** BRAZIL. 4885, Jan 22 at 0615 tune-in, ``Bom dia; você está ouvindo o clube da madrugada`` amid music, CODAR. This 10 kW ZYG362, R. Clube do Pará, Belém, continues to be the best all-night signal from Brasil on 60m, and stronger than usual tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake search Jan 22 at 1450-1457: none found 12-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 22 at 0613, RHC Spanish music, not // English talk on 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165, 6270. So it`s tonight`s anomaly, as 5040 is supposed to be in English during the 06-07 hour. Seems someone along the line tries to sneak in an extra hour of Spanish on at least one of the transmitters, and it must be admitted, six English frequencies after 0500 is overkill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Jan 22 at 1500, R. Kuwait still on the air in Arabic with good signal, tho some days cuts off earlier. YL with akbar headlines, just before 1502 over to OM, reverbed for effect with ponderous declamations accompanied by bits of Beethoven`s Fifth, but this cut off the air at 1504:41*. Transmitter ops have no finesse; who cares about the listeners? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, Jan 22 at 0600-0605 UT, during local KGWA Fox-hole with remaining strong open carrier nulled: dominated by Mexican music, 0602 ID mentions ``Chihuahua, México``, so XEFAMA again, Ciudad Camargo, which is becoming famous around here for penetrating KGWA. Romantic music until KGWA modulation blasts back on at 0605 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, Jan 22 at 0647 UT, KSPI Stillwater is again running its 250 watt daytime carrier in the nightmiddle, obviously groundwave steady in null of WBBM, and oppositely audible too is music, no doubt newish KCEG in CO, allegedly 720 watts at night, but enough no doubt to prevent Pueblans from accessing any Newsradio from Chicago. KCEG is even better after 0700 as the KSPI OC helps to keep the QRN/QRM level down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 22 at 0651 UT, daytimer KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is at first not audible even with KMOX nulled, tho Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa found it back on the air as of Jan 21, also long after dark UT Jan 22; by 0713, has faded in a very poor signal with Mexican music, presumably this. Seems they are running less power than before, rated 2 kW. Next check at 1423 also audible poorly with less KMOX. KEOR had been unheard at all for about a week. Also weak and alone at local mean noon 1830 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 9885, Jan 22 at 0619, some station is modulating beneath a humroarwhine; sounds rather like V. of Nigeria used to on the 0440- 15120 broadcast which I haven`t heard in months. New frequency for them? Nothing but African/Ascension signals elsewhere on 31m, plus Brasil 9665. Tough to make out even the language, but finally decide it`s American English, 0627 mentions Pres. Barack Obama, continues past 0630. O, of course it`s just VOA, which during this hour only is 100 kW, 330 degrees via Meyerton USward, so SENTECH now rivals Ikorodu with severe technical issues. Do they know about this in Washington? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17715, Jan 22 at 1455, REE, caught end of frequency announcement claiming that they would be on 15110 at 1900, then into IS. Except: 15110, bigsig direct to NAm was among the drastic cuts in November and no longer on the schedule, e.g. in http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1251.txt
So REE is still broadcasting disinformation about its own frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15535, Jan 22 at 1515, VG signal in Arabish, annoying echoes applied to some but not all voices, 1520 ID in passing as Radio Tamázuj, music. 1527 already changes to Radio Dabanga giving its e-mail address a few times, then pileup of voices, 1529 singing ID. Best European signal by far on 19m, S9+22, rivalled only by 15320. 15535 still VG at 1605, PNW scheduled until 1630.
Guess what: both are via VATICAN 250 kW: 15535 at 150 degrees, 15320 with RVA relay at 130 degrees. SMG site retains its reputation for great coverage outside of target areas as antenna direxionality appears to be way out of whack. But I am not complaining (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, Jan 22 at 1455, VOA very poor signal with USG editorial; seems it is against terrorism! Cut off incomplete at 1459:10* as like CRI`s language lessons, this is just a filler, dispensable to transmitter/site changes near hourtops. Had been 100 kW, 88 degrees via SÃO TOMÉ at 14-15 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SOUTH AFRICA!
** U S A. 770, Jan 22 at 0705 UT, ABC News ends, Albuquerque commercial about disabilities, 0706 `Red Eye Radio` --- so it`s either leakage from the KKOB 50 kW main in the North Valley here close to its null toward NYC, or the 230-watt non-direxional nite filler in Santa Fe with no separate callsign. Best in null of WBBM 767 IBOC noise.
Wait a minute! I recently logged WABC NYC on the basis of `Red Eye Radio`, as the only 770 on that program affiliate list
http://www.redeyeradioshow.com/article.asp?id=2531095#state-NM
which still shows in ABQ it`s on KTBL 1050 (a subsidiary of KKOB). Now the KKOB schedule itself
http://www.770kkob.com/page.php?page_id=702
confirms `Red Eye` is indeed on KKOB 770, M-F 12-4 am MT (07-11 UT), Sat 12-3 am, and 11 pm-4 am Sun. So has 770 exchanged overnight programming with 1050?
The KTBL schedule still shows `Red Eye`:
http://www.1050talk.com/common/more.php?m=10&mode=schedule&r=2
but starting at 11 pm MT most nites. What`s really on 1050? `Red Eye` made some claim to be #1; does that mean it`s ahead of C2C in ratings or affiliate coverage? WABC is certainly possible here, but will have to wait for at least a `Red Eye` echo with KKOB or KKOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 810, Jan 22 at 0655 UT, novelty song in Spanish, 0657 ``La Sabrosita 810, Radio Rama``, more music. Mexican loops E/W so must be very close to the border west of here. But none of the XEs on 810 have that slogan according to Cantú, IRCA and WRTH. Of two RAMA group stations, 1 kW XESB in Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua is well-positioned, but it`s a Radio Mexicana (BTW, 810 bears 15 Mexicans, second only to 1340 with 17; why? So much for once clear-channel XEFW Tampico, whose 50 kW day must plummet to 1 kW nite).
So I google on ``Sabrosita 810`` and that goes immediately to WMGC in Murfreesboro TN! http://www.lasabrosita810am.net/inicio.html
where there isn`t much except a UStream link. NRC AM Log confirms that slogan, 24 hours, but only 6 watts at night! Yeah, sure, 5 kW day power is more like it, or maybe 500 watt PSRA power. FCC AM Query on the PSRA shows a complex schedule
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=4050
with 500 watts applying only to certain segments after 6 am local (now 12 UT), otherwise 10 or 16 watts, all in deference to WGY. Presumably RAMA would not apply to WMGC, so maybe that is not the acronym I heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. No pre-0630 signals noted from VR UT Jan 22, but at 0635, 6075 is in French, not Latin. Must have been a diversion, since at 0636 switches to Latin mass with Italian accent. Also on // 3975 and with a slight echo, 7250, so significantly different propagation path?
15770-15775-15780, Jan 22 at 1529, DRM noise, whence? Nothing in HFCC, why? But in Aoki: ``15775 VATICAN RADIO(DRM) 1530-1550 123456. English (Digital) 125 90 Santa Maria di Galeria CVA 01219E 4203N VAT b12`` and same on day 7 but until 1558. See also SUDAN [non] on how SMG signals get out so well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake search Jan 22 at 1450-1457: none found 12-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 22 at 0613, RHC Spanish music, not // English talk on 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165, 6270. So it`s tonight`s anomaly, as 5040 is supposed to be in English during the 06-07 hour. Seems someone along the line tries to sneak in an extra hour of Spanish on at least one of the transmitters, and it must be admitted, six English frequencies after 0500 is overkill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Jan 22 at 1500, R. Kuwait still on the air in Arabic with good signal, tho some days cuts off earlier. YL with akbar headlines, just before 1502 over to OM, reverbed for effect with ponderous declamations accompanied by bits of Beethoven`s Fifth, but this cut off the air at 1504:41*. Transmitter ops have no finesse; who cares about the listeners? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, Jan 22 at 0600-0605 UT, during local KGWA Fox-hole with remaining strong open carrier nulled: dominated by Mexican music, 0602 ID mentions ``Chihuahua, México``, so XEFAMA again, Ciudad Camargo, which is becoming famous around here for penetrating KGWA. Romantic music until KGWA modulation blasts back on at 0605 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, Jan 22 at 0647 UT, KSPI Stillwater is again running its 250 watt daytime carrier in the nightmiddle, obviously groundwave steady in null of WBBM, and oppositely audible too is music, no doubt newish KCEG in CO, allegedly 720 watts at night, but enough no doubt to prevent Pueblans from accessing any Newsradio from Chicago. KCEG is even better after 0700 as the KSPI OC helps to keep the QRN/QRM level down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 22 at 0651 UT, daytimer KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is at first not audible even with KMOX nulled, tho Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa found it back on the air as of Jan 21, also long after dark UT Jan 22; by 0713, has faded in a very poor signal with Mexican music, presumably this. Seems they are running less power than before, rated 2 kW. Next check at 1423 also audible poorly with less KMOX. KEOR had been unheard at all for about a week. Also weak and alone at local mean noon 1830 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 9885, Jan 22 at 0619, some station is modulating beneath a humroarwhine; sounds rather like V. of Nigeria used to on the 0440- 15120 broadcast which I haven`t heard in months. New frequency for them? Nothing but African/Ascension signals elsewhere on 31m, plus Brasil 9665. Tough to make out even the language, but finally decide it`s American English, 0627 mentions Pres. Barack Obama, continues past 0630. O, of course it`s just VOA, which during this hour only is 100 kW, 330 degrees via Meyerton USward, so SENTECH now rivals Ikorodu with severe technical issues. Do they know about this in Washington? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17715, Jan 22 at 1455, REE, caught end of frequency announcement claiming that they would be on 15110 at 1900, then into IS. Except: 15110, bigsig direct to NAm was among the drastic cuts in November and no longer on the schedule, e.g. in http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1251.txt
So REE is still broadcasting disinformation about its own frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15535, Jan 22 at 1515, VG signal in Arabish, annoying echoes applied to some but not all voices, 1520 ID in passing as Radio Tamázuj, music. 1527 already changes to Radio Dabanga giving its e-mail address a few times, then pileup of voices, 1529 singing ID. Best European signal by far on 19m, S9+22, rivalled only by 15320. 15535 still VG at 1605, PNW scheduled until 1630.
Guess what: both are via VATICAN 250 kW: 15535 at 150 degrees, 15320 with RVA relay at 130 degrees. SMG site retains its reputation for great coverage outside of target areas as antenna direxionality appears to be way out of whack. But I am not complaining (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17530, Jan 22 at 1455, VOA very poor signal with USG editorial; seems it is against terrorism! Cut off incomplete at 1459:10* as like CRI`s language lessons, this is just a filler, dispensable to transmitter/site changes near hourtops. Had been 100 kW, 88 degrees via SÃO TOMÉ at 14-15 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SOUTH AFRICA!
** U S A. 770, Jan 22 at 0705 UT, ABC News ends, Albuquerque commercial about disabilities, 0706 `Red Eye Radio` --- so it`s either leakage from the KKOB 50 kW main in the North Valley here close to its null toward NYC, or the 230-watt non-direxional nite filler in Santa Fe with no separate callsign. Best in null of WBBM 767 IBOC noise.
Wait a minute! I recently logged WABC NYC on the basis of `Red Eye Radio`, as the only 770 on that program affiliate list
http://www.redeyeradioshow.com/article.asp?id=2531095#state-NM
which still shows in ABQ it`s on KTBL 1050 (a subsidiary of KKOB). Now the KKOB schedule itself
http://www.770kkob.com/page.php?page_id=702
confirms `Red Eye` is indeed on KKOB 770, M-F 12-4 am MT (07-11 UT), Sat 12-3 am, and 11 pm-4 am Sun. So has 770 exchanged overnight programming with 1050?
The KTBL schedule still shows `Red Eye`:
http://www.1050talk.com/common/more.php?m=10&mode=schedule&r=2
but starting at 11 pm MT most nites. What`s really on 1050? `Red Eye` made some claim to be #1; does that mean it`s ahead of C2C in ratings or affiliate coverage? WABC is certainly possible here, but will have to wait for at least a `Red Eye` echo with KKOB or KKOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 810, Jan 22 at 0655 UT, novelty song in Spanish, 0657 ``La Sabrosita 810, Radio Rama``, more music. Mexican loops E/W so must be very close to the border west of here. But none of the XEs on 810 have that slogan according to Cantú, IRCA and WRTH. Of two RAMA group stations, 1 kW XESB in Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua is well-positioned, but it`s a Radio Mexicana (BTW, 810 bears 15 Mexicans, second only to 1340 with 17; why? So much for once clear-channel XEFW Tampico, whose 50 kW day must plummet to 1 kW nite).
So I google on ``Sabrosita 810`` and that goes immediately to WMGC in Murfreesboro TN! http://www.lasabrosita810am.net/inicio.html
where there isn`t much except a UStream link. NRC AM Log confirms that slogan, 24 hours, but only 6 watts at night! Yeah, sure, 5 kW day power is more like it, or maybe 500 watt PSRA power. FCC AM Query on the PSRA shows a complex schedule
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=4050
with 500 watts applying only to certain segments after 6 am local (now 12 UT), otherwise 10 or 16 watts, all in deference to WGY. Presumably RAMA would not apply to WMGC, so maybe that is not the acronym I heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. No pre-0630 signals noted from VR UT Jan 22, but at 0635, 6075 is in French, not Latin. Must have been a diversion, since at 0636 switches to Latin mass with Italian accent. Also on // 3975 and with a slight echo, 7250, so significantly different propagation path?
15770-15775-15780, Jan 22 at 1529, DRM noise, whence? Nothing in HFCC, why? But in Aoki: ``15775 VATICAN RADIO(DRM) 1530-1550 123456. English (Digital) 125 90 Santa Maria di Galeria CVA 01219E 4203N VAT b12`` and same on day 7 but until 1558. See also SUDAN [non] on how SMG signals get out so well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
