** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 4 before 2300:
13970, very poor at 2255; none lower
1355-1400 Jan 5, none found 12-16 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17550, Jan 5 at 1401, Arabic with good signal, but somewhat distorted modulation, typical of IRIB, yes, 1030-1630, 500 kW, 259 degrees via Kamalabad. IRIB modulation doesn`t get as bad as Cairo`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7595, Jan 5 at 1350, fair signal with Korean talk, no jamming audible, despite being per Aoki:
7595 Radio Free Chosun 1200-1400 1234567 Korean 100 71 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N RFC b12 Dec. 3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, Jan 5 I wake up by 1213 UT, so remonitor this unID frequency during what has proven to be its peak signal time, which isn`t saying much, but today it`s better than yesterday, especially during occasional surges. But about the only details I can copy in the rapid Spanish discussion between M&W announcers are the timechex he frequently gives, starting with 6:13, and at 1224 UT, 6:24. Bits of music are sometimes audible as part of commercial or news produxion, never a full song. At 1225 mentions Féisbuc. From 1227 added to the high local line noise level, some additional local noise bursts come and go. 1228 strongest yet with 6:28 time, phone number; 1233 fading down; 1242, fade up with YL`s monolog; lite SSB ACI; 1247 maybe mentions XEVT in passing; 1249 fading.
Since I don`t expect it to come back, I hasten to fire up the computer and look for its webstream. I don`t like to resort to this, but instead make my IDs in real time on my own radio, but enough is enough. DXing does not mix with online here, as the computer and shack are in different rooms, yet not far enough apart to keep computer noise from disrupting DXing whenever it`s on.
Of course I already am fairly certain it is XEVT. Via the Tabasco page of http://www.mexicoradio.tv com under Villahermosa, I get an instant link to the XEVT stream, via http://www.xevt.com and there they are --- the same voices, same format, I have been struggling to hear on 2910 (but apparently no mention of that frequency! Just 970 and // FM XHVT 104.1).
From easy listening now and info on the website, the program is `Buenos Días Telereportaje` at 6-7 am, and extends further until 10 am at least on Saturdays. Now I hear local announcements about street work, meetings, greetings, mentions of Tabasco; 1259 canned ID for ``las frecuencias de la VT, 970 y 104.1``, ``La VT, señal que une``; 1300 singing ad for a plomería; 1302 re-opening another hour of Telereportaje; 1306 news headline mentions Ciudad Juárez, but no XEJ here! 1309 finally a tropical song is allowed to play.
They have a nice interactive website, and even video streaming, but before I even try it, that says ``server not found``.
Current day`s program schedule is here:http://www.xevt.com/programacion.php
with linx to other days. Show sign-on at 5 am, off at 23:59, i.e. just before 0600 UT. The first hour after sign-on I heard is:
05:00-06:00 Amanecer de mi Tierra * Carlos A. Cabrales Aguilar
And the next hour I have been hearing is:
06:00-07:00 Buenos Días Telereportaje * Jesús Sibilla Oropesa
* Humberto Hurtado Beltrán
But those are both male names, so I think the YL co-host after 1300 must axually be funxioning an hour earlier:
07:00-10:00 Telereportaje * Jesús Sibilla Oropesa
* Emmanuel Sibilla Oropesa
Except reading the pages about Telereportaje`s 30-year family history, Emmanuel is also a guy, so I still don`t know who the YL is. Hmmm, unless ``she`` is a varonkid whose voice hasn`t changed yet? There are also multiple pages and photos on the history of XEVT itself, since 1954.
So far I haven`t seen reports of anyone else DXing this, but if anyone does, I urge them NOT to try to QSL or even contact XEVT about their third harmonic on 2910, as that will only encourage them to get rid of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 5 at 0600-0605 UT, NO Fox-hole, as local KGWA Enid continues to modulate, also the last few nites. I fear my fun is over, but not before I snagged CFAC, XEK, XEFAMA, KMA, probably KNEB, et al. during KGWA dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. More about 1640 Enid, now known as KOAG:
``Hi Glenn, Your ag station network originates from KFLP 900 in Floydada TX; we used to carry a morning farm report from them in Roswell [KCKN 1020]. The all-day deal is new as they fed maybe a half hour a day for a 20 station network. Their little 250 watter really gets out. Take care, (Jerry Kiefer, TX, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
That certainly is a niche format. I`m sure farmers & ranchers would like maybe an hour a day of the latest ag news and market reports, as already provided on a number of rural stations, notably KFRM 550 which has tremendous daytime coverage in KS & OK, but 24/7???? And how much original material can KFLP really produce, before repeating stuff? I won`t be listening enough to find out, but there must be a lot of repetition (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU, Fri Jan 4 at 2244 UT, checking for `This Week in Oklahoma Politix` cutaway from NPR ATC, as promoted earlier in the day --- not there, just kept going with NPR feed. Possibly I misunderstood day and/or time it was supposed to air, and the KOSU website`s incomplete schedule is no help; heard it already anyway on demand, so who cares about the broadcasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Jan 4 at 1318 fairly good carrier, but can`t hear any modulation, none sent? Weaker ones on PNG channels: 3365, and 3325, the latter just as likely INDONESIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 12075, Jan 5 at 1356, balalaika music and talk in English, poor, insufficient signal, but must be one of the surviving transmissions of VOR, i.e. 12-15, 500 kW, 155 degrees from TAJIKISTAN to S Asia. VOR is harder to hear now than even BBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17595 & 21610, Sat Jan 5 at 1605, REE news in Castilian followed by sea-chanty theme of Galician segment, then ``o informativo gallego`. By 1615 I notice it`s back in plain old Castilian, but talking about Bilbao, Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, etc.; when last heard a few months ago at old timing of weekdays 1230+ UT, Castilian was substituting for Basque, apparently considered by Madrid as too dangerous a language to trust the Bilbaoans to broadcast on SW, and surely not understood by non-Basques in Madrid or anywhere else.
Then from 1623 songs in Spanish until 1630 timesignal and starting another show, `Heliotropo`. If there was any Catalan between them, which used to be one of the Big Three, I missed it. Catalan is also problematic with the separatist movement. Never mind Valencian, similar to Catalan.
So this is at least one time that REE is condescending to provide a few minutes in ``co-official languages``. I made a point of checking this following David Williams, Sacramento log of last Saturday during this semihour of the same lineup, Galician and Spanish about Basque country instead of Basque language. Vague info earlier from REE was that the non-Castilian languages would now be getting a weekly airing instead of M-F.
So is this on the REE schedule now, and are there any other airings? Not on this gridhttp://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/
which has obviously not been updated since the major shakeup a sesquimonth ago and in fact still shows a summer 2-hour difference between TU and HOE!
Checking the RTVE website at 1800, I see that the Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, a very colorful nighttime parade, is in live video streaming from TVE since 1748 UT, and still an hour later, but from Madrid, not Bilbao. Is there another one in Basque country? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Jan 4 at 2247, RTI via WYFR is instead dead air, past 2300, 2311; meanwhile // 6115 is OK with RTI English at 2248, discussion of a poetess (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. See KOREA NORTH [non], RUSSIA [non]
** U K [non]. 15710, Jan 5 at 1359, good signal from B-B-C- chimes, opening in Farsi? No, must be Dari as kept mentioning Afghanistan. Yes, scheduled 14-15 Dari, 15-16 Pashto, 300 kW, 317 degrees from doomed Limassol, CYPRUS, per Aoki, which would explain the good signal way over here, but that azimuth can`t be right.
What does HFCC say? 317 degrees too! And the CIRAFs as 27 and 28 which are western Europe! So is BBC deliberately aiming these languages at Afghans back in Europe instead of Afghanistan? That seems a rather specialized minority audience to benefit from BBC SW coverage, denied to so many of the rest of us even in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1650 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday January 5 at 0230. Next: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 0900, 1630, Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200, probably Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1000, Jan 5 at 1330 UT, easily in KTOK null, New Mexico`s KKIM with several IDs in passing, ``welcome to Haley`s Comments``, hee hee, not only on 1000 but livekkim.com he says over the 10 kW daytime transmitter operating illegally, January official FCC sunrise being 1415 UT.
Tried http://kkim.com but that goes to a genealogy (?) site squatter, and KKIM is really http://mykkim.com Yes, program grid shows `Frank Haley`s Comments`, Sat 6:30-7 am MT.
It`s strange KTOK 1000 OKC hasn`t tried for more than 5 kW; maybe too close to Chicago, but 50 kW WMVP is not a factor here with huge cardioid to the east. Axually, KTOK has a CP for 5.8 kW, big deal. With much more power, it could have filled the mid-America gap among Chicago, Seattle and México DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Sat Jan 5 at 0604, VR is already on in Scandinavian, only poor signal tonite, and nothing yet on 3975, 6075 or 9645, which all join in at 0630 for Latin mass. My guess is Swedish rather than a related language, but WRTH 2013 shows totally different Finnish on Sat & Mon, other days Swedish, and since latest cutbax, both supposed to be on MW 1260 only at 0600-0620. Recheck at 0620, it`s changed to Albanian, scheduled daily on 1260 only.
Several previous nites, 7250 was not on much before 0630, but as per my earlier reports has occasionally come on by 0615 or so. Hard to know if this is slipshod warming up or something deliberate to return Nordic and Illyrian languages to SW, perhaps without the Pope`s permission. And what became of Norwegian, or even Danish? In 1980, Sweden was 1.4% Catholic, probably even less now, so lucky that VR pays any attention at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13970, very poor at 2255; none lower
1355-1400 Jan 5, none found 12-16 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17550, Jan 5 at 1401, Arabic with good signal, but somewhat distorted modulation, typical of IRIB, yes, 1030-1630, 500 kW, 259 degrees via Kamalabad. IRIB modulation doesn`t get as bad as Cairo`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7595, Jan 5 at 1350, fair signal with Korean talk, no jamming audible, despite being per Aoki:
7595 Radio Free Chosun 1200-1400 1234567 Korean 100 71 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N RFC b12 Dec. 3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, Jan 5 I wake up by 1213 UT, so remonitor this unID frequency during what has proven to be its peak signal time, which isn`t saying much, but today it`s better than yesterday, especially during occasional surges. But about the only details I can copy in the rapid Spanish discussion between M&W announcers are the timechex he frequently gives, starting with 6:13, and at 1224 UT, 6:24. Bits of music are sometimes audible as part of commercial or news produxion, never a full song. At 1225 mentions Féisbuc. From 1227 added to the high local line noise level, some additional local noise bursts come and go. 1228 strongest yet with 6:28 time, phone number; 1233 fading down; 1242, fade up with YL`s monolog; lite SSB ACI; 1247 maybe mentions XEVT in passing; 1249 fading.
Since I don`t expect it to come back, I hasten to fire up the computer and look for its webstream. I don`t like to resort to this, but instead make my IDs in real time on my own radio, but enough is enough. DXing does not mix with online here, as the computer and shack are in different rooms, yet not far enough apart to keep computer noise from disrupting DXing whenever it`s on.
Of course I already am fairly certain it is XEVT. Via the Tabasco page of http://www.mexicoradio.tv com under Villahermosa, I get an instant link to the XEVT stream, via http://www.xevt.com and there they are --- the same voices, same format, I have been struggling to hear on 2910 (but apparently no mention of that frequency! Just 970 and // FM XHVT 104.1).
From easy listening now and info on the website, the program is `Buenos Días Telereportaje` at 6-7 am, and extends further until 10 am at least on Saturdays. Now I hear local announcements about street work, meetings, greetings, mentions of Tabasco; 1259 canned ID for ``las frecuencias de la VT, 970 y 104.1``, ``La VT, señal que une``; 1300 singing ad for a plomería; 1302 re-opening another hour of Telereportaje; 1306 news headline mentions Ciudad Juárez, but no XEJ here! 1309 finally a tropical song is allowed to play.
They have a nice interactive website, and even video streaming, but before I even try it, that says ``server not found``.
Current day`s program schedule is here:http://www.xevt.com/programacion.php
with linx to other days. Show sign-on at 5 am, off at 23:59, i.e. just before 0600 UT. The first hour after sign-on I heard is:
05:00-06:00 Amanecer de mi Tierra * Carlos A. Cabrales Aguilar
And the next hour I have been hearing is:
06:00-07:00 Buenos Días Telereportaje * Jesús Sibilla Oropesa
* Humberto Hurtado Beltrán
But those are both male names, so I think the YL co-host after 1300 must axually be funxioning an hour earlier:
07:00-10:00 Telereportaje * Jesús Sibilla Oropesa
* Emmanuel Sibilla Oropesa
Except reading the pages about Telereportaje`s 30-year family history, Emmanuel is also a guy, so I still don`t know who the YL is. Hmmm, unless ``she`` is a varonkid whose voice hasn`t changed yet? There are also multiple pages and photos on the history of XEVT itself, since 1954.
So far I haven`t seen reports of anyone else DXing this, but if anyone does, I urge them NOT to try to QSL or even contact XEVT about their third harmonic on 2910, as that will only encourage them to get rid of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 5 at 0600-0605 UT, NO Fox-hole, as local KGWA Enid continues to modulate, also the last few nites. I fear my fun is over, but not before I snagged CFAC, XEK, XEFAMA, KMA, probably KNEB, et al. during KGWA dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. More about 1640 Enid, now known as KOAG:
``Hi Glenn, Your ag station network originates from KFLP 900 in Floydada TX; we used to carry a morning farm report from them in Roswell [KCKN 1020]. The all-day deal is new as they fed maybe a half hour a day for a 20 station network. Their little 250 watter really gets out. Take care, (Jerry Kiefer, TX, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
That certainly is a niche format. I`m sure farmers & ranchers would like maybe an hour a day of the latest ag news and market reports, as already provided on a number of rural stations, notably KFRM 550 which has tremendous daytime coverage in KS & OK, but 24/7???? And how much original material can KFLP really produce, before repeating stuff? I won`t be listening enough to find out, but there must be a lot of repetition (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU, Fri Jan 4 at 2244 UT, checking for `This Week in Oklahoma Politix` cutaway from NPR ATC, as promoted earlier in the day --- not there, just kept going with NPR feed. Possibly I misunderstood day and/or time it was supposed to air, and the KOSU website`s incomplete schedule is no help; heard it already anyway on demand, so who cares about the broadcasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Jan 4 at 1318 fairly good carrier, but can`t hear any modulation, none sent? Weaker ones on PNG channels: 3365, and 3325, the latter just as likely INDONESIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 12075, Jan 5 at 1356, balalaika music and talk in English, poor, insufficient signal, but must be one of the surviving transmissions of VOR, i.e. 12-15, 500 kW, 155 degrees from TAJIKISTAN to S Asia. VOR is harder to hear now than even BBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17595 & 21610, Sat Jan 5 at 1605, REE news in Castilian followed by sea-chanty theme of Galician segment, then ``o informativo gallego`. By 1615 I notice it`s back in plain old Castilian, but talking about Bilbao, Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, etc.; when last heard a few months ago at old timing of weekdays 1230+ UT, Castilian was substituting for Basque, apparently considered by Madrid as too dangerous a language to trust the Bilbaoans to broadcast on SW, and surely not understood by non-Basques in Madrid or anywhere else.
Then from 1623 songs in Spanish until 1630 timesignal and starting another show, `Heliotropo`. If there was any Catalan between them, which used to be one of the Big Three, I missed it. Catalan is also problematic with the separatist movement. Never mind Valencian, similar to Catalan.
So this is at least one time that REE is condescending to provide a few minutes in ``co-official languages``. I made a point of checking this following David Williams, Sacramento log of last Saturday during this semihour of the same lineup, Galician and Spanish about Basque country instead of Basque language. Vague info earlier from REE was that the non-Castilian languages would now be getting a weekly airing instead of M-F.
So is this on the REE schedule now, and are there any other airings? Not on this gridhttp://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/
which has obviously not been updated since the major shakeup a sesquimonth ago and in fact still shows a summer 2-hour difference between TU and HOE!
Checking the RTVE website at 1800, I see that the Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, a very colorful nighttime parade, is in live video streaming from TVE since 1748 UT, and still an hour later, but from Madrid, not Bilbao. Is there another one in Basque country? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Jan 4 at 2247, RTI via WYFR is instead dead air, past 2300, 2311; meanwhile // 6115 is OK with RTI English at 2248, discussion of a poetess (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. See KOREA NORTH [non], RUSSIA [non]
** U K [non]. 15710, Jan 5 at 1359, good signal from B-B-C- chimes, opening in Farsi? No, must be Dari as kept mentioning Afghanistan. Yes, scheduled 14-15 Dari, 15-16 Pashto, 300 kW, 317 degrees from doomed Limassol, CYPRUS, per Aoki, which would explain the good signal way over here, but that azimuth can`t be right.
What does HFCC say? 317 degrees too! And the CIRAFs as 27 and 28 which are western Europe! So is BBC deliberately aiming these languages at Afghans back in Europe instead of Afghanistan? That seems a rather specialized minority audience to benefit from BBC SW coverage, denied to so many of the rest of us even in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1650 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday January 5 at 0230. Next: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 0900, 1630, Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200, probably Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1000, Jan 5 at 1330 UT, easily in KTOK null, New Mexico`s KKIM with several IDs in passing, ``welcome to Haley`s Comments``, hee hee, not only on 1000 but livekkim.com he says over the 10 kW daytime transmitter operating illegally, January official FCC sunrise being 1415 UT.
Tried http://kkim.com but that goes to a genealogy (?) site squatter, and KKIM is really http://mykkim.com Yes, program grid shows `Frank Haley`s Comments`, Sat 6:30-7 am MT.
It`s strange KTOK 1000 OKC hasn`t tried for more than 5 kW; maybe too close to Chicago, but 50 kW WMVP is not a factor here with huge cardioid to the east. Axually, KTOK has a CP for 5.8 kW, big deal. With much more power, it could have filled the mid-America gap among Chicago, Seattle and México DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Sat Jan 5 at 0604, VR is already on in Scandinavian, only poor signal tonite, and nothing yet on 3975, 6075 or 9645, which all join in at 0630 for Latin mass. My guess is Swedish rather than a related language, but WRTH 2013 shows totally different Finnish on Sat & Mon, other days Swedish, and since latest cutbax, both supposed to be on MW 1260 only at 0600-0620. Recheck at 0620, it`s changed to Albanian, scheduled daily on 1260 only.
Several previous nites, 7250 was not on much before 0630, but as per my earlier reports has occasionally come on by 0615 or so. Hard to know if this is slipshod warming up or something deliberate to return Nordic and Illyrian languages to SW, perhaps without the Pope`s permission. And what became of Norwegian, or even Danish? In 1980, Sweden was 1.4% Catholic, probably even less now, so lucky that VR pays any attention at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
