** AUSTRALIA. 12075, April 5 at 1327, RBA with medley runup as usual, and 1330
sign-on in English *still* claims to be on 11590. Good with some flutter here,
unlike 12085 RA. I didn`t, but Ivo Ivanov was also monitoring 15340 and found
Hindi to be // but 20 seconds delayed behind 12075 (except Fridays). Sked for
``11590`` and 15340 does show the same Hindi programming at 1330-1400, while
Fridays is `Beyond Words` in English and Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 5 until 1400:11, can barely make out
the mistimesignal of BB, still running slow rather than fast (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11745, April 5 at 0007,
crackling spur from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, wide enough to QRM 11740 station in
Chinese? That would be CNR2 via ubiquitous (see also CHINA) Lingshi 725 site,
per Aoki, overlapping with AIR Tamil via Goa.
11710, 11745, 11815, April
5 at 0600 still spurring away, poorly, rather than nully (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11935-, April 5 at 0000, numerous ``RB
Dois`` IDs with promos, PSA for governo de Paraná, slogan ``a rádio que toca
você`` (the radio which touches you), IDs for ``AM 1430`` only, no mention of
the three SW frequencies! Unusually loud and clear signal, 42-56 dbu on the
PL-880 and good modulation level. Slightly on the lo side, enough to produce a
LAH, which now would be very remnant CNR5 and/or RVA; and after 0045, Cairo
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 17580, April
4 at 2353, poor signal in Chinese, must be per Aoki, CNR1 via Lingshi, and in
this case not a jammer!
11785, April 5 at 1350, CNR1 jammer with
Sunday-evening cultural hour, i.e. a Chinese (Peking?) Opera replete with
hyper-soprano screeches; also on numerous other CNR1 jammer (or non) channels on
7, 9, 11 MHz. 1354 spoken outro to the show.
18990, Sunday April 5 at
1357, JBA signal probably CNR1 but too weak to be sure of a // match --- and
another weak signal on 19010, so RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT has faked out the ChiCom
jammer? No, the Sunday 13-14 hour of RFA is listed in Aoki as supposed to be on
19010; with 18990 on Weds & Sats; wake, up SARFT Jamming Command! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 12055, April 4 at
2357, fair signal, S Asian sounding? But mixing with `East is Red` Chicom NA,
timesignal a sesquisecond late from 0000 UT April 5, and then some Russian
words? Aoki shows the collision is this: CNR-17 Kazakh service from Lingshi 725
site starting at 2355, and FEBC Bocaue Philippines in Lu from 2345 to 0015, both
daily. Signals add up to 47-53 dbu on the PL-880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 4 at 2357, RHC Cuban music, with big hum;
wiggle that patchcord!
11670, April 5 at 0008, RHC Spanish, VG level
54-59 dbu on PL-880, but undermodulated.
5990, April 5 at 0013, CRI
Spanish relay via CUBA is suptorted; // 15120 is suppressed but not distorted,
plus hum which is missing on 5990.
15370, April 5 at 1314, RHC Spanish
playing neat marimba song with lyrix about ``las frutas que adornan la cruz``
such as mangos, a sly reference to Pascua? 1317 opening ``Correo
Internacional``, hardly, starting with a Cuban listener, since they may safely
contact their own SW station, full addresses looking for penpals abroad. BTW,
altho Pascua is the official Spanish for Easter, they confusingly also apply it
to Xmas = Navidad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT.
17550, April 4 at 2353, Arabic, fair with heavy flutter, 31-47 dbu on the
PL-880, so the 20-24 UT Central & Western North American service is
propagating today, at least toward the end of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 540, April 5 at 0651 UT, immediately upon
tune-in, ID for ``La Ranchera de Paquimé`` 540 and FM 90.5, i.e. XETX, 1000/250
watts in Nuevo Casas Grandes, northern Chihuahua. Rotating DX-398, sharing 540
with CBK, not XEWA. XETX is usual night owner of 540, and IDs at every break, a
DXer`s dream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185,
April 5 at 0555, XEPPM with jazz song in Spanish, good modulation, better than
usual, and good signal too. This is the final nite for 7 months that Radio
Educación will normally be on the air until 0600v, since DST finally starts in
most of México, including the DF, so local midnight signoff will henceforth be
0500v. (We still don`t know what time of day they turn it back on, but do know
it is running by the afternoons.)
This Mexico timezone map now answers
our question whether Quintana Roo has gone to UT -4 EDT since it was already on
UT -5 EST unlike any other state?
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-mexico12.php
NO:
Q.R. still EST so now back to being the same as CDT for central Mexico (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Three pirates in a
row:
6940, April 5 at 0317: AM carrier, but no modulation now? Gilles
Letourneau in Montréal earlier at 0200 was getting Wolverine Radio here but in
USB, SSTV. Numerous logs in hfunderground say that ended at 0236*. Also reports
of the unID 6940 carrier at 0312-0321 here:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,21359.0.html
6935-USB,
April 5 at 0317, fair signal with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ad, presumably a
parody. Many other logs of this as Renegade Radio:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,21352.0.html
6930-USB,
April 5 at 0317, good signal with hard rock. Several other logs of this, all
unID, and with Weird Al:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,21357.0.html
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 11800, April 5 at 0006, RRI
English now here, news with Romanian angles concluding, 0007 `Week in Review`,
very good, 53-66 dbu on PL-880, and // 9730 merely good at 45-54 dbu (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11805-11835,
April 4 at 2130, while I have the Netherlands` Utwente receiver running for WOR
check, also try some other frequencies. BSKSA Qur`an 11820 is incredibly strong,
and splattering out to 15 kHz above and below, impossible closer in, blasting
away what`s left of Brother Scare 11825 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13635, April 5 at 0602, good signal in Turkish from
TRT, and to the extent they play music, should be good background entertainment,
now scheduled 0600-1300, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler to W Europe, and
furthermore, N America when propagation permit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring. 9525
Bulgarian relay of Global 24 was missing earlier, from 1900 occupied by China;
just in case, on Utwente remote receiver, recheck circa 2130 when WOR aired last
Saturday: still nothing. See also separate USA: Global 24
1860-AM,
WA0RCR, UT Sunday April 5, previous programming really running late past nominal
0315 time for WOR: at 0321, digital beeps; 0325 ARRL News has started with
interruption for WA0RCR ID frequently during it, so expect WOR to start circa
0338. Yes, from 0337:31, and this time Vern has removed our musical opening and
replaced it with his own intro. Next:
Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 NEW [check
whether in effect this week already]
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580
Mon 0200v WBCQ
7490 Area 51 [temp replacing 5110, 0300; see WBCQ log]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if ready in time]
Thu 1230 WRMI 9955
[ditto]
Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [ditto; NEW]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 11825, Saturday April 4 at 2344, Global 24 via WRMI
with rock, so it must be `The Rock Pile` as scheduled.
5850, April 4 at
2344, the simultaneous G24 service with Old Time Radio as heard last two weeks,
is missing. Maybe a carrier? At 2350, definitely a strong open carrier, 52-58
dbu on the PL-880, as WRMI will be Slovaking after 0000 anyway.
11825,
another check at 0005 UT Sunday April 5: FSN news outro, Global 24 ID and
like-us-on-facebook, waltz theme and `News Review` from European News Network,
but it`s about the Alps crash ``yesterday``! So still replaying last week`s show
originally aired March 25, now a sesquiweek outdated.
Old programming is
not Global 24`s fault this week, since Jeff White notifies us that the ISP
furnishing ftp access for programming to WRMI had a serious accident and is down
until maybe Tuesday. However, he has now set up an alternative route. BTW, there
is nothing new on G24 Facebook or its own website since last weekend`s
programming lineup March 28-30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
BULGARIA
** U S A. 7490v, Sat April 4 at 2351, WBCQ with rock music.
Larry Will notified us a bit earlier:
``Schedule changes for WBCQ 5110,
7490 --- The 5110 transmitter is down, and Pirate Joe is unable to do his show
Shortwave Saturday Night on 7490 this evening, so we will be running some Area
51 programming on 7490 today and tomorrow.
7490 2300 April 4 Radio
Timtron Worldwide
7490 0000 April 5 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show
7490 0200
April 5 Brother Stair (as normally scheduled) (Area 51 programming continues on
our webcast)
7490 0300 April 5 Area 51
7490 0000 April 6 Radio Timtron
Worldwide (as normally scheduled)
7490 0100 April 6 Plastic Magic
7490
0200 April 6 World of Radio [instead of 0300, evidently]
7490 0230 April 6
Grits Radio
Area 51 webcast http://www.splatterbox.us:5110
WBCQ
7490 webcast http://www.splatterbox.us:7415
Regards,
Larry Will`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, April 5
at 0557, another nite with no signal from WEWN Radio Católica Mundial. One third
of their transmitters is down, so in daytime I pay attention to what else be
missing: 11550, nothing at 1312 check, while 12050 is sufficiently in Spanish,
even tho it`s prime Pascua time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1020, April 5 at 0634 UT, ``Hollywood 360 Radio
Network``, with nearby KOKP Perry OK nulled as much as possible, still making
SAH of 235/minute = almost 4 Hz. This is of course KDKA Pittsburgh PA, one
kilomile or a sesquimegameter away, which would be dominant were it not for
stupid sportstalker KOKP, 400/250 watts U4, night pattern with lobes to the
northwest (Enid) and south. Show confirmed on KDKA dated schedule for Sunday
April 5, 12-3 am EDT:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/newsradio-1020-kdka-on-air-schedule/
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1090, April 5 at 0614 UT,
C&W music in the WSW/ENE null of IBOC from KRLD 1080, where I have been
getting KVOP Plainview TX in the Panhandle, but should be talk format. 0627 UT,
oh oh, it`s gospel, with ``This Is My Father`s World``, and 0630 ID and plug for
programming at KAAY.com --- so Little Rock is back on the air after copper
theft! Also making 3 Hz SAH; maybe that`s with KVOP. The KAAY signal is not
strong at all, and would dearly like to know what power and antenna pattern they
are on, probably by STA. Nominally it`s tight toward Manitoba and Yucatán and
not much signal over here anyway.
Ooops, the ``powerful`` KAAY.com site
is for sale; it`s really http://www.1090kaay.com
But there is
nothing obvious about its death and resurrexion. Full programming schedule
http://www.1090kaay.com/common/more.php?m=10&mode=schedule&r=2
displays
``airtime available`` 24/7! Another schedule link covers M-F only. I think I saw
the same many months ago.
Latest informal letter in the correspondence
folder at FCC says:
``ON MARCH 13, 2015, THE LICENSEE DETERMINED THAT SOMEONE
CUT THE TRANSMISSION LINE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO STEAL COPPER. THE LICENSEE PLANS
TO REPLACE AND BURY THE LINE UNDERGROUND. UNTIL THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED, THE
STATION HAS SUSPENDED OPERATIONS.``
Two years and five weeks *before* is
the next one on file:
``Exhibit 3 Description: PARAMETERS OF
OPERATION
RADIO LICENSE HOLDING CBC, LLC, RESUMED BROADCAST OPERATIONS IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 73.1560(D) OF THE RULES. BEFORE GOING SILENT THIS
STATION WAS OPERATING PURSUANT TO SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY. SEE
BESTA-20121105ANP GRANTED 12/10/2012. STATION KAAY RETURNED TO THE AIR WITH
DIFFERENT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS THAN THOSE PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED, THEREFORE,
A NEW REQUEST FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY WAS FILED. SEE BSTA-20130208ABL
GRANTED 2/15/2013.``
And that leads to this: ``Accordingly, the request
for STA IS HEREBY GRANTED. The December 10, 2012, STA is hereby modified to
permit Station KAAY(AM) to operate with an emergency nondirectional antenna and
reduced power not to exceed 5 kilowatts. It will be necessary to further reduce
power or cease operation if complaints of interference are received. This
authority expires on June 10, 2013`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1630, re my log of KRND WY not being a new Mexican, the
Guerrero town it was not, is spelt Iguala, not Igualá --- site of some horrific
news lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 90.1,
Sunday April 5 at 15-16 UT, `Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2014` is back for
another quarterly season on KUCO OK, and many other classical public radio
stations --- seek it out; this leads into their new live season July-August
2015, and o, how I wish I could be there for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 21550, April 4 at 2100 check, Vatican R special is
still on and propagating; started at 1830, and I first encountered at 1905; it`s
the `Easter Vigil`, whatever in Latin with English commentary. Maybe also a
trace on 21560 which was weaker in the first place (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 12001-, April 5 at 1307, Chinese, fair
signal is off-frequency making almost-1-kHz het with the FRG-7 MHz Wadley
birdie. Offset confirmed on the DX-398 with no such birdie, no het but about one
40 Hz click below 12001. Aoki shows the only SWBC station anywhere, anytime on
``12000`` is VOV, from Hanoi-Sontai site at 1100-1330 alternating Russian and
Chinese, plus 2200-2230. Yes, gone at 1341 recheck. I also noticed this
off-frequency the last day or two, but that`s nothing unusual for this VOV site,
e.g. also 9635v and 9840v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report despatched at 1750 UT April 5
