** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 28 at 1358, no signal from BB, nor at 1400, but at 1407 can detect a JBA carrier; bad propagation today, maybe combined with late opening. 15500 new SAUDI [q.v.] frequency not strong enough to bother here, but there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake jamming, April 28 before 1300:
13795, very poor at 1245, continues to be the only FD frequency found for what has become a rarity. All others are CNR1, with serious if not ``classical`` music, including ex-Firedrake channels:
13920, fair at 1245
14700, poor at 1245
15250, fair at 1245 (longtime CNR1 jammer, not FD)
15560, poor at 1249 with flutter
16160, very poor at 1249, also CODAR, unusual here
16250, fair-good at 1249 with flutter; none in 17s or 18s altho CRI Kashgar in well on 17560, 17630, 17650
After 1300:
11990, fair at 1313, CNR1 now serious orchestral/choral music
12000, fair at 1313, a couple seconds behind 11990, emergency net?
Usual CNR1 jammers also good on 11805, 11785
15115, good at 1324, 15195 very poor, 15265 poor, usual non-FD CNR1 jammers
16160, very poor at 1323
17250, good at 1321 with flutter, now with opera, i.e. singing
17370, good at 1321
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomalies:
15200-15260, April 28 at 1306, the weakish 15230 transmitter is again emitting a buzzy field above and below, loudest circa 15220.
11750, April 28 at 1315 check is in English! about Cuban stamps, but cut off the air at 1316; should be in Spanish, of course. Then surveyed all other frequencies at 1318, with // music in Spanish service: 9540, 11690, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730
15482, April 28 at 1319, weak distorted spur // 15340 et al.
17580, April 28 at 1410, carrier cuts off and on, then stays on but no modulation. Then found others only with open carrier: 13780, 11760, while at 1411 the rest nominal Spanish modulation: 17730, 15340, 15230, 11860, 11750, 11690; and 9540 too weak to tell, maybe not on.
13740, April 28 at 1411, CRI English relay is quite undermodulated, but sufficient if volume turned up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 13760, April 28 at 1311, VOK in extremely stilted English, and heavy cross talk from Chinese service plus Juche jamming noise. Same mixture on // 11710 at 1317. It seems their new ChiCom transmitters have been installed incompetently, insufficiently isolated from each other. They wouldn`t let Chinese engineers do it at top-secret location, instead supposedly trained their own (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 28 before 1248, KBSWR carrier is again on way early, foretelling good reception today for the 1300 English to ``North`` America, unlike yesterday when it was unreadable for Saturday`s `Listeners Lounge`. Indeed it is: 1258 with IS and IDs in English and Korean, 1300 opening English and news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 28 tuning in even earlier at 0449 UT trying to sort out the one about to hum: initially preacher in Spanish on top; 0450 music station takes over, 0457 mentions 98.9 so that`s XEACB, La Lupe in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua; only now do I hear an XE NA weakly underneath and no hum after 0500; probably from the preaching one earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 830, April 28 at 1215 UT, Spanish weather in C, mentions 100.9 FM; 1216 TC for 7:17. No doubt it`s XEIK Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a semihour after sunrise here and soon to fade out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. April 27 at 1833-1845 UT, right at local mean noon, a MW bandscan while visiting squirrel haven, some 10 miles north of Enid, on caradio with vertical antenna, so no DFing or nulling. Skipping many normal signals, just some of the mostly weak ones of interest by groundwave in a low-noise area away from powerlines. Axually done from top down, reversed here for convenience:
530, far enough away from Vance on the south side, to hear some CCI under ``K530AM``, no doubt the HAR near South Haven just across the KS border operated by the Kansas Turnpike Authority
540, alabanza music over C&W, i.e. KDFT Dallas over KWMT Iowa
570, slow SAH, CCI audible under KLIF Dallas, i.e. WNAX South Dakota
670, weak religious discussion, or self-help? Also thought I heard Waziristan mentioned. Anyhow, it`s not WSCR Chicago (sportstalk, which is possible), but KLTT Denver
700, romantic music in Spanish, KHSE Dallas, ex-Asian
840, weak C&W, must be KTIC West Point, Nebraska, 5 kW daytimer at the margin of its range; but also a fast SAH: second closest is KWDF Ball, central Louisiana, 8 kW daytimer. I also had it more definitely around sunrise last November, in DXLD 12-48
850, weak Spanish, so KJON Dallas, rather than KOA Denver, which is also possible, and might be there without KJON or if I could null it
890, KTLR OKC & 910, without KVIS Miami OK, both suffer from IBOC noise out of 900 KSGL Wichita, 250 watts nostalgia when not huxtering
1090, RCC programming obviously, so 8 kW daytimer KEXS Excelsior Springs (KC) MO, with EWTN
1100, gospel music in English, very poor, KKLL Webb City (Joplin), Missouri, 5 kW daytimer
1120, alabanza music, so KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa OK is back on after missing since April 16
1190, weak CCI, SAH, one mentioning Irving, so 50 kW KFXR Dallas; no higher Metroplexers were making it for sure except 1700. Other 1190 could be AR, KS or MO
1310, JBA carrier, could be Joplin MO, Beloit KS or Dallas TX
1350, fast SAH. I would gladly take either rare Okie, KTLQ Tahlequah or KPNS Duncan
1370, too much splatter and desensitization from local KCRC 1390 on north side of Enid, to hear KGNO Dodge City which I know starts making it somewhat further north. Forget 1380 and 1400
1420, ad for BancFirst somewhere in Oklahoma, so KTJS Hobart
1430, weak CCI music & talk, i.e. KALV Alva in its null toward KTBZ Tulsa
1450, heavy CCI, one music, another ballgame, i.e. KGFF Shawnee and KSIW Woodward respectively; maybe a third? Could be KWBW Hutchinson KS or KWHW Altus OK
1470, JBA carrier with SAH, suppose KGND Vinita in northeast OK with one of the Kansans, all really too far, KSMM Liberal or KAIR Atchison
1480, KQAM Wichita KS has NO CCI from 50 kW KBXD Dallas, but wait till some skywave kix in
1490, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Must check whether that`s temporary. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, KBIX Muskogee was silent. Leaves JBA carriers, SAH; two Kansans: KKAN Phillipsburg, KTOP Topeka
1510, alabanza music, fair vs KOKC 1520; as previously tracked down, KNSS Larned KS, ex-ESPN
1570, alabanza music, KZLI Tulsa with no XERF for a change
1610, nothing but quite a hum from WQCL720, Great Salt Plains State Park OK
1700, comedy JBA, no doubt 10 kW KKLF Dallas/Richardson; at top end one might still wonder if it could be skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, April 28 at 1206, WKY should be in weekly English pubaffs show, but instead adstring in Spanish mixed with a couple in English; finally at 1211 played *outro* for Sunday Morning Magazine, more ads, and 1212 back to Indomable music. SMM must have lasted 6 minutes at most instead of 30, or the automation screwed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 27 circa 1837 UT in daytime bandscan, KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is on the air again with what else but alabanza = praise music in Spanish. Not on circa 1200 UT April 28, when it could be, well after sunrise, but it is on at 1453 check. I`ve yet to catch when they come on, if the time is even fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1490, April 27 circa 1835 UT, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Still maybe off circa sunset when logged others on 1490, see UNIDENTIFIED. But back on with gospel huxter April 28 at 1516 check. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, the other 1490 Okie from Muskogee, KBIX, was silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 28 at 0100, R. Chaski carrier as usual audible with BFO amid the hash of local and propagated noise; cut off at 0104:13.5* which is 10.5 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15500, new frequency from BSKSA, first heard today April 28 at 1248 in Arabic vocal music with long pauses, reverent but unsounds like normal Qur`an recitation; 1252 YL with Saudi ID; still on at 1304, and 1358 past 1400. Good modulation, not // 17705. Maybe one of their new transmitters? Not in Aoki or HFCC, 15500 an open frequency after 1200/1157. Fair signal while 17705 is JBA today. Sure I would have noticed 15500 if it were on, in daily chex for Bangladesh 15505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, April 28 at 0103, IRS is off the air already, instead of extending a semihour for English as sometimes happens on UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, April 28 at 0447, IWT still absent. Wolfgang Büschel says it is missing from all frequencies, contrary to Rumen Pankov`s observations I quoted yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: started a bit late on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday April 27 at 2331:07, but completed at 2400:03, followed by QSY announcement to 5085, and off, so all is well-coördinated now. 5085 may have been on for an hour, not at 0102 check.
Confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB UT Sunday April 28 at 0200, but this was a one-time substitute for usual UT Saturday 0130v since AWWW ran almost until 0200 then. WOR 1666 also confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday April 28 at 0400.5. Next: Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2, 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 28 at 0102, WWRB is on with big band music, Dave`s favorite filler; presumably just having completed the Saturday-UT Sunday-only paid sesquihour simulcast from 2330, also on 3215. Most nights it remains absent from 5050, but it ought to be the primary frequency in summer instead of 90m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, UT Sunday April 28 at 0106, WRMI with kid singing ``God Bless America``, and no jamming audible. I see WRMI has just updated its program schedule grid (in UT -4), as of April 26 via http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html
showing this is `Tell the World Ministries`, a quarter-hour of English amid Spanish. Not sure what changes have been made; there are still gobs of Overcomer hours for another month. Radio Libertad is scheduled M-F 23-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, April 28 at 0446, open carrier/dead air from WTWW-1 instead of SFAW/PPP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake jamming, April 28 before 1300:
13795, very poor at 1245, continues to be the only FD frequency found for what has become a rarity. All others are CNR1, with serious if not ``classical`` music, including ex-Firedrake channels:
13920, fair at 1245
14700, poor at 1245
15250, fair at 1245 (longtime CNR1 jammer, not FD)
15560, poor at 1249 with flutter
16160, very poor at 1249, also CODAR, unusual here
16250, fair-good at 1249 with flutter; none in 17s or 18s altho CRI Kashgar in well on 17560, 17630, 17650
After 1300:
11990, fair at 1313, CNR1 now serious orchestral/choral music
12000, fair at 1313, a couple seconds behind 11990, emergency net?
Usual CNR1 jammers also good on 11805, 11785
15115, good at 1324, 15195 very poor, 15265 poor, usual non-FD CNR1 jammers
16160, very poor at 1323
17250, good at 1321 with flutter, now with opera, i.e. singing
17370, good at 1321
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomalies:
15200-15260, April 28 at 1306, the weakish 15230 transmitter is again emitting a buzzy field above and below, loudest circa 15220.
11750, April 28 at 1315 check is in English! about Cuban stamps, but cut off the air at 1316; should be in Spanish, of course. Then surveyed all other frequencies at 1318, with // music in Spanish service: 9540, 11690, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730
15482, April 28 at 1319, weak distorted spur // 15340 et al.
17580, April 28 at 1410, carrier cuts off and on, then stays on but no modulation. Then found others only with open carrier: 13780, 11760, while at 1411 the rest nominal Spanish modulation: 17730, 15340, 15230, 11860, 11750, 11690; and 9540 too weak to tell, maybe not on.
13740, April 28 at 1411, CRI English relay is quite undermodulated, but sufficient if volume turned up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 13760, April 28 at 1311, VOK in extremely stilted English, and heavy cross talk from Chinese service plus Juche jamming noise. Same mixture on // 11710 at 1317. It seems their new ChiCom transmitters have been installed incompetently, insufficiently isolated from each other. They wouldn`t let Chinese engineers do it at top-secret location, instead supposedly trained their own (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 28 before 1248, KBSWR carrier is again on way early, foretelling good reception today for the 1300 English to ``North`` America, unlike yesterday when it was unreadable for Saturday`s `Listeners Lounge`. Indeed it is: 1258 with IS and IDs in English and Korean, 1300 opening English and news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 28 tuning in even earlier at 0449 UT trying to sort out the one about to hum: initially preacher in Spanish on top; 0450 music station takes over, 0457 mentions 98.9 so that`s XEACB, La Lupe in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua; only now do I hear an XE NA weakly underneath and no hum after 0500; probably from the preaching one earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 830, April 28 at 1215 UT, Spanish weather in C, mentions 100.9 FM; 1216 TC for 7:17. No doubt it`s XEIK Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a semihour after sunrise here and soon to fade out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. April 27 at 1833-1845 UT, right at local mean noon, a MW bandscan while visiting squirrel haven, some 10 miles north of Enid, on caradio with vertical antenna, so no DFing or nulling. Skipping many normal signals, just some of the mostly weak ones of interest by groundwave in a low-noise area away from powerlines. Axually done from top down, reversed here for convenience:
530, far enough away from Vance on the south side, to hear some CCI under ``K530AM``, no doubt the HAR near South Haven just across the KS border operated by the Kansas Turnpike Authority
540, alabanza music over C&W, i.e. KDFT Dallas over KWMT Iowa
570, slow SAH, CCI audible under KLIF Dallas, i.e. WNAX South Dakota
670, weak religious discussion, or self-help? Also thought I heard Waziristan mentioned. Anyhow, it`s not WSCR Chicago (sportstalk, which is possible), but KLTT Denver
700, romantic music in Spanish, KHSE Dallas, ex-Asian
840, weak C&W, must be KTIC West Point, Nebraska, 5 kW daytimer at the margin of its range; but also a fast SAH: second closest is KWDF Ball, central Louisiana, 8 kW daytimer. I also had it more definitely around sunrise last November, in DXLD 12-48
850, weak Spanish, so KJON Dallas, rather than KOA Denver, which is also possible, and might be there without KJON or if I could null it
890, KTLR OKC & 910, without KVIS Miami OK, both suffer from IBOC noise out of 900 KSGL Wichita, 250 watts nostalgia when not huxtering
1090, RCC programming obviously, so 8 kW daytimer KEXS Excelsior Springs (KC) MO, with EWTN
1100, gospel music in English, very poor, KKLL Webb City (Joplin), Missouri, 5 kW daytimer
1120, alabanza music, so KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa OK is back on after missing since April 16
1190, weak CCI, SAH, one mentioning Irving, so 50 kW KFXR Dallas; no higher Metroplexers were making it for sure except 1700. Other 1190 could be AR, KS or MO
1310, JBA carrier, could be Joplin MO, Beloit KS or Dallas TX
1350, fast SAH. I would gladly take either rare Okie, KTLQ Tahlequah or KPNS Duncan
1370, too much splatter and desensitization from local KCRC 1390 on north side of Enid, to hear KGNO Dodge City which I know starts making it somewhat further north. Forget 1380 and 1400
1420, ad for BancFirst somewhere in Oklahoma, so KTJS Hobart
1430, weak CCI music & talk, i.e. KALV Alva in its null toward KTBZ Tulsa
1450, heavy CCI, one music, another ballgame, i.e. KGFF Shawnee and KSIW Woodward respectively; maybe a third? Could be KWBW Hutchinson KS or KWHW Altus OK
1470, JBA carrier with SAH, suppose KGND Vinita in northeast OK with one of the Kansans, all really too far, KSMM Liberal or KAIR Atchison
1480, KQAM Wichita KS has NO CCI from 50 kW KBXD Dallas, but wait till some skywave kix in
1490, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Must check whether that`s temporary. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, KBIX Muskogee was silent. Leaves JBA carriers, SAH; two Kansans: KKAN Phillipsburg, KTOP Topeka
1510, alabanza music, fair vs KOKC 1520; as previously tracked down, KNSS Larned KS, ex-ESPN
1570, alabanza music, KZLI Tulsa with no XERF for a change
1610, nothing but quite a hum from WQCL720, Great Salt Plains State Park OK
1700, comedy JBA, no doubt 10 kW KKLF Dallas/Richardson; at top end one might still wonder if it could be skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, April 28 at 1206, WKY should be in weekly English pubaffs show, but instead adstring in Spanish mixed with a couple in English; finally at 1211 played *outro* for Sunday Morning Magazine, more ads, and 1212 back to Indomable music. SMM must have lasted 6 minutes at most instead of 30, or the automation screwed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 27 circa 1837 UT in daytime bandscan, KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is on the air again with what else but alabanza = praise music in Spanish. Not on circa 1200 UT April 28, when it could be, well after sunrise, but it is on at 1453 check. I`ve yet to catch when they come on, if the time is even fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1490, April 27 circa 1835 UT, notable by its absence: KMFS Guthrie OK, Jimmy Swaggart`s station. Still maybe off circa sunset when logged others on 1490, see UNIDENTIFIED. But back on with gospel huxter April 28 at 1516 check. Last we heard from Bruce Winkelman, the other 1490 Okie from Muskogee, KBIX, was silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 28 at 0100, R. Chaski carrier as usual audible with BFO amid the hash of local and propagated noise; cut off at 0104:13.5* which is 10.5 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15500, new frequency from BSKSA, first heard today April 28 at 1248 in Arabic vocal music with long pauses, reverent but unsounds like normal Qur`an recitation; 1252 YL with Saudi ID; still on at 1304, and 1358 past 1400. Good modulation, not // 17705. Maybe one of their new transmitters? Not in Aoki or HFCC, 15500 an open frequency after 1200/1157. Fair signal while 17705 is JBA today. Sure I would have noticed 15500 if it were on, in daily chex for Bangladesh 15505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, April 28 at 0103, IRS is off the air already, instead of extending a semihour for English as sometimes happens on UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, April 28 at 0447, IWT still absent. Wolfgang Büschel says it is missing from all frequencies, contrary to Rumen Pankov`s observations I quoted yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: started a bit late on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday April 27 at 2331:07, but completed at 2400:03, followed by QSY announcement to 5085, and off, so all is well-coördinated now. 5085 may have been on for an hour, not at 0102 check.
Confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB UT Sunday April 28 at 0200, but this was a one-time substitute for usual UT Saturday 0130v since AWWW ran almost until 0200 then. WOR 1666 also confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday April 28 at 0400.5. Next: Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2, 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 28 at 0102, WWRB is on with big band music, Dave`s favorite filler; presumably just having completed the Saturday-UT Sunday-only paid sesquihour simulcast from 2330, also on 3215. Most nights it remains absent from 5050, but it ought to be the primary frequency in summer instead of 90m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, UT Sunday April 28 at 0106, WRMI with kid singing ``God Bless America``, and no jamming audible. I see WRMI has just updated its program schedule grid (in UT -4), as of April 26 via http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html
showing this is `Tell the World Ministries`, a quarter-hour of English amid Spanish. Not sure what changes have been made; there are still gobs of Overcomer hours for another month. Radio Libertad is scheduled M-F 23-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, April 28 at 0446, open carrier/dead air from WTWW-1 instead of SFAW/PPP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
