** ANGUILLA. 6090, April 18 at 0117, CBB is missing; also no 11775 circa 1300
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [and non]. 11711-,
UT Sat April 18 at 0135, RAE is only poor in storm noise, not boosted like last
night with a K of 6; at least there is no spur audible from Brasil, but still
crackling around 11745 & 11815 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA. 990, UT Sat April 18 at 0605 UT, CBW opening news
magazine, ``The Monocle Daily, live from London on Monocle 24``; little problem
from usual opposite nemesis XET Monterrey; could they really be direxional south
for a change??? Monocle is a new one on me, but is now one of the contributors
to CBC Overnight, along with ABC, BBC, DW, PRI and RTE. Here`s the ``winter``
sked of CBC Overnight on Radio 1:
showing
`Monocle Daily` [sic] really airs Saturdays only at 1-2 am.
This sked claims
times are Eastern, as of March 9, implying that altho for Winter, DST has been
taken into account. Yet, we know better that the times are Eastern ONLY in the
Eastern zone! Delayed an hour for CBW in Central, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9200, April 18 at 1251, CNR1 jammer, very
poor; none others audible in the low-9s, and no complete bandscan undertaken
today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11935++, April 18
at 0124, open carrier/dead air, no het but slightly on the hi side, fair with
flutter. Must be R. Cairo rather than RB2 Brasil, apparently off.
12070+,
April 18 at 0125, R. Cairo in suptorted Spanish on VG signal level. Slightly on
the hi side but not as far off as 11935. The Spanish is axually partially
readable! 0125 ``Radio El Cairo presenta`` --- pause for several seconds of
musical theme --- ``Efemérides --- un programa semanal``. This format for
opening programs applies across the board in Spanish and other languages, and
IIRC Turkey does it as well.
9965+++, April 18 at 0126, R. Cairo, very
good in Arabic, not distorted but with perpetual whine; further off frequency
than 12070 and 11935.
9315.0, April 18 at 0126, R. Cairo, fair in
Spanish, not too distorted, and not off-frequency for a change (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1270, April 18 at 0555 UT, VG
signal with Mexican music, looping E/W, soon ID by SHVA as ``La Zeta 1270 AM``,
so KTUZ Claremore (Tulsa market), 5/1 kW U4. Day and night patterns favor
ENE/WSW, not so much toward here. I could easily believe this was on 5 kW day
power. Note that namesake KTUZ FM // 106.7 is way over in OKC, and the TV
station on RF 29 (``30``, ``36`` or ``48`` depending on which Spanish virtual
channel one views) is in Shawnee/OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 18 at *0114:11 SLBC carrier on, fair
with heavy flutter; 0114:46 music prélude starts, 0115:19, 2+1 mistimesignal
ends, sign-on announcement. These times are quite reliable compared to each
other showing good precision: the only problem is that they are all wrong (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Please monitor a Saturday
English broadcast from VOT --- I have been trying to confirm whether or not
there is any `Letterbox` still airing, at least on alternate weeks, the `DX
Corner` having been canceled last year.
Their podcast page is a mess ---
random bits of various programs here and there from various dates --- but never
(at least not recently) anything dated on a Saturday or Sunday, as if a
different crew doesn`t bother to put up any of those programs, except perhaps
`Today in History`. One used to be able to pick a date, click, and listen to an
entire English transmission on demand.
There is one `DX Corner` podcast
from last August, perhaps the final one. The program schedule page for English
remains blank, when viewed both on IE and Mozilla.
The links to these are
on Alan Roe`s Hitlist,
When
I bring up the VOT World webcast at 1700 UT Sat April 18, the player timer
already shows 6:50:00 and it`s in Spanish about --- what else --- Atatürk.
Spanish is scheduled at 1630 on 11930, English on 15520. There are two other
live webcasts, East and West --- West goes to Russian! when there is none such
scheduled on SW, only at 13-14.
Finally we find English at 1705 on the
East webcast: `Eco-Friendly Turks` is ending, 1706 `Today in History`. 1710,
`Question of the Month`, about Year of Turkish Culture 2015 celebrated in which
country? Then music fill, nicely in stereo. 1723 headlines; 1725 English SW
schedule in jumbled fashion by announceress who obviously doesn`t understand
what she is reading; sign-off but more music continues, now the latest IS, 1729
mixed with IDs in French. 1730 timesignal 52 seconds late (on webcast), and
opening French. So if there was a `Letterbox` earlier, we already missed it. I
expect different English broadcasts will be on different webcasts at different
times. They fail to make any of this clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1769 monitoring: confirmed Friday April
17 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 --- very poor in noise level, and NOT on 15770 where
it had been reliably, instead carrying RFI Musique --- which is shown on the
schedule for System D, 15770 at 21-22, as filler, at various times almost every
day of the week. The only nominal time for WOR on 15770 is now Sundays at 2100,
altho still Thu April 16 it was on 15770 as well as 7570. We`d much prefer
15770, as 7570 is getting absorbed into summer daytime noise level, and really
should be moved to a higher band.
Thomas Völkner notifies us April 17:
``Hi Glenn, Due to maintenance work at the Goehren transmitter site, there will
be no HLR transmissions over the coming two weekends resp. Wednesdays. Regular
transmissions will resume on Saturday, May 2nd, with WOR and other media shows
in their usual slots. Allbest, Thomas`` By ``resp.`` he means also off
Wednesdays.
Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 0315v WA0RCR
1860-AM [last week started at 0328.5]
Sun 2100 WRMI 15770
Sun 2300
WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off]
Wed 1315 WRMI
9955
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off]
Wed 2100
WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1770 if ready in time]
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850, Friday April 17 at 2332,
WRMI is on with `Democracy Now`, Amy Goodman recognizable anywhere. This would
be the Global 24 service, not RMI programming. Could not hear it at first next
to noisy computer, but audible fairly outside on the PL-880. Could not listen
long enough to determine whether it`s the current day`s episode; last weekend,
DN was also replaying on Sat and Sun. Global 24 is also allegedly still
scheduled Sat/Sun at 22-02 UT Sun/Mon on 11825, but those may be automated
replays of old programming like observed last weekend. There is still nothing
new on G24 website or Facebook since late March (Glenn Hauser, OK, April 18, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490.0, UT Sat April 18 at 0129, WBCQ with
`Allan Weiner Worldwide`` running really long this week after 0000 UT start.
He`s talking about where to get the best lobster rolls at chowderhouses on the
coast of Maine. New co-host on the phone seems to be called Norm, saying goodbye
to him, reachable at gatoradio@yahoo.com or 941-737-7159.
Allan says he will be in transit next week so some others in the crew
will do this show, and also the following week (and Norm won`t be available
either). 0134 his closing prayer to Jesus, but then plugs for BCQ airtime,
mentioning 7490, 5110 and 9330, but not 15420 (and 9330 has been off the air for
weeks), until finished at 0141; 0142 WBCQ jingle ID, joining Brother Scare`s
screenreader with the same BS we have heard earlier this week about America
being destroyed by nuclear strikes from somewhere. This is running one word
behind 7570 WRMI.
5110 was already carrying Brother Scare during AWWW so
that was on 7490 only. Recheck at 0544 still on with BS, fair-good signal,
presumably until 0700 UT Sat as Larry Will told me, rather than until 0500 as
Ivo Ivanov assumed.
5110-CUSB will presumably return to Area 51
programming on Sat/UT Sun and Sun/UT Mon, but as of 1633 UT April 18, no new
schedule for this weekend at http://www.worldmicroscope.com/ Larry
may still be away in Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 7505.4, April 18 at 0128, WRNO is back on after missing several days, VG
signal level but distorted music, and always way off-frequency (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, April 18 at 0553 UT, peaking
NE/SW in heavy QRM, tuning by, I hear ``The Big Talker, KHHA(?)``. No, it must
be my closest but seldom heard 1440, KMAJ Topeka KS, 5/1 kW U3 with such a
slogan. Both day and night patterns aim NW, with a null toward here. I never
hear a trace of it on daytime groundwave, unlike 580 WIBW which is almost a
local (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
11425-SSB, April 18 at 1257-1313+, intermittent singing, initially and
repetitively with syllables sounding like ``ba-ta-hay`` over and over, some
overlap from competitors; 1313 more of a real song but also with repeated
syllables. Presumably the Indonesian QSO pirates which infest this part of the
band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at
1744 UT April 18
