** ARGENTINA. 15345+v, Oct 19 at 0121, R. Nacional, fair with flutter on the hi side this time, but music is JBM. This transmitter runs past 0000 only on UT Sun & Mon, back to 11711- other nights with RAE. See EGYPT 11710, thus in the clear yet dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BERMUDA [non]. 7268-LSB, Oct 19 at 0128, ham net but unseems Hurricane Watch like 24 hours earlier now that Gonzalo has passed Bermuda. NCS calls upon station after station to discuss duplicate contacts, to avoid exchanging duplicate QSLs, hardly a matter of life & death (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13850, Oct 19 at 0119, Chinese, so CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; Aoki shows a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope transmitter here long hours, attracting the jam. After 0200 defective Cairo is here to North America.
14920, Oct 19 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 12s, 13s
14870, Oct 19 at 1352, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter
16100, Oct 19 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; no 17s, 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15100, Oct 19 at 0120, soft rock ballad, Asian language, poor with heavy flutter. Aoki shows only usage of 15100 is 2300-0157 by CRI Beijing site, 165 degrees, Amoy during final hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 1540
** CUBA. 6000, Oct 19 at 0113 tune-in to RHC, dead air! About 30 seconds later, // 6165, undead, ``welcome to English broadcast for Saturday October 18; stay tuned for the next 59 minutes``! So it`s just the start of the hour, evidently preceded by 13 minutes of dead air on both frequencies. Will the hourly repeats past 0600 also be 13 minutes late, or will something get cut in the meantime? Probably the latter, but not tracked. However, another anomaly at 0544 check, 6000 is *on* the air, with jazz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 11710, Oct 19 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish service is open carrier/dead air, but at least no het from Argentina on a weekend, whose transmitter is still on 15345+
12070, Oct 19 at 0117, R. Cairo, Spanish service, but Arabic music, distorted on fair signal
9965, Oct 19 at 0126, R. Cairo Arabic, fair with flutter, humwhine
9315, Oct 19 at 0126, R. Cairo Spanish, poor with flutter, dead air
13850, Oct 19 at 0535, R. Cairo Arabic is open carrier/dead air on good signal with lite fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13840, Oct 19 at 0535, no signal from R. Japan, French via Madagascar, which is normally sufficient, off the air? but still audible on 11730 via FRANCE, as is 13850 Cairo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 890, Oct 19 at 0142 UT, WLS stupid football game can be totally nulled, audiblizing some talkshow in English, interviewing an author. When not totally nulled, they make a SAH of 224/minute = 3.73 Hz (how come no one else logs such separations? They`re easy to compute with a timepiece; in this case I only counted 15 seconds` worth, 56, then x 4, then divided by 60). 0146 UT long national adstring including GEICO twice, 0151 UT finally resuming after ``Talk Radio for Oklahoma`` non-ID.
The signal was so steady I was increasingly suspicious it was merely groundwave emanating from KTLR OKC, which is supposed to be a 1 kW daytimer, with NO PSSA, per NRC AM Log; and per FCC AM Query, official sunset in October was 0000 UT (November: 2330 UT). Next check at 0208 UT, KTLR carrier still on but dead air; they`ll turn it off when they get around to it. Meanwhile, Cuban music is proper occupant of WLS null, from 200 kW R. Progreso, Chambas, Camagüey, // much weaker 900.
I originally tuned 890 to try to match the Spanish religion on 1210, the `World Radio Network` RGV stations affiliated with HCJB, if you`ll pardon the outdated brand. Meanwhile, I also checked another OKC daytimer, of a different cluster, whether it also cheat tonite, 1140 KRMP, but not, just XEMR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1743 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Oct 19 from 0131:04, after usual prélude: 0121 tones and carrier, 0125 music, 0130 sign-on and program preview. Next:
Sunday 1000 on 5850 (unmonitored here, but how was it elsewhere??)
Sunday 2300 on 11580
UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Oct 19 at 0115, Family Radio via WRMI is again here in Hindi rather than originally scheduled 15770.
7570, Oct 19 at 0116, WRMI is back to BS this Saturday night, after a biweek of PCJ specials, `Song of India` during this bihour; nor, lacking any further publicity, was it expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Oct 19 at 0537, JBA carrier here, suspected WTWW-3. Yes, that must be because 5830, WTWW-1 is AWOL at 0546 check, so Ted has probably put PPP on #3 instead even tho it won`t propagate in the nightmiddle. Meanwhile WTWW-2 is still blasting BS on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Oct 19 at 0541, surprised to find a fair signal here with music, breathy YL announcement as ``7.415 --- WBCQ``. So another ad-hoc appearance off-schedule, playing back some old show, while 7490 (and ex-7415!) are silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, Oct 19 at 0542, WINB is off-again from its unexplained occasional late-night transmissions. But 9330 WBCQ is on, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 19 at 0159 UT, station with 877- number for listener comments, then ID for ``AM 1520 KYND Cypress and AM 1540 KGBC Galveston``, into newscast by YL, starting with train wreck in Arkansas and other US news. No Chinese accent evident, and hard to believe CRI would cover such news from Beijing, so this pair also get news on hour from elsewhere?? 0202 UT fading in and out. Must keep KXEL nulled.
But at 0203 UT, 1540, KEDA San Antonio overrides with ad in English for Oktoberfest event at a Catholic church in Lyman(?) TX, Tejana music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1620, UT Sunday Oct 19 at 0134 UT, Prof. Michio Kaku`s `Science Fantastic` show as he discusses fusion vs fission, the theory of H-bombs, and how he was a protégé of Edward Teller. 0158 wrapup. Good dominant signal from WTAW College Station TX; I had plenty to say about Kaku, and WTAW in two previous logs, which I won`t repeat here, but reference:http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1106.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1331.txt
Seems WTAW is the only station where I run across his multiple-affiliate show again and again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 740-, Oct 19 at 0145 UT with KRMG Tulsa nulled, again trying to ID the Spanish off-frequency by about 50 Hz making a rumbling het. 0148 YL mentions Tamaulipas but there are no stations there, again suspecting XEQN Coahuila. As I keep KRMG nulled, from 0152 UT onward, KTRH Houston abruptly takes over the frequency, in fact stronger than KRMG, tho KTRH is supposed to send very little signal this way. Something just happened to their DA pattern?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Oct 19 at 0136 UT, Spanish play-by-play with crowd noise, WLAC nulled, again suspected XEQI Monterrey NL. From keywords ``cabeza`` and ``derecho``, I suspect it`s boxeo, but I suppose also could apply to lucha libre or fútbol; OTOH, XEQI is supposed to be cultural/educational (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1705 UT October 19
** BERMUDA [non]. 7268-LSB, Oct 19 at 0128, ham net but unseems Hurricane Watch like 24 hours earlier now that Gonzalo has passed Bermuda. NCS calls upon station after station to discuss duplicate contacts, to avoid exchanging duplicate QSLs, hardly a matter of life & death (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13850, Oct 19 at 0119, Chinese, so CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; Aoki shows a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope transmitter here long hours, attracting the jam. After 0200 defective Cairo is here to North America.
14920, Oct 19 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 12s, 13s
14870, Oct 19 at 1352, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter
16100, Oct 19 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; no 17s, 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15100, Oct 19 at 0120, soft rock ballad, Asian language, poor with heavy flutter. Aoki shows only usage of 15100 is 2300-0157 by CRI Beijing site, 165 degrees, Amoy during final hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 1540
** CUBA. 6000, Oct 19 at 0113 tune-in to RHC, dead air! About 30 seconds later, // 6165, undead, ``welcome to English broadcast for Saturday October 18; stay tuned for the next 59 minutes``! So it`s just the start of the hour, evidently preceded by 13 minutes of dead air on both frequencies. Will the hourly repeats past 0600 also be 13 minutes late, or will something get cut in the meantime? Probably the latter, but not tracked. However, another anomaly at 0544 check, 6000 is *on* the air, with jazz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 11710, Oct 19 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish service is open carrier/dead air, but at least no het from Argentina on a weekend, whose transmitter is still on 15345+
12070, Oct 19 at 0117, R. Cairo, Spanish service, but Arabic music, distorted on fair signal
9965, Oct 19 at 0126, R. Cairo Arabic, fair with flutter, humwhine
9315, Oct 19 at 0126, R. Cairo Spanish, poor with flutter, dead air
13850, Oct 19 at 0535, R. Cairo Arabic is open carrier/dead air on good signal with lite fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13840, Oct 19 at 0535, no signal from R. Japan, French via Madagascar, which is normally sufficient, off the air? but still audible on 11730 via FRANCE, as is 13850 Cairo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 890, Oct 19 at 0142 UT, WLS stupid football game can be totally nulled, audiblizing some talkshow in English, interviewing an author. When not totally nulled, they make a SAH of 224/minute = 3.73 Hz (how come no one else logs such separations? They`re easy to compute with a timepiece; in this case I only counted 15 seconds` worth, 56, then x 4, then divided by 60). 0146 UT long national adstring including GEICO twice, 0151 UT finally resuming after ``Talk Radio for Oklahoma`` non-ID.
The signal was so steady I was increasingly suspicious it was merely groundwave emanating from KTLR OKC, which is supposed to be a 1 kW daytimer, with NO PSSA, per NRC AM Log; and per FCC AM Query, official sunset in October was 0000 UT (November: 2330 UT). Next check at 0208 UT, KTLR carrier still on but dead air; they`ll turn it off when they get around to it. Meanwhile, Cuban music is proper occupant of WLS null, from 200 kW R. Progreso, Chambas, Camagüey, // much weaker 900.
I originally tuned 890 to try to match the Spanish religion on 1210, the `World Radio Network` RGV stations affiliated with HCJB, if you`ll pardon the outdated brand. Meanwhile, I also checked another OKC daytimer, of a different cluster, whether it also cheat tonite, 1140 KRMP, but not, just XEMR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1743 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Oct 19 from 0131:04, after usual prélude: 0121 tones and carrier, 0125 music, 0130 sign-on and program preview. Next:
Sunday 1000 on 5850 (unmonitored here, but how was it elsewhere??)
Sunday 2300 on 11580
UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Oct 19 at 0115, Family Radio via WRMI is again here in Hindi rather than originally scheduled 15770.
7570, Oct 19 at 0116, WRMI is back to BS this Saturday night, after a biweek of PCJ specials, `Song of India` during this bihour; nor, lacking any further publicity, was it expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Oct 19 at 0537, JBA carrier here, suspected WTWW-3. Yes, that must be because 5830, WTWW-1 is AWOL at 0546 check, so Ted has probably put PPP on #3 instead even tho it won`t propagate in the nightmiddle. Meanwhile WTWW-2 is still blasting BS on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Oct 19 at 0541, surprised to find a fair signal here with music, breathy YL announcement as ``7.415 --- WBCQ``. So another ad-hoc appearance off-schedule, playing back some old show, while 7490 (and ex-7415!) are silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, Oct 19 at 0542, WINB is off-again from its unexplained occasional late-night transmissions. But 9330 WBCQ is on, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 19 at 0159 UT, station with 877- number for listener comments, then ID for ``AM 1520 KYND Cypress and AM 1540 KGBC Galveston``, into newscast by YL, starting with train wreck in Arkansas and other US news. No Chinese accent evident, and hard to believe CRI would cover such news from Beijing, so this pair also get news on hour from elsewhere?? 0202 UT fading in and out. Must keep KXEL nulled.
But at 0203 UT, 1540, KEDA San Antonio overrides with ad in English for Oktoberfest event at a Catholic church in Lyman(?) TX, Tejana music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1620, UT Sunday Oct 19 at 0134 UT, Prof. Michio Kaku`s `Science Fantastic` show as he discusses fusion vs fission, the theory of H-bombs, and how he was a protégé of Edward Teller. 0158 wrapup. Good dominant signal from WTAW College Station TX; I had plenty to say about Kaku, and WTAW in two previous logs, which I won`t repeat here, but reference:http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1106.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1331.txt
Seems WTAW is the only station where I run across his multiple-affiliate show again and again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 740-, Oct 19 at 0145 UT with KRMG Tulsa nulled, again trying to ID the Spanish off-frequency by about 50 Hz making a rumbling het. 0148 YL mentions Tamaulipas but there are no stations there, again suspecting XEQN Coahuila. As I keep KRMG nulled, from 0152 UT onward, KTRH Houston abruptly takes over the frequency, in fact stronger than KRMG, tho KTRH is supposed to send very little signal this way. Something just happened to their DA pattern?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Oct 19 at 0136 UT, Spanish play-by-play with crowd noise, WLAC nulled, again suspected XEQI Monterrey NL. From keywords ``cabeza`` and ``derecho``, I suspect it`s boxeo, but I suppose also could apply to lucha libre or fútbol; OTOH, XEQI is supposed to be cultural/educational (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1705 UT October 19
