** CUBA [and non]. Propagation disturbance produces some interesting results, Oct 2 at 0512, especially RHC transmitters. English on 6000 and 6165 are still solid as usual, but 6060 and 6125 are weak and fluttery: apparently those two are aimed further north/east and are bouncing off the aurora or some disturbed area in the ionosphere.
The 9 and 11 MHz bands are almost dead; weak RNZI on 11725, weakened RNA on 11780.
Some other signals remain strong but with unusual flutter on them: 5085 & 5830 WTWW; 5890 & 5935 WWCR; 3185 WWRB; and even southerly signals are fluttery: 3350 REE/CR; 4055 TGAV; 7355 BBC Ascension.
These are still strong and steady without flutter: 3215 & 4840 WWCR; 6175 Vietnam/WHRI. WWV is very poor on 10000, degraded on 5000, and OK on 2500. By e-mail, WWV reported at 0600:
``Geophysical Alert Message
# Solar-terrestrial indices for 01 October follow.
Solar flux 107 and estimated planetary A-index 5.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 02 October was 6.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level are expected.``
Next check at 1150 UT Oct 2, SW is almost dead except for some nearby signals: Anguilla 11775, Cuba on 11, 9 and 6; Greenville/Vatican on 7305; TGAV on 4055; Australia on 9580, 6150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15160, Oct 2 at 1354, fair-poor signal in Russian when most extra-continental stations are still outwiped by the propagation disturbance. Aoki shows at 1330-1357 it`s RRI, 52 degrees from Tiganeshti, way offbeam to here.
BTW, 15160 has an interesting sequence of coördinated stations from 13 to 16: 1300-1330 also Russian, from France; 1400-1457 Arabic from Galbeni, Romania; and 15-16 Cairo in Uzbek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Sigh: another typo I must correct from previous report. Second reference said 9430 instead of of course 9420: ``15630 // 9420, Oct 1 at 2038, very poor signals with same music, so Voice of Greece isn`t gone yet tho it was inaudible 7 hours earlier. 9420, Oct 2 at 0051 it`s back to normal with VG signal, // weaker 7475 and much weaker 15650``
BTW, Robert Gray, Plano TX was hearing what seemed like Spanish on 9420 at 2330-0030 UT Oct 1-2, maybe just the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9595, Wednesday Oct 2 at 1230, R. Nikkei 1 with English lesson, explaining in Japanese such expressions and terms as ``we ate out`` and ``very high frequency``; poor signal, but not much else making it from Asia, especially on almost-dead higher bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Oct 2 at 1154 UT, Los 40 Principales promos and ads:
540 XEWA Los 40 Principales + FM 103.9 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. 150,000 150,000 per Cantú. Still seriously doubt it`s anywhere near 150 kW any more, hardly a dominant signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Oct 2 at 1158 UT, Extremo 720, full ID on FM and AM with powers in Ciudad Juárez, but also mentions Coahuila (unseemed XEDE mixing in). Wish I could have caught details for XEJCC as Cantú shows no FM and the power listed on 720 must be wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Oct 2 at 1159 UT, full ID for Antena, also 102.5 FM, Chihuahua, Chihuahua. 760 is XEES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Oct 2 at 1229 UT, full ID for 10 kW on 880, also for FM 103.5 in Los Mochis, ``La Rancherita`` tho in talk, not music programming now; never hear the Planeta name, as in Cantú which must now be passé:
880 XEPNK Planeta + FM 103.5 Los Mochis, Sinaloa 10,000 2,000
Also passé are the ``Milenio Radio`` name listed in IRCA Log 2012. AND: ``Canal 880, La Super-Estación`` in WRTH 2013! What next?? No problem yet from nulled KRVN NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 930, Oct 2 at 1204 UT, I cannot null WKY OKC completely, but there is another Spanish station which I have suspected as KHJ Los Ángeles. However, this one seems really Mexican, mentions Hidalgo, timecheck in CDT and refers several times to ``88.9`` as its identity in passing; 1207 TC as ``7 con 7 minutos``, ``Panorama Informativo`` no doubt originating in México DF.
Hard to get a fix on this one vs WKY but remains audible further SW than LA would be. Of the nine XEs on 930, this one is most proximate in Cantú:
930 XESHT La Más Buena + FM 102.5 Saltillo, Coah. 1,000 250
So is this the one relaying XHM Siempre 88.9? Whose websitehttp://siempre889.com/la-estacion/
says ``Comenzamos el día con Noticias en la emisión de Panorama Informativo con Alejandro Villalvazo (6:00 hrs.), continuamos con música en compañía de Charo Fernández (10:00 hrs...)``
It`s an ACIR group station, so who`s ACIR on 930? Here`s the affiliate list sorted by program http://siempre889.com/la-estacion/cobertura-nacional/
starting with Panorama Informativo; inconveniently without frequencies or calls, just cities and slogans, but there is nothing in Saltillo; so do any others match up on 930? The slogans are all too vague; only city-matches are Colima with Amor, and Veracruz with Mix, whatever those stations really are. Cantú for Colima shows Amor is 1430 & 99.7; Veracruz Mix is 1090 and 88.5, so dead ends there.
Could this 930 Spanish be some other US station? None known anywhere around here in 2013 NRC AM Log. Unless e.g. KLUP in San Antonio has flipped; stranger things have happened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Oct 2 at 1319 UT, Ben Allen announces that today is his last day at KOSU, before moving to a new job at WITF in Pennsylvania; many tnx he says, to KOSU for giving ``this Yankee`` a chance. Before that he was with WFUV in NYC. Here`s his portrait and fuller goodbye:http://kosu.org/2013/10/ben-allen-to-leave-kosu-october-2/
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 670, Oct 2 at 0526 UT, ``Hog Call Sports`` making SAH with Cuba, with WSCR easily nulled, so KHGZ Glenwood AR, 5 kW daytimer is cheating again. It doesn`t take an FCC closedown for them to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 28, Oct 2 around 0400 UT I am now getting signs of NTSC video frame bars, but not locking in, while pointed at Wichita when KSNW-DT 45 is in solid, so apparently KWKD-LP Wichita is still on the air in analog, Daystar. KSNW is generally the prime DTV signal from Wichita, but unfortunately the one without any subchannels, just NBC on 3.1. It`s the one not blocked by imaginary K45EJ in Enid of KSBI-51 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The 9 and 11 MHz bands are almost dead; weak RNZI on 11725, weakened RNA on 11780.
Some other signals remain strong but with unusual flutter on them: 5085 & 5830 WTWW; 5890 & 5935 WWCR; 3185 WWRB; and even southerly signals are fluttery: 3350 REE/CR; 4055 TGAV; 7355 BBC Ascension.
These are still strong and steady without flutter: 3215 & 4840 WWCR; 6175 Vietnam/WHRI. WWV is very poor on 10000, degraded on 5000, and OK on 2500. By e-mail, WWV reported at 0600:
``Geophysical Alert Message
# Solar-terrestrial indices for 01 October follow.
Solar flux 107 and estimated planetary A-index 5.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 02 October was 6.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level are expected.``
Next check at 1150 UT Oct 2, SW is almost dead except for some nearby signals: Anguilla 11775, Cuba on 11, 9 and 6; Greenville/Vatican on 7305; TGAV on 4055; Australia on 9580, 6150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15160, Oct 2 at 1354, fair-poor signal in Russian when most extra-continental stations are still outwiped by the propagation disturbance. Aoki shows at 1330-1357 it`s RRI, 52 degrees from Tiganeshti, way offbeam to here.
BTW, 15160 has an interesting sequence of coördinated stations from 13 to 16: 1300-1330 also Russian, from France; 1400-1457 Arabic from Galbeni, Romania; and 15-16 Cairo in Uzbek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Sigh: another typo I must correct from previous report. Second reference said 9430 instead of of course 9420: ``15630 // 9420, Oct 1 at 2038, very poor signals with same music, so Voice of Greece isn`t gone yet tho it was inaudible 7 hours earlier. 9420, Oct 2 at 0051 it`s back to normal with VG signal, // weaker 7475 and much weaker 15650``
BTW, Robert Gray, Plano TX was hearing what seemed like Spanish on 9420 at 2330-0030 UT Oct 1-2, maybe just the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9595, Wednesday Oct 2 at 1230, R. Nikkei 1 with English lesson, explaining in Japanese such expressions and terms as ``we ate out`` and ``very high frequency``; poor signal, but not much else making it from Asia, especially on almost-dead higher bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Oct 2 at 1154 UT, Los 40 Principales promos and ads:
540 XEWA Los 40 Principales + FM 103.9 San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. 150,000 150,000 per Cantú. Still seriously doubt it`s anywhere near 150 kW any more, hardly a dominant signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Oct 2 at 1158 UT, Extremo 720, full ID on FM and AM with powers in Ciudad Juárez, but also mentions Coahuila (unseemed XEDE mixing in). Wish I could have caught details for XEJCC as Cantú shows no FM and the power listed on 720 must be wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Oct 2 at 1159 UT, full ID for Antena, also 102.5 FM, Chihuahua, Chihuahua. 760 is XEES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Oct 2 at 1229 UT, full ID for 10 kW on 880, also for FM 103.5 in Los Mochis, ``La Rancherita`` tho in talk, not music programming now; never hear the Planeta name, as in Cantú which must now be passé:
880 XEPNK Planeta + FM 103.5 Los Mochis, Sinaloa 10,000 2,000
Also passé are the ``Milenio Radio`` name listed in IRCA Log 2012. AND: ``Canal 880, La Super-Estación`` in WRTH 2013! What next?? No problem yet from nulled KRVN NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 930, Oct 2 at 1204 UT, I cannot null WKY OKC completely, but there is another Spanish station which I have suspected as KHJ Los Ángeles. However, this one seems really Mexican, mentions Hidalgo, timecheck in CDT and refers several times to ``88.9`` as its identity in passing; 1207 TC as ``7 con 7 minutos``, ``Panorama Informativo`` no doubt originating in México DF.
Hard to get a fix on this one vs WKY but remains audible further SW than LA would be. Of the nine XEs on 930, this one is most proximate in Cantú:
930 XESHT La Más Buena + FM 102.5 Saltillo, Coah. 1,000 250
So is this the one relaying XHM Siempre 88.9? Whose websitehttp://siempre889.com/la-estacion/
says ``Comenzamos el día con Noticias en la emisión de Panorama Informativo con Alejandro Villalvazo (6:00 hrs.), continuamos con música en compañía de Charo Fernández (10:00 hrs...)``
It`s an ACIR group station, so who`s ACIR on 930? Here`s the affiliate list sorted by program http://siempre889.com/la-estacion/cobertura-nacional/
starting with Panorama Informativo; inconveniently without frequencies or calls, just cities and slogans, but there is nothing in Saltillo; so do any others match up on 930? The slogans are all too vague; only city-matches are Colima with Amor, and Veracruz with Mix, whatever those stations really are. Cantú for Colima shows Amor is 1430 & 99.7; Veracruz Mix is 1090 and 88.5, so dead ends there.
Could this 930 Spanish be some other US station? None known anywhere around here in 2013 NRC AM Log. Unless e.g. KLUP in San Antonio has flipped; stranger things have happened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Oct 2 at 1319 UT, Ben Allen announces that today is his last day at KOSU, before moving to a new job at WITF in Pennsylvania; many tnx he says, to KOSU for giving ``this Yankee`` a chance. Before that he was with WFUV in NYC. Here`s his portrait and fuller goodbye:http://kosu.org/2013/10/ben-allen-to-leave-kosu-october-2/
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 670, Oct 2 at 0526 UT, ``Hog Call Sports`` making SAH with Cuba, with WSCR easily nulled, so KHGZ Glenwood AR, 5 kW daytimer is cheating again. It doesn`t take an FCC closedown for them to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 28, Oct 2 around 0400 UT I am now getting signs of NTSC video frame bars, but not locking in, while pointed at Wichita when KSNW-DT 45 is in solid, so apparently KWKD-LP Wichita is still on the air in analog, Daystar. KSNW is generally the prime DTV signal from Wichita, but unfortunately the one without any subchannels, just NBC on 3.1. It`s the one not blocked by imaginary K45EJ in Enid of KSBI-51 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
