** AUSTRALIA. 12075, April 6 at 1412, RBA in S Asian language, good with
flutter. Missed checking today at 1330, whether they still imagine they are on
11590. Has their program schedule been updated either? Nope (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers morning of April 6:
9155,
April 6 at 1244, CNR1 jammer, poor
9200, April 6 at 1244, CNR1 jammer,
fair
9230, April 6 at 1244, CNR1 jammer, poor
9280, April 6 at 1244, CNR1
jammer, poor-fair
9500, April 6 at 1245, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair
No full
bandscan during this hour
15970, April 6 at 1416, CNR1 jammer,
fair
16920, April 6 at 1416, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter
16530, April 6
at 1416, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter
17900, April 6 at 1418, CNR1 jammer,
very poor, ute QRM
No full scan of 12-15 MHz. I think SARFT are still
following the strange protocol of jamming vs Sound of Hope: turning it off at
top of hour, and back on circa :20 after, but these are already on, early?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 1520, April 6 at
1242 UT, with KOKC off for antenna replacement [see OKLAHOMA], CRI English with
item about artificial snow for skiing in the Siena Valley, clip in Italian, i.e.
the 25 kW daytime relay via KYND Cypress (Houston) TX. I was going to check for
// on 9570 via Cuba but during this hour it`s in Chinese. Our Enid sunrise
today: 1211 UT; in one week, 10 minutes earlier, closing in on 1200 UT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 6 at 1410, RHC
AWOL from one of its best frequencies; still on 15230, 17730, 11760, 9640, but
not on 11950, 11860, 9820 or 9550. More than a week after A-15 officially began,
it`s about time for Arnie to be making any seasonal RHC changes, and putting up
a real new schedule, but 15370 absence may just be a temporary anomaly. I also
make quick scans of 17, 15, 13, 11 MHz bands for possible replacement without
finding any. Still the old B-14 at
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15650, April 5 at
2101, poor signal with ``Edho Athinai`` ID rather than Makedonias as in my
previous log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA.
Earthquake report: April 6 at 1530:45 UT, my Acer computer screen shakes, but
nothing else seen or felt (or heard) to indicate a tremor: USGS confirms it 22
seconds earlier, just about the same spot I last reported a 4+ quake, presumably
from fracking, now:
4.2, 22 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-04-06 15:30:23
UT 3.4 km deep
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA.
1520, April 6 at 1235 UT, KOKC is off the air again: this time presumably during
demolition of remaining tornado-folded tower, and/or erexion of one new tower,
which was supposedly going to be accomplished last week. This allows CRI/TX to
be heard, i.a., q.v. under CHINA [non]. This early after sunrise, at 1243 UT
April 6, still too much TX on 1560 from KGOW stupid sportstalk to hear
KOKC-via-KEBC.
Finally checked at 1602 UT April 6, 1520 is still silent,
and CBS News is on weak 1560; 1605 UT ID (only) as ``News-Talk 1520 [sic]
KOKC``, weather, so KEBC presumably has kept carrying KOKC programming ever
since the disaster almost a biweek ago, and now is useful again (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. RF 32, April 6 at 1429
UT, FINALLY some signs of life from TV-OK in Enid --- infomercial selling old
Carol Burnett shows, the same kind of crap they used to air fulltime in lieu of
any real programming. 1723 recheck, STILL Burnett, maybe the only thing loaded
to play. There are periodic crawlers abottom about this wonderful DVD offer, but
only the top edge of the letters are visible, making them impossible to read, so
the video is further disordered. And it`s at the very bottom edge, so cut off
another overscanned screen.
KXOK-LD is really on RF 31, but its main
transmitter is still down; while the intercity relay to Lamont, WQOS306 on RF 32
has stayed on the air. For months its 31.1 had been black and silent. With
nothing on RF 31, forcing Suddenlink cable 15 to display !Weak Signal for as
many months --- headend is only a block away from Broadway Tower KXOK/TVOK
antenna in downtown Enid, but retuning to RF 32 to get it is beyond them.
Anyhow it would still be pointless, as there is no sound on the
infomercial, except for occasional humbuzz peaks, as if a device is struggling
to find some sound. Oh, later at 1748 UT during other commercials, sound is on!
Maybe engineer is working on it, making some progress. 1752 UT: sound gone
again.
31.1 aspect ratio CANNOT be changed. But 31.2 continues with
silence and full-screen color bars, PSIP label M-FOX, and aspect ratio CAN be
changed. 31.3 continues with silence and full-screen color bars, PSIP label
Azteca, aspect ratio CANNOT be changed --- but neither of these Spanish channels
has been seen with any programming for many months.
Tropo is up, and BAD
signal is detected on RF 31, but I`m sure it`s not KXOK, as when on, it was much
stronger than RF 32 relay. Also a BAD signal on RF 45. Both channels have
low-powers in OKC, but I assume I am getting full-power Wichitans off the back,
as my rotor is still dead and aimed at OKC. Also getting BAD signal on 8 = KPTS
Wichita. I park on RF 31, and indeed at 1659 and 1705 UT, video starts to lock
briefly, and it`s Univisión, which means Wichita, but PSIP ID only as Univisi.
The 7-letter limit to these relieves them of worry about whether to put the
accent on the o --- but Univision corporate avoids it to seem less alien (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 39, Sunday April 5 at
1500 UT, astounded to find that KWTV continues with the second half of CBS`
`Face the Nation` on main channel 9.1. Ever since the show expanded to a full
hour a couple years ago, primary KWTV has refused to carry it all, instead
switching to gospel huxters at 10 am CT Sundays --- but most of the time would
put `FTN` Pt 2 on its 9.2 `News 9 Now` subchannel, which is mostly wasted on
hours-old local newscast replays. FTN was always getting upcut at the join, due
to automation and no one paying attention. Another option would have been to put
it on KSBI RF 16, 52.1, the full-power station KWTV acquired last year.
Now online skeds for April 5 confirm that this was no accident, with all
of FTN on 9.1 from 1430 to 1530 UT, then Joel Osteen, g.h. IIRC, the 1500
religion was a local church: maybe their contract finally ran out (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 6 at 0108, JBA carrier
from R. Chaski cuts off at 0107:27*. One binite ago it was at 0107:14.5* so this
is 12.5 seconds later, averaging 6.25 later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17745, April 5 at 2103, RRI in Spanish with classical
music, something about Transilvania; poor-fair with heavy fading, 19-30 dbu on
the PL-880 with short random wire. This is 247 degrees from Tiganeshti at
21-22.
It seems no one but me bothers to respell ``Tiganesti`` fonetikaly
to account for the missing diacritix. The S has a sedilla under it, which makes
it sh. Checking Wikipedia, we find there are more than that!
i.e.
a tedilla (comma) under the T, and a soft (semi-circle) accent over the a, all
of which are not reproducible in standard Western fonts. So the T should also be
replaced by Ts, but maybe we can do without the accent on the a. Analogous to
cedilla for ç, I call the subscripts sedilla and tedilla as I don`t know the
proper names for them in English, or Romanian.
The word axually means
Gypsy, (as in Tzigane, French version), and there are several villages by this
name in Romania: I haven`t tried to find out which one in Wikipedia hosts the
major SW site. Anyhow, from now on I will be spelling (and pronouncing) it
Tsiganeshti! Perhaps our monitor Tudor in Romania can clarify this (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non non]. 11700,
April 6 at 1249, surprised to find Brother Scare here with good and steady
signal, so surely American rather than Eurasian, but totally NOT // WRMI 11580,
11825. But WRMI is the odd-one-out, playing backup recording? Since 11700 is a
few seconds ahead of otherwise // 9980 WWCR. Subject on the non-WRMI stations is
the Pope`s September visit to Philadelphia, with various unattributed news clips
about it. 1258 cuts to Jesus tune, BS ID, but no station ID, 1300 cut to a few
notes of other music, open carrier and off.
HFCC A-15 shows what it is:
WHRI registered 11-13, 250 kW, 152 degrees to CIRAFs 12-15, i.e. S America. The
first hour is daily, the second hour except Sundays. So anyhow, BS is back on
his home-state SW station. Is this info included at
or
Of
course not! His own website info is worse than useless. But searching on the
redesigned WHR sked,
we
get a whole bunch of BS --- strange I had not noticed much of the rest. I would
rather delete the EDT column, but retain it to match up with the DAY
column:
``UTC EASTERN TIME DAY
0700-0800 3:00 AM-4:00 AM
Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa 7315
0800-0900 4:00 AM-5:00 AM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa
7315
1300-1400 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Su,Sa 21610
1400-1500
10:00 AM-11:00 AM Sa 21600
1800-1900 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 21600
1900-2000 3:00 PM-4:00 PM Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr
17610
2000-2100 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Su 11670
2000-2100
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 11670
2200-2300 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Su 11670
0000-0100 8:00 PM-9:00 PM
Mo 5920
0200-0300 10:00 PM-11:00 PM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa
5920
1000-1100 6:00 AM-7:00 AM Su 9610
1100-1200
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa 11700
1200-1300 8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa 11700
1600-1700 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa
9840
1700-1800 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa 9840
1900-2000
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Su 9840
2000-2100 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Sa 11670
2200-2300 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Sa
11670
2200-2300 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 11775
2300-0000
7:00 PM-8:00 PM Sa 7315
2300-0000 7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 11775
[and one more: this alone appears to be T8WH
PALAU]
UTC EASTERN TIME DAY
1600-1700 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa 9930``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17715 // stronger 15490, Sunday April 5 at 2101 check,
only REE frequencies audible, none of the others on 17 or 15 MHz. I wonder if
they will ever come back to 17855 which had the best signal in North America?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 15360, April 6 at
1412, hymn in presumed Urdu, good signal, TWR`s sole Asian broadcast from its
African site, 1400-1415, 100 kW, 43 degrees per HFCC. Retune too late to hear
music box IS which should open and close it: 1415 open carrier to 1415.5*. In
WRTH, you won`t find any Urdu under SWAZILAND, and not under SOUTH AFRICA
either, since that`s for the TWR Africa service only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 6180, Monday April 6 at 0555, poor
signal in French mentions Côte d`Ivoire et al.: it`s VOA at 0530-0630 M-F via
SÃO TOMÉ. 6185 Mexico is now out of the way, closing an hour earlier circa 0500*
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767
monitoring: new time on the WRMI schedule is Sunday 2100 on 15770, but no show
April 5: instead `End Times Coming` from Manchester, England. This is scheduled
on 7570 only, and too noisy to tell if it`s //. Apparently what has happened,
like on Friday at 2130, is that the plan to split to separate programming on
7570 and 15770 has not yet been fulfilled; but maybe by the following
week?
WOR 1767 confirmed at usual time of Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580,
good.
And as Larry Will advised us, WBCQ 5110 transmitter is still off
the air, so Area 51 programming is on 7490 instead. WOR would also be one hour
earlier than it had been on 5110, 0200 instead of 0300 UT Monday. And confirmed
as such: First monitored the A51 webcast as WOR started at 0200, then I switched
to the 7490 webcast, and same started within the following minute. Then
confirmed really on 7490, with VG signal. Unknown what will happen next week.
Rest of this week:
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. 11580,
April 6 at 0221, WRMI in Spanish, must be R. Praga relay, VG here as on weaker
and still jammed // 9955; so the duplication is a good idea and should be
expanded beyond 01-03 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 7555, April 6 at 0557, WEWN Spanish is still down; also at next check 1251
April 6, no signal on 11550 while 12050 Spanish is on and 11520 English. But by
1407, all three are revivified: 11550 & 12050 Spanish, 15610 English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13815-SSB, approx., April
6 at 1302, distorted SSB calling for checkins from different states or regions.
Is mushy/squishy, the frequency shifting depending on modulation, so not very
readable. Presumably a MARS or multi-agency net like we have heard before below
15 MHz. This could just be spurious, as no answers heard on 13815 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1808 UT April
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