** CUBA. 6060, August 6 at 0542, RHC English modulation is somewhat suppressed and distorted, compared to the other four overkill frequencies.
9955, August 6 at 0544, heavy pulse jamming with tones against nothing, just like weaker signal on 9565 against nothing, as the stupid DentroCuban Jamming Command ignores the fact that WRMI and Radio Martí are not even on the air at this time (WRMI silent period is currently 0500-1000) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, August 6 at 1300, VOI is detectable but so weak and so undermodulated as to be useless as always; since it`s Tuesday, the day for hookup with RRI Banjarmasin in ``Exotic Indonesia``, I fire up the computer earlier than usual at 1320 to listen online. Get it right away at http://en.voi.co.id/ and can also see a still & vacant control room on the audio + video player; is it really ``live``? The timer on the players stays at 00:00 tho it is really running, and careful not to get two of them at once unsynchronized.
The 2013 Quiz questions are being presented at 1323, and time is running out, deadline August 10. Not only must you answer six questions from easy, to researching on the RRI website, but you must also send a photocopy of your valid passport. Hint: last year there were five winners of a ``Familiarization Trip`` Sept 10-16, 2012, per the banner they were holding:
http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/4461-international-quiz-2013
VOI puts its resources into trips rather than effective SW transmission.
1326 on to `Indonesian Wonders`, and then language lesson, `Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia``, already too advanced for me, to be continued tomorrow. 1339, `Music Corner`. By now it`s obvious there is nothing from Banjarmasin this Tuesday, but ``reception`` is superb online. Until song ends at 1347, then dead webair except for some hum. Turns out I just need to restart the player for more music. 1402 ID with the three imaginary SW frequencies and into Indonesian warta berita.
Ron Howard was listening on SW to the earlier exotic English hour at 1000 today, when they had trouble making phone connexion with Bali but finally succeeded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, August 6 at 0600 UT as I am trying to catch an ID from KKIM Albuquerque running day power at night [see USA] and QRMing KTOK, all I hear instead is a KTOK ID as also carried on KXXY-96.1 FM HD2, a new development? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 6 at 0059 tracking the JBA carrier from R. Chaski on the FRG-7, cuts off at 0100:59.5*, which is 33 seconds later than two nights ago, violating the traditional 5.25-seconds-later-pattern per 24 hours. What`s going on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13635, August 6 at 0549, Turkish music is unusually audible next to stronger 13630 Australia which is ACIing it; confirmed TRT source since it`s // usual weaker 11980. Unusual because 13635 is not scheduled to start until 0600, then all the way to 1300, 500 kW, 310 degrees to W Europe and beyond that USward. So here`s another schedule extension (for Ramadan? almost over) like 9770 on air well before the 0100 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9885, August 6 at 0552, VOA French is barely audible underneath a much stronger open carrier: French is Botswana at 350 degrees, M-F at 0530-0600, while the carrier is Greenville already, 250 kW at 91 degrees, prior to site switch at 0600-0630 M-F. Why isn`t this warmup on a different frequency and then crash-starting on 9885 at 0600? VOA vs VOA! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15420-CUSB, August 5 at 2010 I can barely detect a JBA signal from the WBCQ preacher, but still nothing on 9330-CUSB. In the evening, early UT Aug 6 around 0100, 7490 is back on with BS. Still no 9330 audible around 1230. Propagation has been pitiful lately, but I still think that is really off the air and time for other frequencies curtailed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5935, August 6 at 0539, WWCR DGS disservice with clearly audible crosstalk from other programming, singing, more obvious by side-tuning since the audio frequencies are higher. Then matched to what`s on 3215, gospel soul music `Inspirations Across America`, same as heard 13-14 UT when 15825 is propagating. After all these years, WWCR still hasn`t managed to isolate one transmitter from another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, tuning across August 6 at 0544, unxuous announcer on ``By the light of the Moon`` from WEWN is intoning ``por su dolorosa pasión``, his number-one catch-phrase which I have maintained one has a very high chance of hearing by tuning in at any random time, since he repeats it over and over and over and over --- and this reproves it. To complete the cycle, unmoved, I tune on as soon as he says it once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1000, August 6 at 0554 UT, gospel rock/praise music is QRMing KTOK OKC [see also OKLAHOMA], dominant with KTOK nulled, and making 68/minute slow SAH with it (1.13 Hz). Could not catch an ID at 0600 but then into ``The Lord`s Prayer`` by soprano to usual hymn tune, 0602 on to preaching. I`ve also been hearing this a lot lately other nights. From previous behavior, I`m quite sure this is KKIM Albuquerque, e.g. my report 7+ months ago:
``1000, Dec 29 at 0622 UT, preacher in English in KTOK OKC null; or rather, I have to null this to hear KTOK. No doubt it`s KKIM in Albuquerque NM again, 10 kW non-direxional day pattern rather than 38 watts at night! Making heavy slow SAH of 77/minute = 1.3 Hz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1260, August 6 at 1207 UT, about flooding at Fort Leonard Wood and Waynesville, from KSGF News, ID in passing, i.e. Springfield MO, also situated on I-44 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1430, August 6 at 1210 UT, I must pause here as ``Put the Lime in the Coconut`` by Harry Nilsson is playing, 1212 ID for KZQZ. Here`s a low-res and noisy but amusing 1971y version,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo
perhaps inspired by the Nairobi Trio of Kovács Ernö.
KZQZ occupies what was originally WIL in St Louis MO: why would anyone give up such a neat legacy call for something so unpronounceable? Yet I`d much rather hear this than stupid sports talk from KTBZ Tulsa, which this now 50 kW station easily overrides before sunrise skip outfades. KTBZ aims mostly south, and KZQZ mostly north; and would you believe there are two other MO stations on 1430, 500 watts each? I wonder how they are coping with the enhanced radiation from the east side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Ecos del Torbes (ex-4980 & 9660, IIRC) will return to SW via WRMI 9955, with a special program UT Friday August 9 at 0200, repeated 24 hours later, UT Saturday August 10 at 0200; and Saturday August 10 at 2230. Altho it will be in Spanish, it`s being heavily promoted by the CDXA club also in English:
http://www.w4uvh.net/TorbesDay.mp3
The prepeat UT Friday at 0200 was added later by Jeff White, maybe to compensate for UT/local day confusion: the promo and widely circulated publicity for this give the *wrong* UT dates for the 0200 broadcasts, but Jeff has confirmed the correct ones. Will Arnie make the Cuban jammers relent on these occasions for good ole Venezuela? Don`t count on it and be prepared to listen online for best reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9955, August 6 at 0544, heavy pulse jamming with tones against nothing, just like weaker signal on 9565 against nothing, as the stupid DentroCuban Jamming Command ignores the fact that WRMI and Radio Martí are not even on the air at this time (WRMI silent period is currently 0500-1000) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, August 6 at 1300, VOI is detectable but so weak and so undermodulated as to be useless as always; since it`s Tuesday, the day for hookup with RRI Banjarmasin in ``Exotic Indonesia``, I fire up the computer earlier than usual at 1320 to listen online. Get it right away at http://en.voi.co.id/ and can also see a still & vacant control room on the audio + video player; is it really ``live``? The timer on the players stays at 00:00 tho it is really running, and careful not to get two of them at once unsynchronized.
The 2013 Quiz questions are being presented at 1323, and time is running out, deadline August 10. Not only must you answer six questions from easy, to researching on the RRI website, but you must also send a photocopy of your valid passport. Hint: last year there were five winners of a ``Familiarization Trip`` Sept 10-16, 2012, per the banner they were holding:
http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/4461-international-quiz-2013
VOI puts its resources into trips rather than effective SW transmission.
1326 on to `Indonesian Wonders`, and then language lesson, `Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia``, already too advanced for me, to be continued tomorrow. 1339, `Music Corner`. By now it`s obvious there is nothing from Banjarmasin this Tuesday, but ``reception`` is superb online. Until song ends at 1347, then dead webair except for some hum. Turns out I just need to restart the player for more music. 1402 ID with the three imaginary SW frequencies and into Indonesian warta berita.
Ron Howard was listening on SW to the earlier exotic English hour at 1000 today, when they had trouble making phone connexion with Bali but finally succeeded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, August 6 at 0600 UT as I am trying to catch an ID from KKIM Albuquerque running day power at night [see USA] and QRMing KTOK, all I hear instead is a KTOK ID as also carried on KXXY-96.1 FM HD2, a new development? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 6 at 0059 tracking the JBA carrier from R. Chaski on the FRG-7, cuts off at 0100:59.5*, which is 33 seconds later than two nights ago, violating the traditional 5.25-seconds-later-pattern per 24 hours. What`s going on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13635, August 6 at 0549, Turkish music is unusually audible next to stronger 13630 Australia which is ACIing it; confirmed TRT source since it`s // usual weaker 11980. Unusual because 13635 is not scheduled to start until 0600, then all the way to 1300, 500 kW, 310 degrees to W Europe and beyond that USward. So here`s another schedule extension (for Ramadan? almost over) like 9770 on air well before the 0100 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9885, August 6 at 0552, VOA French is barely audible underneath a much stronger open carrier: French is Botswana at 350 degrees, M-F at 0530-0600, while the carrier is Greenville already, 250 kW at 91 degrees, prior to site switch at 0600-0630 M-F. Why isn`t this warmup on a different frequency and then crash-starting on 9885 at 0600? VOA vs VOA! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15420-CUSB, August 5 at 2010 I can barely detect a JBA signal from the WBCQ preacher, but still nothing on 9330-CUSB. In the evening, early UT Aug 6 around 0100, 7490 is back on with BS. Still no 9330 audible around 1230. Propagation has been pitiful lately, but I still think that is really off the air and time for other frequencies curtailed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5935, August 6 at 0539, WWCR DGS disservice with clearly audible crosstalk from other programming, singing, more obvious by side-tuning since the audio frequencies are higher. Then matched to what`s on 3215, gospel soul music `Inspirations Across America`, same as heard 13-14 UT when 15825 is propagating. After all these years, WWCR still hasn`t managed to isolate one transmitter from another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, tuning across August 6 at 0544, unxuous announcer on ``By the light of the Moon`` from WEWN is intoning ``por su dolorosa pasión``, his number-one catch-phrase which I have maintained one has a very high chance of hearing by tuning in at any random time, since he repeats it over and over and over and over --- and this reproves it. To complete the cycle, unmoved, I tune on as soon as he says it once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1000, August 6 at 0554 UT, gospel rock/praise music is QRMing KTOK OKC [see also OKLAHOMA], dominant with KTOK nulled, and making 68/minute slow SAH with it (1.13 Hz). Could not catch an ID at 0600 but then into ``The Lord`s Prayer`` by soprano to usual hymn tune, 0602 on to preaching. I`ve also been hearing this a lot lately other nights. From previous behavior, I`m quite sure this is KKIM Albuquerque, e.g. my report 7+ months ago:
``1000, Dec 29 at 0622 UT, preacher in English in KTOK OKC null; or rather, I have to null this to hear KTOK. No doubt it`s KKIM in Albuquerque NM again, 10 kW non-direxional day pattern rather than 38 watts at night! Making heavy slow SAH of 77/minute = 1.3 Hz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1260, August 6 at 1207 UT, about flooding at Fort Leonard Wood and Waynesville, from KSGF News, ID in passing, i.e. Springfield MO, also situated on I-44 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1430, August 6 at 1210 UT, I must pause here as ``Put the Lime in the Coconut`` by Harry Nilsson is playing, 1212 ID for KZQZ. Here`s a low-res and noisy but amusing 1971y version,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo
perhaps inspired by the Nairobi Trio of Kovács Ernö.
KZQZ occupies what was originally WIL in St Louis MO: why would anyone give up such a neat legacy call for something so unpronounceable? Yet I`d much rather hear this than stupid sports talk from KTBZ Tulsa, which this now 50 kW station easily overrides before sunrise skip outfades. KTBZ aims mostly south, and KZQZ mostly north; and would you believe there are two other MO stations on 1430, 500 watts each? I wonder how they are coping with the enhanced radiation from the east side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Ecos del Torbes (ex-4980 & 9660, IIRC) will return to SW via WRMI 9955, with a special program UT Friday August 9 at 0200, repeated 24 hours later, UT Saturday August 10 at 0200; and Saturday August 10 at 2230. Altho it will be in Spanish, it`s being heavily promoted by the CDXA club also in English:
http://www.w4uvh.net/TorbesDay.mp3
The prepeat UT Friday at 0200 was added later by Jeff White, maybe to compensate for UT/local day confusion: the promo and widely circulated publicity for this give the *wrong* UT dates for the 0200 broadcasts, but Jeff has confirmed the correct ones. Will Arnie make the Cuban jammers relent on these occasions for good ole Venezuela? Don`t count on it and be prepared to listen online for best reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
