** AUSTRALIA. 9580 & 12085, Friday May 1 at 1315 tune-in, RA`s `Keys to
Music` with Graham Abbott, this week is about Alexander Scriabin, Russian
composer who led quite a tumultuous life, but died shortly before the Bolshevik
Revolution. Another excellent program!
We now have 27 days to listen to
it via:
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2015/04/26/4187784.htm
Coming
up May 8: There`s something about Bizet`s Carmen;
May 15: Mozart`s last
year
Spelling Scriabin seems to be universal, altho one would expect
Russian to be transliterated directly into English as Alexsandr Skryabin;
perhaps French influence continues to intervene. Here`s a compilation of various
transliterations and more about him:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Scriabin,_Aleksandr
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 1 at 1359, BB
IS is JBA until mistimesignal ending at 1400:17, opening Urdu service (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 7425, May 2 at 0525,
poor signal with dw.de website, i.e. Deutsche Welle, this hour only in English,
250 kW, 19 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA. MUCH inferior to 7445 BBC English via
ASCENSION, but maybe within Africa there is less disparity. BTW, DW is promoting
a photo competition (pix of yourself at a World Heritage site) to win a trip to
Berlin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, May 1
at 0605 UT, open carrier/dead air from local KGWA Enid, but resumes at 0606 UT
with `Overnight America`. Don`t know if just missed a commercial break or off
for 6 minutes, in a total Fox-hole like occasionally occurs at 0500-0505 UT,
altho not caught then lately in several random chex (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1020, May 2 at 0047 UT on caradio,
KOKP Perry is still off the air, with the frequency easily occupied by Spanish,
ad for Acme something in AC 402, i.e. eastern Nebraska, KMMQ Plattsmouth. May
hours for full 50 kW daytime power are now 1100-0130 UT, lobe westward (same
pattern at night with 1.4 kW).
1020, May 2 circa 0150 UT on caradio, KDKA
Pittsburgh PA is now the only station to be heard. No LAH either, but maybe a
bit too early for KCKN Roswell, which other monitors agree is the likely source
of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, May 2 at
0542 UT, KGYN Guymon still sloganing as ``Today`s Best Country`` rather than
``US Country``.
It seems that KGYN is now a mere subsidiary of the
several-station group Steckline Communications out of Kansas, a.k.a. Mid America
[Ag/News] Network. Uninformative website http://kgynradio.com/kgyn still displays
the ``US Country`` seal, FWIW.
Many stations around America use the
slogan ``Today`s Best Country`` but is it syndicated or doing their own thing?
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Country_Today
says
it was the name of a Cumulus syndication, but changed to the above, so maybe
T.B.C. is up for individual grabs?
This website appears to have lots of
linx:
http://kgynnewsroom.com/
but
they are unfound and itself went dead in July, 2013. Some ``news``! (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 9500, May 2 at 0216, fair
signal with undermodulated Arabic? music and talk. Presumed RSO on the air late
beyond registered 00-02 UT block, and not on 9740 either as sometimes happens,
its penultimate frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PUNTLAND. 13800, May 2 at 1306, I turn on radio last tuned to the Sudan radio
war circa 0530: and there is something weak, talk possibly in Italian, so R.
Puntland Uno is back after no appearances that we know of since the tests on
April 27-28. This is no longer a loop of IDs, but really can`t make much out.
Recheck at 1326, it`s gone.
Then I find a report on HCDX from Dave
Valko, PA, that he too was hearing it again today around 1120-1220+: ``13800
Puntland Radio One is on now, 1220. Have been listening to it for about the past
hour. Fairly decent signal. Some QSB of course, but quite readable. Should be
widely heard`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIN GDIGEST)
** SUDAN [and
non]. 13800, May 2 at 0525, R. Dabanga heavily hit by two tone jammers, one a lo
het closer to frequency on hi side, and another more like 1 kHz up, and they
also beat against each other. But wait, there`s more: a subaudible heterodyne,
and second program modulation interfering. At first I think the Sudanese have
intensified the jamming with ChiCom-like programming feed, but at 0527 that goes
away while the tone/carrier jammers remain, as R. Dabanga ID mentions being on
Arabsat. 0530 is the scheduled time for a site switch by RD from MADAGASCAR 335
degrees to VATICAN 150, so I think this must have been a lame overlap by the
two, with unsynchronized feeds. No difference in signal strength here before or
after as both Europe and Africa are propagating well.
11650, meanwhile,
the other Dabanga frequency which stays via VATICAN, has only one tone jammer at
0528, a lower pitch than on 13800, so closer-in, leaving Dabanga better audible
than on 13800 altho not stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1771 monitoring: confirmed Friday May 1
at 2140 UT on both 15770 sufficient, and much weaker 7570 WRMI. One can never be
sure which, or both, or neither will be in use, but Jeff White says we can
depend on 15770 for this Friday 2130.5 broadcast. Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR
1860-AM
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 [? But not last
week. Check 7570 too]
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area
51 [but 5110 has been off the air]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630
HLR 7265-CUSB
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 HLR
7265-CUSB
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1772 if
ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110,
May 2 at 0224 check, WBCQ is still off during the recently added 23-07 UT block
of BS. Area 51 schedule for the weekend is now up, however, depending on 5110 to
be operational, so apparently BS just left it hastily, rather than from another
breakdown:
``On-air, May 2-3, 2015 - All on WBCQ 5.110 MHz and http://www.splatterbox.us:5110
Saturday,
May 2, 2015 [EDT/UT into next day]
7pm 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide
9pm
0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show
10pm 0200 Zombo In Your Brain
11pm 0300
Church of the Subgenius Hour of Slack
Sunday, May 3, 2015
7pm
2300 Grits Radio
8pm 0000 Plastic Magic
10pm 0200 Jean Shepherd
11pm
0300 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1771
1130pm 0330 Hobart Radio
International DX Extra No. 26``
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 15825, May 2 around 1400, WWCR is inbooming, as is 15610 WEWN, a sure
sign of sporadic-E opening at least on HF up to this MUF, rather than JBA to VP
normal signals. Checking 6m Es map at
http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA
there
is nice correlation with contacts between OK and TN, and the opening grows by
1700 with lots more lines across central USA, MUF estimated 84 MHz. Yet my
analog TV on channel 2 is nothing but snow, as there is hardly anything left to
show up even when there is an Es opening. We need 88+ MHz for FM DX to occur, so
I start monitoring on open 88.1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 13765, May 2 at 0533, VR talking about ``pão
cotidiano``, papal activities. In pure Luso accent, contrary to the Brazilian we
here so much more on SW. It remains for broadcasts to Africa not to employ
Brazilians, as there are hardly any broadcasts to or from Portugal any more on
SW.
The remarkably short list of Portugiesisch (not including Brazilian
domestix!) at
http://www.addx.de/cgi-bin/hfp.cgi
doesn`t
specify targets, but most of them are obviously for Africa.
Only CRI and
RHC have some which are for Europe, but IIRC, RHC`s accents are Brazilian
(2000-2030 on 17730). Among several CRI Portuguese broadcasts, most are to
Africa, but two of the six frequencies at 19-20 UT are for CIRAF 37-NW, i.e.
Portugal, direct from East Turkistan/China, 9730 & 11750 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SUDAN [and non]
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Re:
``1130, April 28 at 0657 UT, Mexican music peaks counter-clockwise from KWKH
Shreveport, which rules out central Mexico, so Central America? No Cubans
listed. Or, from the other side, maybe Sinaloa or Sonora. Need to keep on this
one. No likely USA SS unless daytimers in TN or GA happen to be nighttimers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
Glenn: -- Several dates with a
remote receiver in NE Atlanta Metro have revealed regular cheating by WLBA/1130
in Gainesville; seems to be on all night every night, probably using Critical
Hours power (1 kW, I believe). – (GREG HARDISON, CA, May 2, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6001, May 1 at 0557, weak carrier here again in
form of a het to RHC English. Suspect it is the 4 (?) kW Brasília transmitter
originally intended for DRM testing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17795, May 1 at 1505, 1535 and 1557 chex, no
signal. I am checking out a report by new SW DXer Paul Walker in Redding CA, who
says he was hearing a program from Ulster, April 29 at 1545 UT, ``The audio was
pretty good and the signal was rock solid. The program was called "let the
church speak" from a church in Ulster, Northern Ireland.`` This was stronger
than and right next to WRMI 17790. He asked Jeff White about it. Presumably a
pirate and likely to be within North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1745 UT May 2
