** CANADA. 6070, Jan 26 at 1409, CFRX is audible poor-fair with Canadian biz news, something about tax help vs the CRA (which I assume = IRS); 1410 ``News-Talk 10-10`` ID, fading up and down. Since latest reactivation, had not been hearing it here after sunrise until now, but too far away for all-day reception.
In B-15 HFCC [not including North Korea, Brasil, etc.] registered conflicts will continue to be the 25 kW ROB, Germany, 24 hours; Vatican Latin at 0530-0615 (hour earlier than now) and also 2040-2100 in Arabic; and IBB São Tomé at 2000-2030 daily in French. CFRX is not registered, nor are CBC on 6160 & 6160, nor anything on that frequency. I vaguely recall that before its demise, RCI would courteously register the other Canadians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 15700, Jan 26 at 1511, CRI English on new frequency via CUBA!! VG level but with constant hum, and ICDs = intermittent carrier dropouts every few seconds. (Much stronger than 15770 WRMI BS). A few minutes earlier at 1509, I had noticed usual 13740 CRI relay was absent. 1549 it`s still the same with dropouts on 15700.
CRI long ago had plans to move the 14-16 service to 19m: during A-14 it was HFCC registered via HABana on 15535, 250 kW, 305 degrees, but that never happened in A-14 nor in B-14. 13740 was doing just fine here, no dropouts either, but 15700 would have greater range in the daytime, but also a greater skip zone past Florida. We`ll see if this stix.
Another unfulfilled QSY in A-14 was for CRI Cantonese 12-13 and English 13-14 on 13590, which would have replaced 9570. Need to check for that now too, or somewhere else on 22m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Jan 26 at 0648, ERTOpen [still known as?], is on with W&M conversation in Greek, fair signal. Wonder what the elexion of leftist government portends now for ERT/NERIT? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11645, Jan 26 at 1505, humwhine on poor carrier, no other modulation audible. Aoki shows VOK in Arabic, so probably that, altho HFCC also has a wooden(?) registration for Pakistan in Urdu, quite capable of similar noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Jan 26 at 1407, Shiokaze has finally made a frequency jump to one of its alternates after several weeks on clear 5910. YL Japanese ID soon after tune-in, piano music, fair signal atop SAH, which means they stupidly have moved onto a frequency already occupied: by Voice of Freedom, clandestine from S to N Korea, and just as likely to be jammed as 5910 was. Believe this is the first day for the new frequency. At least it will be off after 1430 when Madagascar and/or Yemen may appear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Jan 26 at 1428, Denge Kurdistane with Kurdish music concert, but seems with CCI? Normally it`s clear after 1400. Then I decide it`s ACI from 9395 WRMI Global 24 since they are playing music with some hi-pitched chimes, rather like HSK9 would on 9390, but not heard now; see USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. There`s an FM translator tower on the eastern edge of populated Enid at 2906 E Randolph, Regier Antenna Service, next to residences, so is this address also zoned commercial? It is right across the street from the Enid campus of NW Oklahoma State University (HQ: Alva) which has no interest in broadcasting, unfortunately.
Photos from two separate daytime visits; at night, no tower lights.
Address overviews: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-1.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-4.jpg
Closeups of mailbox, name and address: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-2.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-5.jpg
Antenna with 3 elements at top, other receiving antennas below: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-3.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-9.jpg
Closeup, top of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-8.jpg
Closeup, top to middle of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-6.jpg
Closeup, middle of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-7.jpg
It`s the 98.5 unit, K253BC, which relays 88.7 KLVV out of Ponca City. But which is now redundant, as KLVV established a stronger non-translator relay on 90.5, at Goltry west of Enid, KGVV. Its coverage area encompasses all but the eastern non-populated coverage area of K253BC. Furthermore, in most of Enid the original 88.7 KLVV is audible directly. What a pity K253BC isn`t put to better use, such as bringing public radio service to Enid for the first time from KGOU, KUCO, even KOSU which is somewhat marginal and we could use a local-quality signal; KCCU Lawton or even KMUW Wichita, KWGS/KWTU Tulsa. But none of them are interested.
Here`s the FCC info, many of the entries blank, and does not show what station it is really relaying:
K253BC OK ENID USA
Licensee: PAUL W. & PATSY REGIER
Service Designation: FX Translator Station (retransmits signal, different channel than main station)
Channel/Class: 253D Frequency: 98.5 MHz Licensed
File No.: BLFT-20141024ABQ Facility ID number: 51936
CDBS Application ID No.: 1655855
36° 23' 54.00" N Latitude
97° 50' 14.40" W Longitude (NAD 27)
Polarization: Horizontal Vertical
Effective Radiated Power (ERP): 0.25 0.25 kW ERP
Antenna Height Above Average Terrain: 0. 0. meters HAAT --
Antenna Height Above Mean Sea Level: 399. 399. meters AMSL
Antenna Height Above Ground Level: 27. 27. meters AGL
Non-Directional Antenna ID No.: 117705 Pattern Rotation: 0.00
Map: Service Contour on Google map (60 dBu)
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, January 26, 2015, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Re my previous observation that BSKSA multilingual stream including English does not work, Kevin A. Kelly replies:
``Hi Glenn -- That multilingual stream has been down every time I've checked for several months at least. I've kept it in my database because the link was still on one of BSKSA's own pages last I checked, so I figured that it might at least intermittently work, and providing the link might be better than having nothing. But as far as I can tell, that 16-21 UT is not currently available anywhere. Best wishes -
Kevin A. Kelly, PublicRadioFan.com, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15555, Jan 26 at 1513, R. Tamazuj in Arabic dialect on new frequency, ex-15550 where it was colliding with WJHR USB only. After three months in the B-14 season, did someone finally notice my complaints about this? FCC? Via VATICAN site, still // 15400 which is much stronger here. 1514 announcement mentions several ``kiloHertz``, probably giving full schedule including this change. Presumably also applies to R. Dabanga at 1530-1627, unchecked, while 15400 is for Tamazuj only until 1527. Aoki already has the 15555 change effective yesterday Jan 25. The two are still listed for 15550 on their morning broadcasts, 0400-0557 via Madagascar when there is no WJHR to avoid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 11865, Jan 26 at 1507, YL talking, sounds like Thai or Lao, atop some CCI. But Aoki & HFCC show it must be RFA in Tibetan, 500 kW, 75 degrees from UAE.
Altho unlikely related, it`s not the first time I have found Tibetan resembling; Aoki says it`s the Bod dialect. WRTH does not draw a distinxion among the dialects. Or not: EiBi`s readme list of languages shows [bod] is merely the abbr. for Tibetan in general, spoken by a megaperson in Tibet, and one tenth that in Indian exile. But other languages/dialects spoken in Tibet are Amdo, Kham. I know I have seen these on some broadcast schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7345, Jan 26 at 1415, Navy MARS net on SSB, NCS being NNN0PQU, tactical net group call being 4H1B, as both pronounced fonetikaly (except for NNN); contact NNN0UTE has no traffic, and many other check-ins, with informal comments about weather, etc. Also a very weak AM carrier, presumably CNR1 non-jammer from Beijing 572 site, only broadcaster listed at this hour in Aoki.
NNN0PQU makes it easy to find him, on unrestricted QRZ.com page, http://qrz.com/db/W4DOD a.k.a. Dan, W4DOD, 40 miles east of Knoxville TN at Dandridge. Seems his dog Winston is also a ham, W0OF. NNN0UTE is Raymond somewhere in Tennessee, previously logged a couple years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1757 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday Jan 26 at 0400 and presumably also on WBCQ 5110v. 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, Jan 26 at 1428, Global 24 via WRMI playing soft music with some chimes which resonate in reverse 5 kHz up on 9400 Kurdistan [non]. At 1517 no `Democracy Now` today, but announcement about a WOMAD festival. These correlate with the G24 schedule showing `Lake Air` Mondays at 14-15, `Sounds from the Global Village` at 15-16; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 9540, Jan 26 at 1423, poor signal playing BaBcoCk IS, with longer pauses than usual and seems to cut out now and then past 1426; at 1429 dead air with flutter past 1430. Presumed FEBA via Tashkent as in fact registered by BaBcoCk for Hindi at 1430-1500, 100 kW, 131 degrees. 9540 was an old R. Tashkent frequency; how we miss them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Corrected: 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 earlier [not later as I originally misstated!], but the PSRA semi-power span is of course darker --- assuming station is adhering strictly to licensed power & hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13950, Jan 26 at 1508, multi-way contacts, something like Vietnamese, no two on exactly same frequency, some SSB, some distorted as if FM. What net is this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
In B-15 HFCC [not including North Korea, Brasil, etc.] registered conflicts will continue to be the 25 kW ROB, Germany, 24 hours; Vatican Latin at 0530-0615 (hour earlier than now) and also 2040-2100 in Arabic; and IBB São Tomé at 2000-2030 daily in French. CFRX is not registered, nor are CBC on 6160 & 6160, nor anything on that frequency. I vaguely recall that before its demise, RCI would courteously register the other Canadians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 15700, Jan 26 at 1511, CRI English on new frequency via CUBA!! VG level but with constant hum, and ICDs = intermittent carrier dropouts every few seconds. (Much stronger than 15770 WRMI BS). A few minutes earlier at 1509, I had noticed usual 13740 CRI relay was absent. 1549 it`s still the same with dropouts on 15700.
CRI long ago had plans to move the 14-16 service to 19m: during A-14 it was HFCC registered via HABana on 15535, 250 kW, 305 degrees, but that never happened in A-14 nor in B-14. 13740 was doing just fine here, no dropouts either, but 15700 would have greater range in the daytime, but also a greater skip zone past Florida. We`ll see if this stix.
Another unfulfilled QSY in A-14 was for CRI Cantonese 12-13 and English 13-14 on 13590, which would have replaced 9570. Need to check for that now too, or somewhere else on 22m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Jan 26 at 0648, ERTOpen [still known as?], is on with W&M conversation in Greek, fair signal. Wonder what the elexion of leftist government portends now for ERT/NERIT? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11645, Jan 26 at 1505, humwhine on poor carrier, no other modulation audible. Aoki shows VOK in Arabic, so probably that, altho HFCC also has a wooden(?) registration for Pakistan in Urdu, quite capable of similar noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Jan 26 at 1407, Shiokaze has finally made a frequency jump to one of its alternates after several weeks on clear 5910. YL Japanese ID soon after tune-in, piano music, fair signal atop SAH, which means they stupidly have moved onto a frequency already occupied: by Voice of Freedom, clandestine from S to N Korea, and just as likely to be jammed as 5910 was. Believe this is the first day for the new frequency. At least it will be off after 1430 when Madagascar and/or Yemen may appear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Jan 26 at 1428, Denge Kurdistane with Kurdish music concert, but seems with CCI? Normally it`s clear after 1400. Then I decide it`s ACI from 9395 WRMI Global 24 since they are playing music with some hi-pitched chimes, rather like HSK9 would on 9390, but not heard now; see USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. There`s an FM translator tower on the eastern edge of populated Enid at 2906 E Randolph, Regier Antenna Service, next to residences, so is this address also zoned commercial? It is right across the street from the Enid campus of NW Oklahoma State University (HQ: Alva) which has no interest in broadcasting, unfortunately.
Photos from two separate daytime visits; at night, no tower lights.
Address overviews: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-1.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-4.jpg
Closeups of mailbox, name and address: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-2.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-5.jpg
Antenna with 3 elements at top, other receiving antennas below: http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-3.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-9.jpg
Closeup, top of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-8.jpg
Closeup, top to middle of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-6.jpg
Closeup, middle of antenna:http://www.w4uvh.net/K253BC-7.jpg
It`s the 98.5 unit, K253BC, which relays 88.7 KLVV out of Ponca City. But which is now redundant, as KLVV established a stronger non-translator relay on 90.5, at Goltry west of Enid, KGVV. Its coverage area encompasses all but the eastern non-populated coverage area of K253BC. Furthermore, in most of Enid the original 88.7 KLVV is audible directly. What a pity K253BC isn`t put to better use, such as bringing public radio service to Enid for the first time from KGOU, KUCO, even KOSU which is somewhat marginal and we could use a local-quality signal; KCCU Lawton or even KMUW Wichita, KWGS/KWTU Tulsa. But none of them are interested.
Here`s the FCC info, many of the entries blank, and does not show what station it is really relaying:
K253BC OK ENID USA
Licensee: PAUL W. & PATSY REGIER
Service Designation: FX Translator Station (retransmits signal, different channel than main station)
Channel/Class: 253D Frequency: 98.5 MHz Licensed
File No.: BLFT-20141024ABQ Facility ID number: 51936
CDBS Application ID No.: 1655855
36° 23' 54.00" N Latitude
97° 50' 14.40" W Longitude (NAD 27)
Polarization: Horizontal Vertical
Effective Radiated Power (ERP): 0.25 0.25 kW ERP
Antenna Height Above Average Terrain: 0. 0. meters HAAT --
Antenna Height Above Mean Sea Level: 399. 399. meters AMSL
Antenna Height Above Ground Level: 27. 27. meters AGL
Non-Directional Antenna ID No.: 117705 Pattern Rotation: 0.00
Map: Service Contour on Google map (60 dBu)
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, January 26, 2015, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Re my previous observation that BSKSA multilingual stream including English does not work, Kevin A. Kelly replies:
``Hi Glenn -- That multilingual stream has been down every time I've checked for several months at least. I've kept it in my database because the link was still on one of BSKSA's own pages last I checked, so I figured that it might at least intermittently work, and providing the link might be better than having nothing. But as far as I can tell, that 16-21 UT is not currently available anywhere. Best wishes -
Kevin A. Kelly, PublicRadioFan.com, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15555, Jan 26 at 1513, R. Tamazuj in Arabic dialect on new frequency, ex-15550 where it was colliding with WJHR USB only. After three months in the B-14 season, did someone finally notice my complaints about this? FCC? Via VATICAN site, still // 15400 which is much stronger here. 1514 announcement mentions several ``kiloHertz``, probably giving full schedule including this change. Presumably also applies to R. Dabanga at 1530-1627, unchecked, while 15400 is for Tamazuj only until 1527. Aoki already has the 15555 change effective yesterday Jan 25. The two are still listed for 15550 on their morning broadcasts, 0400-0557 via Madagascar when there is no WJHR to avoid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 11865, Jan 26 at 1507, YL talking, sounds like Thai or Lao, atop some CCI. But Aoki & HFCC show it must be RFA in Tibetan, 500 kW, 75 degrees from UAE.
Altho unlikely related, it`s not the first time I have found Tibetan resembling; Aoki says it`s the Bod dialect. WRTH does not draw a distinxion among the dialects. Or not: EiBi`s readme list of languages shows [bod] is merely the abbr. for Tibetan in general, spoken by a megaperson in Tibet, and one tenth that in Indian exile. But other languages/dialects spoken in Tibet are Amdo, Kham. I know I have seen these on some broadcast schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7345, Jan 26 at 1415, Navy MARS net on SSB, NCS being NNN0PQU, tactical net group call being 4H1B, as both pronounced fonetikaly (except for NNN); contact NNN0UTE has no traffic, and many other check-ins, with informal comments about weather, etc. Also a very weak AM carrier, presumably CNR1 non-jammer from Beijing 572 site, only broadcaster listed at this hour in Aoki.
NNN0PQU makes it easy to find him, on unrestricted QRZ.com page, http://qrz.com/db/W4DOD a.k.a. Dan, W4DOD, 40 miles east of Knoxville TN at Dandridge. Seems his dog Winston is also a ham, W0OF. NNN0UTE is Raymond somewhere in Tennessee, previously logged a couple years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1757 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Monday Jan 26 at 0400 and presumably also on WBCQ 5110v. 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, Jan 26 at 1428, Global 24 via WRMI playing soft music with some chimes which resonate in reverse 5 kHz up on 9400 Kurdistan [non]. At 1517 no `Democracy Now` today, but announcement about a WOMAD festival. These correlate with the G24 schedule showing `Lake Air` Mondays at 14-15, `Sounds from the Global Village` at 15-16; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN. 9540, Jan 26 at 1423, poor signal playing BaBcoCk IS, with longer pauses than usual and seems to cut out now and then past 1426; at 1429 dead air with flutter past 1430. Presumed FEBA via Tashkent as in fact registered by BaBcoCk for Hindi at 1430-1500, 100 kW, 131 degrees. 9540 was an old R. Tashkent frequency; how we miss them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Corrected: 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 earlier [not later as I originally misstated!], but the PSRA semi-power span is of course darker --- assuming station is adhering strictly to licensed power & hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13950, Jan 26 at 1508, multi-way contacts, something like Vietnamese, no two on exactly same frequency, some SSB, some distorted as if FM. What net is this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
