** BRAZIL. 11750 & 11810, July 20 at 0557, big filthy spurs again from 11780 RNA. Same situation much earlier on July 21 at 0142. At 0152 July 21, 6180 is on but 5990 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Sporadic E opening July 21, UT:
(earlier same day was getting Mexico, q.v., 1557-1911 UT)
2122 on 2, aiming NE and algo fades in; 2123 letterboxed show with subtitles, dialog mixing French and English
2126 on 2, PetroCanada ad, Trivago, Moore`s for clothes donations, Philly-up; 2127 Air Canada credit for show sponsorship, which was ``The Amazing Race --- Canada``.
This matches sked for CTV on CHBX Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario, the only possibility left from this direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9780-9808 peaking around 9798, and 9815-9838, peaking around 9823 but constantly fluxuating, July 21 at 0146, buzzy spur field obviously emanating from the 9810 RHC transmitter, which itself is never very strong here, so it must be awful in its boresight. 9810 has some hum too, during DX program `En Contacto` which is all revolutionary as 26 de julio is almost upon us. Most serious victim is a signal on 9790, which is Iran in Kazakh at 0120-0220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12132-12163, July 21 at 0140, horrible racket obviously out of the 12070 R. Cairo transmitter, even tho it`s separated by a silent space 12080-12132, as the central 12070 signal is covering 12060-12080 only. It alone has some kind of music or talk modulation, but too distorted to read, while the spurs exhibit the same pitch of noise. Another weaker asymmetrical spur area approx. 11991—12000.
Then I check the other Cairo channels: 11710+, slightly on the hi side is much weaker but open carrier/dead air, July 21 at 0141 --- yes, back on 11710 instead of 11715 last night, so all set to collide again 24 hours later with Argentina! We`ll see. The temporary(?) move to 11715+ was surely deliberate, not a drift.
9315, July 21 at 0142, open carrier/dead air here on the third supposedly Spanish frequency, while 12070 is distorting music at 0144
9965, July 21 at 0148, I find the R. Cairo Arabic frequency is in --- Spanish! Besides the dead air and spurs, they`ve got their feed lines mixed up. Luckily, this transmitter is the least distorted, initially the whine sort of matching the music pitch being played; 0149 ``Radio El Cairo presenta --- Panorama Egipcio``. Seems to be // the horrible mess on 12070 and vicinity. But that`s not all:
9965, July 21 at 0201, now the ``Arabic`` frequency is in English opening the service to ``North America - West Coast on 9315``, which is still dead air. Program summary all in local time UT +2 (back to normal during Ramadan, but to resume UT + 3 in a week?), 4:05, 4:15, etc.
12070, July 21 at 0203, this frequency is still on instead of scheduled closing at 0200 like 11710 which is now off --- and I can make the music on 12070 // to 9965, i.e. English service as well tonight, but 12070 is running about three seconds behind 9965; apparently it takes that much longer for the wrong feed to get to Abis than to Abu Zaabal on 9965. 0207 opens ``The Holy Qur`an and its Meaning``.
Aoki shows 9965 is 325 degrees (also for English 2300-2430), while 9315 is at 330 degrees, only 5 degrees apart. (Aoki says 331, or 6 degrees apart). 325 degree azimuth is not for the east coast at all, but crosses the US from Minnesota to New Mexico! 330-331, from North Dakota to southern California. 325 also goes right across England.
Who knows which frequencies will be carrying which languages, or nothing, tomorrow? One thing is pretty certain: 12070 will be putting out a horrible mess of spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E opening July 21, UT:
1557 on 2, heavy CCI once I rotate to Mexico, having started out toward Canada as once again misled by 6m opening maps
1557 on 3, steady signal with SpongeBob, Televisa-5 new logo LR
1559 on 2, HEB presenta `Panorama Agropecuario`, first item concerning Montemorelos, Nuevo León. HEB is a chain of stores in Texas, but also in NL and elsewhere in Mexico. Maybe XEFB-TV Monterrey. CCI from lucha libre, or is it boxeo? Some kind of combat in a square ring
1605 on 2, it`s boxing, labeled TOP RANK, then BOX AZTECA, `Deporte Caliente` dc show and on to fútbol. The Top Rank commentary was in Spanish but the video probably originated in USA
1606 on 4, clear and steady signal, interview with Dr Martín Rivera; maybe infomercial; 1610 crawler with DF phone number (at least)
1616 on 3, film drama, Azteca-13 bug in UR
1625 all gone; 1640 trace of video again
1645 on 2, promo for show on MTY --- this is not XEFB, but another Monterrey station, ch 34, being relayed on ch 2 in Saltillo, Coahuila, as explained at http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html
XHCNL-2 (? offset)
Saltillo, Coahuila
Relays XHCNL-34
Televisa Independent
MTY TV
On to a studio music show mentioning regiomontano = ``Monterreyan`` and no ñ in it, and with 31 degree temp in LR as in the MTY screenshot
1646 on 3, Spongebob with credit roll, Televisa-5 bug LR
1647 on 4, film with Azteca-13 bug UR
1647 on 2, CCI including yelling announcer on music show above
1652 on 2, Azteca-7 bug UR, lucha libre, labeled SMACK DOWN from the W network (as in WWF??)
1700 on 2, I attempt several photos just to get the 7 bug in the UR
1719 on 2, CCI, then fútbol hilites, generic Televisa Deportes oval bug in LR
1751 on 2, farmacia ad fades in; 1753 ad for CONSORCIO, something starting 15 de agosto, and Azteca 13 bug UR
1805 on 2, novela? with Televisa-5 bug LR; (lunch break)
1911 on 2, Azteca-7 bug UR, which morphs around, comes and goes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 17670-17675-17680, July 21 at 0137, DRM noise is back from RNZI, and AM on 15720 readable without any processing at all! Despite own latest online schedule showing DRM does not start until 0250 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.8-AM, July 21 at 0133, weak signal with hard rock; 0154 recheck much stronger, even sufficient on the PL-880 with whip only, playing familiar ``Margaritaville`` song --- wait, sounds like lyric goes ``Obamaville``; hmmm. Tough copy with lots of selective fading distortion which could have been avoided by transmitting in SSB. 0157 announcement cut off? another song, but it`s cut off and quickly off the air at 0200:16*. Now to look it up in the pirate fora: This says it was Captain Morgan Shortwave on 6950.7 AM:http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4709
and so do these, including ``Wasting Away in Obamaville`` parody:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17773.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7355, July 20 at 0142, poor signal in Persian, what? Also 7355, July 21 at 0151 better signal, talk with background noise. Aoki shows it`s really BBC Dari at 0130-0200, 100 kW, 125 degrees via Yerevan-Gavar, Armenia; strangely, paired with Pashto at 0100-0130 but from a different site, Austria, why? However, HFCC shows that since May 5, BOTH are from Moosbrun, AUSTRIA, 300 kW at 95 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1730 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast from about 0302 UT Monday July 21, and presumably also 5110v-CUSB. Next:
Monday 2100v on WRMI 15770
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9975, July 21 at 0149, I find `AWR Wavescan` is already running on KVOH; apparently it`s been moved up from 0200 UT Mondays to 0130, the new English start time, to make it symmetrical with WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 UT Sundays. Schedule still not updated to show either:http://kvoh.net/wp-content/uploads/KVOH-Program-Grid-English.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, July 21 at 0150, KJES is off again tonight. It was on in the morning July 20 circa 1330 on 11715 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, July 20 at 0605 UT, WSB Atlanta clear in English, for a change no sign of Spanish out of order from KAMA El Paso, but we`re not concluding yet that it`s permanently fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0421 UT July 21
** CANADA. Sporadic E opening July 21, UT:
(earlier same day was getting Mexico, q.v., 1557-1911 UT)
2122 on 2, aiming NE and algo fades in; 2123 letterboxed show with subtitles, dialog mixing French and English
2126 on 2, PetroCanada ad, Trivago, Moore`s for clothes donations, Philly-up; 2127 Air Canada credit for show sponsorship, which was ``The Amazing Race --- Canada``.
This matches sked for CTV on CHBX Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario, the only possibility left from this direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9780-9808 peaking around 9798, and 9815-9838, peaking around 9823 but constantly fluxuating, July 21 at 0146, buzzy spur field obviously emanating from the 9810 RHC transmitter, which itself is never very strong here, so it must be awful in its boresight. 9810 has some hum too, during DX program `En Contacto` which is all revolutionary as 26 de julio is almost upon us. Most serious victim is a signal on 9790, which is Iran in Kazakh at 0120-0220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12132-12163, July 21 at 0140, horrible racket obviously out of the 12070 R. Cairo transmitter, even tho it`s separated by a silent space 12080-12132, as the central 12070 signal is covering 12060-12080 only. It alone has some kind of music or talk modulation, but too distorted to read, while the spurs exhibit the same pitch of noise. Another weaker asymmetrical spur area approx. 11991—12000.
Then I check the other Cairo channels: 11710+, slightly on the hi side is much weaker but open carrier/dead air, July 21 at 0141 --- yes, back on 11710 instead of 11715 last night, so all set to collide again 24 hours later with Argentina! We`ll see. The temporary(?) move to 11715+ was surely deliberate, not a drift.
9315, July 21 at 0142, open carrier/dead air here on the third supposedly Spanish frequency, while 12070 is distorting music at 0144
9965, July 21 at 0148, I find the R. Cairo Arabic frequency is in --- Spanish! Besides the dead air and spurs, they`ve got their feed lines mixed up. Luckily, this transmitter is the least distorted, initially the whine sort of matching the music pitch being played; 0149 ``Radio El Cairo presenta --- Panorama Egipcio``. Seems to be // the horrible mess on 12070 and vicinity. But that`s not all:
9965, July 21 at 0201, now the ``Arabic`` frequency is in English opening the service to ``North America - West Coast on 9315``, which is still dead air. Program summary all in local time UT +2 (back to normal during Ramadan, but to resume UT + 3 in a week?), 4:05, 4:15, etc.
12070, July 21 at 0203, this frequency is still on instead of scheduled closing at 0200 like 11710 which is now off --- and I can make the music on 12070 // to 9965, i.e. English service as well tonight, but 12070 is running about three seconds behind 9965; apparently it takes that much longer for the wrong feed to get to Abis than to Abu Zaabal on 9965. 0207 opens ``The Holy Qur`an and its Meaning``.
Aoki shows 9965 is 325 degrees (also for English 2300-2430), while 9315 is at 330 degrees, only 5 degrees apart. (Aoki says 331, or 6 degrees apart). 325 degree azimuth is not for the east coast at all, but crosses the US from Minnesota to New Mexico! 330-331, from North Dakota to southern California. 325 also goes right across England.
Who knows which frequencies will be carrying which languages, or nothing, tomorrow? One thing is pretty certain: 12070 will be putting out a horrible mess of spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E opening July 21, UT:
1557 on 2, heavy CCI once I rotate to Mexico, having started out toward Canada as once again misled by 6m opening maps
1557 on 3, steady signal with SpongeBob, Televisa-5 new logo LR
1559 on 2, HEB presenta `Panorama Agropecuario`, first item concerning Montemorelos, Nuevo León. HEB is a chain of stores in Texas, but also in NL and elsewhere in Mexico. Maybe XEFB-TV Monterrey. CCI from lucha libre, or is it boxeo? Some kind of combat in a square ring
1605 on 2, it`s boxing, labeled TOP RANK, then BOX AZTECA, `Deporte Caliente` dc show and on to fútbol. The Top Rank commentary was in Spanish but the video probably originated in USA
1606 on 4, clear and steady signal, interview with Dr Martín Rivera; maybe infomercial; 1610 crawler with DF phone number (at least)
1616 on 3, film drama, Azteca-13 bug in UR
1625 all gone; 1640 trace of video again
1645 on 2, promo for show on MTY --- this is not XEFB, but another Monterrey station, ch 34, being relayed on ch 2 in Saltillo, Coahuila, as explained at http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html
XHCNL-2 (? offset)
Saltillo, Coahuila
Relays XHCNL-34
Televisa Independent
MTY TV
On to a studio music show mentioning regiomontano = ``Monterreyan`` and no ñ in it, and with 31 degree temp in LR as in the MTY screenshot
1646 on 3, Spongebob with credit roll, Televisa-5 bug LR
1647 on 4, film with Azteca-13 bug UR
1647 on 2, CCI including yelling announcer on music show above
1652 on 2, Azteca-7 bug UR, lucha libre, labeled SMACK DOWN from the W network (as in WWF??)
1700 on 2, I attempt several photos just to get the 7 bug in the UR
1719 on 2, CCI, then fútbol hilites, generic Televisa Deportes oval bug in LR
1751 on 2, farmacia ad fades in; 1753 ad for CONSORCIO, something starting 15 de agosto, and Azteca 13 bug UR
1805 on 2, novela? with Televisa-5 bug LR; (lunch break)
1911 on 2, Azteca-7 bug UR, which morphs around, comes and goes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 17670-17675-17680, July 21 at 0137, DRM noise is back from RNZI, and AM on 15720 readable without any processing at all! Despite own latest online schedule showing DRM does not start until 0250 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.8-AM, July 21 at 0133, weak signal with hard rock; 0154 recheck much stronger, even sufficient on the PL-880 with whip only, playing familiar ``Margaritaville`` song --- wait, sounds like lyric goes ``Obamaville``; hmmm. Tough copy with lots of selective fading distortion which could have been avoided by transmitting in SSB. 0157 announcement cut off? another song, but it`s cut off and quickly off the air at 0200:16*. Now to look it up in the pirate fora: This says it was Captain Morgan Shortwave on 6950.7 AM:http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4709
and so do these, including ``Wasting Away in Obamaville`` parody:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17773.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7355, July 20 at 0142, poor signal in Persian, what? Also 7355, July 21 at 0151 better signal, talk with background noise. Aoki shows it`s really BBC Dari at 0130-0200, 100 kW, 125 degrees via Yerevan-Gavar, Armenia; strangely, paired with Pashto at 0100-0130 but from a different site, Austria, why? However, HFCC shows that since May 5, BOTH are from Moosbrun, AUSTRIA, 300 kW at 95 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1730 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast from about 0302 UT Monday July 21, and presumably also 5110v-CUSB. Next:
Monday 2100v on WRMI 15770
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9975, July 21 at 0149, I find `AWR Wavescan` is already running on KVOH; apparently it`s been moved up from 0200 UT Mondays to 0130, the new English start time, to make it symmetrical with WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 UT Sundays. Schedule still not updated to show either:http://kvoh.net/wp-content/uploads/KVOH-Program-Grid-English.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, July 21 at 0150, KJES is off again tonight. It was on in the morning July 20 circa 1330 on 11715 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, July 20 at 0605 UT, WSB Atlanta clear in English, for a change no sign of Spanish out of order from KAMA El Paso, but we`re not concluding yet that it`s permanently fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0421 UT July 21
