** CUBA. 5855, Jan 7 at 0537, YL 5-digit Spanish number group, ``38500`` just one, and on to digital tones, etc., etc., alternating. Nothing unusual noted on RHC frequencies tonight. Dave Hughes replied to my previous report:
``6165 numbers snafu last night --- Hi Glenn, I saw your log of 6165 last night. I was perusing the recent Enigma newsletter about the new Cuban numbers mode and decided to see if they were on air. It took me less than 5 seconds to find them on 5855 at 0530. Here is my log of the ensuing Cuban spy screwups:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,9519.0.html
I once tried to QSL a recording I made of DX'ers Unlimited cutting off and coming back as the `atención` numbers. They not only ignored me but stopped sending me stuff, calendars, new years cards etc. Guess it`s a sore spot with them. D. Hughes KCMO``.
11860, Jan 7 at 1358 is today`s dead-air frequency of RHC, still so at 1501 but now with SAH and CCI from Iran in Russian at 1430-1530, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan. There`s another collision in Russian, from France at 1400-1430.
17730, Jan 7 at 1414, here`s another, or maybe just barely modulated, while 17580 is nominal. By 1501, 17730 has improved to barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, Jan 7 at 0546 I`m looking for XEVT 970 x 3, Villahermosa, Tabasco, and there it is, somewhat better signal than I have been hearing in the mornings, S9+10 but better S/N ratio. Ads and songs; 0557 brief announcement I could not copy but must have been sign-off, followed 0558 by choral NA, multiverse past 0601 and off, to sign back on at 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG Enid seems to have bumped the modulation up a bit, so even tho it`s mostly talk, still splatters, especially when on 10 kW day power with added direxional oomph toward COL.
I Googled for info on this, and while radio-locator had updated the calls, still linked to the old defunct KFXY website along with other Chisholm Trail stations. Little else to be found besides my own and another DX report of it.
Probably for the first time on internet: KOAG`s logo, or at least a visual from a display ad in the official show program for the KNID Agrifest, upcoming Jan 11-12, an annual business promotion event. http://www.w4uvh.net/koag.jpg
KNID 107.1 is the base station of CTB, country music format; guess they thought it was a bit too early to declare KOAG the ``sponsor``. Maybe next year? If the format last that long (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, Jan 7 at 1415, BSKSA in Arabic clear today without any humbuzz like yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, Monday Jan 7 at 1448, REE with music, poor signal; 1454 Emisión Sefarad sign-off with schedule which is 67% wrong! Says 0115 UT Tuesday will be on 11795, and 0415 on 9650, but we already confirmed in November they were on alternates 11780 and 9690 respectively. They *should* be on 11795, but instead stay on 11780 to collide directly with Brazil in this broadcast to South America. At least the ME broadcast must have started on time this week at 1425, since it ended at 1455 with 6-note IS, different than but seemingly related to the standard REE IS. Carrier stayed on a couple minutes; 15385 reopens anyway at 1500 on another azimuth back in Castilian. BTW, I see the 1425-1455 Monday Sephardic service is missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Jan 7 at 1359-1401*, WEWN Spanish cuts bits of music on and off, then off the air abruptly, but this is not a frequency change time yet: 13830 is still occupied by IBB`s Afghan services, R. Azadi, and R. Ashna alternating Pashto & Dari until 1530. At 1413 recheck, WEWN is back up on 11550.
I haven`t mentioned it lately, but two of WEWN`s three transmitters remain grossly defective in 2013: and the one in English, on 15610 in the daytime, continues to be accompanied by parasitic spurs at approx. 9 and 18 kHz above and below, sometimes even 27 when very strong. One of the Spanish transmitters, such as 12050 in the daytime, has a constant squeal which means it interferes more than it should with immediately adjacent frequencies. It`s been this way for years, and apparently no one cares but me, no other DX monitors bother to note it, nor do victimized stations such as Greece on 15630 make any effort to get WEWN into compliance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Further on the extremely distorted signal we have been hearing for a long time on 800 kHz:
``Hi Glenn: In regards to the UNID 800, the distorted signal is very strong in Austin, Texas. The signal is audible throughout the nighttime hours at very strong levels. DFing the signal (with Drake R8B and ferrite loop) indicates a null at 210 degrees. This station has been audible for many months. Regards, Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas``
Tnx, Michael, I guess you mean the peak was at 210 degrees based on nulling plus/minus 90 degrees from that.
With protractor on a good atlas page showing both TX and Mexico, and the two cities in question, Zaragoza, Coahuila, XEZR is just SW of Piedras Negras, at 235 degrees from you, and Montemorelos NL, XEDD is 198 degrees. Would the latter be within the margin of error?
Do you hear it at all in the daytime? Groundwave should be pretty good down there. If not, possibly it`s from further into Mexico beyond the border states.
There are three other possibilities in the general direxion: Querétaro, XEGX at 205 degrees; Ocotlán, Jalisco, XEAN at 200 degrees, and furthest Tlapa, Guerrero, XEZV at 184. All approximate.
From Enid, I measure Ocotlán at 195 degrees, = my recent approximation for the blob, but Zaragoza is very close at 197 degrees, so XEZR is the best bet from my POV.
This is all on a flat map with protractor. I haven`t gone to the trouble of using bearing and distance computation sites yet, as my margin of error is probably still too great.
If someone around Houston or El Paso {only if XEROK should be off!} could get a fix on it, we could triangulate it better. Or someone inside México.
For those who haven`t been following this mystery, I remind that there are NO Texans on 800, except KDDD way up in the NW corner at Dumas, out of the question. The nearest US station in the other direxion is WSHO New Orleans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
``6165 numbers snafu last night --- Hi Glenn, I saw your log of 6165 last night. I was perusing the recent Enigma newsletter about the new Cuban numbers mode and decided to see if they were on air. It took me less than 5 seconds to find them on 5855 at 0530. Here is my log of the ensuing Cuban spy screwups:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,9519.0.html
I once tried to QSL a recording I made of DX'ers Unlimited cutting off and coming back as the `atención` numbers. They not only ignored me but stopped sending me stuff, calendars, new years cards etc. Guess it`s a sore spot with them. D. Hughes KCMO``.
11860, Jan 7 at 1358 is today`s dead-air frequency of RHC, still so at 1501 but now with SAH and CCI from Iran in Russian at 1430-1530, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan. There`s another collision in Russian, from France at 1400-1430.
17730, Jan 7 at 1414, here`s another, or maybe just barely modulated, while 17580 is nominal. By 1501, 17730 has improved to barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, Jan 7 at 0546 I`m looking for XEVT 970 x 3, Villahermosa, Tabasco, and there it is, somewhat better signal than I have been hearing in the mornings, S9+10 but better S/N ratio. Ads and songs; 0557 brief announcement I could not copy but must have been sign-off, followed 0558 by choral NA, multiverse past 0601 and off, to sign back on at 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG Enid seems to have bumped the modulation up a bit, so even tho it`s mostly talk, still splatters, especially when on 10 kW day power with added direxional oomph toward COL.
I Googled for info on this, and while radio-locator had updated the calls, still linked to the old defunct KFXY website along with other Chisholm Trail stations. Little else to be found besides my own and another DX report of it.
Probably for the first time on internet: KOAG`s logo, or at least a visual from a display ad in the official show program for the KNID Agrifest, upcoming Jan 11-12, an annual business promotion event. http://www.w4uvh.net/koag.jpg
KNID 107.1 is the base station of CTB, country music format; guess they thought it was a bit too early to declare KOAG the ``sponsor``. Maybe next year? If the format last that long (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, Jan 7 at 1415, BSKSA in Arabic clear today without any humbuzz like yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, Monday Jan 7 at 1448, REE with music, poor signal; 1454 Emisión Sefarad sign-off with schedule which is 67% wrong! Says 0115 UT Tuesday will be on 11795, and 0415 on 9650, but we already confirmed in November they were on alternates 11780 and 9690 respectively. They *should* be on 11795, but instead stay on 11780 to collide directly with Brazil in this broadcast to South America. At least the ME broadcast must have started on time this week at 1425, since it ended at 1455 with 6-note IS, different than but seemingly related to the standard REE IS. Carrier stayed on a couple minutes; 15385 reopens anyway at 1500 on another azimuth back in Castilian. BTW, I see the 1425-1455 Monday Sephardic service is missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Jan 7 at 1359-1401*, WEWN Spanish cuts bits of music on and off, then off the air abruptly, but this is not a frequency change time yet: 13830 is still occupied by IBB`s Afghan services, R. Azadi, and R. Ashna alternating Pashto & Dari until 1530. At 1413 recheck, WEWN is back up on 11550.
I haven`t mentioned it lately, but two of WEWN`s three transmitters remain grossly defective in 2013: and the one in English, on 15610 in the daytime, continues to be accompanied by parasitic spurs at approx. 9 and 18 kHz above and below, sometimes even 27 when very strong. One of the Spanish transmitters, such as 12050 in the daytime, has a constant squeal which means it interferes more than it should with immediately adjacent frequencies. It`s been this way for years, and apparently no one cares but me, no other DX monitors bother to note it, nor do victimized stations such as Greece on 15630 make any effort to get WEWN into compliance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Further on the extremely distorted signal we have been hearing for a long time on 800 kHz:
``Hi Glenn: In regards to the UNID 800, the distorted signal is very strong in Austin, Texas. The signal is audible throughout the nighttime hours at very strong levels. DFing the signal (with Drake R8B and ferrite loop) indicates a null at 210 degrees. This station has been audible for many months. Regards, Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas``
Tnx, Michael, I guess you mean the peak was at 210 degrees based on nulling plus/minus 90 degrees from that.
With protractor on a good atlas page showing both TX and Mexico, and the two cities in question, Zaragoza, Coahuila, XEZR is just SW of Piedras Negras, at 235 degrees from you, and Montemorelos NL, XEDD is 198 degrees. Would the latter be within the margin of error?
Do you hear it at all in the daytime? Groundwave should be pretty good down there. If not, possibly it`s from further into Mexico beyond the border states.
There are three other possibilities in the general direxion: Querétaro, XEGX at 205 degrees; Ocotlán, Jalisco, XEAN at 200 degrees, and furthest Tlapa, Guerrero, XEZV at 184. All approximate.
From Enid, I measure Ocotlán at 195 degrees, = my recent approximation for the blob, but Zaragoza is very close at 197 degrees, so XEZR is the best bet from my POV.
This is all on a flat map with protractor. I haven`t gone to the trouble of using bearing and distance computation sites yet, as my margin of error is probably still too great.
If someone around Houston or El Paso {only if XEROK should be off!} could get a fix on it, we could triangulate it better. Or someone inside México.
For those who haven`t been following this mystery, I remind that there are NO Texans on 800, except KDDD way up in the NW corner at Dumas, out of the question. The nearest US station in the other direxion is WSHO New Orleans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
