** BANGLADESH. 15505, June 5 at 1358 BB is already on with hum and tone, flutter; 1358:35 starts hum and IS; timesignal ends at 1359:52 and opening Urdu, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Monitoring channel 2 analog for long hours the last few days with little to show for it during a sporadic-E lull. But with antenna parked northward, UT June 5 at 0014 for two or three seconds I see NEWSHOUR, and then GLOBAL Winnipeg, which is all I need to ID once again CKND-TV-2 Minnedosa MB, thus confirming it`s still on air in analog. Could it have been meteor scatter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. No Firedrake, but CNR1 jamming, June 5 before 1300:
None found in 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s at 1245 [except 15800 later below]
16360, poor at 1252
17450, poor at 1252
These two have similar signals to 17490 CRI Kashgar; see also below
15800, good at 1259-1300, but not there a few minutes earlier; modulation stops after 5+1 timesignal, carrier off at 1300.4*
June 5 before 1400:
13530, fair at 1354 vs CODAR; none in the 12s
13970, poor at 1353
14700, poor at 1353
15800, good at 1347 but weaker than -1300* above
15970, very poor at 1347
16100, poor at 1352
16920, fair at 1352
17170, fair at 1352; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, June 5 at 0516, RHC English with Arnie Coro just barely modulated; OK on 6165, 6060 with Brazilian het, 6010, and also JBA on leapfrog 6270 from 6060 over 6165 another 105 kHz higher.
Ian Baxter, SWsites yg, points to a 3-minute video from CCTV showing the Bauta transmitter site, TV cooperation with the comrades in China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWcED5TL5uY
It all looks very modern, belying the crud that comes out of RHC frequencies. At seconds :24-:28 a map labeled ``División Centro Internacional No. 1`` displays the antenna setup, which may not be top-secret, but not to be found in boycotted HFCC; I add the city-designations RHC publishes without azimuths:
A1-A2 10 [New York]
A3-A4 130 [Rio]
A5-A6 160 [BA]
A7-A8 310 [San Francisco]
A9-A10 340 [Chicago]
A11-A12 non-direxional circle
A13 non-direxional smaller circle
6.7-7.8 MHz approx., June 5 at 0519, RHC-like buzz cuts off periodically for about a second. Something new here, altho could be local. Suspect out of jammers near the middle on 7405.
15200-15260, June 5 at 1302, RHC frying noise from defective 15230 out to here, peaks varying but at 1302 around 15220 & 15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17490 & 17630, June 5 at 1254, CRI English with 17630 stronger and leading by about 2 seconds: Aoki shows 17630 is Urumqi, 17490 Kashgar. Also in well as usual: CRI Chinese on 17650, and CRI French on 17560, both Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 12015, June 5 at 0423, JBA signal maybe in Spanish. South Americans have been complaining of little to no reception of NHK relay via ASCENSION at 0400-0430; me, too! I was thinking this was also on 6195 via WHRI, but not any more. 5910 via France should be audible as it collides with Alcaraván Radio, Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, June 5 at 1350, traditional Korean singing to 1359, as I wish again I had tuned in earlier for this Wednesday show from KBSWR. Usual good signal now, and open carrier on way early by 1235 or so before 1300 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010+, June 5 at 0055, het pileup, must be at least three weak signals, the strongest slightly on the hi side, i.e. Brasil, Colombia, and reactivated XEOI. Earlier I told Julián Santiago that I was not hearing XEOI in the 11-12 UT period when it should be audible since reactivation June 2, and he replied June 4:
``Hi Glenn: it is going to be on the air from 17:00 to 22:00 hours -Central time - 2200 to 0300 UT. 73, Julián``. So they`ve picked times when they will confront all this QRM, second only to 05-07 UT when blocked by Cuba. Need to seek Mil anyway at earlier, later times during this block (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120, June 5 at 0108 UT, in KMOX null, weak signal with Spanish preaching. SAH of about 4.5 Hz, and DF fits for KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, R. Victoria, which until now has been nothing but praise music in Spanish on its very irregular schedule.
Now we must beware of another new Spanish station on 1120, KTXW in Manor (Austin) TX which has just started testing, ``nostalgic wall-to-wall Spanish language ballads format`` as `Exitos 11-20`` with 5000/155 watts. Tnx to Artie Bigley for tip of this thread at http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=235285.msg2121776
KTXW is about 90 degrees away from KEOR from my angle, so besides format difference, not easily confundible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1460, June 5 at 1404 UT, another check whether KZUE El Reno is still off the air following the May 31 EF5 tornado: I am getting a JBA carrier looping due N/S, which fits for KZUE right down US 81, but stepping out in the yard away from noise sources, no audio but also a SAH from a second very weak signal. Either KZUE is back on at very reduced power, or it`s two other stations almost a bihour after sunrise, protracted skywave, such as KCLE or one of three other Texans; KKOY KS, KHOJ MO, KXPN NE or KZNT CO. Other weak OKC area stations at normal levels – 1560, 1490, 1340, etc. 1490 also has a SAH indicating residual skywave.
As of June 4, there`s nothing new in the Correspondence Folder for KZUE at FCC AM Query, as they will need to file for an STA to stay off the air or at reduced power. The Topo maphttp://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?t=2&Lon=-97.900000&Lat=35.508333&w=2&ref=G|-97.900000,35.508333
says site is 5 km SE of El Reno, i.e. just north of I-40 whence its tower (if still up) should be easily visible. Looks like it`s close to N/S Radio Road intersexion with E/W Historic US 66 which is // I-40. I don`t think there is an exit to Radio Road from I-40, but there is a turnoff from state highway 3 to the north, which I am certainly going to take at next opportunity if passable (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 5 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until cut off at 0101:47*, 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15016-USB, June 5 until 1303* tail of a crypto message with USAF reverb, ``do not answer``, ``authentication T-C``, ``this is McClellan, out``, i.e. the AFB near Sacramento CA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, UT Wednesday June 5 at 0058, WWRB is on with preaching, and not on 3195 or 3215. 3185 is not on either with BS, nor is 9370; maybe tried just as it was in variably-timed QSY procedure. At 0100, closing show on 5050 with phone 304-679-3615, ``good night, God bless, thank you for listening.`` (That number traces to Welbilt Homes, Parkersburg WV; repeated, I`m sure I copied it correctly.)
Dead air, hum level surges to forefront, then phone rings at least 4 times, each temporarily suppressing the hum. After Chaski-check, I`m back here on 5050 at 0103: now talk about the jet stream being off-track in a W pattern over N America, with ominous music. Think I`ve heard this before, `Planet X`? (And how come we never hear about jet stream patterns over other continents??) 3185 is on now with BS, very poor in storm noise level. Still no 3195, and 3215 is now WWCR.
The never-dated `Global One` program schedule now matching 5050 athttp://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
never specifying time zone but it`s EST/EDT, shows on the air only at 00-04 UT, and on UT Wednesdays at 0100 going from `Brother Ben` to `Truth House`.
So Dave has apparently taken my advice and replaced 3195 with 5050 for the summer evening broadcasts, hopefully including WORLD OF RADIO UT Fridays at 0329v!
BTW, Aoki listings are confused: showing 3215 as WWRB Overcomer Ministry, which is *never* on this frequency. 3195 is missing, just deleted or was it ever included? 5050 is also mislabeled TOM at 22-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, UT Wednesday June 5 at 0103 check, WTWW-3 Bible Worldwide service is now in Arabic as the language schedule continues to be jumbled around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5945, June 5 at 0054, WYFR Spanish is gone, as all Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts were canceled as of June 1. 5945 had been on at 0000-0145, due south. 6115 is still on in English, VG signal northward. Now more cuts have been notified June 4 from Okeechobee:
``Please note the following changes to the WYFR A-2013 schedule, effective 01 July 2013: Delete
kHz Time (UT) Zone Az Lang
9690 2245-2400 10S, 11SW 222 RTI
11565 0100-0200 12, 13, 15 140 RTI
15440 2145-0100 10 285 RTI
Sincerely, Brenda Constantino WYFR``
There goes our Taiwan English broadcast 22-23 on 15440, leaving only the 0300-0400 on 6115 – for now. But there`s still almost a month to decide on further cuts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Monitoring channel 2 analog for long hours the last few days with little to show for it during a sporadic-E lull. But with antenna parked northward, UT June 5 at 0014 for two or three seconds I see NEWSHOUR, and then GLOBAL Winnipeg, which is all I need to ID once again CKND-TV-2 Minnedosa MB, thus confirming it`s still on air in analog. Could it have been meteor scatter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. No Firedrake, but CNR1 jamming, June 5 before 1300:
None found in 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s at 1245 [except 15800 later below]
16360, poor at 1252
17450, poor at 1252
These two have similar signals to 17490 CRI Kashgar; see also below
15800, good at 1259-1300, but not there a few minutes earlier; modulation stops after 5+1 timesignal, carrier off at 1300.4*
June 5 before 1400:
13530, fair at 1354 vs CODAR; none in the 12s
13970, poor at 1353
14700, poor at 1353
15800, good at 1347 but weaker than -1300* above
15970, very poor at 1347
16100, poor at 1352
16920, fair at 1352
17170, fair at 1352; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, June 5 at 0516, RHC English with Arnie Coro just barely modulated; OK on 6165, 6060 with Brazilian het, 6010, and also JBA on leapfrog 6270 from 6060 over 6165 another 105 kHz higher.
Ian Baxter, SWsites yg, points to a 3-minute video from CCTV showing the Bauta transmitter site, TV cooperation with the comrades in China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWcED5TL5uY
It all looks very modern, belying the crud that comes out of RHC frequencies. At seconds :24-:28 a map labeled ``División Centro Internacional No. 1`` displays the antenna setup, which may not be top-secret, but not to be found in boycotted HFCC; I add the city-designations RHC publishes without azimuths:
A1-A2 10 [New York]
A3-A4 130 [Rio]
A5-A6 160 [BA]
A7-A8 310 [San Francisco]
A9-A10 340 [Chicago]
A11-A12 non-direxional circle
A13 non-direxional smaller circle
6.7-7.8 MHz approx., June 5 at 0519, RHC-like buzz cuts off periodically for about a second. Something new here, altho could be local. Suspect out of jammers near the middle on 7405.
15200-15260, June 5 at 1302, RHC frying noise from defective 15230 out to here, peaks varying but at 1302 around 15220 & 15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17490 & 17630, June 5 at 1254, CRI English with 17630 stronger and leading by about 2 seconds: Aoki shows 17630 is Urumqi, 17490 Kashgar. Also in well as usual: CRI Chinese on 17650, and CRI French on 17560, both Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 12015, June 5 at 0423, JBA signal maybe in Spanish. South Americans have been complaining of little to no reception of NHK relay via ASCENSION at 0400-0430; me, too! I was thinking this was also on 6195 via WHRI, but not any more. 5910 via France should be audible as it collides with Alcaraván Radio, Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, June 5 at 1350, traditional Korean singing to 1359, as I wish again I had tuned in earlier for this Wednesday show from KBSWR. Usual good signal now, and open carrier on way early by 1235 or so before 1300 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010+, June 5 at 0055, het pileup, must be at least three weak signals, the strongest slightly on the hi side, i.e. Brasil, Colombia, and reactivated XEOI. Earlier I told Julián Santiago that I was not hearing XEOI in the 11-12 UT period when it should be audible since reactivation June 2, and he replied June 4:
``Hi Glenn: it is going to be on the air from 17:00 to 22:00 hours -Central time - 2200 to 0300 UT. 73, Julián``. So they`ve picked times when they will confront all this QRM, second only to 05-07 UT when blocked by Cuba. Need to seek Mil anyway at earlier, later times during this block (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120, June 5 at 0108 UT, in KMOX null, weak signal with Spanish preaching. SAH of about 4.5 Hz, and DF fits for KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, R. Victoria, which until now has been nothing but praise music in Spanish on its very irregular schedule.
Now we must beware of another new Spanish station on 1120, KTXW in Manor (Austin) TX which has just started testing, ``nostalgic wall-to-wall Spanish language ballads format`` as `Exitos 11-20`` with 5000/155 watts. Tnx to Artie Bigley for tip of this thread at http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=235285.msg2121776
KTXW is about 90 degrees away from KEOR from my angle, so besides format difference, not easily confundible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1460, June 5 at 1404 UT, another check whether KZUE El Reno is still off the air following the May 31 EF5 tornado: I am getting a JBA carrier looping due N/S, which fits for KZUE right down US 81, but stepping out in the yard away from noise sources, no audio but also a SAH from a second very weak signal. Either KZUE is back on at very reduced power, or it`s two other stations almost a bihour after sunrise, protracted skywave, such as KCLE or one of three other Texans; KKOY KS, KHOJ MO, KXPN NE or KZNT CO. Other weak OKC area stations at normal levels – 1560, 1490, 1340, etc. 1490 also has a SAH indicating residual skywave.
As of June 4, there`s nothing new in the Correspondence Folder for KZUE at FCC AM Query, as they will need to file for an STA to stay off the air or at reduced power. The Topo maphttp://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?t=2&Lon=-97.900000&Lat=35.508333&w=2&ref=G|-97.900000,35.508333
says site is 5 km SE of El Reno, i.e. just north of I-40 whence its tower (if still up) should be easily visible. Looks like it`s close to N/S Radio Road intersexion with E/W Historic US 66 which is // I-40. I don`t think there is an exit to Radio Road from I-40, but there is a turnoff from state highway 3 to the north, which I am certainly going to take at next opportunity if passable (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 5 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until cut off at 0101:47*, 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15016-USB, June 5 until 1303* tail of a crypto message with USAF reverb, ``do not answer``, ``authentication T-C``, ``this is McClellan, out``, i.e. the AFB near Sacramento CA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, UT Wednesday June 5 at 0058, WWRB is on with preaching, and not on 3195 or 3215. 3185 is not on either with BS, nor is 9370; maybe tried just as it was in variably-timed QSY procedure. At 0100, closing show on 5050 with phone 304-679-3615, ``good night, God bless, thank you for listening.`` (That number traces to Welbilt Homes, Parkersburg WV; repeated, I`m sure I copied it correctly.)
Dead air, hum level surges to forefront, then phone rings at least 4 times, each temporarily suppressing the hum. After Chaski-check, I`m back here on 5050 at 0103: now talk about the jet stream being off-track in a W pattern over N America, with ominous music. Think I`ve heard this before, `Planet X`? (And how come we never hear about jet stream patterns over other continents??) 3185 is on now with BS, very poor in storm noise level. Still no 3195, and 3215 is now WWCR.
The never-dated `Global One` program schedule now matching 5050 athttp://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
never specifying time zone but it`s EST/EDT, shows on the air only at 00-04 UT, and on UT Wednesdays at 0100 going from `Brother Ben` to `Truth House`.
So Dave has apparently taken my advice and replaced 3195 with 5050 for the summer evening broadcasts, hopefully including WORLD OF RADIO UT Fridays at 0329v!
BTW, Aoki listings are confused: showing 3215 as WWRB Overcomer Ministry, which is *never* on this frequency. 3195 is missing, just deleted or was it ever included? 5050 is also mislabeled TOM at 22-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, UT Wednesday June 5 at 0103 check, WTWW-3 Bible Worldwide service is now in Arabic as the language schedule continues to be jumbled around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5945, June 5 at 0054, WYFR Spanish is gone, as all Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts were canceled as of June 1. 5945 had been on at 0000-0145, due south. 6115 is still on in English, VG signal northward. Now more cuts have been notified June 4 from Okeechobee:
``Please note the following changes to the WYFR A-2013 schedule, effective 01 July 2013: Delete
kHz Time (UT) Zone Az Lang
9690 2245-2400 10S, 11SW 222 RTI
11565 0100-0200 12, 13, 15 140 RTI
15440 2145-0100 10 285 RTI
Sincerely, Brenda Constantino WYFR``
There goes our Taiwan English broadcast 22-23 on 15440, leaving only the 0300-0400 on 6115 – for now. But there`s still almost a month to decide on further cuts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
