** GREECE. 7475, Dec 6 at 0626, R. Filia, Albanian service is really into Dr. Andrew Horton of OU, University Of Oklahoma, for the YL is talking about him again as in previous log, and also mentioning cinematography, and Melina Mercouri --- or just playing back the same program/segment? 0628 a song, 0631 R. Filia ID and continuing in Albanian, not German, good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 630, Dec 6 at 0602 UT, full ID for XEFB, including ``FB Romántica, 6-30 AM, 10,000 watts, 24 horas, 365 días, noche y día, centro de la ciudad de Monterrey, grupo Radio México`` --- so this is a very recent and drastic format change I was suspecting as soon as I tuned in on the SRF-59 and heard romantic music instead of talk. Current Cantú still shows the old slogan and format, ``FB La Estación Que Da Las Noticias`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1646, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 5885, Dec 6 at 1327, S. Asian language, also with a het. HFCC and Aoki, show VOR in Hindi this hour via TAJIKISTAN, 100 kW, 137 degrees from Dushanbe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15650, Dec 6 at 1330, still no trace of a signal from R. Free Kenyalang, nor has it been heard for sure since Nov 30-Dec 1. Here`s why; WRN explains, ``It was a brief test period on 15650, and stopped because it was not performing as well as the client expected. We are now assessing it and will let you know what will come next.`` Still unknown the transmitter site, but next one may well be different (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1646, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1646: ready by 2130 UT Dec 6, in time for first broadcast on WTWW-1, Thursday 2200 on 9479; then UT Friday 0430 on WWRB 3195 & 5050; UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; on WRMI: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830; Sun 0900, 1630; Mon 0530; Tue 1200.
On HLR: Sat 0630 on 7265, Sat 1630 on 6190.
On WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sat 1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 570, Dec 6 at 0613 UT, Fox Sports Radio has the best signal, so it must not be KLIF; loops southwest/northeast, and Cuban Reloj sounders weakly audible too when nulled. Pronto ID for ``KSNM, 570, news, talk and sports for southern New Mexico``. Something here is also causing a low rumbling het. KSNM Las Cruces is 5 kW day, 155 watts night, really? Both non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, SRF-59, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Dec 6 at 0602 UT, ID for ``KONO, 101.1, San Antonio`s greatest hits``; easily heard with wrist twisted so as to null dominant KKOW in Pittsburg KS.
I`m trying the unmodified Sony SRF-59 that Kraig Krist gave me since the sensitivity of the DX-398 seems to be falling off; so far, so good.
KONO on 860 is only 900 watts at night and NRC Pattern Book 2005 shows a night pattern of east-west with a deep null toward the north (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, SRF-59, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Dec 6 at 0640, this time the VR Latin+ mass has no severe flutter, // 6075 and 9645+het, organ music interlude; but the other //, 3975, is missing, off the air? BBC Skelton UK DRM is still propagating noisily on 3950-3955-3960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 630, Dec 6 at 0602 UT, full ID for XEFB, including ``FB Romántica, 6-30 AM, 10,000 watts, 24 horas, 365 días, noche y día, centro de la ciudad de Monterrey, grupo Radio México`` --- so this is a very recent and drastic format change I was suspecting as soon as I tuned in on the SRF-59 and heard romantic music instead of talk. Current Cantú still shows the old slogan and format, ``FB La Estación Que Da Las Noticias`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1646, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 5885, Dec 6 at 1327, S. Asian language, also with a het. HFCC and Aoki, show VOR in Hindi this hour via TAJIKISTAN, 100 kW, 137 degrees from Dushanbe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15650, Dec 6 at 1330, still no trace of a signal from R. Free Kenyalang, nor has it been heard for sure since Nov 30-Dec 1. Here`s why; WRN explains, ``It was a brief test period on 15650, and stopped because it was not performing as well as the client expected. We are now assessing it and will let you know what will come next.`` Still unknown the transmitter site, but next one may well be different (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1646, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1646: ready by 2130 UT Dec 6, in time for first broadcast on WTWW-1, Thursday 2200 on 9479; then UT Friday 0430 on WWRB 3195 & 5050; UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; on WRMI: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830; Sun 0900, 1630; Mon 0530; Tue 1200.
On HLR: Sat 0630 on 7265, Sat 1630 on 6190.
On WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sat 1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 570, Dec 6 at 0613 UT, Fox Sports Radio has the best signal, so it must not be KLIF; loops southwest/northeast, and Cuban Reloj sounders weakly audible too when nulled. Pronto ID for ``KSNM, 570, news, talk and sports for southern New Mexico``. Something here is also causing a low rumbling het. KSNM Las Cruces is 5 kW day, 155 watts night, really? Both non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, SRF-59, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Dec 6 at 0602 UT, ID for ``KONO, 101.1, San Antonio`s greatest hits``; easily heard with wrist twisted so as to null dominant KKOW in Pittsburg KS.
I`m trying the unmodified Sony SRF-59 that Kraig Krist gave me since the sensitivity of the DX-398 seems to be falling off; so far, so good.
KONO on 860 is only 900 watts at night and NRC Pattern Book 2005 shows a night pattern of east-west with a deep null toward the north (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, SRF-59, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Dec 6 at 0640, this time the VR Latin+ mass has no severe flutter, // 6075 and 9645+het, organ music interlude; but the other //, 3975, is missing, off the air? BBC Skelton UK DRM is still propagating noisily on 3950-3955-3960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
