** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6155v, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa on 6155.0 has a low audible heterodyne, likely from R. Fides still on the air; recheck at 0621, Austria has no het, but now there is pulse jamming spur no doubt from Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11746-11747 & 11813-11814 approx., Jan 19 at 0317, crackling distorted spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are back! Weak but detectable and // modulation peaks on fundamental. Little else but Brasil audible on 25m now, 11765v and 11855. Recheck at 0629, now the spurs are much stronger --- can`t miss them, tho hardly anyone else bothers to log this crud which should be eliminated once and for all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 900, Jan 19 at 0632, YL jazz singer in English dominates, loops toward Cuba, and soon confirmed as such by // 890 with WLS nulled. So both are R. Progreso, but 900 is much stronger. So how do we explain this? 890 is WRTH-listed as 200 kW in Ciego de Ávila, while 900 is only 50 kW in further Holguín. It would be nice to know about Cuban MW direxional patterns, if any. Is there any source for such info? Don`t bother asking Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Re: ``15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` ---
I should also have noted that according to RHC`s own website, et al., this semihour is supposed to be the only Quechua broadcast of RHC ``to Buenos Aires`` --- so has that language expired, like Guarani did several years ago tho prolonged on some imaginary skeds?
9550, 9640, 9820, Jan 19 at 1501, all three RHC 31m channels are still on; best on 9640, 9550 with Vietnamese QRM, 9820 weak as usual; about béisbol, then ``que sigue la música`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9860.0, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo supposedly English, fair signal with open carrier/dead air. Not off-frequency, anyway
9905+, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter in Qur`an, but extremely distorted, suppressed modulation; off frequency high
9965, Jan 19 at 0321, R. Cairo, good with flutter, ME music not very distorted; RTTY QRM on lo side.
As for missing relay via Global 24: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 24940-USB, Jan 19 at 1454, F5POJ in northern France calling CQ 12 in English after QSO as Phil with a W4. Just about the OSOB in voice, besides several CW on the low end. 10m not open. QRZ.com:
PHILIPPE BALEUX
2 BIS RUE EDOUARD MAMBOUR
02260 LA CAPELLE
France
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970, Jan 19 around 0600, 0630 and 1345 chex, nothing detectable from XEJ Ciudad Juárez which used to be regular; just US stations in English. Now like John Wilkins, CO, I also wonder what`s become of XEJ. Is it completely off, or QRP? Supposedly 10/5 kW, 24h NSP per IRCA. A DXer in El Paso could tell us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 19 at 1329-1332+ UT, open carrier looping toward Tulsa, while KMOX and presumed KTXW are mixing when it`s nulled. Tired of waiting for KEOR to start modulating, but 1330 UT is the official Catoosa sunrise in January (Feb: 1315 UT). KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal. I think it`s still religious, but I see in FCC that it`s now owned by La Zeta 95.7 of Springdale AR, not to be confused with OKC-based KTUZ 1270. Why is Zeta such a popular radio handle in Spanish? Likes to be associated with narcotrafficking? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, Jan 19 at 1451, BSKSA poor in Arabic, not // better 17615 Qur`an. Ivo Ivanov says 17705 is ``permanently off`` for a one-hour break at 13-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 6155.0, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa, poor signal in English with low audible heterodyne (LAH) which is of more interest, likely from R. Fides, BOLIVIA, q.v., still on air and typically off-frequency.
3345, Monday Jan 19 at 0333, poor AM signal with open carrier/dead air, whence? Recheck at 0338, now M&W talk in English, and of course it`s // 6155, so Channel Africa too. Both are registered with HFCC as 0300-0400 M-F only:
3345, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Meyerton
6155, 250 kW, 19 degrees from Meyerton
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, Jan 19 at 0619, WWRB with big humbuzz, while BS is saying as of January 15 a secret Russian weapon will be able to destroy any part of the planet, oh my!!
Humbuzz is not quite as bad on 7570 WRMI. So much modulation crud comes out of the Walterboro feed that affiliates need to filter it severely before putting it on their transmitters --- not because BS can ever sound rational or even fluent, but to avoid QRMing adjacent frequencies and out of self-respect (??) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7200, Jan 19 at 0327, VG signal with dead air --- no, it`s just long pauses during Qur`an, from Omdurman, with the lower half of this AM channel intruding into the worldwide exclusive (ha, ha) hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15550 & 15400, Jan 19 at 1503-1504+, both R. Tamazuj frequencies via VATICAN are open carrier/dead air; 15550 thus provides a carrier for WJHR USB, but not quite enough to make the screaming gospel huxter sound like AM, as the WJHR signal itself has built up much stronger than an hour ago when fighting 2-way Spanish ACI; see USA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7730, Jan 19 at 0322, RTI Spanish relay via WRMI during this hour, 222 degrees toward México, CentroAmérica, very good here, mixing Chinese with consecutive translation into Spanish. It`s been widely reported that RTI will be cancelling its Spanish service at the end of March (B-14), as the relay exchange deal with France expires and will not be renewed. But no one says anything about the relay via WRMI! So I asked Jeff White about it, who replies Jan 18:
``Glenn: The RTI Spanish relay to Central America from WRMI is scheduled to continue, which means that the Spanish service of RTI will continue to exist. Jeff``
Así es que, atención, aunque se terminan las emisiones via Francia, RTI seguirá con un servicio en español via WRMI en la próxima temporada (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, COMPENDIO DE ESCUCHAS DX)
** U S A [non]. 6080, Jan 19 at 0329, Hyper Heather promoting `Music Time in Africa`, 0330 VOA news. Fair signal but pulse jamming which seems always on this frequency now, presumably another stray which CUBA is in no hurry to eliminate. Also LAH, probably from off-frequency BRAZIL.
Per HFCC, this VOA is 165 degrees via VATICAN at 03-04, violating Separation of Church and State; other 6080 usage, all in English: 04-07 São Tomé with a beam change at 05 from 138 to 20; 14-17 Botswana with a beam change at 15 from 10 to 350; 17-22 São Tomé with beam change at 20 from 335 to 138 and at 21 to 0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Jan 18 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast UT Monday Jan 19 at 0401; and also audible on WBCQ 5110-CUSB before 0430. Next:
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Monday Jan 19 at 1350, MLK speech from London, 1964, recording recently unearthed, on `Democracy Now` as outroed before 1400 by Amy, via Global 24, sufficient on WRMI, but squeezed as usual by 9390 and 9400.
We made the mistake of attending an MLK celebration Sunday afternoon at the Central Assembly of God church in Enid, which turned into just another excuse for a local preacher to scream into microphone, nothing much about MLK. With their AV system, they should have been playing this and other MLK speeches.
Phil Workman replies to my Jan 18 note that R. Cairo relay was missing Sunday at 1300-1420: ``Radio Cairo has not been sending their programs lately - we're not sure what`s up. We hope to have it back soon. Yes, we will be doing some of our own news going forward. We have four different people on staff that will be doing breaking news, including myself, Jeff Demers, Jeff Bowman and maybe even some WRMI folks soon. We're hoping to fill in some of the breaks in our weekend news. Best, Phil`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Jan 19 at 1459 tune-in to WRMI, surprised to hear Vasily Strelnikov again, recorded just before New Year`s Eve, with his YL co-host saying she doesn`t know what to expect, and right then, cuts to WRMI ID by Jeff with ``Okeechobee Ocean`` tune; and then he too is cut off before he can give the phonecast number as the transmitter is turned off for 7 hours at 1500:10*. Wonderful automation. Anyhow, Vasily was no doubt another unexpected replay of the `From Russia with Love` New-Year special from R. Sputnik, which I have yet to catch from the beginning.
BTW, the RMI 15-22 UT period is now on webcast only with ``world music``, which I finally check Jan 19 at 1711 when there is something African ---- o, at 1712, 1721, 1731, 1741, IDs as ``RFI Musique``; source for part or all of septahour? Includes plenty tunes in English, e.g. ``All of Me`` at 1732 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7489.96 approx., UT Monday Jan 19 at 0324, WBCQ is on with John Lightning, // but a quick echo behind 5110v-CUSB. Don`t you believe that 7490 is in a 3-hour break at 01-04 on UT Mondays. He gets an extra channel when he wants it; but 9330 not on.
15420-, CUSB, Jan 19 at 1418, slightly off-frequency to lo side, typical of WBCQ, at unscheduled time, not BS, and not // 11580, but soulish music; 1427 YL voiceover ID mentions 7.415 megacycles, WBCQ; then something about ``hope it doesn`t crap out``; 1429 stops and shortly live announcement by the TimTron: ``WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, is now concluding equipment testicling [sic, ha ha], on our 19-meter service`` and off 1430*.
No BBC clash any more, as in B14 HFCC, BBC via SOUTH AFRICA is at 15-17 only; while `BCQ could use 15420 from 12 to 23, its own schedule shows 18-22 only, daily with `Global Spirit Proclamation`, plus 22-23 Sundays to duplicate 7490 and better audiblize `Marion`s Attic` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Jan 19 at 0323, only fair signal with music, fading, at first assumed to be something else, but typically off-frequency, so WRNO is active but not propagating well instead of blasting in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5890 & 5935, Jan 19 at 0617 I notice that the two WWCRs are much weaker than 5830 WTWW which is still inbooming. WTWW is only about 30 miles further east than WWCR site, so why such a disparity, which is not unusual? Of course, antennas and azimuths differ, but I suspect the main cause is WWCR running lowered power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15552-SSB, approx., Jan 19 at 1415, WJHR 15550-USB has QRM from 2-way in Spanish which couldn`t find any better spot to intrude; see also SUDAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. CBS Sunday Morning is one of the best shows on TV, capped always by a nature segment at the very end. But there`s a lot more of this gem at the end of the replays on The Smithsonian Channel, if you can get it. On January 18, cardinals in snowy cedars east of Norman OK occupied almost two whole minutes on TSC. That much is unseen of on CBS itself, altho I did not compare it this week. It seems like on CBS the nature segment is just a filler to round out the time, and if anything else runs a bit long, it gets cut back and back, often less than 30 seconds.
For one thing, on TSC, CBSSM runs a full 90 minutes, rather than 88-89 as on CBS. Charles Osgood also does a different closing. There could be other variations in the length of commercial breaks if not in the program content, which on TSC carry a lot of Smithsonian promotion.
CBS SM originally airs at 1400-1529 UT, and the first repeat on TSC is Sundays at 1900-2030 UT, next at 0700-0830 UT Mondays plus one or two more later in the week. Why here? I understand that CBS is part owner of TSC. That`s an improvement over Fox being (part?) owner of the National Geographic Channel, both of which have a lot of drek elsewhen to fill out 24/7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1750 UT January 19
** BRAZIL. 11746-11747 & 11813-11814 approx., Jan 19 at 0317, crackling distorted spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are back! Weak but detectable and // modulation peaks on fundamental. Little else but Brasil audible on 25m now, 11765v and 11855. Recheck at 0629, now the spurs are much stronger --- can`t miss them, tho hardly anyone else bothers to log this crud which should be eliminated once and for all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 900, Jan 19 at 0632, YL jazz singer in English dominates, loops toward Cuba, and soon confirmed as such by // 890 with WLS nulled. So both are R. Progreso, but 900 is much stronger. So how do we explain this? 890 is WRTH-listed as 200 kW in Ciego de Ávila, while 900 is only 50 kW in further Holguín. It would be nice to know about Cuban MW direxional patterns, if any. Is there any source for such info? Don`t bother asking Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Re: ``15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` ---
I should also have noted that according to RHC`s own website, et al., this semihour is supposed to be the only Quechua broadcast of RHC ``to Buenos Aires`` --- so has that language expired, like Guarani did several years ago tho prolonged on some imaginary skeds?
9550, 9640, 9820, Jan 19 at 1501, all three RHC 31m channels are still on; best on 9640, 9550 with Vietnamese QRM, 9820 weak as usual; about béisbol, then ``que sigue la música`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9860.0, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo supposedly English, fair signal with open carrier/dead air. Not off-frequency, anyway
9905+, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter in Qur`an, but extremely distorted, suppressed modulation; off frequency high
9965, Jan 19 at 0321, R. Cairo, good with flutter, ME music not very distorted; RTTY QRM on lo side.
As for missing relay via Global 24: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 24940-USB, Jan 19 at 1454, F5POJ in northern France calling CQ 12 in English after QSO as Phil with a W4. Just about the OSOB in voice, besides several CW on the low end. 10m not open. QRZ.com:
PHILIPPE BALEUX
2 BIS RUE EDOUARD MAMBOUR
02260 LA CAPELLE
France
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970, Jan 19 around 0600, 0630 and 1345 chex, nothing detectable from XEJ Ciudad Juárez which used to be regular; just US stations in English. Now like John Wilkins, CO, I also wonder what`s become of XEJ. Is it completely off, or QRP? Supposedly 10/5 kW, 24h NSP per IRCA. A DXer in El Paso could tell us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 19 at 1329-1332+ UT, open carrier looping toward Tulsa, while KMOX and presumed KTXW are mixing when it`s nulled. Tired of waiting for KEOR to start modulating, but 1330 UT is the official Catoosa sunrise in January (Feb: 1315 UT). KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal. I think it`s still religious, but I see in FCC that it`s now owned by La Zeta 95.7 of Springdale AR, not to be confused with OKC-based KTUZ 1270. Why is Zeta such a popular radio handle in Spanish? Likes to be associated with narcotrafficking? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, Jan 19 at 1451, BSKSA poor in Arabic, not // better 17615 Qur`an. Ivo Ivanov says 17705 is ``permanently off`` for a one-hour break at 13-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 6155.0, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa, poor signal in English with low audible heterodyne (LAH) which is of more interest, likely from R. Fides, BOLIVIA, q.v., still on air and typically off-frequency.
3345, Monday Jan 19 at 0333, poor AM signal with open carrier/dead air, whence? Recheck at 0338, now M&W talk in English, and of course it`s // 6155, so Channel Africa too. Both are registered with HFCC as 0300-0400 M-F only:
3345, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Meyerton
6155, 250 kW, 19 degrees from Meyerton
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, Jan 19 at 0619, WWRB with big humbuzz, while BS is saying as of January 15 a secret Russian weapon will be able to destroy any part of the planet, oh my!!
Humbuzz is not quite as bad on 7570 WRMI. So much modulation crud comes out of the Walterboro feed that affiliates need to filter it severely before putting it on their transmitters --- not because BS can ever sound rational or even fluent, but to avoid QRMing adjacent frequencies and out of self-respect (??) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7200, Jan 19 at 0327, VG signal with dead air --- no, it`s just long pauses during Qur`an, from Omdurman, with the lower half of this AM channel intruding into the worldwide exclusive (ha, ha) hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15550 & 15400, Jan 19 at 1503-1504+, both R. Tamazuj frequencies via VATICAN are open carrier/dead air; 15550 thus provides a carrier for WJHR USB, but not quite enough to make the screaming gospel huxter sound like AM, as the WJHR signal itself has built up much stronger than an hour ago when fighting 2-way Spanish ACI; see USA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7730, Jan 19 at 0322, RTI Spanish relay via WRMI during this hour, 222 degrees toward México, CentroAmérica, very good here, mixing Chinese with consecutive translation into Spanish. It`s been widely reported that RTI will be cancelling its Spanish service at the end of March (B-14), as the relay exchange deal with France expires and will not be renewed. But no one says anything about the relay via WRMI! So I asked Jeff White about it, who replies Jan 18:
``Glenn: The RTI Spanish relay to Central America from WRMI is scheduled to continue, which means that the Spanish service of RTI will continue to exist. Jeff``
Así es que, atención, aunque se terminan las emisiones via Francia, RTI seguirá con un servicio en español via WRMI en la próxima temporada (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, COMPENDIO DE ESCUCHAS DX)
** U S A [non]. 6080, Jan 19 at 0329, Hyper Heather promoting `Music Time in Africa`, 0330 VOA news. Fair signal but pulse jamming which seems always on this frequency now, presumably another stray which CUBA is in no hurry to eliminate. Also LAH, probably from off-frequency BRAZIL.
Per HFCC, this VOA is 165 degrees via VATICAN at 03-04, violating Separation of Church and State; other 6080 usage, all in English: 04-07 São Tomé with a beam change at 05 from 138 to 20; 14-17 Botswana with a beam change at 15 from 10 to 350; 17-22 São Tomé with beam change at 20 from 335 to 138 and at 21 to 0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Jan 18 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast UT Monday Jan 19 at 0401; and also audible on WBCQ 5110-CUSB before 0430. Next:
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Monday Jan 19 at 1350, MLK speech from London, 1964, recording recently unearthed, on `Democracy Now` as outroed before 1400 by Amy, via Global 24, sufficient on WRMI, but squeezed as usual by 9390 and 9400.
We made the mistake of attending an MLK celebration Sunday afternoon at the Central Assembly of God church in Enid, which turned into just another excuse for a local preacher to scream into microphone, nothing much about MLK. With their AV system, they should have been playing this and other MLK speeches.
Phil Workman replies to my Jan 18 note that R. Cairo relay was missing Sunday at 1300-1420: ``Radio Cairo has not been sending their programs lately - we're not sure what`s up. We hope to have it back soon. Yes, we will be doing some of our own news going forward. We have four different people on staff that will be doing breaking news, including myself, Jeff Demers, Jeff Bowman and maybe even some WRMI folks soon. We're hoping to fill in some of the breaks in our weekend news. Best, Phil`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Jan 19 at 1459 tune-in to WRMI, surprised to hear Vasily Strelnikov again, recorded just before New Year`s Eve, with his YL co-host saying she doesn`t know what to expect, and right then, cuts to WRMI ID by Jeff with ``Okeechobee Ocean`` tune; and then he too is cut off before he can give the phonecast number as the transmitter is turned off for 7 hours at 1500:10*. Wonderful automation. Anyhow, Vasily was no doubt another unexpected replay of the `From Russia with Love` New-Year special from R. Sputnik, which I have yet to catch from the beginning.
BTW, the RMI 15-22 UT period is now on webcast only with ``world music``, which I finally check Jan 19 at 1711 when there is something African ---- o, at 1712, 1721, 1731, 1741, IDs as ``RFI Musique``; source for part or all of septahour? Includes plenty tunes in English, e.g. ``All of Me`` at 1732 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7489.96 approx., UT Monday Jan 19 at 0324, WBCQ is on with John Lightning, // but a quick echo behind 5110v-CUSB. Don`t you believe that 7490 is in a 3-hour break at 01-04 on UT Mondays. He gets an extra channel when he wants it; but 9330 not on.
15420-, CUSB, Jan 19 at 1418, slightly off-frequency to lo side, typical of WBCQ, at unscheduled time, not BS, and not // 11580, but soulish music; 1427 YL voiceover ID mentions 7.415 megacycles, WBCQ; then something about ``hope it doesn`t crap out``; 1429 stops and shortly live announcement by the TimTron: ``WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, is now concluding equipment testicling [sic, ha ha], on our 19-meter service`` and off 1430*.
No BBC clash any more, as in B14 HFCC, BBC via SOUTH AFRICA is at 15-17 only; while `BCQ could use 15420 from 12 to 23, its own schedule shows 18-22 only, daily with `Global Spirit Proclamation`, plus 22-23 Sundays to duplicate 7490 and better audiblize `Marion`s Attic` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Jan 19 at 0323, only fair signal with music, fading, at first assumed to be something else, but typically off-frequency, so WRNO is active but not propagating well instead of blasting in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5890 & 5935, Jan 19 at 0617 I notice that the two WWCRs are much weaker than 5830 WTWW which is still inbooming. WTWW is only about 30 miles further east than WWCR site, so why such a disparity, which is not unusual? Of course, antennas and azimuths differ, but I suspect the main cause is WWCR running lowered power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15552-SSB, approx., Jan 19 at 1415, WJHR 15550-USB has QRM from 2-way in Spanish which couldn`t find any better spot to intrude; see also SUDAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. CBS Sunday Morning is one of the best shows on TV, capped always by a nature segment at the very end. But there`s a lot more of this gem at the end of the replays on The Smithsonian Channel, if you can get it. On January 18, cardinals in snowy cedars east of Norman OK occupied almost two whole minutes on TSC. That much is unseen of on CBS itself, altho I did not compare it this week. It seems like on CBS the nature segment is just a filler to round out the time, and if anything else runs a bit long, it gets cut back and back, often less than 30 seconds.
For one thing, on TSC, CBSSM runs a full 90 minutes, rather than 88-89 as on CBS. Charles Osgood also does a different closing. There could be other variations in the length of commercial breaks if not in the program content, which on TSC carry a lot of Smithsonian promotion.
CBS SM originally airs at 1400-1529 UT, and the first repeat on TSC is Sundays at 1900-2030 UT, next at 0700-0830 UT Mondays plus one or two more later in the week. Why here? I understand that CBS is part owner of TSC. That`s an improvement over Fox being (part?) owner of the National Geographic Channel, both of which have a lot of drek elsewhen to fill out 24/7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1750 UT January 19
