** ALBANIA. 9850, May 20 at 0123, R. Tirana IS at good level, 45-53 dbU on the
PL-880 with short random wire, and with low-audible self-imposed het; maybe some
lite SSB QRM as I heard once before from 9851-LSB, but unable to copy anything
now with big Tirana signal a kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 12085, May 19 at 1336, no signal from RA! But still
on 12065 with CCI, and // 9580 clear with African music at the moment on `The
Daily Planet`. 12085 is on the 30 degree beam across the Pacific to Alaska, but
also reaches rest of North America well. Wonder what happened? Ron Howard says
it was missing both May 19 and 20. I see it is still on the RA website schedule
at 09-21 UT. It`s the same antenna/transmitter as on 15240 at 21-09; is that
missing too? No, May 21 at 0317 check. Every bit counts with only three
transmitters left at its disposal. You`d think if one of them failed, an idle
one could be upfired. I wonder if this is anything to do with the strange noise
I was hearing around (or out of?) 12085 on May 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1774, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070+, May 20 at 0117, R.
Cairo only poor signal; at first I thought it was absent, then Arabic music,
suptorted modulation. 33-42 dBU on the PL-880 with short random wire.
11935+, May 20 at 0117, next R. Cairo frequency is at very good level,
46-63 dBU on the PL-880, but it`s open carrier/dead air instead of
Spanish
9965, May 20 at 0118, R. Cairo Arabic service is
off!
9315, May 20 at 0122, R. Cairo, YL in Spanish, hum and some
distortion, 40-52 dbU on the PL-880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, May 20 at 1716, R. Africa
Network on WRMI is in some tonal African language, Hausa maybe? I`ve yet to
learn any keywords to recognize it. Think I`ve only heard them in French before,
besides predominant English. No such thing as a program schedule from Radio
Africa. By 1732 back into English for an hymn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 21580, May 20 at 1715, RFI with good signal in
French;
21690, May 20 at 1715, RFI with good signal in Luso Portuguese. There
is only a 5 degree difference in azimuth between them to Africa (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030, May 20 at 0612, just as I tune
by, ``y 93.9 FM, Exa FM``. WRTH, Cantú and IRCA show the only Exa on 1030 is
XEMPM, 10/1 kW El Fuerte, or Los Mochis, which is a hotspot for MW DX to here.
Except all show its XHMPM on FM is 98.9, but I sure thought they said 93.9.
(Pronounced ``eksa`` -- you can never be quite sure about x`s in Mexican). Found
website which confirms it`s still 98.9: http://www.exafm.com/#!/losmochis/home
I
was referring to a printout of the Cantú list I saved on Feb. 19, and now on May
21, http://www.mexicoradiotv.com is
``temporarily unavailable`` says Network Solutions! Fred was reported to be
about to retire and looking for someone else to take over the site. I hope this
temp/un is a good rather than bad sign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120-, May 19 at 0600, VON news in English, distorted
modulation, and carrier wobbling, but good signal level, better than 15580 VOA
Botswana.
9689.9, good // 7275-, fair signal in Hausa, so 3 VON
transmitters still on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 2899.75, May 19 at 1327 UT, a bihour after sunrise, KWHW Altus quite
audible on second harmonic, as ``sports from the Sports Leader``, ``Go,
Bulldogs!``, and lots of local sponsors named; 1330 UT joining Randy Renner on
the Oklahoma News Network (out of OKC) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1774,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 104.5, May 20 at 0134 UT, ``Classic
Rock Station 104-5``, i.e. the 250-watt OKC translator K283BW, carrying what
used to be KRXO on 107.7 main channel, presumably still now demoted there to an
IBOC subchannel, but not mentioned. Anyhow I was looking for the new 62 kW but
slightly further Mooreland station recently discovered, KZZW; not heard even
from my second floor. Was it just testing with PTA before? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 20 at 0110, JBA carrier from R.
Chaski, until cutoff at 0111:58.5*, which is 61.5 seconds later than last log a
dekaday ago on May 10 at 0110:57*, i.e. averaging 6.15 seconds later per (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PUNTLAND. 13800, May 19 at 1332, JBA
carrier from presumed R. Puntland; and a reduced one at that (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, May 19 at 0603, WWRB
is on with the all-knowing screen reader of Brother Scare. Ops seem back to more
or less normal, 9370 still on with BS at 0127 May 20, much stronger than the
other transmitter on 3185 with other gospel huxters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 20 at 0114, just before SLBC
carrier comes on, the frequency is hit by a couple of ute QRM BLAAPs following 3
beeps; then theme music is JBA, as is the mistimesignal ending at 0115:19 which
I have come to consider nominal for them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1773 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May
20 after 1315 on WRMI 9955. Also confirmed Wednesday May 20 at 2100 on webcast
of WBCQ 7490, untried on SW which is usually inaudible this early in summer. WOR
1774 completed in time for first airing Thursday at 1130:
1130 UT
Thursday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Thursday WRMI 7570 [and 15770?]
2130 UT Friday
WRMI 15770
2130 UT Friday WRMI 7570
0630 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB
1430
UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0315vUT Sunday
WA0RCR 1860-AM
2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [irregular]
2300 UT Sunday WRMI
11580
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955
[NEW]
1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955
0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB
1315 UT
Wednesday WRMI 9955
1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ
7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11920, May 20
at 0132, WRMI with gospel huxter in Spanish, so presumably Fámily Radio has
finally replaced fill music after a triweek or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0334 UT May 21
