** CUBA. 6010, June 14 at 0513, RHC English is instead open carrier/dead air, but het(s) from Colombia and/or its other blot-victims; other RHC English channels 5040, 6060 and 6125 OK; 6165 carrier has slight wobble and on the modulation, rumble.
9850, June 14 at 1209, it`s back, the big wobble on the carrier from RHC Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, June 14 at 0516, VOG is still on, and back to Greek music, at least for the moment; at 0521 checking 15630, now talk; both fair signals. There have been reports that the SW service, unlike the domestic services of ERT, have been ``spared the chop`` but it`s not clear whether this is a deliberate government policy or only from observations that the SW frequencies are still running, which could be just due to lack of control by the authorities.
Babis Charalampopoulos wrote to Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, June 14 at 1217 (or 1317?) UT, ``Efforts are being made to operate Avlis HF station. The ERA SW frequency schedule is running, at the time`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, June 14 at *1232:42, open carrier comes on prior to 1300 English, which at 1259 recheck is in IS and signing-on. After finding VOA Korean via Philippines 15775 in dead air --- see USA [non], I decided to park another receiver on 15575 to learn exactly when KBS World Radio turns on its transmitter: in this case the long warmup is intentional, altho also wasteful of watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1460, June 14 circa 0005 UT, KZUE El Reno interrupts Spanish for canned announcement in English about license renewal, saying it ``will expire`` on June 1, 2013! We`ve heard it before, since they returned after being knocked off the air several days following the tornado. Usual FCC-mandated boilerplate about listener comments whether it has operated in public interest, etc. So they are operating on expired license now??
This is nothing new for KZUE. The last time around, in 2005, they failed to file properly for renewal on time, and were fined $4,000 (reduced from $7,000), as in the latest letter in its correspondence file, from almost two years ago:http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=26577
It looks like they are in a similar situation now, which certainly predated the tornado in late May, so that cannot be used as an excuse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7345-USB, Friday June 14 at 1303, Navy MARS net 4H1B headed by NNN0RBD, making roll call, starting with section 1, then 2, 3 and 4; everyone heard replies with ``no traffic``. I already researched this from a Dec 31, 2012 log at 1425 but that was on 7350. See DXLD 13-01. The same net designator was used, and NNN0RBD was traced to Erskine D. "ED" Wyatt, KC4QYM/NNN0RBD in Munford, TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15775, June 14 at 1216, open carrier/dead air from what is supposed to be VOA Korean via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15. Left a receiver on here and it stayed dead, including at 1229, 1300, 1348 and 1436 chex, by when I am confident the entire two sesquihours will have been wasted wattage to the tune of 250 kW = 750 kWh plus whatever more input is necessary for inefficiency! Is no one paying attention at Tinang??? Are they trying to outdo the KBS broadcast FROM S Korea on 15575 in the dead-air sweepstakes? See KOREA SOUTH.
Final check at 1458: still OC/DA, but at 1459 turning the volume way up I can hear trace of modulation, and at 1500 recognizably Yankee Doodle Dandy sign-off music is just barely modulated, carrier cut at 1500:47*.
Meanwhile I had checked the other frequencies for this service and find them nominal in Korean: at 1301 on 7225 fair with QRhaM, also from Tinang; and at 1311, 11935 via TINIAN, not synchronized with 7225. (Before 1300, on 9490 instead of 11935, not checked) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1673 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday June 13 at 2100.5. Next airing on WWRB: first monitoring webcast, screaming preacher runs over but is cut off at 0331 for Dave announcement that WOR is coming up; after a respectful pause of about a minute, WOR 1673 playback starts at 0332. Subsequently confirmed also on 5050, and 3195 is not on the air. The webcast as usual cuts to KJV Bible at 0400 sharp, before WOR is quite finished. Next:
UT Saturday at 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 & 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830. Also may appear any day any time after 1800 on 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9850, June 14 at 1209, it`s back, the big wobble on the carrier from RHC Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, June 14 at 0516, VOG is still on, and back to Greek music, at least for the moment; at 0521 checking 15630, now talk; both fair signals. There have been reports that the SW service, unlike the domestic services of ERT, have been ``spared the chop`` but it`s not clear whether this is a deliberate government policy or only from observations that the SW frequencies are still running, which could be just due to lack of control by the authorities.
Babis Charalampopoulos wrote to Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, June 14 at 1217 (or 1317?) UT, ``Efforts are being made to operate Avlis HF station. The ERA SW frequency schedule is running, at the time`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, June 14 at *1232:42, open carrier comes on prior to 1300 English, which at 1259 recheck is in IS and signing-on. After finding VOA Korean via Philippines 15775 in dead air --- see USA [non], I decided to park another receiver on 15575 to learn exactly when KBS World Radio turns on its transmitter: in this case the long warmup is intentional, altho also wasteful of watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1460, June 14 circa 0005 UT, KZUE El Reno interrupts Spanish for canned announcement in English about license renewal, saying it ``will expire`` on June 1, 2013! We`ve heard it before, since they returned after being knocked off the air several days following the tornado. Usual FCC-mandated boilerplate about listener comments whether it has operated in public interest, etc. So they are operating on expired license now??
This is nothing new for KZUE. The last time around, in 2005, they failed to file properly for renewal on time, and were fined $4,000 (reduced from $7,000), as in the latest letter in its correspondence file, from almost two years ago:http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=26577
It looks like they are in a similar situation now, which certainly predated the tornado in late May, so that cannot be used as an excuse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7345-USB, Friday June 14 at 1303, Navy MARS net 4H1B headed by NNN0RBD, making roll call, starting with section 1, then 2, 3 and 4; everyone heard replies with ``no traffic``. I already researched this from a Dec 31, 2012 log at 1425 but that was on 7350. See DXLD 13-01. The same net designator was used, and NNN0RBD was traced to Erskine D. "ED" Wyatt, KC4QYM/NNN0RBD in Munford, TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15775, June 14 at 1216, open carrier/dead air from what is supposed to be VOA Korean via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15. Left a receiver on here and it stayed dead, including at 1229, 1300, 1348 and 1436 chex, by when I am confident the entire two sesquihours will have been wasted wattage to the tune of 250 kW = 750 kWh plus whatever more input is necessary for inefficiency! Is no one paying attention at Tinang??? Are they trying to outdo the KBS broadcast FROM S Korea on 15575 in the dead-air sweepstakes? See KOREA SOUTH.
Final check at 1458: still OC/DA, but at 1459 turning the volume way up I can hear trace of modulation, and at 1500 recognizably Yankee Doodle Dandy sign-off music is just barely modulated, carrier cut at 1500:47*.
Meanwhile I had checked the other frequencies for this service and find them nominal in Korean: at 1301 on 7225 fair with QRhaM, also from Tinang; and at 1311, 11935 via TINIAN, not synchronized with 7225. (Before 1300, on 9490 instead of 11935, not checked) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1673 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday June 13 at 2100.5. Next airing on WWRB: first monitoring webcast, screaming preacher runs over but is cut off at 0331 for Dave announcement that WOR is coming up; after a respectful pause of about a minute, WOR 1673 playback starts at 0332. Subsequently confirmed also on 5050, and 3195 is not on the air. The webcast as usual cuts to KJV Bible at 0400 sharp, before WOR is quite finished. Next:
UT Saturday at 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 & 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830. Also may appear any day any time after 1800 on 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
