** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910v & 6010v, Jan 25 at 0559, the two HJDHs with good signals, better than usual, 5910 with music, 6010 with talk. Within the next hour, Wolfgang Büschel measured them probably via SDRs in North America: 5910.051 and 6010.225, ``latter hops 3 Hertz around``. I was also hearing het, no doubt Brazil which he put on 6010.055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 25 at 0557, RHC in English, wrapping up jazz show, so presumably again starting English here at 0500 instead of 0600
11760, Jan 25 at 1359, RHC with frequency change announcement that 11950 and 9850 are now closing. Really? As usual, the left hand doesn`t know what the other left hand is doing. 11950 continues another hour, including for DX program `En Contacto` from 1435 starting with congrats to two more domestic Cuban stations with anniversaries this week, COCO and another, not a big deal; ending with a Coro contrib which I zoned out on, and outro 1449 with co-host now named Marta Ríos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Sunday Jan 25 at 0558, R. Truth sign-off procedure with canned IDs going from Italian to Swedish; fair with some distortion. On UT Monday, of course, it will be closing much earlier.
Radio Verdad will soon be celebrating its ``quinceañera``, per Historia on website: ``"Radio Verdad" salió al aire el 25 de febrero, a las 5:20 p. m., y fue inaugurada el 5 de marzo del año 2000``. We first heard it and brought it to attention of the DX world (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4870-, Jan 25 at 1340, poor signal with undermodulated music, and with BFO also a second carrier on slightly different frequency: presumably RRI Wamena and AIR Nepali service from Delhi-Kingsway. Several other 60m frequencies bore Asian signals appropriate for India, China, Tibet. Sunrise here was 1338.
This was right during the Republic Day speech by the President on all AIR frequencies, but nothing listenable on 60m here. The next big event will be the Republic Day parade, UT Monday Jan 26 starting at 0350 on daytime domestic SW frequencies, per Jose Jacob and also in English on 6030 and 15050; Hindi on 6155, 9595, 11620. But parades are better seen than heard: Suppose US media will devote more coverage than usual since Pres. Obama will be in the audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Jan 25 at 1426, R. Kuwait good with Qur`an, much better here than any ME on 16m, such as 17615 Sa`udi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, Jan 25 at 0612, novelty song in Spanish, almost nonsense words, then SHVA with ``Qué Buena, 107.1 FM, 730 AM`` which means it`s still XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 50/1 kW. Guess which? It`s dominating everything else on the frequency including the Metroplex Korean, and allegedly 100 kW XEX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Jan 25 at 1328 UT, WKY OKC, El Indomable is still defaulting to English Sunday mornings for a pubaffs interview show at 1300 UT which is often over well before 1330. Also remember that WKY doesn`t hesitate to mix in English commercials when necessary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9355, Jan 25 at 1428, VOA sign-on with Yankee Doodle Dandies, poor signal, 1430 ``welcome to the Voice of America in – Burmese``. This is due west via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 1430-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: confirmed UT Sun Jan 25 at 0231 on KVOH 9975 (I was at Winter Chautauqua, inside NWOSU building, but was able to get enough signal on the G8 to confirm). Next:
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v [now AM, not CUSB]
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, Sunday Jan 25 at 1301, Global 24 via WRMI is still lacking Radio Cairo tho it remains on their program grid http://tinyurl.com/G24sked
Instead a still unID British-accented programme featuring the Top 15 of 1964y; next check at 1429, intro to 1812 Overture fill music yet again. Phil Workman informs Jan 24:
``I think the audio is better now. We're trying to make a switch to a 3rd party streaming service with way more capacity than taxing the WRMI infrastructure - so that we can begin our marketing. As far as WoR - I think your times are keepers``. Yes, streaming is louder now at 1630 check Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Jan 25 at 0602 UT, as KGGF is wrapping up with Taps, I start seeking WOKV, Jacksonville FL, which Bob Smoak, Bamberg SC had first reported to ABDX and IRCA at 0155 UT Jan 25: ``DX Opportunity, WOKV, 690, Jacksonville, Florida, is blasting away three hours after sunset with their daytime facilities. They rarely "forget", so here is a good opportunity to pick it up``. And then heard by numerous inlanders.
Now indeed I am hearing a station in English south of Coffeyville and north of XEN and some other Mexican with NA (Cuba not much of a 690 factor any more; used to be one of their main 50 kW channels, but only 10 kW now). Ad in news which at 0605 UT outros as Fox, 0605 UT weather but can`t catch any local refs (seemingly from a TV station meteorologist), 0606 UT into C2CAM theme. Looks promising for WOKV. 0630 UT during C2C break, PSA for something in ``Jacksonville``, so that`s it! and Fox news headlines.
WOKV is 50/25 kW U2, with night pattern normally wasting most of it eastward into the Atlantic (maybe good for W Africa too? but surely with enough to cover Jax` large city limits), while day pattern is ND. This time there is no hurricane to justify it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, Jan 25 at 0615 UT, romantic music in Spanish, a couple segués too quick before the previous tune is over! Same fast SAH and overriding WSB as usual from KAMA, but I thought it was talk-format, so keep listening; 0625 UT ad mentioning El Paso with such a website, promos for gospel huxters on Sunday morning; 0627 UT PSA from USDA and some other USG agency, Ad Council warning of bacteria if you don`t wash your hands – then same PSA played again! See http://foodsafety.com/espanol
and 0630 finally ID for Univisión América. Rather, directly: http://espanol.foodsafety.gov/
Here`s the explanation from Facebook:
``¡KAMA 750 AM te brinda las últimas noticias, consejos de expertos y programación local en El Paso, TX! ¡Además la música que más te gusta!https://twitter.com/KAMA750AM``
And here`s the explanation fromhttp://corporate.univision.com/media-property/kama-el-paso/
``KAMA – 750AM --- Aquí Está Todo --- KAMA-AM has been a news/talk legend in the El Paso market since its introduction over 25 years ago. It speaks to the hearts and minds of El Paso Hispanics and is their leading source of news, information and sports. With its blend of informative local programming, sports reports, KAMA-AM is where El Pasoans go when they want to know about finances, relationships, lifestyle and the latest sports scores and news. There's even a bit of music thrown in to brighten up everyone's day! So when Hispanics in El Paso need to be informed OR entertained, they turn to KAMA, 750 AM! KAMA-AM is the official Spanish Station of the Dallas Cowboys!``
So it`s in bed with the Vaqueros. Or preferably the Cheerleaders --- which my Random House Spanish/English dixionary translates only as ``porro``, i.e. definitely masculine, so are the gals porras?? Google translate is completely different with porro as joint = reefer, or adjectively,
``[persona] Que tiene dificultad para realizar una cosa con cuidado o habilidad o para comprender una cosa.`` Which ties in with the idea that cheerleaders are dumb, which is certainly not fair, nor are they all feminine. ``See also porra``: that means baton, a stick for hitting somebody, and also an interjexion of disgust. We`re not getting any closer to cheerleader. How about conductoras de aplausos?
Well, not quite ``all`` ---- site does not explain why, 10/1 kW U4, they have been running day pattern and power continuously for months blasting away WSB to the east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Jan 25: spot chex of likelies at 1320 UT find none, but at 1335-1340 or so, definitely from the NW on 1566, i.e. HLAZ, KOREA SOUTH. Nothing on 774 or others on lowband now. Our LSR today was 1338 UT, gaining 5 minutes earlier per week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 25 at 1305 UT, very poor signal with some music audible. Probably the second harmonic of 1330, KGLD Tyler TX, which I managed to ID two years ago after great effort. It`s non-direxional U1, 1000/500/77 watts, i.e. PSRA of 500 watts starting at 1200 UT, and LSR to 1000 watts in Jan is 1330 UT (Feb: 1300 UT). So our best chance for full power will be Feb 1 before sunrise gets any later, but the PSRA semi-power span is of course darker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13891.1, Jan 25 at 1419, big open carrier with slight fades indicating it`s not local; still at 1436. Could be ute, but no ute noises noted, just AM OC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15350.5-SSB, Jan 25 at 1421, 2-way intruders, probably Spanish but too weak and intermittent to be sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17665, Jan 25 at 1424, good signal with open carrier/dead air, gone at 1437 recheck. Nothing at all is scheduled anywhere, anywhen on 17665 per B-14 HFCC and Aoki. Nor is there a nearby IBB siteswitch starting at 1430 which might explain a warmup elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1739 UT January 25
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 25 at 0557, RHC in English, wrapping up jazz show, so presumably again starting English here at 0500 instead of 0600
11760, Jan 25 at 1359, RHC with frequency change announcement that 11950 and 9850 are now closing. Really? As usual, the left hand doesn`t know what the other left hand is doing. 11950 continues another hour, including for DX program `En Contacto` from 1435 starting with congrats to two more domestic Cuban stations with anniversaries this week, COCO and another, not a big deal; ending with a Coro contrib which I zoned out on, and outro 1449 with co-host now named Marta Ríos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Sunday Jan 25 at 0558, R. Truth sign-off procedure with canned IDs going from Italian to Swedish; fair with some distortion. On UT Monday, of course, it will be closing much earlier.
Radio Verdad will soon be celebrating its ``quinceañera``, per Historia on website: ``"Radio Verdad" salió al aire el 25 de febrero, a las 5:20 p. m., y fue inaugurada el 5 de marzo del año 2000``. We first heard it and brought it to attention of the DX world (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4870-, Jan 25 at 1340, poor signal with undermodulated music, and with BFO also a second carrier on slightly different frequency: presumably RRI Wamena and AIR Nepali service from Delhi-Kingsway. Several other 60m frequencies bore Asian signals appropriate for India, China, Tibet. Sunrise here was 1338.
This was right during the Republic Day speech by the President on all AIR frequencies, but nothing listenable on 60m here. The next big event will be the Republic Day parade, UT Monday Jan 26 starting at 0350 on daytime domestic SW frequencies, per Jose Jacob and also in English on 6030 and 15050; Hindi on 6155, 9595, 11620. But parades are better seen than heard: Suppose US media will devote more coverage than usual since Pres. Obama will be in the audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Jan 25 at 1426, R. Kuwait good with Qur`an, much better here than any ME on 16m, such as 17615 Sa`udi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, Jan 25 at 0612, novelty song in Spanish, almost nonsense words, then SHVA with ``Qué Buena, 107.1 FM, 730 AM`` which means it`s still XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 50/1 kW. Guess which? It`s dominating everything else on the frequency including the Metroplex Korean, and allegedly 100 kW XEX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Jan 25 at 1328 UT, WKY OKC, El Indomable is still defaulting to English Sunday mornings for a pubaffs interview show at 1300 UT which is often over well before 1330. Also remember that WKY doesn`t hesitate to mix in English commercials when necessary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9355, Jan 25 at 1428, VOA sign-on with Yankee Doodle Dandies, poor signal, 1430 ``welcome to the Voice of America in – Burmese``. This is due west via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 1430-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: confirmed UT Sun Jan 25 at 0231 on KVOH 9975 (I was at Winter Chautauqua, inside NWOSU building, but was able to get enough signal on the G8 to confirm). Next:
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v [now AM, not CUSB]
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, Sunday Jan 25 at 1301, Global 24 via WRMI is still lacking Radio Cairo tho it remains on their program grid http://tinyurl.com/G24sked
Instead a still unID British-accented programme featuring the Top 15 of 1964y; next check at 1429, intro to 1812 Overture fill music yet again. Phil Workman informs Jan 24:
``I think the audio is better now. We're trying to make a switch to a 3rd party streaming service with way more capacity than taxing the WRMI infrastructure - so that we can begin our marketing. As far as WoR - I think your times are keepers``. Yes, streaming is louder now at 1630 check Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Jan 25 at 0602 UT, as KGGF is wrapping up with Taps, I start seeking WOKV, Jacksonville FL, which Bob Smoak, Bamberg SC had first reported to ABDX and IRCA at 0155 UT Jan 25: ``DX Opportunity, WOKV, 690, Jacksonville, Florida, is blasting away three hours after sunset with their daytime facilities. They rarely "forget", so here is a good opportunity to pick it up``. And then heard by numerous inlanders.
Now indeed I am hearing a station in English south of Coffeyville and north of XEN and some other Mexican with NA (Cuba not much of a 690 factor any more; used to be one of their main 50 kW channels, but only 10 kW now). Ad in news which at 0605 UT outros as Fox, 0605 UT weather but can`t catch any local refs (seemingly from a TV station meteorologist), 0606 UT into C2CAM theme. Looks promising for WOKV. 0630 UT during C2C break, PSA for something in ``Jacksonville``, so that`s it! and Fox news headlines.
WOKV is 50/25 kW U2, with night pattern normally wasting most of it eastward into the Atlantic (maybe good for W Africa too? but surely with enough to cover Jax` large city limits), while day pattern is ND. This time there is no hurricane to justify it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, Jan 25 at 0615 UT, romantic music in Spanish, a couple segués too quick before the previous tune is over! Same fast SAH and overriding WSB as usual from KAMA, but I thought it was talk-format, so keep listening; 0625 UT ad mentioning El Paso with such a website, promos for gospel huxters on Sunday morning; 0627 UT PSA from USDA and some other USG agency, Ad Council warning of bacteria if you don`t wash your hands – then same PSA played again! See http://foodsafety.com/espanol
and 0630 finally ID for Univisión América. Rather, directly: http://espanol.foodsafety.gov/
Here`s the explanation from Facebook:
``¡KAMA 750 AM te brinda las últimas noticias, consejos de expertos y programación local en El Paso, TX! ¡Además la música que más te gusta!https://twitter.com/KAMA750AM``
And here`s the explanation fromhttp://corporate.univision.com/media-property/kama-el-paso/
``KAMA – 750AM --- Aquí Está Todo --- KAMA-AM has been a news/talk legend in the El Paso market since its introduction over 25 years ago. It speaks to the hearts and minds of El Paso Hispanics and is their leading source of news, information and sports. With its blend of informative local programming, sports reports, KAMA-AM is where El Pasoans go when they want to know about finances, relationships, lifestyle and the latest sports scores and news. There's even a bit of music thrown in to brighten up everyone's day! So when Hispanics in El Paso need to be informed OR entertained, they turn to KAMA, 750 AM! KAMA-AM is the official Spanish Station of the Dallas Cowboys!``
So it`s in bed with the Vaqueros. Or preferably the Cheerleaders --- which my Random House Spanish/English dixionary translates only as ``porro``, i.e. definitely masculine, so are the gals porras?? Google translate is completely different with porro as joint = reefer, or adjectively,
``[persona] Que tiene dificultad para realizar una cosa con cuidado o habilidad o para comprender una cosa.`` Which ties in with the idea that cheerleaders are dumb, which is certainly not fair, nor are they all feminine. ``See also porra``: that means baton, a stick for hitting somebody, and also an interjexion of disgust. We`re not getting any closer to cheerleader. How about conductoras de aplausos?
Well, not quite ``all`` ---- site does not explain why, 10/1 kW U4, they have been running day pattern and power continuously for months blasting away WSB to the east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Jan 25: spot chex of likelies at 1320 UT find none, but at 1335-1340 or so, definitely from the NW on 1566, i.e. HLAZ, KOREA SOUTH. Nothing on 774 or others on lowband now. Our LSR today was 1338 UT, gaining 5 minutes earlier per week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 25 at 1305 UT, very poor signal with some music audible. Probably the second harmonic of 1330, KGLD Tyler TX, which I managed to ID two years ago after great effort. It`s non-direxional U1, 1000/500/77 watts, i.e. PSRA of 500 watts starting at 1200 UT, and LSR to 1000 watts in Jan is 1330 UT (Feb: 1300 UT). So our best chance for full power will be Feb 1 before sunrise gets any later, but the PSRA semi-power span is of course darker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13891.1, Jan 25 at 1419, big open carrier with slight fades indicating it`s not local; still at 1436. Could be ute, but no ute noises noted, just AM OC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15350.5-SSB, Jan 25 at 1421, 2-way intruders, probably Spanish but too weak and intermittent to be sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17665, Jan 25 at 1424, good signal with open carrier/dead air, gone at 1437 recheck. Nothing at all is scheduled anywhere, anywhen on 17665 per B-14 HFCC and Aoki. Nor is there a nearby IBB siteswitch starting at 1430 which might explain a warmup elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1739 UT January 25
