** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 24 at 1359, JBA carrier from BB which I can detect
only with BFO --- so weak that a timesignal ending at 1359:41.5 I must qualify
as only at ``imagination level``, but it would be typical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 17705, April 24 at 1258, CNR1
jammer good signal and heavy QRM from Saudi Arabia and/or intended victim All
India Radio in Chinese.
Meanwhile, circa 1300 April 24, the other AIR
Chinese frequency, 15795 bears DRM noise only. HFCC claims it`s not DRM, but
Aoki shows DRM, and also *jammed. Could the jamming also be DRM? That should
make for interesting decoding.
18990, April 24 at 1259, CNR1 jammer, good
level, timesignal and off 1300*. Then I check nearby and find 18980 at 1300 with
VP signal, presumably RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT before jammer rehits it, as that is
indeed scheduled to jump from 18990 to 18980 Fridays & Tuesdays at 1300
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910-,
April 24 at 0539, music on very poor signal, 0542 Spanish talkover it; 0544
running-water ute QRM briefly, but no sign of TWR via Austria which is in Polish
M-F at 0545-0600 on 5910; already propped out? Other Moosbrunn on 6155 is but a
JBA carrier now.
Anyhow, this belies my previous remark that HJDH is not
being heard after NHK/France finishes at 0500*. It was on earlier same date at
0140, so this time it continues, but quite insufficiently, unlike adequate
signal it used to provide for its mostly-music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15355-15385, April 24 at 1303, RHC 15370 is extremely
strong and splattering at least to 15 kHz either side, and desensitizing the
FRG-7. Enough, already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE
[non]. 17660, April 24 at 1256, good signal in French, i.e. RFI at 12-13, but
HFCC registered for both MADAGASCAR at 305 degrees and SOUTH AFRICA at 342
degrees, the entire A-15 season, so which is it, really? EiBi & Aoki both
pick MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA.
April 24 at 1230 UT, I awaken to find AC power is off, so hasten to tune around
with lowered noise level. Strongest local, 1390 KCRC in another part of Enid is
also off, so must be fairly extensive. Its associated Chisholm Trail stations on
FM are also off, or rather on with carrier only: 107.1 KNID, 95.7 KXLS; while
Champlin`s 96.9 KQOB and 1640 KZLS, really run from OKC and with sites between
here and there, are still on normally.
At 1239 UT bandscan, also off the
air is 94.3 KLGB-LP, but strangely, its sibling station at same site, 99.9
KVBN-LP, is still on. The Williams stations, 960 KGWA and 103.1 KOFM are still
on. Also still on in Enid are translators or LPs on 92.1, 105.5, 98.5, 91.1,
89.1.
Power at home comes back on at 1307 UT, but KCRC 1390 is still
off; by 1315 UT its carrier with hum is back. 94.3 is also back by 1315 UT with
music; 95.7 still open carrier; 107.1 back to normal with Oklahoma Farm Bureau
report at 1316 UT; At 1318 UT, 95.7 is back to normal too.
Cause of
outage must not be storms, none around. Here`s the scoop from the Enid
Eagle:
``UPDATE: POWER RESTORED TO ENID CUSTOMERS
Posted: Friday,
April 24, 2015 8:47 am Enid News & Eagle
ENID, Okla. — More than
2,862 customers were out of power Friday morning for about an hour, according to
an OG&E Electric System spokesman.
John Little said power went out
around 7-7:15 a.m. and was restored for most around 8 a.m. A lag in OG&E's
SystemWatch, the public online source for outage information, showed power still
out to nearly 3,000 around 9 a.m. Little said that digital issue is being
address by OG&E so more accurate information will be provided in the
future.
A burning pole in the area of Cambridge and 6th in northeast Enid
was to blame for the outage, Little said, though officials do not yet know what
caused the fire. He said they do not believe weather was to blame.
When
crews arrived on the scene, he said, they were able to reroute power to most of
the affected customers. "With the exception of one or two people off that pole,"
he said, "everyone is back on."``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, April 24 at 0551, R. Dabanga talk and
stinger, good signal via MADAGASCAR, and NO tone jamming audible at all. Much
weaker // 11625 via VATICAN at 0552 does suffer from JBA tone jamming (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 17790, April 24 at 1259,
Bow Bells on weak signal, but during power outage here until 1307, with
minimized noise level, allowing lots of signals to audiblize on 16m, via FRG-7
on D-cell battery pack which still has some current in it.
17790 is 63
degrees from OMAN at 13-14 only, BBCWS in English. We know it will be overlapped
by WRMI well before 1400 with Radio Africa`s nondescript ``interval signal``
emanating from Okeechobee at 87 degrees toward Equatorial Guinea (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5890, April 24 at 0539, blessèd open
carrier/dead air instead of BS via WWCR; by 0545, the quack is baaaack (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1580, April 24 at 0559 UT, ad
for John Deere farm equipment, Colorado Springs, no ID heard, and 0600 UT into
medical talk show, so KHIG. I`ve yet to hear much about pot on it (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1670, April 24 at 0556 UT, two ``Fox
Sports 1670`` promos, so must be WPLA Dry Branch (Macon market) GA, and DF fits
for that rather than Madison WI WOZN which is CBS Sports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1390, April 24 at 1230 UT I awaken to
find AC power is off, so quick bandscan finds local KCRC NSP is also off, a rare
opportunity to DX something else (see OKLAHOMA for more on this). Dominating
1390 are national ads, then some syndicated talkshow in English from E/W. At
first I figure it`s very likely my next-nearest in Rogers (Fayetteville address)
AR, which is ND daytime (and KCRC must protect it, beaming away from it
westward), but NRC AM Log shows KFFK is SS:MEX, La Patrona. (I did also hear
some Spanish briefly in the mix.) So on to next choice which is really
northeast: KJPW, Waynesville MO, also 5 kW ND daytime, and is a talker in
English, including Fox network. By 1315 UT, KCRC carrier is back on with hum
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, April 24 at
0602 UT, crooner in English, 0605 UT gospel song, loops WNW/ESE. Format and
direxion rule out the usual closer suspects, so I wonder if it`s WLOR Huntsville
AL, 50000/44 watts with UC/OLD format per NRC AM Log? Day pattern is circle
tangent southward. WPFC Bâton Rouge LA, 5000/42 watts U1 with UC:GOS/REL also
possible tho DF seems further counterclockwise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1730 UT April 24
