** AUSTRALIA [non]. 9965, Oct 15 at 1411, RA via PALAU is in English, but only intermittently as it`s really a language lesson in the Chinese service, rather than the full English service // 9580 as heard yesterday at 1308, by mistake? Quite readable signal despite proximity of 9980 blast from Brother Scare`s WWCR. My previous log omitted the [non], sorry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake October 15, before 1300: 1251-1254, quick search found none from 12 to 18 MHz. At 1258, however, 7445 was mostly FD rather than CNR1 jamming or RTI. And however, CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN was well audible at 1255 going into language lesson on 17490 and almost synchronized 13645. At 1359-1400, still no FD 14-17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9955, Sunday October 14 at 2002, wall-of-noise jamming against inaudible WRMI, which at this hour is carrying gospel huxter in English Jack Van Impe. Way to go, Arnie! However, at 2030-2130 it will be `Foro Revolucionario` and at 2200-2215 `Voz de Coordinadora` as of Sept 19 schedule grid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540 & 17550, Oct 14 at 2000 check, no signals from R. Kuwait, English or Arabic. I think this will be the norm until spring, perhaps with some exceptions if we get more flux, but we certainly won`t be getting more insolation on the path, as RK insists on staying on too-hi frequencies all winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Oct 15 at 1201 UT, choral NA, then ID but not a fully detailed one like most stations at TOH: ``91.3 y 550 simultáneamente, Cuauhtémoc, La Super Estación`` all mentioned, i.e. per Cantú:
550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 150
Some years ago I caught this in Low German for the Mennonites in the area, I think in the morning. At least there`s a program grid for L-V:http://www.xepl.com.mx/programacion/
including at 18-23 local, ``Programación Menonita – Alemán Bajo``. That would be 00-05 UT, mostly 100-watt-night-power time. Maybe they also have some on weekend mornings when the schedule merely says ``variada`` for Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Oct 15 at 1208 UT, YL with news, swooshes between items, categorized; apparently missed local and state segments, now nacional, and then internacional; 1212 hands over to OM for deportes until 1217, back to her with weather for ``la ciudad`` including chubascos. Federal PSAs for glorious government in general, and IFE`s latest elexion management in particular, ads with passing mentions finally of Torreón, 1220 a university from Monterrey, campus Laguna; 1221 TC for 7:19, temp ``en el centro de Torreón``. So it`s per Cantú:
880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000
Here`s a station named for time-checks, and they`re two minutes off, hi. Axually it`s the one Spanish-spelling the English letter `Q`, but I haven`t really heard either calls or that letter-name expressed on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, just after local KGWA Enid goes to dead air for 5 minutes, among the mishmash of signals I hear under its partially nulled carrier, one playing the four descending chimes which are the trademark of XEW and may well have played simultaneously on 900.
Can it be that one of the thirteen XEs on 960 is relaying XEW overnight? Main website http://www.wradio.com.mx has no info on affiliates, but the show starting at midnite is `Los Amos del Camino` for truckers. At http://www.mexicoradiotv.com I checked about half of the 960s, the more likely ones, and found no connexions to XEW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0430, XEG, R. Ranchera, Monterrey, switches from music to preacher, apparently daily. Once again he is playing `El Condor Pasa` constantly in background; seems to be more of a self-improvement/advice angle than strict gospel-huxtering, but really, MEGO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 2002, another daypart when Médi Un, off-frequency Nador transmitter is audibly QRMing a legitimate transmission on 9580.0, no doubt GABON. At least we don`t hear it in the mornings vs R. Australia, but it appears to be on the air at least sporadically, 24 hours, and hardly modulating itself; turned on and forgotten? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, KGWA Enid is again providing a Fox-hole of dead air for 5 minutes; among the mishmash of signals audible with its carrier almost nulled at 0503 is a Fox ``news`` credit mixing with the more usual `ABC News`. Per NRC AM Log there are besides KGWA itself, about 7 Fox affils on 960 around the country, none of them very likely here. WSBT South Bend IN maybe by proximity and 5 kW power, except all its signal at night supposedly goes north into Michigan. At 0504 a bit o` blues, WABG Mississippi? See also MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 31-3, Oct 15 at 1530 and still at 1723 UT, the third subchannel of KXOK Enid still has PSIP label AZTECA, but black video and no audio; while 31-2 continues to funxion as MUNDO FOX, and 31-1 as TVOK. Black channel still beepingly registers good signal level on the Zenith converter (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 15 at 1248, Brother Scare is blasting away from WWCR, so probably really started at 1200, despite posted program schedule to the contrary. Along with equally superstrong WTWW with PPP on 9479, the entire 31m band is overloaded, requiring attenuation to try to hear anything else, thus weakening their signals too.
Our cup runneth over: after 1400, BS not only on 9980, but also ``Milano`` on 15215 (heard from 1358 with ``Aída`` sign-on), also 13810 via Germany, 13570 via WINB, and 9370 via WWRB --- wait, no signal at 1406 but cuts on at 1407. I could have spent a lot of time timing the relative delays on these unsynchronized feeds, but that would have required axually listening to his nonsense over and over so fortunately forewent that.
As for the secret site on 15215 --- could be Romania, or Bulgaria, or Armenia, or ??? IRRS CEO Alfredo Cotroneo has explained that it`s for competitive reasons, and: we don`t need to know exactly what cell tower is relaying our phonecalls, so why should we need to know SW radio sites either? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880, Oct 15 at 1247, REE via COSTA RICA, back in Basque for a change, having been missing on several Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: UT Sunday 0500 on WRMI 9955 checked at 0523: rapid pulse jamming atop. I probably won`t be awake to check the new time of 1100 Tuesday, but if anyone is, please evaluate the signal vs jamming. Europeans also have another chance Tuesday at 0930 from HLR 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, Sunday Oct 14 at 2158, WHRI with an amusingly-accented gospel huxter; you know, ``extremely evangelical``. Suspect this replaced `DXing with Cumbre` at 2130 as heard previous week, since unlikely to start the next program early even if DWC is over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sunday Oct 14 at 2001, no signal from WTWW-3; certainly off the air as neighbor 12160 WWCR was inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1360, Oct 15 at 1238 UT, Spanish restaurant ad with 214-AC phone, also mentions variedades, referring to what, programming? Must be KMNY Hurst TX (The Metroplex, address in Dallas), which is 50 kW in the daytime, but major lobe to the WSW, and quite a null to the NNW. It was sufficiently weak here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. VOV check for CANADA relays just in time at 0527 Oct 15: nothing on 6175, despite NHK inbooming on 6110, and a JBA carrier on 9555, so maybe that`s VOV on the latter, proper frequency not propagating; seemed to go off at 0529, which fits, but could not make out any BaBcoCk IS before then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search, Oct 15 at 1226 UT detected JBAs: 702, 738, 828; others assume they are Australia, Tahiti, Japan respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Oct 15 at 0516 UT, gospel huxter in English roughly N/S. Am no longer hearing open carrier with hum from 50 kW daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi, but could they now be modulating it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake October 15, before 1300: 1251-1254, quick search found none from 12 to 18 MHz. At 1258, however, 7445 was mostly FD rather than CNR1 jamming or RTI. And however, CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN was well audible at 1255 going into language lesson on 17490 and almost synchronized 13645. At 1359-1400, still no FD 14-17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9955, Sunday October 14 at 2002, wall-of-noise jamming against inaudible WRMI, which at this hour is carrying gospel huxter in English Jack Van Impe. Way to go, Arnie! However, at 2030-2130 it will be `Foro Revolucionario` and at 2200-2215 `Voz de Coordinadora` as of Sept 19 schedule grid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540 & 17550, Oct 14 at 2000 check, no signals from R. Kuwait, English or Arabic. I think this will be the norm until spring, perhaps with some exceptions if we get more flux, but we certainly won`t be getting more insolation on the path, as RK insists on staying on too-hi frequencies all winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Oct 15 at 1201 UT, choral NA, then ID but not a fully detailed one like most stations at TOH: ``91.3 y 550 simultáneamente, Cuauhtémoc, La Super Estación`` all mentioned, i.e. per Cantú:
550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 150
Some years ago I caught this in Low German for the Mennonites in the area, I think in the morning. At least there`s a program grid for L-V:http://www.xepl.com.mx/programacion/
including at 18-23 local, ``Programación Menonita – Alemán Bajo``. That would be 00-05 UT, mostly 100-watt-night-power time. Maybe they also have some on weekend mornings when the schedule merely says ``variada`` for Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Oct 15 at 1208 UT, YL with news, swooshes between items, categorized; apparently missed local and state segments, now nacional, and then internacional; 1212 hands over to OM for deportes until 1217, back to her with weather for ``la ciudad`` including chubascos. Federal PSAs for glorious government in general, and IFE`s latest elexion management in particular, ads with passing mentions finally of Torreón, 1220 a university from Monterrey, campus Laguna; 1221 TC for 7:19, temp ``en el centro de Torreón``. So it`s per Cantú:
880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000
Here`s a station named for time-checks, and they`re two minutes off, hi. Axually it`s the one Spanish-spelling the English letter `Q`, but I haven`t really heard either calls or that letter-name expressed on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, just after local KGWA Enid goes to dead air for 5 minutes, among the mishmash of signals I hear under its partially nulled carrier, one playing the four descending chimes which are the trademark of XEW and may well have played simultaneously on 900.
Can it be that one of the thirteen XEs on 960 is relaying XEW overnight? Main website http://www.wradio.com.mx has no info on affiliates, but the show starting at midnite is `Los Amos del Camino` for truckers. At http://www.mexicoradiotv.com I checked about half of the 960s, the more likely ones, and found no connexions to XEW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0430, XEG, R. Ranchera, Monterrey, switches from music to preacher, apparently daily. Once again he is playing `El Condor Pasa` constantly in background; seems to be more of a self-improvement/advice angle than strict gospel-huxtering, but really, MEGO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 2002, another daypart when Médi Un, off-frequency Nador transmitter is audibly QRMing a legitimate transmission on 9580.0, no doubt GABON. At least we don`t hear it in the mornings vs R. Australia, but it appears to be on the air at least sporadically, 24 hours, and hardly modulating itself; turned on and forgotten? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, KGWA Enid is again providing a Fox-hole of dead air for 5 minutes; among the mishmash of signals audible with its carrier almost nulled at 0503 is a Fox ``news`` credit mixing with the more usual `ABC News`. Per NRC AM Log there are besides KGWA itself, about 7 Fox affils on 960 around the country, none of them very likely here. WSBT South Bend IN maybe by proximity and 5 kW power, except all its signal at night supposedly goes north into Michigan. At 0504 a bit o` blues, WABG Mississippi? See also MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 31-3, Oct 15 at 1530 and still at 1723 UT, the third subchannel of KXOK Enid still has PSIP label AZTECA, but black video and no audio; while 31-2 continues to funxion as MUNDO FOX, and 31-1 as TVOK. Black channel still beepingly registers good signal level on the Zenith converter (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 15 at 1248, Brother Scare is blasting away from WWCR, so probably really started at 1200, despite posted program schedule to the contrary. Along with equally superstrong WTWW with PPP on 9479, the entire 31m band is overloaded, requiring attenuation to try to hear anything else, thus weakening their signals too.
Our cup runneth over: after 1400, BS not only on 9980, but also ``Milano`` on 15215 (heard from 1358 with ``Aída`` sign-on), also 13810 via Germany, 13570 via WINB, and 9370 via WWRB --- wait, no signal at 1406 but cuts on at 1407. I could have spent a lot of time timing the relative delays on these unsynchronized feeds, but that would have required axually listening to his nonsense over and over so fortunately forewent that.
As for the secret site on 15215 --- could be Romania, or Bulgaria, or Armenia, or ??? IRRS CEO Alfredo Cotroneo has explained that it`s for competitive reasons, and: we don`t need to know exactly what cell tower is relaying our phonecalls, so why should we need to know SW radio sites either? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880, Oct 15 at 1247, REE via COSTA RICA, back in Basque for a change, having been missing on several Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: UT Sunday 0500 on WRMI 9955 checked at 0523: rapid pulse jamming atop. I probably won`t be awake to check the new time of 1100 Tuesday, but if anyone is, please evaluate the signal vs jamming. Europeans also have another chance Tuesday at 0930 from HLR 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, Sunday Oct 14 at 2158, WHRI with an amusingly-accented gospel huxter; you know, ``extremely evangelical``. Suspect this replaced `DXing with Cumbre` at 2130 as heard previous week, since unlikely to start the next program early even if DWC is over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sunday Oct 14 at 2001, no signal from WTWW-3; certainly off the air as neighbor 12160 WWCR was inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1360, Oct 15 at 1238 UT, Spanish restaurant ad with 214-AC phone, also mentions variedades, referring to what, programming? Must be KMNY Hurst TX (The Metroplex, address in Dallas), which is 50 kW in the daytime, but major lobe to the WSW, and quite a null to the NNW. It was sufficiently weak here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. VOV check for CANADA relays just in time at 0527 Oct 15: nothing on 6175, despite NHK inbooming on 6110, and a JBA carrier on 9555, so maybe that`s VOV on the latter, proper frequency not propagating; seemed to go off at 0529, which fits, but could not make out any BaBcoCk IS before then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search, Oct 15 at 1226 UT detected JBAs: 702, 738, 828; others assume they are Australia, Tahiti, Japan respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Oct 15 at 0516 UT, gospel huxter in English roughly N/S. Am no longer hearing open carrier with hum from 50 kW daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi, but could they now be modulating it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
