** ALBANIA. 9590, Oct 3 at 0505, CRI Arabic relay is again quite distorted, but // 9515 also from Cërrik is not. So can`t be blamed on the satellite feed. Wolfgang Büschel has tried to notify the Chinese engineers about this problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Oct 3 at 0359 standing by for RTA relay via Issoudun, FRANCE to start, but no signal. *0400 just in time for tinny military band, with NA? If so, certainly one of the least impressive, then ``Huna al-Djazer`` ID, drumming and proclaiming, 0402 into relatively lo-key talk; by 0413 it`s in Qur`an. Usual break for antenna change at 0458. 0507 check, more Qur`an. So this relay reactivated Oct 1 has continued for three days, and the evening broadcasts have also been confirmed by EurAfricans. Are they here to stay this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 3 at 1258, Bengali music, so I missed most of 1230 English. Nepali 1315-1345 still missing, no signal at 1334.
15505, Oct 3 at 1358, BB IS is playing, good signal, one of the best so far from them, as the transpolar path is working well. 1400 timesignal only 3 sex late, opening Urdu, news; 1416 check, by now with vocal music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1610, Oct 3 at 0616 UT, Spanish briefly overcomes the 1600 KATZIBOC long enough to hear a 416-area code phonumber, i.e. Toronto`s CHHA, 6250 watts day and night, a figure apparently computed as sufficient to overcome Montreal in the local area. Soon faded back into the noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 3, before 1300:
12320, very good at 1257; none in the 13s
14800, very good at 1258
15555, good at 1258, and this one only stays on past 1302+
16250, fair at 1259
17370, poor at 1259; ran out of time before checking 18+ MHz
Circa 1330:
12670, good at 1335
13130, very poor at 1333
14800, fair at 1330
15485, good at 1328, het on hi side
15610, fair at 1238
15900, poor at 1328
16100, fair at 1330
16920, very good at 1330
After 1400:
12230, very good at 1425
14700, poor at 1422
17370, very good at 1420; none in the 16s, 18s
17565, good at 1420, CCI with V. of Tibet`s Madagascar frequency of the moment; plus and minus 5 also available for abrupt jumps
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995 carrier with hum is still going, Oct 3 at 0350, 0503. Rather poor signal tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 3 at 0507 still no IGIM. Is anyone hearing this at any time any more? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, Oct 3 at 1220 UT, Pollo Loco ad, string of PSAs, ads, some mentioning Sinaloa, 1222 fading. So it is per Cantú:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
And Pollo Loco exists in Mexico too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Oct 3 at 0555, XE NA is already playing, then ``Soy Soldado`` super-militaristic recitation, and 0558 Chihuahua anthem, so obviously XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, usual dominant signal with 100 watts at night? Yeah, sure. However at 0606, open carrier/dead air allowing KCMO to be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 750, Oct 3 at 0559 UT, soft rock in English, dominating channel, where`s WSB? I don`t even have to null it. Then full ToH ID for XHCSI on FM 89.5 and XECSI on 750, Éxtasis Digital, música en inglés, Sinaloa, Radiorama. Then NA at 0602, which was in Spanish (hmm, I wonder if anyone has ever recorded an English version? North Americans might be shocked by the warmongering anti-American lyrix, but then what about the SSB? ``Dime, ¿puedes ver por la luz de la alborada, lo que alabamos tan orgullosamente?``). Anyhow, good work for only 250 watts if we believe:
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250, says
http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_am.htm
0605, WSB starts to fade back in
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Oct 3 at 1223 UT, dominant signal with Chihuahua news about quejas, i.e.:
760 XEES Antena + FM 102.5 Chihuahua, Chih. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, Oct 3 at 1223 UT, Dominos.com.mx ad where anyone can dine for only 42 pesos; IFE PSA; copa playstation ad; government PSA for the 62nd legislatura at the Cámara de Diputados and the wonderful things it will accomplish; 1226 ``40 Principales`` jingle, IFE PSA, FM & AM ID but hard to copy with reverb, music, ad for Institute of American English en Sinaloa; 1228 another PSA about Sinaloa. So it`s:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
Per Cantú.
You may wonder why I get so many Sinaloa stations in Oclajoma? I suppose the skip distance is favorable, round about one kilomile, and the direxion to the SW rather isolates them from much of the US and rest of Mexico, especially helpful for sunrise skip.
Distance is also ideal for sporadic-E on VHF TV, but Grupo Pacífico on 2 and 3 already has DTV duplicates on UHF, so analog may not last much longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1180, Oct 3 at 0536 UT with the Cuban pileup nulled, I hear some weak Spanish music. The only two XEs to the SW in Cantú are:
1180 XEUBS Radio UABCS La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 D
1180 XEJK Ke buena + FM 95.3 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500
And only one of those should be on in the nightmiddle. But as usual, other listings contradict Cantú which is presumably more recent. WRTH 2012 claims XEUBS is 10 kW fulltime, and that the Delicias outlet is ``XEDCH, Romántica 11-80``. The IRCA Log from last year also had XEDCH but 5/0.25 kW, and XEUBS with night power of -1 which means it may be on at night with unknown power. My money is on XEJK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 3 at 0459, VON YL with program previews, fair signal, the SSOB, and would be the OSOB except for a bit of R. Australia on 15515. 0500 ID from ``Lay-goss``, and news, improving signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 48, Oct 3 at 1434 UT, KOCY-LP OKC with Estrella TV comedy film is almost snow-free, so I go looking for any other analogs (none), or DTVs. This morning tropo enhancement visiblizes on:
RF36, PSIP 36-1 KUOK-CD OKC with Univisión, and even stays locked when I aim north to check out Kansas. That`s on manual tuning to be sure I am really on 36. But entering 36 on the converter remaps to usual RF 29 KTUZ primarily Telemundo but carrying same KUOK programming on a subchannel not designated 30-2 or 29-2, but 36-1. OKCitians could be watching either without knowing which.
RF 46, 50 kW KOCM Norman with Daystar is still bad, not decoding, which is the usual case now, yet it somehow merits carriage on Enid Suddenlink cable 95.
Whoopee! KXOK RF 31 Enid, with is RTV on main channel, and a couple months ago added MundoFox on 31-2, now has added another subchannel full of steamy novelas, Azteca America on 31-3 --- and it`s not in squeeze-o-vision, either. All are now duplicated on the non-broadcast and weaker link transmitter on RF 32.
And as pre-publicized, RF 7, KOCO ``5`` OKC has replaced THIS on 5.2 with ME TV, per promos tho I have not bothered to view it yet. Even my big VHF antenna has trouble maintaining an undisrupted signal from KOCO which was foolish enough to avoid UHF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 3 at 0343, R. Hargeisa, brief announcement and HoA music, fair signal at S9+10 without much storm noise for a change. 0354, another brief announcement marred by CW QRhaM, with lots of dits, then a CQ. 0403 music still audible, weakening, and 0413 talk weakening further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11880, Oct 3 at 1253, REE via CR again in Castilian, not scheduled Basque, ``En 5 Minutos`` which is normally an evergreen filler when new news is not available. Then REE promo ``Nuestras frecuencias hablan español``, just to rub it in; N.B., Carlos, they do not call it ``castellano`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, Oct 3 at *0358 huge open carrier on and off, then cuts on IWT music undermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000, Oct 3 at 1418, WWV robofem propagation report has distorted over-modulation, but copied K index of 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7575, Oct 3 at 1242, VOA promo for presidential debate UT Thu at 0100 on voanews.com, and (as an afterthought) ``also on shortwave radio``! We can find voanews.com with no problem, but WTFK on SW? There are likely to be special ones not normally in use, perhaps even from Greenville, which VOA abolished long ago as a site for English to the Americas, except for Spe-cial Eng-lish at 0130 weekdays. Those current frequencies could be a starting point: 7465 and 9820. IIRC, four years ago, those VOA frequencies rudely cut off before the debates were over at their normal time of 0200!
AND, surprisingly, REE Spain carried the debates live in translation; check 15160, 9620, 6055, 5995-CR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 3 at 0228 tune-in, WRNO closing `Maranatha Radio` program from Maranatha Chapel in San Diego CA, as I can barely make out from the extremely suppressed and distorted modulation. Brother Scare also exclaims ``Maranatha`` as he signs off; I`ll go with gotquestions.org: ``Maranatha is an Aramaic word that means "the Lord is coming" or "come, O Lord"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555.0, Oct 3 at 0229, KJES with kID in Spanish, open carrier and off at 0230*. VG signal, so still active for the 0100-0230 broadcast; not heard in ages on 15385 at 1800-2000, but usually audible at 13-16 on 11715 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Oct 3 at 1336 UT, still at 1358 and 1426, WEWN is dead air/open carrier with VG signal, while the other Spanish frequency 12050 is modulating normally. Wake up, Mother Angélica! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 820 et many al., WBAP`s `Red Eye Radio` is not so much pro-trucker as it is anti-Obama, as it took only a minute of listening after 0606 UT Oct 3 to tell. What do you expect, originating from Dallas where so many necks are also red? Dear Mr President, please do not ever consider going on a motorcade there. Or in Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. 13635, Oct 3 at 1423, siren jamming, or as wb calls it, ``howl buoy``, against nothing, but must be aimed at adjacent 13640 which I suppose it could bother on some receivers, i.e. per Aoki, RFA Vietnamese via SAIPAN at 14-15, which was separately audible. Axually, center of whoops may have been closer to 13640, hard to pinpoint (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Oct 3 at 0612 UT, presumed KCTA 50 kW daytime open carrier with hum is still rampant. Did not notice it earlier in evening, but probably then too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1650, Oct 3 at 0524 UT, Spanish separable from Denver Spanish to the NW, Univisión promo/ad, I think for a TV show rather than radio, 1-900 number and something about texting in Estados Unidos, ``16-50 AM --- [algo] --- sin comerciales``, romantic music. More evidence that it is really KSVE El Paso TX and not XEAZR Mexico City, since Univisión is an American, not Mexican network. But still lacking a firm ID. Lucked into a fade by Iowa, which soon regained dominance, and 0531 ID as ``1650, The Fan, KCNZ`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-SSB, Oct 3 at 0508 pirate with music, YL soul or gospel song, strengthens; another one, and at 0517 change to opening of ``Also Sprach Zarathustra``. No voice announcements, but that`s followed by long CW message, starting with VVV VVV VVV, but not followed immediately by a DE, ID. Lasted until 0521*. Recorded last part of it and may eventually transcribe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5-SSB, Oct 3 at 1417, 2-way INTRUDER in Spanish, het from AM broadcaster on 15150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Oct 3 at 0359 standing by for RTA relay via Issoudun, FRANCE to start, but no signal. *0400 just in time for tinny military band, with NA? If so, certainly one of the least impressive, then ``Huna al-Djazer`` ID, drumming and proclaiming, 0402 into relatively lo-key talk; by 0413 it`s in Qur`an. Usual break for antenna change at 0458. 0507 check, more Qur`an. So this relay reactivated Oct 1 has continued for three days, and the evening broadcasts have also been confirmed by EurAfricans. Are they here to stay this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 3 at 1258, Bengali music, so I missed most of 1230 English. Nepali 1315-1345 still missing, no signal at 1334.
15505, Oct 3 at 1358, BB IS is playing, good signal, one of the best so far from them, as the transpolar path is working well. 1400 timesignal only 3 sex late, opening Urdu, news; 1416 check, by now with vocal music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1610, Oct 3 at 0616 UT, Spanish briefly overcomes the 1600 KATZIBOC long enough to hear a 416-area code phonumber, i.e. Toronto`s CHHA, 6250 watts day and night, a figure apparently computed as sufficient to overcome Montreal in the local area. Soon faded back into the noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 3, before 1300:
12320, very good at 1257; none in the 13s
14800, very good at 1258
15555, good at 1258, and this one only stays on past 1302+
16250, fair at 1259
17370, poor at 1259; ran out of time before checking 18+ MHz
Circa 1330:
12670, good at 1335
13130, very poor at 1333
14800, fair at 1330
15485, good at 1328, het on hi side
15610, fair at 1238
15900, poor at 1328
16100, fair at 1330
16920, very good at 1330
After 1400:
12230, very good at 1425
14700, poor at 1422
17370, very good at 1420; none in the 16s, 18s
17565, good at 1420, CCI with V. of Tibet`s Madagascar frequency of the moment; plus and minus 5 also available for abrupt jumps
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995 carrier with hum is still going, Oct 3 at 0350, 0503. Rather poor signal tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 3 at 0507 still no IGIM. Is anyone hearing this at any time any more? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, Oct 3 at 1220 UT, Pollo Loco ad, string of PSAs, ads, some mentioning Sinaloa, 1222 fading. So it is per Cantú:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
And Pollo Loco exists in Mexico too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Oct 3 at 0555, XE NA is already playing, then ``Soy Soldado`` super-militaristic recitation, and 0558 Chihuahua anthem, so obviously XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, usual dominant signal with 100 watts at night? Yeah, sure. However at 0606, open carrier/dead air allowing KCMO to be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 750, Oct 3 at 0559 UT, soft rock in English, dominating channel, where`s WSB? I don`t even have to null it. Then full ToH ID for XHCSI on FM 89.5 and XECSI on 750, Éxtasis Digital, música en inglés, Sinaloa, Radiorama. Then NA at 0602, which was in Spanish (hmm, I wonder if anyone has ever recorded an English version? North Americans might be shocked by the warmongering anti-American lyrix, but then what about the SSB? ``Dime, ¿puedes ver por la luz de la alborada, lo que alabamos tan orgullosamente?``). Anyhow, good work for only 250 watts if we believe:
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250, says
http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_am.htm
0605, WSB starts to fade back in
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Oct 3 at 1223 UT, dominant signal with Chihuahua news about quejas, i.e.:
760 XEES Antena + FM 102.5 Chihuahua, Chih. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, Oct 3 at 1223 UT, Dominos.com.mx ad where anyone can dine for only 42 pesos; IFE PSA; copa playstation ad; government PSA for the 62nd legislatura at the Cámara de Diputados and the wonderful things it will accomplish; 1226 ``40 Principales`` jingle, IFE PSA, FM & AM ID but hard to copy with reverb, music, ad for Institute of American English en Sinaloa; 1228 another PSA about Sinaloa. So it`s:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
Per Cantú.
You may wonder why I get so many Sinaloa stations in Oclajoma? I suppose the skip distance is favorable, round about one kilomile, and the direxion to the SW rather isolates them from much of the US and rest of Mexico, especially helpful for sunrise skip.
Distance is also ideal for sporadic-E on VHF TV, but Grupo Pacífico on 2 and 3 already has DTV duplicates on UHF, so analog may not last much longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1180, Oct 3 at 0536 UT with the Cuban pileup nulled, I hear some weak Spanish music. The only two XEs to the SW in Cantú are:
1180 XEUBS Radio UABCS La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 D
1180 XEJK Ke buena + FM 95.3 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500
And only one of those should be on in the nightmiddle. But as usual, other listings contradict Cantú which is presumably more recent. WRTH 2012 claims XEUBS is 10 kW fulltime, and that the Delicias outlet is ``XEDCH, Romántica 11-80``. The IRCA Log from last year also had XEDCH but 5/0.25 kW, and XEUBS with night power of -1 which means it may be on at night with unknown power. My money is on XEJK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 3 at 0459, VON YL with program previews, fair signal, the SSOB, and would be the OSOB except for a bit of R. Australia on 15515. 0500 ID from ``Lay-goss``, and news, improving signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 48, Oct 3 at 1434 UT, KOCY-LP OKC with Estrella TV comedy film is almost snow-free, so I go looking for any other analogs (none), or DTVs. This morning tropo enhancement visiblizes on:
RF36, PSIP 36-1 KUOK-CD OKC with Univisión, and even stays locked when I aim north to check out Kansas. That`s on manual tuning to be sure I am really on 36. But entering 36 on the converter remaps to usual RF 29 KTUZ primarily Telemundo but carrying same KUOK programming on a subchannel not designated 30-2 or 29-2, but 36-1. OKCitians could be watching either without knowing which.
RF 46, 50 kW KOCM Norman with Daystar is still bad, not decoding, which is the usual case now, yet it somehow merits carriage on Enid Suddenlink cable 95.
Whoopee! KXOK RF 31 Enid, with is RTV on main channel, and a couple months ago added MundoFox on 31-2, now has added another subchannel full of steamy novelas, Azteca America on 31-3 --- and it`s not in squeeze-o-vision, either. All are now duplicated on the non-broadcast and weaker link transmitter on RF 32.
And as pre-publicized, RF 7, KOCO ``5`` OKC has replaced THIS on 5.2 with ME TV, per promos tho I have not bothered to view it yet. Even my big VHF antenna has trouble maintaining an undisrupted signal from KOCO which was foolish enough to avoid UHF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 3 at 0343, R. Hargeisa, brief announcement and HoA music, fair signal at S9+10 without much storm noise for a change. 0354, another brief announcement marred by CW QRhaM, with lots of dits, then a CQ. 0403 music still audible, weakening, and 0413 talk weakening further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11880, Oct 3 at 1253, REE via CR again in Castilian, not scheduled Basque, ``En 5 Minutos`` which is normally an evergreen filler when new news is not available. Then REE promo ``Nuestras frecuencias hablan español``, just to rub it in; N.B., Carlos, they do not call it ``castellano`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, Oct 3 at *0358 huge open carrier on and off, then cuts on IWT music undermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000, Oct 3 at 1418, WWV robofem propagation report has distorted over-modulation, but copied K index of 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7575, Oct 3 at 1242, VOA promo for presidential debate UT Thu at 0100 on voanews.com, and (as an afterthought) ``also on shortwave radio``! We can find voanews.com with no problem, but WTFK on SW? There are likely to be special ones not normally in use, perhaps even from Greenville, which VOA abolished long ago as a site for English to the Americas, except for Spe-cial Eng-lish at 0130 weekdays. Those current frequencies could be a starting point: 7465 and 9820. IIRC, four years ago, those VOA frequencies rudely cut off before the debates were over at their normal time of 0200!
AND, surprisingly, REE Spain carried the debates live in translation; check 15160, 9620, 6055, 5995-CR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 3 at 0228 tune-in, WRNO closing `Maranatha Radio` program from Maranatha Chapel in San Diego CA, as I can barely make out from the extremely suppressed and distorted modulation. Brother Scare also exclaims ``Maranatha`` as he signs off; I`ll go with gotquestions.org: ``Maranatha is an Aramaic word that means "the Lord is coming" or "come, O Lord"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555.0, Oct 3 at 0229, KJES with kID in Spanish, open carrier and off at 0230*. VG signal, so still active for the 0100-0230 broadcast; not heard in ages on 15385 at 1800-2000, but usually audible at 13-16 on 11715 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Oct 3 at 1336 UT, still at 1358 and 1426, WEWN is dead air/open carrier with VG signal, while the other Spanish frequency 12050 is modulating normally. Wake up, Mother Angélica! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 820 et many al., WBAP`s `Red Eye Radio` is not so much pro-trucker as it is anti-Obama, as it took only a minute of listening after 0606 UT Oct 3 to tell. What do you expect, originating from Dallas where so many necks are also red? Dear Mr President, please do not ever consider going on a motorcade there. Or in Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. 13635, Oct 3 at 1423, siren jamming, or as wb calls it, ``howl buoy``, against nothing, but must be aimed at adjacent 13640 which I suppose it could bother on some receivers, i.e. per Aoki, RFA Vietnamese via SAIPAN at 14-15, which was separately audible. Axually, center of whoops may have been closer to 13640, hard to pinpoint (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Oct 3 at 0612 UT, presumed KCTA 50 kW daytime open carrier with hum is still rampant. Did not notice it earlier in evening, but probably then too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1650, Oct 3 at 0524 UT, Spanish separable from Denver Spanish to the NW, Univisión promo/ad, I think for a TV show rather than radio, 1-900 number and something about texting in Estados Unidos, ``16-50 AM --- [algo] --- sin comerciales``, romantic music. More evidence that it is really KSVE El Paso TX and not XEAZR Mexico City, since Univisión is an American, not Mexican network. But still lacking a firm ID. Lucked into a fade by Iowa, which soon regained dominance, and 0531 ID as ``1650, The Fan, KCNZ`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-SSB, Oct 3 at 0508 pirate with music, YL soul or gospel song, strengthens; another one, and at 0517 change to opening of ``Also Sprach Zarathustra``. No voice announcements, but that`s followed by long CW message, starting with VVV VVV VVV, but not followed immediately by a DE, ID. Lasted until 0521*. Recorded last part of it and may eventually transcribe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5-SSB, Oct 3 at 1417, 2-way INTRUDER in Spanish, het from AM broadcaster on 15150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
