** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 24 at 0557, CBB is still on, after first noted at
0132.
11775, March 24 at 1407, CBB also on now but with CCI, India
6090,
March 25 at 0204 is off again
11775, March 26 at 1351, PMS is on
again
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1766, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12085, March 25 at 1403, RA with news about cannabis,
Yemen, Amanda Knox, quite stronger than // 12065 with CCI from BBC Singapore;
1405 joining Triple J starting with someone visiting Texas for a year, including
SXSW. I assume this is the last newscast we will be getting for a few hours as
RA stays with JJJ.
RA also plans to maintain these two frequencies in
A-15 at 09-21, but BBC will be gone; instead, Iran will collide with both: 12085
at 1420-1520 in Russian; 12065 at 1150-1450 in Dari.
HFCC A-15 does show
a few changes or alternatives:
New 6080 at 09-21, 5 degree azimuth to
CIRAF 51 only – i.e. New Guineas --- will this be a regular service from a
reactivated fourth transmitter, or just for contingency??
355 degree
azimuth:
12065 at 09-21, 15415 at 21-09
30 degree azimuth:
New
6150 AND/OR 12085 at 09-21, 15240 at 21-09
70 degree azimuth [extending
right across North America]:
9580 at 09-21; New 13630 AND/OR 17840 at
21-09
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505,
March 24 at 1359:20, mistimesignal ends from JBA BB.
15505, March 25
ending at 1359:56, mistimesignal after IS is still fast but much later than
usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Re my March 24
log of Bolivia on 6134.84 with het from Brasil on 6135.22, approxes., I was
surprised to see later a log from Bob Wilkner, FL of something
else!
``6135.2 Brasil Radio Alvorada, Parintins 0930 to 0940 instrumental
music and om chat in Portuguese this // 4965 on 15 March
(Wilkner)``
Radio Alvorada is not the station on 6135, but R. Aparecida.
If it was // 4965, it must have been only a relay of Aparecida, or both stations
relaying something else, since Alvorada is also obviously Roman Catholic per its
homepage, but going on to the programação page link:
we
find it only says LOREN IPSUM, but with a link at the left to a full page of
Latin nonsense, no doubt in tribute to the RCC:
Tnx,
Bob, for eventually leading us to this amusement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, March 24 at 0553, RHC English with a fast SAH and
slightly offset double audio, ergo two transmitters at once; historical
nostalgic M&W discussion about how RHC relayed Voice of Vietnam during The
War, not directly but by reading scripts off teleprinter; also mentioned Radio
Free Dixie [which IIRC was on 690]; how RHC itself was on a hi power MW
transmitter, 1040 to the distress of WHO (I don`t remember that, but Radio
Moscow). Ah, the good ole days! Shortly the second 6000 transmitter goes off;
maybe just a brief overlap.
11760, March 25 at 0202, open carrier/dead
air from RHC, whilst nominal on 11670 and much stronger // 11840 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 1040, March 26 at 1319,
very poor signal, YL in Spanish with temps and predicted highs for several
cities including Hidalgo del Parral, then listing today`s (Catholic) saints. No
1040 in Parral, but one in Chihuahua city, XEHES, Estéreo Sensación which I have
IDed recently, maybe this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: March 23 at 2330:09 UT, my chair and computer
screen shake. USGS soon reports this:
4.0, 22 km SSE of Medford, OK,
2015-03-23 23:29:54 UTC 1.4 km deep
That`s about 20 miles NE of Enid. We
get dozens of frackin` quakes in the 3`s every week! Usually unfelt, but when
they hit 4.0 magnitude, they get our attention. Note the 15-second delay in
timing from the epicenter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. March 25, tornado season is underway! Big 3 network affiliates in OKC
blow away network news at 2230 UT for continuing wall-to-wall coverage of
approaching storm. Who cares what`s happening in the rest of the world? No
access to NBC or ABC news, but KWTV RF 39 implements its new backup plan to put
CBS on the other full-power station it acquired last year, KSBI ``52.1`` RF 23,
rather than on ``9.2`` which continues replaying old newscast from noon! Yet as
late as last Sunday, the second half of Face the Nation, which KWTV refuses to
carry on its main channel, was still on 9.2. KFOR could put NBC on 4.2 instead
of ANT-TV or on its substation, KAUT RF 40, ``43``, but won`t. KOCO`s only
alternative would be 5.2 but that would pre-empt MeTV.
KFOR, KOCO and
KWTV main channels all pre-empt the entire primetime network schedules until
0300 UT March 26; meanwhile tornados did hit Moore (and Sand Springs near
Tulsa). I assume CBS primetime continued on KSBI instead of whatever it usually
runs, but never got around to checking it: rather hectic keeping an eye on three
screens while I am recording WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KFOR TV [RF 27] is reporting at 0037 UT March 26
that a tornado just hit Moore OK, and knocked down two of the three KOKC-1520
towers. They were probably using only one of them on 12 kW ND STA. Always QRM at
night, but checked at 0040 UT, 1520 does seem to be off the air. Other AMs in
the Moore area, KWPN 640 and KTOK 1000 are still on.
Enid is well out of
the storm area tonight, but the cold (straight) winds are really
howling.
Follow-up with video on KFOR at 0045 UT: two towers on ground
and the third is broken, the top part hanging down by the bottom part. F2 rated
tornado, estimates Mike Morgan, 200 yards wide.
At 0118 UT, KFOR reports
that ``KOMA`` (old habits die hard) is switching to 103.1 and 1560 AM. meaning I
assume KOKC programming taking over KEBC 1560, and 103.1 is already the KOKC FM
translator. (Glenn Hauser, Enid, from three ASAP posts to MW DX and general DX
groups, as well as dxldyg, via WORLD OF RADIO 1766, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Next morning, March 26, awake almost an
hour after sunrise, I check for what`s happening on 1520 and 1560:
1520,
KOKC is definitely off; might have heard CRI via 25 kW KYND Cypress (Houston) TX
a bit earlier without KOKC in the way. By 1338 UT a weak signal is audible,
M&W in English, probably that.
1560: at 1323 UT March 26, mix of two
stations, but sports talk is much stronger: no doubt 46 kW KGOW Bellaire
(Houston) TX. The understation is KEBC Del City (OKC), which was also sports
talk on a different network, but now coöpted for KOKC programming. OKC and
Houston are virtually the same azimuth from here, so cannot separate them by
nulling.
By 1326 UT, KEBC is gaining a little, so I can make out the
``apology`` replayed from the SAE guy, with clips from News 9 (KWTV-39). At 1343
UT, KGOW is atop again, more than an hour after sunrise here. 1352 UT still CCI;
1357 UT the SAE story yet again; 1359 hear an ID only for ``1520 KOKC``, CBS
bong and news, but could not make out the full ID. An hour later at 1459 UT,
KGOW is finally all gone, as I copy ``News-talk 1520, K-OKC, Oklahoma City, 1560
KEBC, Del City``, 10 o`clock``. So they are legal with the IDs.
KEBC is
1000/250 watts U4, was on NBC Sports network, certainly dispensable under the
circumstances; unknown what`s on its FM translator as in NRC AM Log, K225BN,
92.9, maybe still sportstalk, ``The Franchise 2``? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, March 25 at 1359, BSKSA with
very poor signal, and aside from Ascension just about to start a semihour on
21630, the OSOB, with Kuwait still kaput from 21540. (On March 20, I think, Ivo
Ivanov had found 21580 instead of 21505 with ``awful FM modulation``) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1765
monitoring: confirmed on WBCQ 7490v webcast, Wednesday March 25 at 2100. Also
presumed 1765 at 0330 UT Thu March 26 on WRMI 9955, as 1766 was not yet
ready.
WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: first SW airing should have been
Thursday March 26 at 1230 on WRMI 9955, but I slept past 1300. Next:
Fri
2130 WRMI 15770 & 7570
Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger
Lokalradio
Sat 1000 WRMI 5850
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger
Lokalradio
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2100 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA
[last week confirmed in Europe, Japan] NEW; to continue??
Sun
0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area
51 [last week at 0344!]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR
7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST]
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST]
Wed
2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1767 if ready in
time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, March 25
at 0205, WTWW-2 is on with rock music. This is UT Wednesday; you never know when
Ted will fire it up, having driven off a big customer, Brother Scare: I don`t
think it was on this UT Sunday or Monday at random chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, March 25 at 0207, WWRB is open
carrier/dead air while 5050 is BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, March 26 at 1353, very weak music, presumably
KVOH doing a prélude as not officially opening until 1400; by 1410 it`s the
usual bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140,
March 24 at 1257 UT, Spanish from E/W, 1303 UT ID as ``Radio Las Américas,
11-40``; 1306 UT news about plane crash in Alps, 1308 UT back to romantic music.
This is the radio station named for a grocery store, KLTK, Centerton (Rogers)
AR, 5 kW ND daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
1190, March 25 at 0610 UT, slightly atop heavy QRM and peaking roughly E-W,
``Killer Kountry 11-90``; call which followed sounded like KKGD, but obviously
that slogan was really KQQZ, De Soto (St Louis) MO, 10000/22 watts, transmitter
probably in IL. What, 22 watts at night? No way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, March 24 at 1242 UT, weak monolog in Spanish
loops about N/S, and a LAH. In the NRC AM Log, two of the four Texans are SS:
KBRN Boerne (Corpus), news/talk; and KMXO Merkel (between Abilene &
Sweetwater), religion: both 250 watt daytimers. There are also three Mexicans,
closest being XEJQ, la Explosiva, Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, 400 watt
daytimer, but very likely it`s one of the tejanas. Aha: official FCC sunrise in
March for KBRN is not until 1245 UT, ditto KMXO, so that`s no help in separating
them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at
1730 UT March 26
