** CHINA. 6145, Dec 2 at 1522, Firedrake with fair signal vs unheard RTI; while 6075 poor signal with CNR1 jamming instead, // 9790 but a couple seconds behind it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060 & 6100, Dec 2 at 0630, RHC English is very undermodulated on these two compared to 6000 and 6165; 6060 is also weak, aimed up the east coast, apparently.
17730, Dec 2 at 1407 and later chex, RHC is gone again after reappearing yesterday morning; maybe that was another mistake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, Dec 2 at 1407 checking for this last-minute replacement frequency for 21525 which had been scheduled for `Radio Africa` at 14-20 via WRMI Okeechobee, but nothing heard yet on either. At 1512 now 17790 is audible, fair signal but very undermodulated just like 15190 Bata often is. 1526 now mod is better on 17790, Bible references, ``the truth about Hell``, closing the `Frank & E[a]rnest` show from Dawn with NYC PO Box, toll-free number for booklet; ``please include the call letters of this station`` --- but no ID at all at 1529, instead a bit of fill music, ``Dr Jesus, Can You Help Me?`` --- is that inserted at Okee or Cupertino?? 1530 into `What Does the Bible Say?` show. Should be on until 2000 switch to 15190, to collide again with the original R. Africa? BTW, Jeff tells me that for now, all programming into WRMI is fed via internet; maybe some satellite feeds later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA:
WRMI
** OMAN. 15140, Dec 2 at 1411, RSO is again in well; have we suddenly developed a propagational pipeline, or was there some improvement in azimuth or power? Pop music stops for DJ to update us on Manchester United, a bit more music, 1415 Liverpool. What is this, an expat service? He doesn`t sound very British. Apparently a weekly football summary from ``The Nation`s Station`` --- how original. Does this English hour ever broadcast anything about OMAN? Even in the news at 1430? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. See USA: WRMI
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare reception in order of decreasing strength, Dec 2 at 0638 check: 5085-WTWW, 9355-WRMI, 3215-WWCR, 3185-WWRB, 5890-WWCR. Just one would suffice; in fact, none.
Dec 2 at 1517 I compare the triplet below 10 MHz not for strength but delay: this time 9955 WRMI is first, then 9930 WTWW, and a few seconds later, 9980 WWCR. 9955 remains obviously softer.
9690 BS until 1500 is still blocking All India Radio GOS in English at 1330-1500. WRMI azimuth is 285 designated for CIRAF 10 & 11, Mexico and Central America, but I think expected to carry on to Australia and New Zealand, where it probably ruins AIR as well. WRMI may have picked 9690 unaware of AIR since the latter refuses to participate in HFCC, altho has been on this frequency for many years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 21630, Monday Dec 2 at 1408, REE has resumed colliding with BBC Hausa via Ascension, while having avoided it on Sat & Sun by using 21640. This now appears to be the intentional pattern, warped as it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI Okeechobee, Monday Dec 2 at 1353 with R. Slovakia International in English, only fair signal southward, plus pulse jamming; 1358 WRMI`s sports minute over in time for ID before 1400*. This is when it`s supposed to switch transmitter and antenna toward the NW, but nothing comes up in the next 5 minutes while the jamming continues; and again WTWW has just switched BS to 9930 with a super-signal overshadowing 9955.
9955 not checked again until 1517 when it`s on with TOM ahead of 9930 and 9980 by timing but not by strength and modulation level. A pity this ``RMI`` main channel can`t be devoted to own programming now, with all the other transmitters available for BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA, SOUTH CAROLINA [nons]
** U S A. 11715, Dec 2 at 1516, KJES with good signal but very undermodulated during strumming & singing. I`m logging this now just for the record as usually on and ignored, to prove it still exists (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. NWS was issuing dense fog advisories from Sunday night thru 10 am CST Monday. It wasn`t visibly dense locally, but 100% humidity on the leafy ground. This did tropo-enhance some area DTV:
RF28, Dec 2 at 0528 UT, KFDX-DT 3-1 Wichita Falls TX; and on 3-2 KJBO-DT. W9WI.com TX listings show KJBO is really KJBO-LP (analog), 10.5 kW on channel 35, My network, but gets a DT megawatt as 3-2 via KFDX. It`s also listed on one other TX transmitter, K33HG-D, 250 watt translator in Quanah.
RF11, Dec 2 at 0530 UT, KSWO-DT 7-1 Lawton OK is in, same market as KFDX; 7-2 PSIP is Telemundo, all 9 letters with one cap; 7-3 is still LiveWell.
RF45, Dec 2 at 0529 UT, KOTV-DT Tulsa OK is in while still aimed at Lawton/WF.
Fog is even heavier in the morning, with a large red blob over mid-America on the Mountainlake map.
RF18, Dec 2 at 1533 UT, KFSM-DT, 5-1, first seen with antenna still SSW, better when aimed at Fort Smith AR; plus 5-2 KXNW, which has a 34 bug in the lower right along with Dr Phil; while 5-1 is Rachael Ray, with 5 and CBS Eye in LR (even tho RR is syndicated, not CBS). Several photos taken of these.
The Real KXNW is only 70 kW on ch 34 in Eureka Springs AR, with ME TV on 34-1, Univisión on 34-2, per W9WI.com. KFSM listing in W9WI.com shows 5-2 as MY, no particular station. With Fort Smith having KXNW listed as via KUFS-LP channel 54 and a CP for LD on channel 7. KXNW also listed on several other Arkansas transmitter subchannels with My --- it`s certainly too easy to mix up My and ME!
Many other `bad` DTV signals, matching Tulsa and vicinity channels, but not decoding. Except at 1615, RF45, DTV 6-1, KOTV-HD (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1720 UT December 2
** CUBA. 6060 & 6100, Dec 2 at 0630, RHC English is very undermodulated on these two compared to 6000 and 6165; 6060 is also weak, aimed up the east coast, apparently.
17730, Dec 2 at 1407 and later chex, RHC is gone again after reappearing yesterday morning; maybe that was another mistake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, Dec 2 at 1407 checking for this last-minute replacement frequency for 21525 which had been scheduled for `Radio Africa` at 14-20 via WRMI Okeechobee, but nothing heard yet on either. At 1512 now 17790 is audible, fair signal but very undermodulated just like 15190 Bata often is. 1526 now mod is better on 17790, Bible references, ``the truth about Hell``, closing the `Frank & E[a]rnest` show from Dawn with NYC PO Box, toll-free number for booklet; ``please include the call letters of this station`` --- but no ID at all at 1529, instead a bit of fill music, ``Dr Jesus, Can You Help Me?`` --- is that inserted at Okee or Cupertino?? 1530 into `What Does the Bible Say?` show. Should be on until 2000 switch to 15190, to collide again with the original R. Africa? BTW, Jeff tells me that for now, all programming into WRMI is fed via internet; maybe some satellite feeds later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA:
WRMI
** OMAN. 15140, Dec 2 at 1411, RSO is again in well; have we suddenly developed a propagational pipeline, or was there some improvement in azimuth or power? Pop music stops for DJ to update us on Manchester United, a bit more music, 1415 Liverpool. What is this, an expat service? He doesn`t sound very British. Apparently a weekly football summary from ``The Nation`s Station`` --- how original. Does this English hour ever broadcast anything about OMAN? Even in the news at 1430? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. See USA: WRMI
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare reception in order of decreasing strength, Dec 2 at 0638 check: 5085-WTWW, 9355-WRMI, 3215-WWCR, 3185-WWRB, 5890-WWCR. Just one would suffice; in fact, none.
Dec 2 at 1517 I compare the triplet below 10 MHz not for strength but delay: this time 9955 WRMI is first, then 9930 WTWW, and a few seconds later, 9980 WWCR. 9955 remains obviously softer.
9690 BS until 1500 is still blocking All India Radio GOS in English at 1330-1500. WRMI azimuth is 285 designated for CIRAF 10 & 11, Mexico and Central America, but I think expected to carry on to Australia and New Zealand, where it probably ruins AIR as well. WRMI may have picked 9690 unaware of AIR since the latter refuses to participate in HFCC, altho has been on this frequency for many years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 21630, Monday Dec 2 at 1408, REE has resumed colliding with BBC Hausa via Ascension, while having avoided it on Sat & Sun by using 21640. This now appears to be the intentional pattern, warped as it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI Okeechobee, Monday Dec 2 at 1353 with R. Slovakia International in English, only fair signal southward, plus pulse jamming; 1358 WRMI`s sports minute over in time for ID before 1400*. This is when it`s supposed to switch transmitter and antenna toward the NW, but nothing comes up in the next 5 minutes while the jamming continues; and again WTWW has just switched BS to 9930 with a super-signal overshadowing 9955.
9955 not checked again until 1517 when it`s on with TOM ahead of 9930 and 9980 by timing but not by strength and modulation level. A pity this ``RMI`` main channel can`t be devoted to own programming now, with all the other transmitters available for BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA, SOUTH CAROLINA [nons]
** U S A. 11715, Dec 2 at 1516, KJES with good signal but very undermodulated during strumming & singing. I`m logging this now just for the record as usually on and ignored, to prove it still exists (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. NWS was issuing dense fog advisories from Sunday night thru 10 am CST Monday. It wasn`t visibly dense locally, but 100% humidity on the leafy ground. This did tropo-enhance some area DTV:
RF28, Dec 2 at 0528 UT, KFDX-DT 3-1 Wichita Falls TX; and on 3-2 KJBO-DT. W9WI.com TX listings show KJBO is really KJBO-LP (analog), 10.5 kW on channel 35, My network, but gets a DT megawatt as 3-2 via KFDX. It`s also listed on one other TX transmitter, K33HG-D, 250 watt translator in Quanah.
RF11, Dec 2 at 0530 UT, KSWO-DT 7-1 Lawton OK is in, same market as KFDX; 7-2 PSIP is Telemundo, all 9 letters with one cap; 7-3 is still LiveWell.
RF45, Dec 2 at 0529 UT, KOTV-DT Tulsa OK is in while still aimed at Lawton/WF.
Fog is even heavier in the morning, with a large red blob over mid-America on the Mountainlake map.
RF18, Dec 2 at 1533 UT, KFSM-DT, 5-1, first seen with antenna still SSW, better when aimed at Fort Smith AR; plus 5-2 KXNW, which has a 34 bug in the lower right along with Dr Phil; while 5-1 is Rachael Ray, with 5 and CBS Eye in LR (even tho RR is syndicated, not CBS). Several photos taken of these.
The Real KXNW is only 70 kW on ch 34 in Eureka Springs AR, with ME TV on 34-1, Univisión on 34-2, per W9WI.com. KFSM listing in W9WI.com shows 5-2 as MY, no particular station. With Fort Smith having KXNW listed as via KUFS-LP channel 54 and a CP for LD on channel 7. KXNW also listed on several other Arkansas transmitter subchannels with My --- it`s certainly too easy to mix up My and ME!
Many other `bad` DTV signals, matching Tulsa and vicinity channels, but not decoding. Except at 1615, RF45, DTV 6-1, KOTV-HD (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1720 UT December 2
