** ALBANIA [and non]. 7465, Oct 29 at 0025, new frequency and time for R. Tirana, Albanian to NAm, 0000-0100, ex 2300-2400 on 7425. Fair signal and in the clear, as it would not have been if stayed on 7425, where CRI English from Kashgar is co-channel and indeed audible here on the opposite worldside; in B-11 they kept colliding.
6100, Oct 29 at 0218, 0230 and 0243, R. Tirana`s new English frequency at new time 0230 is not on tonight, but will start UT Oct 30, so I check it anyway for any QRM problems: not from any legitimate broadcaster, but Cuban pulse jamming is running against nothing, perhaps Arnie`s little jab as a spoiler to an ex-Communist country. There is nothing on 6100 at any hour of the day in HFCC B-12 (or A-12) which could possibly require jamming from Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Oct 29 at 0219, RNB is missing again, undetectable between Sackville 6175 and México 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Oct 29 at 0224, CBC NQ is still on with jazz piano, now with ACI from Spain on only one side, 9620 direct, since CR relay has moved to 9675; however, the REE 00-02 DRM bihour remains on 9625-9630-9635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. See VIETNAM [non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]
** CUBA. 15205-15255, Oct 29 at 0027, RHC 15230 is again accompanied by buzz field out to 25 kHz away.
6000 and 6050, Oct 29 at 0103, the only two RHC English frequencies scheduled from 0100 are still in Spanish // all the others checked: 5040, 6060, 9710, 9810, 11690, 11760, 11840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALBANIA
** CUBA [non]. 9825, Oct 29 at 0221, R. Martí with Serie Mundial coverage, at first seems atop jamming, then seems that noise is just from the crowd in the ballpark (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Oct 29 at 0220, open carrier, dead air with some hum
9905, Oct 29 at 0220, DA but then distorted Qur`an and cutting out, i.e. modulating on peaks; meanwhile propeller noise is continuous.
9720, Oct 29 at 0223, fair signal but JBM; bet it`s also Cairo, which listed this frequency in last half of A-12 but never used it for English to North America at 0200-0330. At 0235 with phones I strain to hear it, and then can tell the M&W conversation is indeed in accented English; the A-12 frequency for this, 9315, is no longer on.
6855, Oct 29 at 0235, open carrier, fair signal. Could this be Cairo too? They have appeared in this area in past. Checking HFCC B-12, 6860 is scheduled earlier in the day but not 6855. It shows the 9 MHz ones:
9720 0045 0330 6,7 ABZ 250 330 0 800 1234567 281012 310313 D Spa, Eng
9905 0200 0700 8,9,27,28 ABS 250 315 0 216 1234567 281012 310313 D Ara
9965 2300 0430 8,9 ABS 200 325 0 211 1234567 281012 310313 D Eng, Ara
9905 is ex-9305 where not heard, altho it is still on the schedule with exactly same parameters, alternate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9895, Oct 29 at 0238, music and YL narration, Farsi? 0239 into Qur`an, slightly distorted modulation. Can`t be Farsi, maybe Farsi-accented Arabic which is now scheduled 0230-0530 from IRIB, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. Like last night, the NHK relays are still messed up by Sackville staying on the air despite new relays in place: 5960, Oct 29 at 0216, I can hear NHK Japanese twice, the echo much weaker about one second behind the first one, and still so at 0242. I think the first and stronger one is Sackville, mostly covering up the second, weaker and now correct one via Guiana French. But the other GUF frequency, 11935 at 0215 and still at 0242, which would be in the clear, is again only running the NHK IS and IDs over and over. If NHK feed gets to GUF for 5960, why not for 11935 too?
6110, NHK English is still going on very strong Sackville at 0505 check, also weaker // 11740 new via GUF manages to stay in English instead of Spanish tonight, and also audible via FRANCE on 9770.
6195, meanwhile at 0506 has NHK Spanish playing exactly the same liner heard a few sex earlier on 6110 during English news. This is via WHRI, unlike 0400 Spanish on 6195 via GUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9560, Oct 29 at 0225, Sackville is still transmitting the KBS Spanish relay at 0200-0230, VG signal except there is nothing but tone disrupted by the clacking.
B-12 HFCC shows TDF with KBS Spanish is now 0300-0400 on 15400 via GUIANA FRENCH, unchecked but KBS` own schedule at
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm
shows instead 0100-0200 on 11635, not checked here yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0500, KGWA dead air is filled when nulled by pileup of other stations making heavy SAHs, but heard at first atop is definite Spanish, ``Qué tal, amigos otro --- musical``. Null on this one fits for XEK Nuevo Laredo. Then I am hearing blues music, especially shrill harmonic at 0503, presumed WABG in Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 28 at 1950 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is back on with continuous Mexican music, well audible via caradio on another expedition north of Enid to Squirrel Haven; however, asphalt portions of US 81/64/60 where we are simultaneously northbound, westbound and eastbound, produce heavy tire static, while concrete portions much less so. I stop at a pulloff by a celltower with no visible means of electrical support; powerlines are poler, but on other side of highway. Do these things run on batteries or own generators even when powerlines are handy? At least they put out no RFI on MW.
During all this recent KEOR reactivity, tho I have not listened for hours at a time straight, I have never caught any announcement, let alone a slogan, or legal ID, so I make sure to listen at the next hourtop, 1959: No, just segué to more music. Seems they don`t think they need to ID legally. Still on at 2019 with music introducing itself as cumbia! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1430, Oct 28 at 2006 UT, near Squirrel Haven about 10 miles north of Enid, I am parked and bandscanning on the caradio. I especially want a definite log of nearby KALV, which is hard to hear dentro-Enid due to its null protecting KTBZ Tulsa. Out here we are just far enough away from the null to hear it weakly atop KTBZ and making a SAH of about 8 Hz. ``Your host for Northwestern Rangers [a silly ballteam] in Alva, 1430 AM stereo, KALV`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1500, Oct 28 at 2001 UT, Fox Sports Radio. Would expect this to be nearest groundwave station, KPGM in Pawhuska, rather than KSTP, a bit early for skywave from St Paul, and that`s ESPN, right?
Unlike ESPN Deportes, Fox Sports Radio has a user-friendly website with all affiliates on one page
http://www.foxsportsradio.com/pages/allstations.html
or, one may click on a state-by-state map, but the only one they know about on 1500 is WSEM in Donalsonville GA. A recent change? NRC AM Log 2012 shows KPGM as RELigious. Sports is the religion in OK; but I go direct to KPGM:
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-1500-am
which shows it is now primarily sports talk, and explains that on weekends they are with FSR, much but not all of the rest of the time with The Sports Animal OKC, KWPN-640, which is all-ESPN, right?
Plus they have local talk shows, and even a minute-by-minute schedule:
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-programming-schedule
setting an example followed by too few radio stations
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, the hum-only carrier heard before N of Enid is still there Oct 28 at 1958 UT, presumably Great Salt Plains TIS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 6190, Oct 29 at 0105 fair in Serbian. IRS has made seasonal change from 9685 to N America, tho they won`t tell HFCC about it. Still going at 0214. Presumably this and the English times have all been latened by one hour. It had not been yesterday, but now the ``program schedule`` which is really a transmission schedule lacking any info about program titles or content, is up for B-12:
http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule
Showing English on 6190 250 kW is at 0130-0200 except Sun & Mon. To Europe: daily 1930-2000 and 2200-2230 on 6100 with 250 kW, and 1400-1430 daily on 9635 with 10 kW (from inside Serbia)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 9675, Oct 29 at 0223, REE via CR is now here as expected, ex-9630, and // 9765, much weaker 3350; see also CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Oct 28 at 2210, the new and only RTI relay time in English via WYFR, 22-23 UT, excellent signal, as was the case before when not in English. Feels like it`s on their 315 antenna but supposedly 285, while // 6115 is much weaker, listed as 355 degrees, so that should be much better in the east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7335, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0058, `Voice of Martyrs` concludes and WHRI announces frequency change from 7385 to 9605; trouble is, this is 7335. Goes off and 9605 does come up at 0059, and there is another WHRI on 7385 with separate programming, `Waters of Life`, but after OCS IS, 7385 continues past 0100, into `DXing with Cumbre`, AAMOF, #736 produced Oct 25, so Marie got one done this week. And there it goes again on a real SW frequency, 5920 at 0200 UT Monday, in progress at 0219 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Oct 29 at 0102, WWRB with KJVB readings, and also // 3195, so they haven`t phased out the higher frequency yet, altho it isn`t always on too. Both still on at 0240 with g.h. on world devastation prophesied. Note: before 0100 the US station on 3195 is WWCR while WWRB is on 3215, then they swap (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 29 at 0215, WRNO gospel huxter with suppressed modulation; 0233 starting another one, `Truth That Changes Lives` more distorted and even worse during music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 28 at 2002 UT on caradio a bit N of Enid, dominant station has ABC news, 2005 ID as ``Talk Radio 1540 KNGL``, gratuitous anti-Liberal promo, Mike Gallagher Show promo or start. This is 250 watts in McPherson KS, not yet overridden by KXEL skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7305, Oct 29 at 0232, open carrier, fair but not solid signal, presumably Greenville standing by for Vatican Radio to feed them their Spanish service now scheduled at 0200-0245; ¿Mañana? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. For the second night, Sackville is keeping ex-VOV relay frequency 6175 on the air with nothing but BaBcoCk fill music loop, with that glitch/tape snag every minute, as noted Oct 29 at 0105, VG signal but pointless.
Meanwhile, VOV`s replacement for Sackville, 9640 via Woofferton is also on with real programming in Vietnamese, at 0214 Oct 29, fair signal, no comparison to Sackville. At 0223 reciting Vietnamese words with bell cues between, presumably language lesson for Anglos. At 0231 check, the all-English broadcast has started, presumably repeating the 0100.
Tonight I make a point of rechecking 6175 after 0300, when that frequency is scheduled in B-12 for VOV Spanish via WHRI: yup, there it is about 4 Hz apart, and underneath CANADA. So RCI is spoiling replacement transmission by its former longtime client. Presumably same happens at 0400-0430.
9555, BabCoCk music loop is still here tonight, Oct 29 at 0459 check till 0529 during abandoned VOV Vietnamese via Sackville from 0430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6100, Oct 29 at 0218, 0230 and 0243, R. Tirana`s new English frequency at new time 0230 is not on tonight, but will start UT Oct 30, so I check it anyway for any QRM problems: not from any legitimate broadcaster, but Cuban pulse jamming is running against nothing, perhaps Arnie`s little jab as a spoiler to an ex-Communist country. There is nothing on 6100 at any hour of the day in HFCC B-12 (or A-12) which could possibly require jamming from Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Oct 29 at 0219, RNB is missing again, undetectable between Sackville 6175 and México 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Oct 29 at 0224, CBC NQ is still on with jazz piano, now with ACI from Spain on only one side, 9620 direct, since CR relay has moved to 9675; however, the REE 00-02 DRM bihour remains on 9625-9630-9635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. See VIETNAM [non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]
** CUBA. 15205-15255, Oct 29 at 0027, RHC 15230 is again accompanied by buzz field out to 25 kHz away.
6000 and 6050, Oct 29 at 0103, the only two RHC English frequencies scheduled from 0100 are still in Spanish // all the others checked: 5040, 6060, 9710, 9810, 11690, 11760, 11840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALBANIA
** CUBA [non]. 9825, Oct 29 at 0221, R. Martí with Serie Mundial coverage, at first seems atop jamming, then seems that noise is just from the crowd in the ballpark (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Oct 29 at 0220, open carrier, dead air with some hum
9905, Oct 29 at 0220, DA but then distorted Qur`an and cutting out, i.e. modulating on peaks; meanwhile propeller noise is continuous.
9720, Oct 29 at 0223, fair signal but JBM; bet it`s also Cairo, which listed this frequency in last half of A-12 but never used it for English to North America at 0200-0330. At 0235 with phones I strain to hear it, and then can tell the M&W conversation is indeed in accented English; the A-12 frequency for this, 9315, is no longer on.
6855, Oct 29 at 0235, open carrier, fair signal. Could this be Cairo too? They have appeared in this area in past. Checking HFCC B-12, 6860 is scheduled earlier in the day but not 6855. It shows the 9 MHz ones:
9720 0045 0330 6,7 ABZ 250 330 0 800 1234567 281012 310313 D Spa, Eng
9905 0200 0700 8,9,27,28 ABS 250 315 0 216 1234567 281012 310313 D Ara
9965 2300 0430 8,9 ABS 200 325 0 211 1234567 281012 310313 D Eng, Ara
9905 is ex-9305 where not heard, altho it is still on the schedule with exactly same parameters, alternate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9895, Oct 29 at 0238, music and YL narration, Farsi? 0239 into Qur`an, slightly distorted modulation. Can`t be Farsi, maybe Farsi-accented Arabic which is now scheduled 0230-0530 from IRIB, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. Like last night, the NHK relays are still messed up by Sackville staying on the air despite new relays in place: 5960, Oct 29 at 0216, I can hear NHK Japanese twice, the echo much weaker about one second behind the first one, and still so at 0242. I think the first and stronger one is Sackville, mostly covering up the second, weaker and now correct one via Guiana French. But the other GUF frequency, 11935 at 0215 and still at 0242, which would be in the clear, is again only running the NHK IS and IDs over and over. If NHK feed gets to GUF for 5960, why not for 11935 too?
6110, NHK English is still going on very strong Sackville at 0505 check, also weaker // 11740 new via GUF manages to stay in English instead of Spanish tonight, and also audible via FRANCE on 9770.
6195, meanwhile at 0506 has NHK Spanish playing exactly the same liner heard a few sex earlier on 6110 during English news. This is via WHRI, unlike 0400 Spanish on 6195 via GUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9560, Oct 29 at 0225, Sackville is still transmitting the KBS Spanish relay at 0200-0230, VG signal except there is nothing but tone disrupted by the clacking.
B-12 HFCC shows TDF with KBS Spanish is now 0300-0400 on 15400 via GUIANA FRENCH, unchecked but KBS` own schedule at
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm
shows instead 0100-0200 on 11635, not checked here yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0500, KGWA dead air is filled when nulled by pileup of other stations making heavy SAHs, but heard at first atop is definite Spanish, ``Qué tal, amigos otro --- musical``. Null on this one fits for XEK Nuevo Laredo. Then I am hearing blues music, especially shrill harmonic at 0503, presumed WABG in Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 28 at 1950 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is back on with continuous Mexican music, well audible via caradio on another expedition north of Enid to Squirrel Haven; however, asphalt portions of US 81/64/60 where we are simultaneously northbound, westbound and eastbound, produce heavy tire static, while concrete portions much less so. I stop at a pulloff by a celltower with no visible means of electrical support; powerlines are poler, but on other side of highway. Do these things run on batteries or own generators even when powerlines are handy? At least they put out no RFI on MW.
During all this recent KEOR reactivity, tho I have not listened for hours at a time straight, I have never caught any announcement, let alone a slogan, or legal ID, so I make sure to listen at the next hourtop, 1959: No, just segué to more music. Seems they don`t think they need to ID legally. Still on at 2019 with music introducing itself as cumbia! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1430, Oct 28 at 2006 UT, near Squirrel Haven about 10 miles north of Enid, I am parked and bandscanning on the caradio. I especially want a definite log of nearby KALV, which is hard to hear dentro-Enid due to its null protecting KTBZ Tulsa. Out here we are just far enough away from the null to hear it weakly atop KTBZ and making a SAH of about 8 Hz. ``Your host for Northwestern Rangers [a silly ballteam] in Alva, 1430 AM stereo, KALV`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1500, Oct 28 at 2001 UT, Fox Sports Radio. Would expect this to be nearest groundwave station, KPGM in Pawhuska, rather than KSTP, a bit early for skywave from St Paul, and that`s ESPN, right?
Unlike ESPN Deportes, Fox Sports Radio has a user-friendly website with all affiliates on one page
http://www.foxsportsradio.com/pages/allstations.html
or, one may click on a state-by-state map, but the only one they know about on 1500 is WSEM in Donalsonville GA. A recent change? NRC AM Log 2012 shows KPGM as RELigious. Sports is the religion in OK; but I go direct to KPGM:
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-1500-am
which shows it is now primarily sports talk, and explains that on weekends they are with FSR, much but not all of the rest of the time with The Sports Animal OKC, KWPN-640, which is all-ESPN, right?
Plus they have local talk shows, and even a minute-by-minute schedule:
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kpgm-programming-schedule
setting an example followed by too few radio stations
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, the hum-only carrier heard before N of Enid is still there Oct 28 at 1958 UT, presumably Great Salt Plains TIS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 6190, Oct 29 at 0105 fair in Serbian. IRS has made seasonal change from 9685 to N America, tho they won`t tell HFCC about it. Still going at 0214. Presumably this and the English times have all been latened by one hour. It had not been yesterday, but now the ``program schedule`` which is really a transmission schedule lacking any info about program titles or content, is up for B-12:
http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule
Showing English on 6190 250 kW is at 0130-0200 except Sun & Mon. To Europe: daily 1930-2000 and 2200-2230 on 6100 with 250 kW, and 1400-1430 daily on 9635 with 10 kW (from inside Serbia)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 9675, Oct 29 at 0223, REE via CR is now here as expected, ex-9630, and // 9765, much weaker 3350; see also CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Oct 28 at 2210, the new and only RTI relay time in English via WYFR, 22-23 UT, excellent signal, as was the case before when not in English. Feels like it`s on their 315 antenna but supposedly 285, while // 6115 is much weaker, listed as 355 degrees, so that should be much better in the east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7335, UT Monday Oct 29 at 0058, `Voice of Martyrs` concludes and WHRI announces frequency change from 7385 to 9605; trouble is, this is 7335. Goes off and 9605 does come up at 0059, and there is another WHRI on 7385 with separate programming, `Waters of Life`, but after OCS IS, 7385 continues past 0100, into `DXing with Cumbre`, AAMOF, #736 produced Oct 25, so Marie got one done this week. And there it goes again on a real SW frequency, 5920 at 0200 UT Monday, in progress at 0219 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Oct 29 at 0102, WWRB with KJVB readings, and also // 3195, so they haven`t phased out the higher frequency yet, altho it isn`t always on too. Both still on at 0240 with g.h. on world devastation prophesied. Note: before 0100 the US station on 3195 is WWCR while WWRB is on 3215, then they swap (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 29 at 0215, WRNO gospel huxter with suppressed modulation; 0233 starting another one, `Truth That Changes Lives` more distorted and even worse during music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 28 at 2002 UT on caradio a bit N of Enid, dominant station has ABC news, 2005 ID as ``Talk Radio 1540 KNGL``, gratuitous anti-Liberal promo, Mike Gallagher Show promo or start. This is 250 watts in McPherson KS, not yet overridden by KXEL skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7305, Oct 29 at 0232, open carrier, fair but not solid signal, presumably Greenville standing by for Vatican Radio to feed them their Spanish service now scheduled at 0200-0245; ¿Mañana? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. For the second night, Sackville is keeping ex-VOV relay frequency 6175 on the air with nothing but BaBcoCk fill music loop, with that glitch/tape snag every minute, as noted Oct 29 at 0105, VG signal but pointless.
Meanwhile, VOV`s replacement for Sackville, 9640 via Woofferton is also on with real programming in Vietnamese, at 0214 Oct 29, fair signal, no comparison to Sackville. At 0223 reciting Vietnamese words with bell cues between, presumably language lesson for Anglos. At 0231 check, the all-English broadcast has started, presumably repeating the 0100.
Tonight I make a point of rechecking 6175 after 0300, when that frequency is scheduled in B-12 for VOV Spanish via WHRI: yup, there it is about 4 Hz apart, and underneath CANADA. So RCI is spoiling replacement transmission by its former longtime client. Presumably same happens at 0400-0430.
9555, BabCoCk music loop is still here tonight, Oct 29 at 0459 check till 0529 during abandoned VOV Vietnamese via Sackville from 0430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
