** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 26 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, but with
BFO, the timesignal cuts thru better right on the hour 1400:00! Incredible; a
fluke, or will it be accurate from now on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Correxion: 15275 not 15265 is to block RFA:
fixed:
15275, May 25 at 1315, CNR1 jammer in clear // 15265 with usual
het from Taiwan off-frequency. 15275 is to block Radio Free Asia, Tibetan via
Tajikistan daily at 13-14 since April 12, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, May 26 at 0108, R. Cairo, VG signal
but with extremely distorted music in Spanish service
11935, May 26 at
0108, R. Cairo, VG signal but extremely distorted Spanish service: compared to
12070, 11935 is cutting out a bit more
9315, May 26 at 0108, R. Cairo,
good signal, the last chance to hear the Spanish service clearly, but --- dead
air
9965, May 26 at 0109, R. Cairo, Arabic, good signal but
undermodulated with usual whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, May 26 at 0647 UT, XERF with IMER
call-in about the tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña; strangely, by 0652 they are
playing a Spanish song to the tune of ``Fascination``, while fighting QRM from
KBCV Missouri (see USA log). XERF should have been more interesting listening
earlier.
And you should have heard how Laura Whatshername butchered
``Ciudad Acuña`` on BBC World News America, May 25 after 22 UT via OETA. How do
you get to be anchorette of a major network newscast without knowing the first
thing about pronouncing Spanish? Or not even knowing that she needed to look it
up, practice? At least the other anchorette, Katty Kay, was distancing herself
from uttering ``Los Angeleeez`` when recently originating from there (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6876-AM, May 26 at
0106, 0117, 0119 and 0126 chex, no trace of The Crystal Ship, which per an
advisory from John Poet at 2345 May 25, was expected to be relayed starting
circa 0100. Storm noise a problem here, but not even a carrier detectable.
Numerous posts at this thread
show
it was on by 0133 after I had quit, past 0306 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 89.1, May 24 at 1940 UT, Enid translator is dead air
again, i.e. K206CA, Oasis Network allegedly relaying 90.5 KNYD Broken Arrow,
i.e. 80 kW on the other side of Tulsa. This may have been true initially, but
now 90.5 pickup here would be blocked by much closer station, KGVV, 14 kW in
Goltry NW of Enid, while Oasis` 88.1 KMSI 50 kW in somewhat closer than B.A.
Moore would be a more likely source, altho not without CCI problems itself from
KWOU Woodward et al.
WTFDA Database shows K206CA is only 205 watts
instead of the usual 250 for a translator, maybe compensating for too-hi antenna
of 93.6 meters? The same is true of another Oasis translator, K201IJ, 88.1 in
Miamuh etc. OK with a height of 100.2 metres. If K206CA is really picking up
88.1 or 90.5 off the air, repeated dead air spans could be automuting when there
is CCI? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, May 26 at
0122, poor and undermodulated signal in Arabic, presumably RSO, which is missing
from 9500 where it should be during the first bihour of any UT day, and not on
9740 either where it should have been at 22-24, with 15140 off after 2200 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 26 at 0107, JBA
carrier from R. Chaski, OBX4M, Urubamba, until autocutoff at 0112:36* which is
19 seconds later than three nights ago, 0112:17*, averaging 6.33 later per.
Altho rarely enough signal to listen to modulation, its 5 kW signal is just
about always there to be detected with BFO. We are still anticipating an abrupt
reset of the timer to circa 0100* to begin another long precession (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 26 at
*0114:10.5, SLBC carrier cuts on, no doubt about it with BFO, yet it`s only a VP
signal; music prélude starts at 0114:46.5, and 2+1 mistimesignal ends at
0115:21, typically late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
17765, Sunday May 24 at 1936, recent new frequency from WHRI, with Indianapolis
500 coverage: apparently the stupid carace is over by now, sounds like a wrapup.
On the entire SW band, this proves to be the second strongest signal, only after
9980 WWCR BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, May
26 at 0123, sitar music, to WBCQ The Planet singing ID, jingle, bing, and JIP
Brother Scare at 0124, who was already on 5110. Contrary to 7490 schedule for UT
Tue which shows Rabbi Yaakov Spivak at 01-02, then at 02-04 The Overcomer (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1570, May 26 at 0655 UT as I
am trying to listen to XERF [see MEXICO], it has usual heavy SAH and QRM
primarily from the closest US station allowed to share the frequency at night,
ID as KBCV Hollister, i.e. SW Missouri, address in Springfield, Bott gospel
huxter. They must have been desperate to get on the air, only 675 miles from 100
kW ND Ciudad Acuña = 1086 km. KBCV is 5/3 kW, night pattern major lobe NW, minor
SE, with a null toward Del Rio, but plenty signal here away from the null if not
on the major, while daytime is ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12760-USB, May 26 at 0113, very poor signal with 2-way,
seems Spanish, dashing hope that AFN Diego Garcia might have resumed on
12759-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched
at 1548 UT May 26
