** AUSTRALIA. 2485, Jan 12 at 1352, some music is audible on very poor signal; has to be VL8K, which rarely surpasses a JBA carrier, still the case on 2325, VL8T; the other NT one still on 4835, much easier to hear, VL8A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, Jan 12 at 1522, R. Australia, English, with heavy SAH and CCCCI, because R Free Asia, Mandarin via TAJIKISTAN eastward starts at 1500, and inevitably provokes ChiCom co-channel jamming, probably what I am hearing instead of RFA. RA is aimed 70 degrees, otherwise good for us. A quick fix to this would be shifting from 11945 to 11880 half an hour earlier at 1500 instead of 1530, altho I`m not sure they are the same transmitter. After 1530, just Chinese remains on 11945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Jan 12 at 1347, RHC is open carrier/dead air, while much weaker signal on 11750 is modulating. Sometime after 1500 noticed that 11760 had resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 11645, Sat Jan 12 at 0633, VOG with poor signal // 9420 in Greek talk, while 7475 checked as early as 0622 had music not //, so R. Philia service is on today, 7475 and not on 11645 where it was originally. 11645 had not been heard for weeks, not sure it was still on the air, but propagation picked up a bit tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 12 at 1403, AFN is AWOL again, no signal, just widespread OTH radar pulsing, presumed from China; so to hear `Weekend Edition Saturday` I had to tune in to Tucson; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 12 at 1349, YL sounds Indonesian with a phone caller, so presumed RRI Makassar rather than Bangladesh. RRI is consistently reported about 40 Hz below, but it`s hard for me to detect the difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 5920, Jan 12 at 1358, poor signal, maybe Persian? 1400 no timesignal but plucked instrument and orchestra, more talk. Per HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, it has to be IRIB, Kurdish at 1330-1630, 500 kW ND from Kamalabad. This is just after sunrise here at 1343, so would it be long path or short? Probably short, as per gaisma.com, nearby Tehran sunset today was 1341 UT, i.e. right along the grayline (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, Jan 12 at 1406 singing and talk sounds Korean, so per Aoki it`s:
6015 KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 0350-2400 1234567 Korean 100 ND Hwaseong
Unseemed with co-channel 6015 Juche jamming noise from the North as listed for 250 kW from Kujang, but some nearby, maybe the other one on 6003 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Jan 12 at 1428, M&W with crime stats, ``delitos``, 7:28 timecheck, state news mentioning Delicias` water shortage; poor signal but way atop KGNC and KCMO still, half a sesquihour after Enid sunrise, ergo XEDP Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which is also the dominant XE at night. A.k.a. La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc but departing from that format for a morning newscast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 12 at 0623, sufficient open carrier, no doubt XEPPM not turned off yet after nominal 0600 sign-off. This is when XEEP 1060 has been relaying news from R. Francia Internacional, and also used to be heard on 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Jan 12 at 0634, RNZI is the SSOB, playing ``Auld Lang Syne``, in Saturday night request show, later Sophie Tucker, and more great favorites of the elder generation. I could not turn it off before 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG: afternoon of Jan 11 visited the 17th annual KNID Agrifest, and near the front entrance of the Chisholm Trail Expo Center, found a spartan table personned by a M&W from KOAG. Conversed with Jay Kopp, Marketing Consultant. Station operates out of OKC, not Enid, along with True Oldies 99.7, KZLS. Both are part of Champlin Broadcasting, 4045 NW 64th Street, Suite 306, 73116. Separate from Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, Enid, KCRC, KNID, etc., tho both are owned by Hiram Champlin. Says there is no locally-originated programming yet, but plans for some. The previous ``Faith 1640`` format as KFXY just wasn`t paying the bills.
I asked whether KOAG might go non-direxional for better coverage of rural OK instead of aiming at the cities; he`s not an engineer but thinx it`s possible. Agreed that coverage is limited toward the WSW as he recently drove back from Midland TX. Mr Kopp was formerly with Renda, i.e. KOMA/KOKC 1520, and the inevitable stories ensued of it being heard in Finland, Japan, and I added, Australia & New Zealand. Did not discuss QSLing KOAG, but besides the postal address above (rather than same as KCRC 1390 Enid as in NRC AM Log), e-mail on his business card is jkopp @ champlinbroadcasting.com and office phone 405.633.1099.
He did not find it odd that KNID, not an ag station per se, was still sponsoring the event rather than KOAG, which is. At the Agrifest, we also saw several pairs of gloves labeled KFRM [550] on various exhibitors` tables, but never a KFRM exhibit, presumably not invited, as the main competition. An intruder from KFRM had surreptitiously made the rounds handing them out earlier. Then there`s another further farm station, KRVN 880 Nebraska, also audible here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15170, Sat Jan 12 at 1430-1450, RRI with comedy/novelty songs in Romanian service; fun to listen to if not understanding more than a few cognate words of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17595 // 21610, Jan 12 at 1410, REE is broadcasting its own program in Castilian instead of CRI in French! Since it`s Saturday, strong 17595 toward NAm is back on, but 17715 is not, even after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday Jan 12 at 0230:30, about the same time it started last week. Thanks, Larry Will, for keeping us on WBCQ!
Next: UT Sun 0500 on WTWW 5830; Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955.
I checked around 1845 Jan 12 for WOR on WRMI 9955: nothing but a JBA carrier here, but Ed Insinger in Summit NJ reports: ``Today, Saturday, 12 January 2013, I am listening to World Of Radio on 9955 kHz, in the clear today, at 1830 UTC, following NHK World in English. It was good to receive your broadcast of WOR in the clear today. Many thanks`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, Jan 12 at 0603 UT, ABC News and commercial breaks, presumed KMA Shenandoah IA as local KGWA is again providing a 5-minute Fox-hole with no modulation, except for some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, Jan 12 at 1433 UT, easily separated from KSL by nulling is something from the NE/SW, religious referring us twice to wyll.com in order to patronize local advertisers. Therefore I am confident it`s WYLL Chicago, né WJJD. (That public station in Champaign having the more apropos letters WILL tied up forever; note that the second harmonic of WILL would also be 1160, possibly confusing in some areas.)
FCC AM Query shows WYLL is licensed daytime for BOTH 50 kW, 2 towers, and 15 kW, 6 towers. The 2-tower pattern is broad favoring the southeast, but enough to the SW for us: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/185560-36.pdf
While the 6-tower pattern is an auxiliary/backup from a considerably different set of coordinates, with major lobe to north, hardly any to the SW:http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1421498-114379.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, Jan 12 at 1436 UT, Scott Simon`s voice so it has to be `Weekend Edition Saturday` which in turn has to be from the only NPR on 1550, 50 kW daytimer KUAT Tucson AZ --- oops, it`s been KUAZ since 8/11/2000; soon fades out, but back at 1443 during usual WESAT sports segment, about the only one I condescend to listen to since it`s now dealing with something important, brain injuries in football. Duh, avoid banging your head against things or people! Especially if it`s only for the reptilian entertainment of other males, and female hangers-on.
KUAZ does have a PSRA of 39.0 watts, October thru March starting at 6 am local = 1300 UT, the limiting station being XEBG Tijuana, not any of all the other US stations on 1550. A 10 kW so close as Albuquerque on 1550 should never have been authorized, but not hearing much from it today. There must be quite a clash between them in western NM, eastern AZ.
And a KUAZ PSSA also of 39.0 watts every month on a complicated schedule from sunset to as late as 7:45 pm MT (0245 UT) in January. SR/SS times in January are 1430-0045 UT; February 1415-0115, so it must have just gone up to 50 kW day power a few minutes before I heard it. What a pity a station capable of providing such a great public radio service to the western half of the country is so restricted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1670, Sat Jan 12 at 1439 UT, financial talk show, poor signal from NE/SW, can`t be anything but Madison WI, rebranded as WOZN, on the new CBS Sports network, but must not be 100% silly ballgames. No sign of a program schedule athttp://www.madcitysportszone.com/
but ``coming soon``: a ``Fantasy Zone`` --- will that be another cheesecake gallery like WCKY`s, somehow correlating with sports? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, Jan 12 at 1522, R. Australia, English, with heavy SAH and CCCCI, because R Free Asia, Mandarin via TAJIKISTAN eastward starts at 1500, and inevitably provokes ChiCom co-channel jamming, probably what I am hearing instead of RFA. RA is aimed 70 degrees, otherwise good for us. A quick fix to this would be shifting from 11945 to 11880 half an hour earlier at 1500 instead of 1530, altho I`m not sure they are the same transmitter. After 1530, just Chinese remains on 11945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Jan 12 at 1347, RHC is open carrier/dead air, while much weaker signal on 11750 is modulating. Sometime after 1500 noticed that 11760 had resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 11645, Sat Jan 12 at 0633, VOG with poor signal // 9420 in Greek talk, while 7475 checked as early as 0622 had music not //, so R. Philia service is on today, 7475 and not on 11645 where it was originally. 11645 had not been heard for weeks, not sure it was still on the air, but propagation picked up a bit tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 12 at 1403, AFN is AWOL again, no signal, just widespread OTH radar pulsing, presumed from China; so to hear `Weekend Edition Saturday` I had to tune in to Tucson; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 12 at 1349, YL sounds Indonesian with a phone caller, so presumed RRI Makassar rather than Bangladesh. RRI is consistently reported about 40 Hz below, but it`s hard for me to detect the difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 5920, Jan 12 at 1358, poor signal, maybe Persian? 1400 no timesignal but plucked instrument and orchestra, more talk. Per HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, it has to be IRIB, Kurdish at 1330-1630, 500 kW ND from Kamalabad. This is just after sunrise here at 1343, so would it be long path or short? Probably short, as per gaisma.com, nearby Tehran sunset today was 1341 UT, i.e. right along the grayline (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, Jan 12 at 1406 singing and talk sounds Korean, so per Aoki it`s:
6015 KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 0350-2400 1234567 Korean 100 ND Hwaseong
Unseemed with co-channel 6015 Juche jamming noise from the North as listed for 250 kW from Kujang, but some nearby, maybe the other one on 6003 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Jan 12 at 1428, M&W with crime stats, ``delitos``, 7:28 timecheck, state news mentioning Delicias` water shortage; poor signal but way atop KGNC and KCMO still, half a sesquihour after Enid sunrise, ergo XEDP Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which is also the dominant XE at night. A.k.a. La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc but departing from that format for a morning newscast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 12 at 0623, sufficient open carrier, no doubt XEPPM not turned off yet after nominal 0600 sign-off. This is when XEEP 1060 has been relaying news from R. Francia Internacional, and also used to be heard on 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Jan 12 at 0634, RNZI is the SSOB, playing ``Auld Lang Syne``, in Saturday night request show, later Sophie Tucker, and more great favorites of the elder generation. I could not turn it off before 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG: afternoon of Jan 11 visited the 17th annual KNID Agrifest, and near the front entrance of the Chisholm Trail Expo Center, found a spartan table personned by a M&W from KOAG. Conversed with Jay Kopp, Marketing Consultant. Station operates out of OKC, not Enid, along with True Oldies 99.7, KZLS. Both are part of Champlin Broadcasting, 4045 NW 64th Street, Suite 306, 73116. Separate from Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, Enid, KCRC, KNID, etc., tho both are owned by Hiram Champlin. Says there is no locally-originated programming yet, but plans for some. The previous ``Faith 1640`` format as KFXY just wasn`t paying the bills.
I asked whether KOAG might go non-direxional for better coverage of rural OK instead of aiming at the cities; he`s not an engineer but thinx it`s possible. Agreed that coverage is limited toward the WSW as he recently drove back from Midland TX. Mr Kopp was formerly with Renda, i.e. KOMA/KOKC 1520, and the inevitable stories ensued of it being heard in Finland, Japan, and I added, Australia & New Zealand. Did not discuss QSLing KOAG, but besides the postal address above (rather than same as KCRC 1390 Enid as in NRC AM Log), e-mail on his business card is jkopp @ champlinbroadcasting.com and office phone 405.633.1099.
He did not find it odd that KNID, not an ag station per se, was still sponsoring the event rather than KOAG, which is. At the Agrifest, we also saw several pairs of gloves labeled KFRM [550] on various exhibitors` tables, but never a KFRM exhibit, presumably not invited, as the main competition. An intruder from KFRM had surreptitiously made the rounds handing them out earlier. Then there`s another further farm station, KRVN 880 Nebraska, also audible here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15170, Sat Jan 12 at 1430-1450, RRI with comedy/novelty songs in Romanian service; fun to listen to if not understanding more than a few cognate words of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17595 // 21610, Jan 12 at 1410, REE is broadcasting its own program in Castilian instead of CRI in French! Since it`s Saturday, strong 17595 toward NAm is back on, but 17715 is not, even after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday Jan 12 at 0230:30, about the same time it started last week. Thanks, Larry Will, for keeping us on WBCQ!
Next: UT Sun 0500 on WTWW 5830; Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955.
I checked around 1845 Jan 12 for WOR on WRMI 9955: nothing but a JBA carrier here, but Ed Insinger in Summit NJ reports: ``Today, Saturday, 12 January 2013, I am listening to World Of Radio on 9955 kHz, in the clear today, at 1830 UTC, following NHK World in English. It was good to receive your broadcast of WOR in the clear today. Many thanks`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, Jan 12 at 0603 UT, ABC News and commercial breaks, presumed KMA Shenandoah IA as local KGWA is again providing a 5-minute Fox-hole with no modulation, except for some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, Jan 12 at 1433 UT, easily separated from KSL by nulling is something from the NE/SW, religious referring us twice to wyll.com in order to patronize local advertisers. Therefore I am confident it`s WYLL Chicago, né WJJD. (That public station in Champaign having the more apropos letters WILL tied up forever; note that the second harmonic of WILL would also be 1160, possibly confusing in some areas.)
FCC AM Query shows WYLL is licensed daytime for BOTH 50 kW, 2 towers, and 15 kW, 6 towers. The 2-tower pattern is broad favoring the southeast, but enough to the SW for us: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/185560-36.pdf
While the 6-tower pattern is an auxiliary/backup from a considerably different set of coordinates, with major lobe to north, hardly any to the SW:http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1421498-114379.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, Jan 12 at 1436 UT, Scott Simon`s voice so it has to be `Weekend Edition Saturday` which in turn has to be from the only NPR on 1550, 50 kW daytimer KUAT Tucson AZ --- oops, it`s been KUAZ since 8/11/2000; soon fades out, but back at 1443 during usual WESAT sports segment, about the only one I condescend to listen to since it`s now dealing with something important, brain injuries in football. Duh, avoid banging your head against things or people! Especially if it`s only for the reptilian entertainment of other males, and female hangers-on.
KUAZ does have a PSRA of 39.0 watts, October thru March starting at 6 am local = 1300 UT, the limiting station being XEBG Tijuana, not any of all the other US stations on 1550. A 10 kW so close as Albuquerque on 1550 should never have been authorized, but not hearing much from it today. There must be quite a clash between them in western NM, eastern AZ.
And a KUAZ PSSA also of 39.0 watts every month on a complicated schedule from sunset to as late as 7:45 pm MT (0245 UT) in January. SR/SS times in January are 1430-0045 UT; February 1415-0115, so it must have just gone up to 50 kW day power a few minutes before I heard it. What a pity a station capable of providing such a great public radio service to the western half of the country is so restricted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1670, Sat Jan 12 at 1439 UT, financial talk show, poor signal from NE/SW, can`t be anything but Madison WI, rebranded as WOZN, on the new CBS Sports network, but must not be 100% silly ballgames. No sign of a program schedule athttp://www.madcitysportszone.com/
but ``coming soon``: a ``Fantasy Zone`` --- will that be another cheesecake gallery like WCKY`s, somehow correlating with sports? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
