** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Oct 16 at 0542 Qur`an from RTA via TDF Issoudun, FRANCE, but very poor signal, as it enters third week of reactivity, not as good as 7250 Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 16 at 1359-1401, 1426 chex, no signal detectable from BB Urdu service. Was it on today? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5970, Oct 15 at 2355, very poor signal in enthusiastic Brazilian Portuguese tho maybe not a play-by-play. About the same at 0140, no QRM. Surely it`s R. Itatiaia. I was checking here, since there had been two unrelated reports lately of ``Radio Panamericana`` in Spanish from Bolivia on 5970, which I can only assume were misled by Aoki continuing to list this long-gone station which was mainly on 6105 instead. If one really hears Spanish on 5970, another possibility is that the REE Costa Rica relay has punched up the wrong frequency, which is registered only for 11-15 UT; something they have been caught doing in several other cases, e.g. 5995 instead of 5965 after 04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 16 before 1400:
12670, poor with flutter; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s ---
Unless the het between very weak 15500 and 15502 at 1351 was FD vs V. of Tibet, likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, Oct 15 at 0541, RHC English is just barely modulated upon very strong carrier, unlike // 6010, 6050, and weaker 6060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 16 at 0331, big open carrier with the usual hum, as TDF has failed to turn it off after the RTI Spanish relay finished at 0300. Until 0330 it would have conflicted with BBC Urdu via UAE. Still there but weaker at 0546 check. RTI Spanish at 0200-0300 via GUF plans to continue on 11995 in B-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 16 at 1300, Voice of Indonesia is back! But only with fluttery carrier on unique off-off-frequency, no modulation audible, nor at 1315. At 1338 there seems to be a trace of music, but the flutter-fading makes a louder noise into the headphones. They are in dire need of new/rebuilt tubes for the Marconi 250 kW transmitter at Cimanggis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Tuesday Oct 16 at 0500-0505, local KGWA again with a Fox-hole, during which nulling the open carrier, I am getting mainly a rather Singspiel-like mixture of Spanish talk and music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, Oct 16 at 0458 UT, KOKP Perry is again unmodulated, allowing one to detect KDKA Pittsburgh ID after the news at 0506, and KOKP still dead air past 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, Oct 16 at 0537, R. Rossii via Pet/Kam is already audible with Titanic theme, ``My Heart Will Go On``, sounds like Sarah Brightman rather than Celine Dion, and in fact S.B. has recorded it. Also audible on weaker // unsynchronized 5940 Magadan, since fortunately, skip is long, and intervening DGS 5935 WWCR has faded way down. At 0543, Pet/Kam also on stronger 7320 // 5930 now with a novelty song in Russian. At 1254 I am again hearing 5930 with jazz, but not 5940 or 7320.
Gaisma.com says sunset at Pet/Kam today is 1826 local, its zone is UT+11 but now on DST, which means subtract 12 hours for UT = 0626. Timeanddate.com says its permanent zone is UT+12, no DST. From its longitude Pet/Kam ought to be UT+10. If Russian zones get readjusted for winter, it may be back to UT+11, which is still effectively yearound DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Oct 16 at 1257, piano music, 1258 Chinese announcement of ruvr.ru pronounced in English, VOR Mussorgsky IS. Poor signal, due west from Vladivostok (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 16 at 0329-0332, poor carrier on and off numerous times, R. Hargeisa trying to keep the transmitter on? Or if totally missing, could have been ham playing around. Is anyone hearing Hargaysa lately in these mornings? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 15 at 2228 check, JBA carrier beneath the constant RTTY on this frequency, presumably what`s left of the VOT 2200 English broadcast to North America. TRT doggedly stix to this unusable frequency in the A-seasons. In B-12 from Oct 28 will be on 5960, and shifts to one UT hour later at 2300, providing a Week of Confusion until NAm also sets the clox back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 16 at 0140, 0331 chex, WRNO is still missing. Will they ever get their transmitter operating normally? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 790, Oct 16 at 1317 UT, ``Newstalk 790, KFYO``, ``official weather station`` Lubbock TX hi in the 80s today, interview about a festival. Atop channel, CCI perhaps Arkansas. I don`t hear much from KXXX Kansas. Skywave, altho KFYO is at the edge of possible groundwave range on a quiet midday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Oct 16 at 1322 UT, ads including H2O softener, hoping for something more interesting 42 minutes after sunrise here, but it`s still ``Newsradio 830, WCCO``, then sports interview. Weak but steady (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, Oct 16 at 1327 UT, as I tune by, immediate ID as ``1-1-4-0, K-S-O-O`` instead of contracted ``11-40 K-Soo``, i.e. 10 kW Sioux Falls SD on 10 kW non-direxional day power, overcoming OKC and anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1270, Oct 16 at 1330 UT, no sign of OK or TX stations but instead ``Faith 12-70`` [KNWC Sioux Falls], with SD news headlines: prisoner executed, George McGovern in hospice, weather hi 75 today, but 40s on Thursday; 1331 `Insight for Living` about Daniel. NRC Pattern Book shows most of day signal aims toward Liberal KS which is non-direxional! FCC AM Query shows 5 kW with equal day lobes to the NNE and SSW.
KNWC is licensed as non-commercial to the appropriately-initialed Northwestern College which despite its nondescript seemingly secular name obviously has religious agenda, admittedly private and Christian and axually an hour away in Orange City IA. Station KNWC however has an address in Sioux Falls. Transmitter site is about halfway between but appears to be in SD. The topo maps FCC provides are very unhelpful without coördinates or site markers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, Oct 16 at 1333 UT, more than we ever wanted to know about hockey games between Galesburg and Peoria; Galesburg vs Canton; refers to ``kills``, apparently a game term involving penalties. Must be WAIK in Galesburg IL, 5 kW, overcoming OK and KS stations. Yes, skywave still in from the NE almost an hour after LSR here at 1240 UT, and 1690 WVON Chicago sports was also still in at 1337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8990-USB, Oct 16 at 0000, QSOs in colloquial Spanish, one speaker with ``engine noise`` in background. Only a quick check so I couldn`t be sure it`s the ``Pescador Preacher`` net around Nicaragua, formerly reported on 8989-USB where again there was nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 16 at 1359-1401, 1426 chex, no signal detectable from BB Urdu service. Was it on today? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5970, Oct 15 at 2355, very poor signal in enthusiastic Brazilian Portuguese tho maybe not a play-by-play. About the same at 0140, no QRM. Surely it`s R. Itatiaia. I was checking here, since there had been two unrelated reports lately of ``Radio Panamericana`` in Spanish from Bolivia on 5970, which I can only assume were misled by Aoki continuing to list this long-gone station which was mainly on 6105 instead. If one really hears Spanish on 5970, another possibility is that the REE Costa Rica relay has punched up the wrong frequency, which is registered only for 11-15 UT; something they have been caught doing in several other cases, e.g. 5995 instead of 5965 after 04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 16 before 1400:
12670, poor with flutter; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s ---
Unless the het between very weak 15500 and 15502 at 1351 was FD vs V. of Tibet, likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, Oct 15 at 0541, RHC English is just barely modulated upon very strong carrier, unlike // 6010, 6050, and weaker 6060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 16 at 0331, big open carrier with the usual hum, as TDF has failed to turn it off after the RTI Spanish relay finished at 0300. Until 0330 it would have conflicted with BBC Urdu via UAE. Still there but weaker at 0546 check. RTI Spanish at 0200-0300 via GUF plans to continue on 11995 in B-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 16 at 1300, Voice of Indonesia is back! But only with fluttery carrier on unique off-off-frequency, no modulation audible, nor at 1315. At 1338 there seems to be a trace of music, but the flutter-fading makes a louder noise into the headphones. They are in dire need of new/rebuilt tubes for the Marconi 250 kW transmitter at Cimanggis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Tuesday Oct 16 at 0500-0505, local KGWA again with a Fox-hole, during which nulling the open carrier, I am getting mainly a rather Singspiel-like mixture of Spanish talk and music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, Oct 16 at 0458 UT, KOKP Perry is again unmodulated, allowing one to detect KDKA Pittsburgh ID after the news at 0506, and KOKP still dead air past 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, Oct 16 at 0537, R. Rossii via Pet/Kam is already audible with Titanic theme, ``My Heart Will Go On``, sounds like Sarah Brightman rather than Celine Dion, and in fact S.B. has recorded it. Also audible on weaker // unsynchronized 5940 Magadan, since fortunately, skip is long, and intervening DGS 5935 WWCR has faded way down. At 0543, Pet/Kam also on stronger 7320 // 5930 now with a novelty song in Russian. At 1254 I am again hearing 5930 with jazz, but not 5940 or 7320.
Gaisma.com says sunset at Pet/Kam today is 1826 local, its zone is UT+11 but now on DST, which means subtract 12 hours for UT = 0626. Timeanddate.com says its permanent zone is UT+12, no DST. From its longitude Pet/Kam ought to be UT+10. If Russian zones get readjusted for winter, it may be back to UT+11, which is still effectively yearound DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Oct 16 at 1257, piano music, 1258 Chinese announcement of ruvr.ru pronounced in English, VOR Mussorgsky IS. Poor signal, due west from Vladivostok (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 16 at 0329-0332, poor carrier on and off numerous times, R. Hargeisa trying to keep the transmitter on? Or if totally missing, could have been ham playing around. Is anyone hearing Hargaysa lately in these mornings? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 15 at 2228 check, JBA carrier beneath the constant RTTY on this frequency, presumably what`s left of the VOT 2200 English broadcast to North America. TRT doggedly stix to this unusable frequency in the A-seasons. In B-12 from Oct 28 will be on 5960, and shifts to one UT hour later at 2300, providing a Week of Confusion until NAm also sets the clox back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 16 at 0140, 0331 chex, WRNO is still missing. Will they ever get their transmitter operating normally? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 790, Oct 16 at 1317 UT, ``Newstalk 790, KFYO``, ``official weather station`` Lubbock TX hi in the 80s today, interview about a festival. Atop channel, CCI perhaps Arkansas. I don`t hear much from KXXX Kansas. Skywave, altho KFYO is at the edge of possible groundwave range on a quiet midday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Oct 16 at 1322 UT, ads including H2O softener, hoping for something more interesting 42 minutes after sunrise here, but it`s still ``Newsradio 830, WCCO``, then sports interview. Weak but steady (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, Oct 16 at 1327 UT, as I tune by, immediate ID as ``1-1-4-0, K-S-O-O`` instead of contracted ``11-40 K-Soo``, i.e. 10 kW Sioux Falls SD on 10 kW non-direxional day power, overcoming OKC and anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1270, Oct 16 at 1330 UT, no sign of OK or TX stations but instead ``Faith 12-70`` [KNWC Sioux Falls], with SD news headlines: prisoner executed, George McGovern in hospice, weather hi 75 today, but 40s on Thursday; 1331 `Insight for Living` about Daniel. NRC Pattern Book shows most of day signal aims toward Liberal KS which is non-direxional! FCC AM Query shows 5 kW with equal day lobes to the NNE and SSW.
KNWC is licensed as non-commercial to the appropriately-initialed Northwestern College which despite its nondescript seemingly secular name obviously has religious agenda, admittedly private and Christian and axually an hour away in Orange City IA. Station KNWC however has an address in Sioux Falls. Transmitter site is about halfway between but appears to be in SD. The topo maps FCC provides are very unhelpful without coördinates or site markers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, Oct 16 at 1333 UT, more than we ever wanted to know about hockey games between Galesburg and Peoria; Galesburg vs Canton; refers to ``kills``, apparently a game term involving penalties. Must be WAIK in Galesburg IL, 5 kW, overcoming OK and KS stations. Yes, skywave still in from the NE almost an hour after LSR here at 1240 UT, and 1690 WVON Chicago sports was also still in at 1337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8990-USB, Oct 16 at 0000, QSOs in colloquial Spanish, one speaker with ``engine noise`` in background. Only a quick check so I couldn`t be sure it`s the ``Pescador Preacher`` net around Nicaragua, formerly reported on 8989-USB where again there was nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
