** ALASKA. 9920, Oct 3 at 1328 only a JBA carrier from presumed KNLS Chinese service, which only yesterday was audible sufficiently well, in wildly variable propagation (or operation?) from Anchor Point. Similar hi-latitude paths from Firedrake were better than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 3, before 1300, thirteen at once:
7970, good at 1253
8400, fair at 1253; not heard here in some time, tho others have had it at earlier hours recently
10300, good at 1253
11500, poor at 1254 under VOR/Tajikistan carrier, hum
11990, fair at 1255 mixing with CNR1 jammer, unusual; 12040 just CNR1
12600, good at 1255
13680, fair at 1256 (RHC not on yet); nothing in Aoki, HFCC to explain
13920, very good at 1256
16700, good at 1257
14970, very good at 1257
15670, poor at 1258, mixing with CNR1
15900, poor at 1258
16700, fair at 1259; none in the 17s, 18s
1330 and after, eleven found at once:
15275, fair at 1330 without noise jamming too; 15278 VOT het
14700, poor at 1330
13960, fair at 1332
13920, very good at 1332
13130, good at 1333
13050, good at 1333, never reported before by me or in DXLD
12600, good at 1334
12500, very good at 1334
11500, poor at 1336, lo het with VOR/Tajikistan
10300, very good at 1336
7970, very poor at 1336
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON. 19160+, Oct 2 at 2003, JBA carrier, slightly on hi side compared to WWCR 12160. Possibly the second harmonic of ANO 9580 is showing up again now that HF propagation has improved. Bears further monitoring; might have been something local, however, as quite steady level, still at 2047 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15640, Oct 2 at 2119, DW ending sports report of which there will be only three more before DW ``cancels lots of programs``, but to be replaced Oct 30 by one about football. 2120 into `Learning by Ear`, not language lesson but about sexually abused teenager in South Africa; unpleasant, but necessary programming, I suppose. This frequency via RWANDA will not last past A-11 either, 295 degrees and inadvertently USward too, as DW already abandoned its NAm audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Oct 3 at 0521, no signal from VOG when it is normally audible; nor 15630 at 1411 check, as sporadic operation (or new reduced schedule?) continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 3 at 1240-1250, lively Indonesian talk, mostly YL, i.e. RRI Palangkaraya, best heard in some time (but still too much local line noise, especially below 5 MHz and MW; spotted an OG&E truck in the neighborhood a few days ago, but problem still not fixed.) Also had carrier on 4750 at 1252. 3325 was the OSOB, as nothing on 3185 where WWRB is normally still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Oct 3 at 1337-1400+, V. of Mesopotamia with enjoyable nonstop Kurdish music, S9+20 but still sounding marginal, via UKRAINE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 2 at 1910, quick check finds R. Kuwait still there with feature talk in English, whew; couldn`t hear it yesterday. However, by 2055 toward end of two-sesquihour English broadcast, it had become JBA; after all, it`s nearly midnight in Kuwait. Also checked for Arabic to C&W NAm on 17550: at 2002, VP signal presumably this, inaudible by 2055 tho supposedly on until 2400. MOI seems to have an insufficient understanding of SW propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 3 at 0517, IGIM is already on with strumming, much earlier than usual, good signal. At 0530, a speech in Arabish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX Oct 3; LSR here now 1228 UT:
710, Oct 3 at 1201 UT, ``Grupo B-M Radio``, noticias W&M alternating, several mentions of ``aquí en Ciudad Cuauhtémoc:
710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100
See http://www.gbmradio.com/byfabian/
720, Oct 3 at 1200 UT, ID mentioning Saltillo, Coahuila. I have yet to hear the listed slogan or call letters in Cantú:
720 XEDE La Kaliente Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250
770, Oct 3 at 1230, mentions ``Cuarenta Principales``. The only 770 Top-40 in Cantú is:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
And then at 1231 does mention Los Mochis and a 5-letter XH- FM call, (listed XHREV), 6:31 timecheck.
800, Oct 3 at 1205 UT, ad for Zaragoza, Coahuila, OK modulation, so
800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah. 2,000 2,000
With KQCV OKC (not yet daytime) nulled as best I could, also audible the station with extremely distorted modulation, previously suspected to be XEZR, but soon gone. Next suspect for this further east is:
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
XEROK CiJz was not being heard at this time!
900, Oct 3 at 1208 UT, timecheck for 6:08, Radio Vida [? not Reina], introducing a program but first, a huge local adstring, including several businesses on ``Carretera a Álvaro Obregón``, already traced to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, one of them with website http://www.maquinariaw.com which is Wiebe, seller of heavy industrial and agricultural machinery, mostly imported from USA:
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
1410, Oct 3 at 1218 UT, conversation mentioning Secretaría de Educación Pública, so certainly a Mexican, also something about incendios (fires) in Mazatlán. It`s hard to pull Mexicans thru all the US QRM on upper regional channels. As I feared, there is no Mazatlán station here in perhaps national newscast, altho there is one in Los Mochis:
1410 XECF La Mexicana + 93.3 FM Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 3 at 0528, poor signal with hum more than modulation, unusable, but signatures of V of Nigeria. Wolfgang Büschel reports that the reason the new three-transmitter site at Abuja isn`t operational is that altho completed 22 months ago by Thalès-Thomcast, it still hasn`t been paid for by the government. Meanwhile a visiting German ham gets to test the extremely hi gain antennas with 100 watts input. This may also explain the recent reports of another VON on 15200, which I have yet to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. See USA: WWCR
** U S A. Does KNX break format? UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Sunday Oct 2 at 1237 UT, I am hearing an Alleluiah [pick your spelling] song from E/W in null of KLIO Wichita, and with the fast SAH caused by KLIO being off-frequency. KNX Los Ángeles is the usual station heard this way at night and sunrise, but aren`t they all-news?? To make it more confusing, at the moment, KLIO is talking, but it`s soon on to country gospel music at 1240 (rather than the usual True Oldies format!). 1240 still choral religious music from the other. KNX program schedule does not admit to any such deviation,
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/knx-1070-on-air-schedule/
but if it ever does go gospel, before 6 am Sunday would be the time to do the least damage. Can anyone confirm? There is hardly anything westward from here except KNX, but I see that KBCL, 250-watt daytimer in Bossier City [Shreveport] LA is `Praise 1070`, so maybe that was it, still propagating. However, there was no sign of any news-talk station, and KNX should have been in there. IBOC from 1080 KRLD abuzz but that nulls about the same direxion as from the 1070 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn: -- The only "religion" I've ever heard on KNX in 30+ years of listening is the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir 'cast originating (still?) at KSL, and that always started no later than 6AM PLT on Sunday mornings. Very 73z -- GREG HARDISON, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Yes. If you want news from KNX between 1230 and 1300 UT (during DST), you're out of luck. During that half-hour they carry the weekly broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Rick Lewis, WA, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. 1190, Oct 3 at 1226 UT, blues music from NW/SE. No doubt KVCU, the student station at Boulder CO, a rarity. Another AM station which dares to play music is 1130 KWKH Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1310, Oct 3 at 1222 UT, ``News-talk 13-10, KZRG`` IDs, items about St Louis & St Charles, but this is really Joplin MO, the station which got kudos for tornado coverage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 3 at 0515, WEWN Spanish is missing: nothing but the hash from France on the hi side which always forces one to sidetune to lo side of WEWN. JBA signals at 0526 on 11870 and 11520 indicate the other two WEWNs are still on. All three confirmed on at 1334: 12050 with squealy Spanish, 13580 with spurry English, 11550 OK Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 5890 & 5935, Oct 3 at 0527, you never know whether WWCR will be inbooming or propped-out; this time the latter, poor signals so not overloading the neighborhood for a change. (Some WWCR transmitters are also operating far below rated 100 kW.) Whew, at 1253, 5935 is not on the air like it was a couple days ago, so R. Rossii again unscathed on 5930 from DVR, much stronger than // 5940 with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, DVR == Dalniy Vostok Rossiya == Russian Far East; this used to be employed in IDs
** U S A. 3185, Oct 3 at 1240, no trace of WWRB which usually has not faded out completely yet, leaving 90m to Palangkaraya 3325. So has it moved up to 9385 already? Not there either by 1311, but Brother-Scaring at next check 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 15735, Oct 3 at 1304, NHK English, fair with some hum, as Uzbekistan would rather relay foreigners than present Radio Tashkent to the world any more. R. Japan English scheduled 1300-1330 at 141 degrees, 1400-1430 at 163 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11792, Oct 3 at 1401, approx. center of extremely distorted talk; intonation sounded Spanish, but not sure. Quickly compared to strong 25m Spanish signals, RHC, Martí, WEWN, REE but no matches, nor anywhere else scanning the band. Stopped at 1406 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21820-USB, Oct 3 at 1414, 2-way ``puta-madre`` colloquial Spanish, also mentioned barco, so probably poachers. Intruders, as 13m SWBC band officially extends up to 21850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 25615, Oct 2 at 2029, 2-way in Spanish, AMish mode, lowest of lots of ``11-meter`` freebanders propagating now, South America? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 30690+, Oct 2 at 2049, with F2 MUFs soaring, time to search again for harmonix 23-31 MHz. Found two very weak carriers here hetting, so could it be that Morocco and Argentina 15345v are both harmonicizing to het each other here too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 3, before 1300, thirteen at once:
7970, good at 1253
8400, fair at 1253; not heard here in some time, tho others have had it at earlier hours recently
10300, good at 1253
11500, poor at 1254 under VOR/Tajikistan carrier, hum
11990, fair at 1255 mixing with CNR1 jammer, unusual; 12040 just CNR1
12600, good at 1255
13680, fair at 1256 (RHC not on yet); nothing in Aoki, HFCC to explain
13920, very good at 1256
16700, good at 1257
14970, very good at 1257
15670, poor at 1258, mixing with CNR1
15900, poor at 1258
16700, fair at 1259; none in the 17s, 18s
1330 and after, eleven found at once:
15275, fair at 1330 without noise jamming too; 15278 VOT het
14700, poor at 1330
13960, fair at 1332
13920, very good at 1332
13130, good at 1333
13050, good at 1333, never reported before by me or in DXLD
12600, good at 1334
12500, very good at 1334
11500, poor at 1336, lo het with VOR/Tajikistan
10300, very good at 1336
7970, very poor at 1336
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON. 19160+, Oct 2 at 2003, JBA carrier, slightly on hi side compared to WWCR 12160. Possibly the second harmonic of ANO 9580 is showing up again now that HF propagation has improved. Bears further monitoring; might have been something local, however, as quite steady level, still at 2047 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15640, Oct 2 at 2119, DW ending sports report of which there will be only three more before DW ``cancels lots of programs``, but to be replaced Oct 30 by one about football. 2120 into `Learning by Ear`, not language lesson but about sexually abused teenager in South Africa; unpleasant, but necessary programming, I suppose. This frequency via RWANDA will not last past A-11 either, 295 degrees and inadvertently USward too, as DW already abandoned its NAm audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Oct 3 at 0521, no signal from VOG when it is normally audible; nor 15630 at 1411 check, as sporadic operation (or new reduced schedule?) continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 3 at 1240-1250, lively Indonesian talk, mostly YL, i.e. RRI Palangkaraya, best heard in some time (but still too much local line noise, especially below 5 MHz and MW; spotted an OG&E truck in the neighborhood a few days ago, but problem still not fixed.) Also had carrier on 4750 at 1252. 3325 was the OSOB, as nothing on 3185 where WWRB is normally still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Oct 3 at 1337-1400+, V. of Mesopotamia with enjoyable nonstop Kurdish music, S9+20 but still sounding marginal, via UKRAINE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 2 at 1910, quick check finds R. Kuwait still there with feature talk in English, whew; couldn`t hear it yesterday. However, by 2055 toward end of two-sesquihour English broadcast, it had become JBA; after all, it`s nearly midnight in Kuwait. Also checked for Arabic to C&W NAm on 17550: at 2002, VP signal presumably this, inaudible by 2055 tho supposedly on until 2400. MOI seems to have an insufficient understanding of SW propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 3 at 0517, IGIM is already on with strumming, much earlier than usual, good signal. At 0530, a speech in Arabish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX Oct 3; LSR here now 1228 UT:
710, Oct 3 at 1201 UT, ``Grupo B-M Radio``, noticias W&M alternating, several mentions of ``aquí en Ciudad Cuauhtémoc:
710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100
See http://www.gbmradio.com/byfabian/
720, Oct 3 at 1200 UT, ID mentioning Saltillo, Coahuila. I have yet to hear the listed slogan or call letters in Cantú:
720 XEDE La Kaliente Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250
770, Oct 3 at 1230, mentions ``Cuarenta Principales``. The only 770 Top-40 in Cantú is:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
And then at 1231 does mention Los Mochis and a 5-letter XH- FM call, (listed XHREV), 6:31 timecheck.
800, Oct 3 at 1205 UT, ad for Zaragoza, Coahuila, OK modulation, so
800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah. 2,000 2,000
With KQCV OKC (not yet daytime) nulled as best I could, also audible the station with extremely distorted modulation, previously suspected to be XEZR, but soon gone. Next suspect for this further east is:
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
XEROK CiJz was not being heard at this time!
900, Oct 3 at 1208 UT, timecheck for 6:08, Radio Vida [? not Reina], introducing a program but first, a huge local adstring, including several businesses on ``Carretera a Álvaro Obregón``, already traced to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, one of them with website http://www.maquinariaw.com which is Wiebe, seller of heavy industrial and agricultural machinery, mostly imported from USA:
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
1410, Oct 3 at 1218 UT, conversation mentioning Secretaría de Educación Pública, so certainly a Mexican, also something about incendios (fires) in Mazatlán. It`s hard to pull Mexicans thru all the US QRM on upper regional channels. As I feared, there is no Mazatlán station here in perhaps national newscast, altho there is one in Los Mochis:
1410 XECF La Mexicana + 93.3 FM Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 3 at 0528, poor signal with hum more than modulation, unusable, but signatures of V of Nigeria. Wolfgang Büschel reports that the reason the new three-transmitter site at Abuja isn`t operational is that altho completed 22 months ago by Thalès-Thomcast, it still hasn`t been paid for by the government. Meanwhile a visiting German ham gets to test the extremely hi gain antennas with 100 watts input. This may also explain the recent reports of another VON on 15200, which I have yet to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. See USA: WWCR
** U S A. Does KNX break format? UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Sunday Oct 2 at 1237 UT, I am hearing an Alleluiah [pick your spelling] song from E/W in null of KLIO Wichita, and with the fast SAH caused by KLIO being off-frequency. KNX Los Ángeles is the usual station heard this way at night and sunrise, but aren`t they all-news?? To make it more confusing, at the moment, KLIO is talking, but it`s soon on to country gospel music at 1240 (rather than the usual True Oldies format!). 1240 still choral religious music from the other. KNX program schedule does not admit to any such deviation,
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/knx-1070-on-air-schedule/
but if it ever does go gospel, before 6 am Sunday would be the time to do the least damage. Can anyone confirm? There is hardly anything westward from here except KNX, but I see that KBCL, 250-watt daytimer in Bossier City [Shreveport] LA is `Praise 1070`, so maybe that was it, still propagating. However, there was no sign of any news-talk station, and KNX should have been in there. IBOC from 1080 KRLD abuzz but that nulls about the same direxion as from the 1070 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn: -- The only "religion" I've ever heard on KNX in 30+ years of listening is the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir 'cast originating (still?) at KSL, and that always started no later than 6AM PLT on Sunday mornings. Very 73z -- GREG HARDISON, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Yes. If you want news from KNX between 1230 and 1300 UT (during DST), you're out of luck. During that half-hour they carry the weekly broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Rick Lewis, WA, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. 1190, Oct 3 at 1226 UT, blues music from NW/SE. No doubt KVCU, the student station at Boulder CO, a rarity. Another AM station which dares to play music is 1130 KWKH Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1310, Oct 3 at 1222 UT, ``News-talk 13-10, KZRG`` IDs, items about St Louis & St Charles, but this is really Joplin MO, the station which got kudos for tornado coverage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 3 at 0515, WEWN Spanish is missing: nothing but the hash from France on the hi side which always forces one to sidetune to lo side of WEWN. JBA signals at 0526 on 11870 and 11520 indicate the other two WEWNs are still on. All three confirmed on at 1334: 12050 with squealy Spanish, 13580 with spurry English, 11550 OK Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 5890 & 5935, Oct 3 at 0527, you never know whether WWCR will be inbooming or propped-out; this time the latter, poor signals so not overloading the neighborhood for a change. (Some WWCR transmitters are also operating far below rated 100 kW.) Whew, at 1253, 5935 is not on the air like it was a couple days ago, so R. Rossii again unscathed on 5930 from DVR, much stronger than // 5940 with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, DVR == Dalniy Vostok Rossiya == Russian Far East; this used to be employed in IDs
** U S A. 3185, Oct 3 at 1240, no trace of WWRB which usually has not faded out completely yet, leaving 90m to Palangkaraya 3325. So has it moved up to 9385 already? Not there either by 1311, but Brother-Scaring at next check 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 15735, Oct 3 at 1304, NHK English, fair with some hum, as Uzbekistan would rather relay foreigners than present Radio Tashkent to the world any more. R. Japan English scheduled 1300-1330 at 141 degrees, 1400-1430 at 163 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11792, Oct 3 at 1401, approx. center of extremely distorted talk; intonation sounded Spanish, but not sure. Quickly compared to strong 25m Spanish signals, RHC, Martí, WEWN, REE but no matches, nor anywhere else scanning the band. Stopped at 1406 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21820-USB, Oct 3 at 1414, 2-way ``puta-madre`` colloquial Spanish, also mentioned barco, so probably poachers. Intruders, as 13m SWBC band officially extends up to 21850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 25615, Oct 2 at 2029, 2-way in Spanish, AMish mode, lowest of lots of ``11-meter`` freebanders propagating now, South America? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 30690+, Oct 2 at 2049, with F2 MUFs soaring, time to search again for harmonix 23-31 MHz. Found two very weak carriers here hetting, so could it be that Morocco and Argentina 15345v are both harmonicizing to het each other here too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)