair. Could be long-path; is 250 kW, 150 degrees from Emirler at 14-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, Oct 17 at 1315-1320, R. Sawa interrupts pop music for fast-paced newscast including axualities, one of them Sarkozy starting to speak French. Previously heard the other hourly newscast lasting only one minute at :45. 17530 is 13-15, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Kuwait, and well heard even here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW DX 9-kHz-step scan on DX-398 with internal antenna only in offset USB mode, Oct 17 at 1225-1228 UT: very weak carriers on 1044, 828, 774, 747, 738 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17535, Oct 17 at 1304-1305* and right back on *1305-1306*, strong and steady open carrier, just like Greenville used to do a few minutes later on 17820 preparing for the 1700 VOA Portuguese service. Then I check 17820 for a few minutes past 1315, but DW Hausa is not impeded by an OC, so maybe GB got my message and decided to find a clear frequency for warmup? Still on 17820 at 1725 check. HFCC A-11 has Riyadh registered on 17535 at 12-14, but I`ve never heard it there, so presumably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)