** CUBA. 6930-7880, June 24 at 0528, that intermittent buzz is back, with irregular peaks everywhere between these frequencies averaging maybe 35 kHz apart, and cutting off for a second or so, also irregularly. It`s weakest at the edges, as far out as I can hear it. Previously thought it might be from Cuban jammer on 7405, but this is UT Monday and there is NO jamming or anything on 7405 now; however, the 7365 jammer-against-nothing is still on. I am about to write off the 7405 theory, until I compute the exact center of 6930/7880 === 7405!!! How would Arnie explain that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13695, June 24 at 1226, S Asian vocal music, the SSOB with flutter, second being Firedrake on 13795. This is the AIR Telugu service at 1215-1245, 500 kW, 108 degrees from Bengaluru. Strange propagation continues, with MUF barely making it above 15 MHz to anywhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. The sporadic E VHF opening starting in my previous report of June 23 before 1600 UT later became the best of the year, so far for me; see also NICARAGUA, and U S A. Continuing:
1609 on 2, Mérida ad, so XHY-TV
1610 on 2, CCI to XHY-TV with Azteca-13 logo
1632 on 2, MTY bug in UR on talk show, so XHCNL Saltillo, Coahuila; also shows in LR: 27 degrees and 11:33 clock
1700 on 2, audio says Monterrey televisión and later Televisa, so not clear if XEFB itself or the ch 34 relay XHCNL in Saltillo, as both are Televisa
I was out for a couple hours, but nothing happening when I got back. BTW, as with most TVDXing now, I am using two sets at once, one color, one B&W, split feed from same C-490 antenna, starting aiming SSW:
2104 on 2, fade-in with Spanish graphic, 275 MILLONES
2114 on 2, fade in just barely audio in Spanish
2138 on 2, CCI is strengthening
2154 on 2, U bug for UNIVISION: see U S A
2215 on 2, PAN political ad on audio, so this has to be from Mexico; then promos for several programs, audio copied, including `Las Noticias Revelan` at 7 pm lunes a viernes. This title is too generic for any useful search hits, but does anyone recognize it? Soon followed by mentions of Dia de los Padres; see NICARAGUA
2225 on 2, SIPSE promo during program about Mexican earthquakes. SIPSE means XHY-TV and that also matches its webstream which also shows the Gala TV swirl bug in UR = Televisa net-9, which is one of several program sources for XHY
2229 on 5, movie about wrestling (judging from reaxion shots etc., a produced drama, not a lucha libre match per se); too much QRM, but unrecognized large circular bug in UR, smaller circle in LR; XHAJ as in logs below. (It`s not hard to mix up the RF channels and the net numbers with two sets going at once, but I think I have this right.)
2229 on 4, movie in English with subtitles, Televisa net-5 bug UR
2235 on 2, same wrestling movie as earlier on 5
2237 on 4, ads/promos mentioning Huasteca, Viva el Son, Jalapa, Veracruz, then full screen TV MAS, i.e. XHGV Las Lajas
2238 on 4, promo for DX = Deportes Extremos ! en TV MAS!
2238 on 3, tv3 promo, logo of XHP-TV Puebla. Strangely, most of the time during this opening there was little to see on channel 3
2239 on 2, Veracruz promo/ad, so XHFM-TV
2242 on 5, TeleVer 30 años promo, i.e. XHAJ-TV Las Lajas, Veracruz
2247 on 5, wrestling movie as in 2229 log, i.e. XHAJ; now I can make out TeleVer bug in UR; see 2251 below
2248 on 4, Veracruz news promo, Más Noticias, so XHGV again
Now there is heavy CCI on all channels 2-5, not yet 6.
2249 on 6, some video now showing, with beat bars about 15 kHz, i.e. off-offset rather than 0, 10 or 20. About time to try FM
2251 on 5, the TeleVer bug is visible in UR, fancy script V with a crossed t on the right leg. Attempted three photos, one of which is somewhat legible but blurry:
http://www.w4uvh.net/xhaj.jpg
better visible at the bottom of http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch5.html
2257 on 88.1, Es fades in, Cámara de Diputados PSA = Mexican House of Reps; 2258 ID as ``La Comadre, XHRE``, which is in Celaya, Guanajuato
2300 on 88.1, ``Los Cuarenta`` slogan, ``88 punto uno``, then rock in English. That`s XHZN in Zamora, Michoacán.
2303 on 5, Televisa net-5 bug in LR; could be XHGC flagship itself
2308, Florida FM stations are mixing in; see U S A
2308 on 88.1, ``Red FM, 88.1`` slogan overrides Florida station, rock in English; i.e. XHRED in México DF. I have now reheard within a few minutes 75% of the Mexicans on this frequency. And the other one unheard is in Veracruz whence I have been getting TVDX.
Now I move to the porch with less noise, on the DX-398, and plenty of room to manœuver the whip antenna as polarization matters in digging out Es FM DX signals vs locals and semis, and each other. But no TV DX in sight for the duration, no such distraxions.
2319 on 92.3, lite rock in Spanish, RDS icon but not enough to display
2321 on 92.9 CCI to WIKX FL [see USA] of Spanish music; both override Tulsa
2329 on 87.75, CCI in Spanish, channel 6 audios
After a bunch of Floridians:
2343 on 93.5, romantic Mexican music in Spanish, stereo, soon fade, Cantú shows six, of which three are in PTA of Pue., Gto., Tamps.
2347 on 88.1, ``88 punto uno, Red-FM`` = XHRED, México DF again
2349 on 97.7, live DJ, ``los clásicos de la caliente``; 2350 CCI from another in Spanish, just ``97 punto 7``.
97.7 is a busy frequency in Mexico! Cantú has 18 stations, but the only ``La Caliente` is XHSNP in San Luís Potosí SLP, 50 kW. And the only one with ``97.7`` as its sole ``name`` is XERC in México DF. I had figured I would be getting XHGL in Mérida, Yuc., which is now known as KISS FM; how derivative and Yanqui-influenced.
2355 on 95.3, RDS shows: MUSICA / AMOR / 95.3 / SOLO --- of course SOLO probably comes first in alternation. It quickly fades and SOLO freezes on the RDS. Cantú also lists eighteen stations on this frequency, but here we have a problem, two of them called AMOR, and both from areas coming in: XHSH, 95 kW in México DF, and XHNB, 31.581 kW in SLP SLP. Per http://amorfm.mx the full slogan is Sólo Música Romántica, but it applies to both related stations on 95.3 and a number in other cities on other frequencies
2356 on 95.3, fade to another station, ``en cuestiones de amor, Estéreo Vida`` --- so another one is muscling in on the love angle. Cantú shows the only 95.3 with that slogan is:
95.3, XHPY, Stereo Vida, Tepic, Nayarit, 13,410 watts
So now the opening has reached the Pacific coast
2359 on 95.3, Spanish music fades back in, horizontal antenna better
UT June 24:
0002 on 93.5, Spanish music, ACI from 93.3 & 93.7 Okies
0002 on 93.3, Okie is overridden by Spanish, ``93 punto 3 FM`` --- (fade), Grupo Radiorama`` Grupos are not shown per se on the Cantú frequency dial. Radiorama is a huge group with stations everywhere of many different names and formats. Here`s their list:
http://www.radiorama.com.mx/secciones.php?sec_id=32
Showing there are only two on 93.3 (one too many):
XHVE Colima, Colima, La Mexicana
XHTB Cuernavaca, Morelos, 40 Principales
Cantú shows the Colima call instead as XHEVE, // AM 1020, 25 kW on FM; and XHTB as 10 kW
Of course in an opening like this, relative powers are insignificant, unless there is a huge disparity
0007 on 95.3, romantic music in Spanish, may or may not be one of the two above again; FM seems to be dying out, so back inside to concentrate on TVDX, but just CCI on channels 2-5
0050 on 2, Azteca net-7 with animation; XHTAU Tampico always prime suspect
0052 on 6, Azteca net-13 with game show, video only. W9WI.com has eight hi-powers and two lo-powers
Back to the porch as it`s almost time for a Chaski-check, see PERU, but meanwhile resume FM DXing:
0102 on 92.9, ``ritmos caribeños`` en ``Recuerdo 92.9 FM`` --- no such slogan among the fourteen Mexican 92.9s in Cantú, nor any general or WTFDA searches nor on Recuerdos ??? Could it be beyond México?
0104 on 92.9, RDS shows TIEMPO / MERIDA before quickly losing to gospel C&W, US station. I had been expecting Mérida FMs to show up, and this is 100 kW XHYUC per Cantú, and also as fully IDed below -
0105 on 92.7, shouting in Spanish
0107 on 92.9, RDS: XHYUC / VIAJERA / YUCATAN with classic crooner, old romantic music, ID heard ``Yucatán FM``
0113 on 95.3, ``Candela, La Más Grande``, elexions PSA in Spanish and also in Maya! Then ode to Yucatán sung in Spanish, axually a PSA from El Gobierno del Estado. This is XHMH, 10 kW in Mérida, // 970, says Cantú, and you may recall was briefly relayed several years ago on SW 6105 before that transmitter crashed, for good?
0123, only weak CCI remains on channels 2-5, until:
0148 on 4, TV MAS on full screen, i.e. XHGV Las Lajas, Veracruz, as in earlier 2237 log; soon in and out
0154 on 88.1, brief fade-in of béisbol discussion, ``las grandes ligas``. And that`s it for this DX opening lasting some 5 hours
1540 on 2, fade-in Spanish with antenna SSW, back out quickly
1556 on 2, fade-in Televisa net-2 star bug in UR; 10:56 clock in LL, with large circle bug, for show? Then CCI, and occasional quick snatches of video on 2 during following hour, nothing more
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, June 24 at 1200, RNZI timesignal, and YL with ``Radio New Zealand, News at Ten`` to last 15 minutes; only fair with flutter as usual when on the Timor antenna, unfortunately for us in prime morning time. Yet it`s midnight in NZ, so as heard before, RNZI is for some reason delaying this newscast from the domestic service by two hours!
The revamped website http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/schedules
now admits, e.g. for the start of local Tuesday (since times are local, not UT):
12:00 am RNZ News
12:05 am Late Edition (repeat) The most significant news stories, news interviews and packages of the day.
1:00 am Pacific Regional News
Which does not exactly match what was announced and scheduled a few hours earlier late Monday:
9:00 pm RNZ News
10:08 pm Late Edition --- The most significant news stories, news interviews and packages of the day.
11:00 pm Pacific Regional News
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NICARAGUA. I can at least tentatively log this country in TVDX, a long sought double-hopper, which are extremely rare here, nothing definite since I got Venezuela sesquidecades ago.
June 23 at 2215 UT, I was also getting MEXICO, q.v. on channel 2, since there was a PAN political commercial, and just a few minutes earlier Univisión on 2, almost certainly WUVF-LP in Naples FL, see USA. But now the audio is mentioning ``Dia de los Padres``, i.e. Fathers` Day, which was last week = third Sunday, June 16 in the USA and in most of Latin America (except Cuba where it is nowhen) --- and EXCEPT, per Wikipedia, in Nicaragua, where it is always on June 23 (regardless of day of week)! This is my best clue, unless for some reason they were talking about FD somewhere else a week after it.
Ch 2 in Managua is http://www.canal2.com.ni Homepage has no link to program schedules, but searching further, we find a webcast schedule and a completely different broadcast schedule. The latter shows Sundays at 4-4:30 pm is `Cuello Blanco`, which is presumably the originally English crime drama from USA Net, `White Collar`. Well, that does not fit. This seemed to be a talk show, not a drama, but maybe last week`s episode is delayed until this week in Nic and was themed on Fathers` Day?
Not on the webcast, but on the broadcast schedule of canal 2,
http://www.canal2.com.ni/Programas/Parrilla_Programacion.htm#
I see some Univisión programming, which casts doubt on my log a few minutes earlier presumed to be WUVF-LP in Naples FL. (But I`d be happy with either, if not both!)
Central & South American double-hop TV DX is difficultized here by the fact that Mexico is in the way, notably Mérida, Yucatán, XHY-TV on channel 2. Managua is within one or two degrees of exactly the same direxion, as are Belice, Tegucigalpa, San José, and for that matter, Guayaquil and Lima! Plus Guatemala and San Salvador are not far off either. This practically guarantees that if any of those manage to double-hop in, they will also suffer QRM from XHY or other Mexicans. Managua to Enid is 1828 miles = 2941 km (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. During sporadic E opening from Florida and Mexico, June 23 at 2330 UT on 89.3, ``Radio 74``, ``The Bible by living sound, dramatized scripture``. Searching entire WTFDA db on Radio 74 gets one hit, in FL but wrong frequency: ``WHMF 91.1 MARIANNA FL 1.9 1.9 19.0 19.0 RADIO 74 INTERNATIONALE, RELIGION`` but this must be related to it.
The big FL on 89.3 is WRMB, Moody in Boynton Beach, 100 kW, but does not match its schedule. There are six other FL on 89.3, no more than 10 kW, and all of them gospel huxters!
All about Radio 74 Intle here:
http://www.radio74.net/
which is a growing network, hurry up, hurry, money needed before Jesus comes! As implied by the -e, this network originated in Europe, but claims to be independent from the one in North America; don`t see any explanation about the significance of the number.
Nor do I see any 89.3 mentioned anywhere on that site. But a link to affiliate/partners at the bottom
http://www.radio74.net/Frequency.htm
Shows some 89.3s in Alaska, California, not Florida, but Oklahoma?!
``KIEL in Loyal OK, Under Construction, June 2013``
This is not far south of Enid, between Kingfisher and Okeene, maybe what I am getting, new on the air? FCC shows KIEL is now LICensed, with 6 kW. Site is 6 miles east and almost 4 miles south of Okeene
Next day at 2000 with no DX, I try to hear 89.3, at first nothing aside local 89.1 Oasis translator, but then a barely audible preacher (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, June 24 at 0110 UT with the DX-398 on the porch, I am getting two stations here, easily separable by polarization of the whip antenna. Seems both are C&W, so one may be Es DX; but at 0118 I am getting KRAV-FM Tulsa, which is listed as Hot AC, with antenna horizontal, and KECO Elk City, country, with antenna vertical, soon ID at 0119 during ``Sunday Night Classic Show``. Yet WTFDA db shows both are 100 kW H & and 100 kW V. KECO is a little further from here and with lower tower, less than half the HAAT of KRAV. The capture effect may confuse matters further (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 24 at 0103, R. Chaski provides its very reliable weak carrier, enough to tell when it cuts off the air: 0103:26.5* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. BTW, when best audible, the carrier makes a quick bleep on the BFO as it goes off, as if the frequency is changing slightly as the plug is pulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1674 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday June 23 starting a bit early around 2327.5; 2357 the QSY to 5085 announcement already running and off immediately. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR Germany 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Monday June 24 at 1309, WTWW-3 is in scheduled language Russian. Perhaps no further notice of this is needed unless a spurious tongue show up again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Already getting MEXICO, q.v., but June 23 at 2154 UT on channel 2 analog, bug in LR is the U of Univisión, a US network, so much so that they forget the accent and don`t care if it`s pronounced as if English. I had also been glimpsing it the past several minutes, but now I am sure of it. However, not // the national Univision satellite feed we get in Enid on Cable 61. W9WI.com shows the only U on 2 is: WUVF-LP, 3 kW ERP in Naples FL, which many others have DXed, one of the last few analog channel 2 stations on the air in the US. (Do they plan to, or do they ever have to go DTV?) Signal holds up far enough eastward not to be Mexico, and certainly weak enough to be 3 kW. It`s no WPBT Miami, which used to be common, but I`ll take it!
FL certainly an active area as with FM DX from there later, tho a nagging doubt remains that it might have been a Mexican which was somehow simulcasting Univisión, but I would still not expect the U bug to be prominent or even visiblized.
2212, title in LL is S y P, and I think I hear them say ``Sangre y Pimienta, regresamos``, but probably really ``Sal y Pimienta`` (salt & pepper) which is a UNI program tho not at this time on the net schedules I find. Within the next few minutes I am also getting on 2 a definite Mexican, XHY-TV in Mérida, and I hope NICARAGUA, q.v. But Managua could also be carrying some Univisión (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Sporadic E FM DX opening June 23, as I am already and also getting MEXICO, q.v.:
2308 on 88.1, ``The Joy FM`` ID in passing about a mission trip, soon lost to XHRED override, but enough to ID by slogan search at the new WTFDA database, http://db.wtfda.org as:
WJIS, 100 kW, Bradenton FL (tho they also have a 1.25 kW in Ocala)
2320 on 92.9, mentions bluegrass, old school, then Kix-Country, and new more direct website http://kixcountry929.com But the WTFDA db already nails it as WIKX Charlotte Harbor FL, 100 kW. Would you believe this place is not in my Rand McNally index? But it is on the map near Port Charlotte, west coast, between Sarasota and Ft Myers
2323 on 95.1, ad for a Thursday ladies` night at Gracie Ray`s in historic St. Andrews. That`s a bar & grill in Panama City FL, St. Andrews being the bay upon which it is situated. No station in that city of license, but instead nearby Ebro, WBPC with 21 kW
2326 on 100.7, country rock; partial RDS before fadedown: MIX / TRAIN. That`s WMTX, Tampa, 96 kW, Mix 100.7, and part of a song title
2332 on 92.1, ``92-1 The Coast.com`` and RDS is stuck with one word: MARS, song/performer? Website is really http://www.921thecoast.com WTFDA db again goes right to: WLTQ-FM, Venice FL, 11.5 kW, 92.1 The Coast
2333 on 94.5, partial RDS shows / 94.5 THE / before lost to ACI, mainly KGLB-LP 94.3 Enid, only a few km away. WTFDA db shows of the three full-power 94.5s in FL, the only one with THE in slogan is: ``WARO 94.5 NAPLES FL 99.0 99.0 309.0 309.0 26.2026 81.4248 5670 WARO 94.5 THE ARROW``
2335 on 101.1, RDS: WAVV 101, EZL music in English. I am getting this with antenna vertical, but something else, Stillwater OK with antenna horizontal. WAVV is 100 kW in Naples Park, FL, and WTFDA agrees on the EZL format
2340 on 96.5, full RDS: NEWS / TALK / WDBO / 96.5 --- this is also better on vertical than horizontal antenna, overriding both Okies, q.v. Is Orlando, of course, 99 kW, // 580
UT June 24, after some more Mexicans:
0003 on 92.1, (local KAMG-LP is still off the air, good!!), a live drawing is coming up. Mentions Faith Jewelers; 0004 about fireworx, ``Midnite Madness`` is the drawing. Seems to be in mono; at least the stereo icon never lites up. Searching on the jewelers plus the madness gets nowhere, but just midnight madness 92.1 goes right to:
http://www.wjxr.com/spree.php
Nightly shopping spree on this ``bargain channel``. WTFDA db shows WJXR is 25 kW in MacClenny FL, i.e. west of Jacksonville with which it obviously wants to identify, a few miles from Georgia`s SE tip
Back inside shortly to resume TVDXing as FM MUF is going down, but on inside ATS-909 I get again:
0018 on 88.1, Joy FM; 0042 on 88.1, ``Joy FM, this week in Florida``; 0043 ad for a construxion company, AC 863, i.e. WJIS Bradenton again as above; however, AC 863 is not Bradenton, but east of there, land-locked, certainly closer than Ocala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Ideas welcome on whether I was getting Nicaragua and/or Florida on 2, and what was the 92.9 unID?
** INDIA. 13695, June 24 at 1226, S Asian vocal music, the SSOB with flutter, second being Firedrake on 13795. This is the AIR Telugu service at 1215-1245, 500 kW, 108 degrees from Bengaluru. Strange propagation continues, with MUF barely making it above 15 MHz to anywhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. The sporadic E VHF opening starting in my previous report of June 23 before 1600 UT later became the best of the year, so far for me; see also NICARAGUA, and U S A. Continuing:
1609 on 2, Mérida ad, so XHY-TV
1610 on 2, CCI to XHY-TV with Azteca-13 logo
1632 on 2, MTY bug in UR on talk show, so XHCNL Saltillo, Coahuila; also shows in LR: 27 degrees and 11:33 clock
1700 on 2, audio says Monterrey televisión and later Televisa, so not clear if XEFB itself or the ch 34 relay XHCNL in Saltillo, as both are Televisa
I was out for a couple hours, but nothing happening when I got back. BTW, as with most TVDXing now, I am using two sets at once, one color, one B&W, split feed from same C-490 antenna, starting aiming SSW:
2104 on 2, fade-in with Spanish graphic, 275 MILLONES
2114 on 2, fade in just barely audio in Spanish
2138 on 2, CCI is strengthening
2154 on 2, U bug for UNIVISION: see U S A
2215 on 2, PAN political ad on audio, so this has to be from Mexico; then promos for several programs, audio copied, including `Las Noticias Revelan` at 7 pm lunes a viernes. This title is too generic for any useful search hits, but does anyone recognize it? Soon followed by mentions of Dia de los Padres; see NICARAGUA
2225 on 2, SIPSE promo during program about Mexican earthquakes. SIPSE means XHY-TV and that also matches its webstream which also shows the Gala TV swirl bug in UR = Televisa net-9, which is one of several program sources for XHY
2229 on 5, movie about wrestling (judging from reaxion shots etc., a produced drama, not a lucha libre match per se); too much QRM, but unrecognized large circular bug in UR, smaller circle in LR; XHAJ as in logs below. (It`s not hard to mix up the RF channels and the net numbers with two sets going at once, but I think I have this right.)
2229 on 4, movie in English with subtitles, Televisa net-5 bug UR
2235 on 2, same wrestling movie as earlier on 5
2237 on 4, ads/promos mentioning Huasteca, Viva el Son, Jalapa, Veracruz, then full screen TV MAS, i.e. XHGV Las Lajas
2238 on 4, promo for DX = Deportes Extremos ! en TV MAS!
2238 on 3, tv3 promo, logo of XHP-TV Puebla. Strangely, most of the time during this opening there was little to see on channel 3
2239 on 2, Veracruz promo/ad, so XHFM-TV
2242 on 5, TeleVer 30 años promo, i.e. XHAJ-TV Las Lajas, Veracruz
2247 on 5, wrestling movie as in 2229 log, i.e. XHAJ; now I can make out TeleVer bug in UR; see 2251 below
2248 on 4, Veracruz news promo, Más Noticias, so XHGV again
Now there is heavy CCI on all channels 2-5, not yet 6.
2249 on 6, some video now showing, with beat bars about 15 kHz, i.e. off-offset rather than 0, 10 or 20. About time to try FM
2251 on 5, the TeleVer bug is visible in UR, fancy script V with a crossed t on the right leg. Attempted three photos, one of which is somewhat legible but blurry:
http://www.w4uvh.net/xhaj.jpg
better visible at the bottom of http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch5.html
2257 on 88.1, Es fades in, Cámara de Diputados PSA = Mexican House of Reps; 2258 ID as ``La Comadre, XHRE``, which is in Celaya, Guanajuato
2300 on 88.1, ``Los Cuarenta`` slogan, ``88 punto uno``, then rock in English. That`s XHZN in Zamora, Michoacán.
2303 on 5, Televisa net-5 bug in LR; could be XHGC flagship itself
2308, Florida FM stations are mixing in; see U S A
2308 on 88.1, ``Red FM, 88.1`` slogan overrides Florida station, rock in English; i.e. XHRED in México DF. I have now reheard within a few minutes 75% of the Mexicans on this frequency. And the other one unheard is in Veracruz whence I have been getting TVDX.
Now I move to the porch with less noise, on the DX-398, and plenty of room to manœuver the whip antenna as polarization matters in digging out Es FM DX signals vs locals and semis, and each other. But no TV DX in sight for the duration, no such distraxions.
2319 on 92.3, lite rock in Spanish, RDS icon but not enough to display
2321 on 92.9 CCI to WIKX FL [see USA] of Spanish music; both override Tulsa
2329 on 87.75, CCI in Spanish, channel 6 audios
After a bunch of Floridians:
2343 on 93.5, romantic Mexican music in Spanish, stereo, soon fade, Cantú shows six, of which three are in PTA of Pue., Gto., Tamps.
2347 on 88.1, ``88 punto uno, Red-FM`` = XHRED, México DF again
2349 on 97.7, live DJ, ``los clásicos de la caliente``; 2350 CCI from another in Spanish, just ``97 punto 7``.
97.7 is a busy frequency in Mexico! Cantú has 18 stations, but the only ``La Caliente` is XHSNP in San Luís Potosí SLP, 50 kW. And the only one with ``97.7`` as its sole ``name`` is XERC in México DF. I had figured I would be getting XHGL in Mérida, Yuc., which is now known as KISS FM; how derivative and Yanqui-influenced.
2355 on 95.3, RDS shows: MUSICA / AMOR / 95.3 / SOLO --- of course SOLO probably comes first in alternation. It quickly fades and SOLO freezes on the RDS. Cantú also lists eighteen stations on this frequency, but here we have a problem, two of them called AMOR, and both from areas coming in: XHSH, 95 kW in México DF, and XHNB, 31.581 kW in SLP SLP. Per http://amorfm.mx the full slogan is Sólo Música Romántica, but it applies to both related stations on 95.3 and a number in other cities on other frequencies
2356 on 95.3, fade to another station, ``en cuestiones de amor, Estéreo Vida`` --- so another one is muscling in on the love angle. Cantú shows the only 95.3 with that slogan is:
95.3, XHPY, Stereo Vida, Tepic, Nayarit, 13,410 watts
So now the opening has reached the Pacific coast
2359 on 95.3, Spanish music fades back in, horizontal antenna better
UT June 24:
0002 on 93.5, Spanish music, ACI from 93.3 & 93.7 Okies
0002 on 93.3, Okie is overridden by Spanish, ``93 punto 3 FM`` --- (fade), Grupo Radiorama`` Grupos are not shown per se on the Cantú frequency dial. Radiorama is a huge group with stations everywhere of many different names and formats. Here`s their list:
http://www.radiorama.com.mx/secciones.php?sec_id=32
Showing there are only two on 93.3 (one too many):
XHVE Colima, Colima, La Mexicana
XHTB Cuernavaca, Morelos, 40 Principales
Cantú shows the Colima call instead as XHEVE, // AM 1020, 25 kW on FM; and XHTB as 10 kW
Of course in an opening like this, relative powers are insignificant, unless there is a huge disparity
0007 on 95.3, romantic music in Spanish, may or may not be one of the two above again; FM seems to be dying out, so back inside to concentrate on TVDX, but just CCI on channels 2-5
0050 on 2, Azteca net-7 with animation; XHTAU Tampico always prime suspect
0052 on 6, Azteca net-13 with game show, video only. W9WI.com has eight hi-powers and two lo-powers
Back to the porch as it`s almost time for a Chaski-check, see PERU, but meanwhile resume FM DXing:
0102 on 92.9, ``ritmos caribeños`` en ``Recuerdo 92.9 FM`` --- no such slogan among the fourteen Mexican 92.9s in Cantú, nor any general or WTFDA searches nor on Recuerdos ??? Could it be beyond México?
0104 on 92.9, RDS shows TIEMPO / MERIDA before quickly losing to gospel C&W, US station. I had been expecting Mérida FMs to show up, and this is 100 kW XHYUC per Cantú, and also as fully IDed below -
0105 on 92.7, shouting in Spanish
0107 on 92.9, RDS: XHYUC / VIAJERA / YUCATAN with classic crooner, old romantic music, ID heard ``Yucatán FM``
0113 on 95.3, ``Candela, La Más Grande``, elexions PSA in Spanish and also in Maya! Then ode to Yucatán sung in Spanish, axually a PSA from El Gobierno del Estado. This is XHMH, 10 kW in Mérida, // 970, says Cantú, and you may recall was briefly relayed several years ago on SW 6105 before that transmitter crashed, for good?
0123, only weak CCI remains on channels 2-5, until:
0148 on 4, TV MAS on full screen, i.e. XHGV Las Lajas, Veracruz, as in earlier 2237 log; soon in and out
0154 on 88.1, brief fade-in of béisbol discussion, ``las grandes ligas``. And that`s it for this DX opening lasting some 5 hours
1540 on 2, fade-in Spanish with antenna SSW, back out quickly
1556 on 2, fade-in Televisa net-2 star bug in UR; 10:56 clock in LL, with large circle bug, for show? Then CCI, and occasional quick snatches of video on 2 during following hour, nothing more
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, June 24 at 1200, RNZI timesignal, and YL with ``Radio New Zealand, News at Ten`` to last 15 minutes; only fair with flutter as usual when on the Timor antenna, unfortunately for us in prime morning time. Yet it`s midnight in NZ, so as heard before, RNZI is for some reason delaying this newscast from the domestic service by two hours!
The revamped website http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/schedules
now admits, e.g. for the start of local Tuesday (since times are local, not UT):
12:00 am RNZ News
12:05 am Late Edition (repeat) The most significant news stories, news interviews and packages of the day.
1:00 am Pacific Regional News
Which does not exactly match what was announced and scheduled a few hours earlier late Monday:
9:00 pm RNZ News
10:08 pm Late Edition --- The most significant news stories, news interviews and packages of the day.
11:00 pm Pacific Regional News
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NICARAGUA. I can at least tentatively log this country in TVDX, a long sought double-hopper, which are extremely rare here, nothing definite since I got Venezuela sesquidecades ago.
June 23 at 2215 UT, I was also getting MEXICO, q.v. on channel 2, since there was a PAN political commercial, and just a few minutes earlier Univisión on 2, almost certainly WUVF-LP in Naples FL, see USA. But now the audio is mentioning ``Dia de los Padres``, i.e. Fathers` Day, which was last week = third Sunday, June 16 in the USA and in most of Latin America (except Cuba where it is nowhen) --- and EXCEPT, per Wikipedia, in Nicaragua, where it is always on June 23 (regardless of day of week)! This is my best clue, unless for some reason they were talking about FD somewhere else a week after it.
Ch 2 in Managua is http://www.canal2.com.ni Homepage has no link to program schedules, but searching further, we find a webcast schedule and a completely different broadcast schedule. The latter shows Sundays at 4-4:30 pm is `Cuello Blanco`, which is presumably the originally English crime drama from USA Net, `White Collar`. Well, that does not fit. This seemed to be a talk show, not a drama, but maybe last week`s episode is delayed until this week in Nic and was themed on Fathers` Day?
Not on the webcast, but on the broadcast schedule of canal 2,
http://www.canal2.com.ni/Programas/Parrilla_Programacion.htm#
I see some Univisión programming, which casts doubt on my log a few minutes earlier presumed to be WUVF-LP in Naples FL. (But I`d be happy with either, if not both!)
Central & South American double-hop TV DX is difficultized here by the fact that Mexico is in the way, notably Mérida, Yucatán, XHY-TV on channel 2. Managua is within one or two degrees of exactly the same direxion, as are Belice, Tegucigalpa, San José, and for that matter, Guayaquil and Lima! Plus Guatemala and San Salvador are not far off either. This practically guarantees that if any of those manage to double-hop in, they will also suffer QRM from XHY or other Mexicans. Managua to Enid is 1828 miles = 2941 km (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. During sporadic E opening from Florida and Mexico, June 23 at 2330 UT on 89.3, ``Radio 74``, ``The Bible by living sound, dramatized scripture``. Searching entire WTFDA db on Radio 74 gets one hit, in FL but wrong frequency: ``WHMF 91.1 MARIANNA FL 1.9 1.9 19.0 19.0 RADIO 74 INTERNATIONALE, RELIGION`` but this must be related to it.
The big FL on 89.3 is WRMB, Moody in Boynton Beach, 100 kW, but does not match its schedule. There are six other FL on 89.3, no more than 10 kW, and all of them gospel huxters!
All about Radio 74 Intle here:
http://www.radio74.net/
which is a growing network, hurry up, hurry, money needed before Jesus comes! As implied by the -e, this network originated in Europe, but claims to be independent from the one in North America; don`t see any explanation about the significance of the number.
Nor do I see any 89.3 mentioned anywhere on that site. But a link to affiliate/partners at the bottom
http://www.radio74.net/Frequency.htm
Shows some 89.3s in Alaska, California, not Florida, but Oklahoma?!
``KIEL in Loyal OK, Under Construction, June 2013``
This is not far south of Enid, between Kingfisher and Okeene, maybe what I am getting, new on the air? FCC shows KIEL is now LICensed, with 6 kW. Site is 6 miles east and almost 4 miles south of Okeene
Next day at 2000 with no DX, I try to hear 89.3, at first nothing aside local 89.1 Oasis translator, but then a barely audible preacher (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, June 24 at 0110 UT with the DX-398 on the porch, I am getting two stations here, easily separable by polarization of the whip antenna. Seems both are C&W, so one may be Es DX; but at 0118 I am getting KRAV-FM Tulsa, which is listed as Hot AC, with antenna horizontal, and KECO Elk City, country, with antenna vertical, soon ID at 0119 during ``Sunday Night Classic Show``. Yet WTFDA db shows both are 100 kW H & and 100 kW V. KECO is a little further from here and with lower tower, less than half the HAAT of KRAV. The capture effect may confuse matters further (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 24 at 0103, R. Chaski provides its very reliable weak carrier, enough to tell when it cuts off the air: 0103:26.5* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. BTW, when best audible, the carrier makes a quick bleep on the BFO as it goes off, as if the frequency is changing slightly as the plug is pulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1674 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday June 23 starting a bit early around 2327.5; 2357 the QSY to 5085 announcement already running and off immediately. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR Germany 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Monday June 24 at 1309, WTWW-3 is in scheduled language Russian. Perhaps no further notice of this is needed unless a spurious tongue show up again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Already getting MEXICO, q.v., but June 23 at 2154 UT on channel 2 analog, bug in LR is the U of Univisión, a US network, so much so that they forget the accent and don`t care if it`s pronounced as if English. I had also been glimpsing it the past several minutes, but now I am sure of it. However, not // the national Univision satellite feed we get in Enid on Cable 61. W9WI.com shows the only U on 2 is: WUVF-LP, 3 kW ERP in Naples FL, which many others have DXed, one of the last few analog channel 2 stations on the air in the US. (Do they plan to, or do they ever have to go DTV?) Signal holds up far enough eastward not to be Mexico, and certainly weak enough to be 3 kW. It`s no WPBT Miami, which used to be common, but I`ll take it!
FL certainly an active area as with FM DX from there later, tho a nagging doubt remains that it might have been a Mexican which was somehow simulcasting Univisión, but I would still not expect the U bug to be prominent or even visiblized.
2212, title in LL is S y P, and I think I hear them say ``Sangre y Pimienta, regresamos``, but probably really ``Sal y Pimienta`` (salt & pepper) which is a UNI program tho not at this time on the net schedules I find. Within the next few minutes I am also getting on 2 a definite Mexican, XHY-TV in Mérida, and I hope NICARAGUA, q.v. But Managua could also be carrying some Univisión (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Sporadic E FM DX opening June 23, as I am already and also getting MEXICO, q.v.:
2308 on 88.1, ``The Joy FM`` ID in passing about a mission trip, soon lost to XHRED override, but enough to ID by slogan search at the new WTFDA database, http://db.wtfda.org as:
WJIS, 100 kW, Bradenton FL (tho they also have a 1.25 kW in Ocala)
2320 on 92.9, mentions bluegrass, old school, then Kix-Country, and new more direct website http://kixcountry929.com But the WTFDA db already nails it as WIKX Charlotte Harbor FL, 100 kW. Would you believe this place is not in my Rand McNally index? But it is on the map near Port Charlotte, west coast, between Sarasota and Ft Myers
2323 on 95.1, ad for a Thursday ladies` night at Gracie Ray`s in historic St. Andrews. That`s a bar & grill in Panama City FL, St. Andrews being the bay upon which it is situated. No station in that city of license, but instead nearby Ebro, WBPC with 21 kW
2326 on 100.7, country rock; partial RDS before fadedown: MIX / TRAIN. That`s WMTX, Tampa, 96 kW, Mix 100.7, and part of a song title
2332 on 92.1, ``92-1 The Coast.com`` and RDS is stuck with one word: MARS, song/performer? Website is really http://www.921thecoast.com WTFDA db again goes right to: WLTQ-FM, Venice FL, 11.5 kW, 92.1 The Coast
2333 on 94.5, partial RDS shows / 94.5 THE / before lost to ACI, mainly KGLB-LP 94.3 Enid, only a few km away. WTFDA db shows of the three full-power 94.5s in FL, the only one with THE in slogan is: ``WARO 94.5 NAPLES FL 99.0 99.0 309.0 309.0 26.2026 81.4248 5670 WARO 94.5 THE ARROW``
2335 on 101.1, RDS: WAVV 101, EZL music in English. I am getting this with antenna vertical, but something else, Stillwater OK with antenna horizontal. WAVV is 100 kW in Naples Park, FL, and WTFDA agrees on the EZL format
2340 on 96.5, full RDS: NEWS / TALK / WDBO / 96.5 --- this is also better on vertical than horizontal antenna, overriding both Okies, q.v. Is Orlando, of course, 99 kW, // 580
UT June 24, after some more Mexicans:
0003 on 92.1, (local KAMG-LP is still off the air, good!!), a live drawing is coming up. Mentions Faith Jewelers; 0004 about fireworx, ``Midnite Madness`` is the drawing. Seems to be in mono; at least the stereo icon never lites up. Searching on the jewelers plus the madness gets nowhere, but just midnight madness 92.1 goes right to:
http://www.wjxr.com/spree.php
Nightly shopping spree on this ``bargain channel``. WTFDA db shows WJXR is 25 kW in MacClenny FL, i.e. west of Jacksonville with which it obviously wants to identify, a few miles from Georgia`s SE tip
Back inside shortly to resume TVDXing as FM MUF is going down, but on inside ATS-909 I get again:
0018 on 88.1, Joy FM; 0042 on 88.1, ``Joy FM, this week in Florida``; 0043 ad for a construxion company, AC 863, i.e. WJIS Bradenton again as above; however, AC 863 is not Bradenton, but east of there, land-locked, certainly closer than Ocala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Ideas welcome on whether I was getting Nicaragua and/or Florida on 2, and what was the 92.9 unID?
