giovedì 1 maggio 2014

Glenn Hauser logs April 30-May 1, 2014

** CUBA. 5025, April 30 at 0548, R. Rebelde is on with music, and so is 5040, RHC English, plus the Cuban Four on 49m. You never know whether 5025 will be running or not, but when not, it`s assumed to be because the same transmitter and/or allegedly NVIS antenna is needed for RHC 15 kHz away.

6000, May 1 at 0105, RHC is absent from one English frequency but inhabiting the other, 6165. Not rechecked until 0142 when 6000 is also on, with clix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, UT Thursday May 1 at 0145, WRMI starts the repeat of `European News Net` from Famagusta; number one story there this week is a controversy concerning the British rock band Deep Purple --- yawn. Pulse jamming ranges from inaudible to annoying (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1140, May 1 at 0134 UT, station with 405 area code, and promo for Perry Broadcasting, which mean`s it`s certainly KRMP OKC, a daytimer. Official FCC sunset for April, still in effect for this zone is 0100 UT; in May it will only be 0130 UT; June & July the latest at 0145 UT. So they are cheating --- but wait, they do have a PSSA:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=3279
of 6 watts yearound, but this is no 6 watts, more like full daytime power of 1 kW ND, for an extra bihour, until 0300 UT in April, 0330 UT in May, 0345 UT in June & July --- but what good is 6 watts vs 50 kW XEMR Monterrey, which is presumably the one already QRMing it here with 1 kW, and making a SAH of 78/minute = 1.3 Hz? (XEG is in on 1050). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, May 1 at 0100, R. Chaski carrier with some musical modulation at 0109 to cutoff at 0109:53* which is eleven seconds later than 48 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 1 at *0114:11, SLBC carrier on, very poor with flutter; 0114:47 music starts; timesignal ends at 0115:19.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: confirmed final repeat on WRMI, Wednesday April 30 at 1315 on 9955.

WORLD OF RADIO 1719 monitoring: ready for first broadcast
UT Thursday May 1 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955. Then:
Thursday 1230 on WRMI, 9955
Thursday 2101 on WTWW, 9475
UT Friday 0326v on WWRB, 5050 (we hope; off the air last week)
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Saturday 2330 on WTWW, 9930
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI, 9495
UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB (we hope; not last week)
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, April 30 at 0546, WWRB is once again running day frequency at night with Brother Scare, VG signal too, while at 0550 check, night frequency 3185 is off.

3185, May 1 at 0113, WWRB BS is back on here, but not on 9370; while the second transmitter is programming else on 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, April 30 at 0548, WTWW-2 is on with BS, and so is 5830, WTWW-1 with PPP.
9475, April 30 at 1320, 9475, WTWW-1 is on with PPP but neither -2 nor -3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Thursday May 1 at 0103, WBCQ has resumed extra broadcasts, repeats of old `Allan Weiner Worldwides`, conveniently dated 15 March, The Year of Our Lord 2013, with his darling wife Jennifer at his side, and pulling off the headphones he can`t stand, ``live from Florida`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11880, April 30 at 1230, gospel huxter in English with very strong signal, as first heard April 27. Ivo Ivanov says WHRI has replaced 7385 with this daily except Saturdays during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11520, May 1 at 0108, WEWN English is on, discussing botched execution in OK, along with mandatory squealspurs worst at plus/minus 9 kHz. English transmitter, daytime 15610, has been missing a lot lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1440, April 30 at 0602 UT, amid heavy CCI, Spanish ID as ``La Pantera, 14-40``. It`s no Mexican, but KTUV, Little Rock AR, which I previously heard but without this slogan, December 31 during the same hour as in DXLD 14-01; 240 watts night power, E-W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0342 UT May 1