domenica 31 maggio 2015

Glenn Hauser logs May 30-31, 2015

** GUATEMALA. 4055, May 31 at 0611, I find that the reactivated R. Verdad is still on, concluding multilingual IDs over organ music with QSLing info, postal address: Spanish, 0612 English, German, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, local language with heavy Spanish influence; I suspect some of these were provided by DX listeners. 0618 brief Spanish and English sign-offs, NA which we know will be multi-verse for several minutes more.

Program schedule is conveniently already in UT:
http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n
or try the original as:
http://www.radioverdad.org/programación
Where the only show in such a language on it is
22:30 - 23:00 E Imb’utz Ajk’in (Sábado)
but the name of the language is not given; no doubt obvious locally.

I suspect sked is not up to date as it still claims to start at 1100 UT weekdays, while we know it`s been on much earlier for a long time. Also it does not mention the DX program from Panamá, `Antena DX`, which its producer believes is on 4055 UT Sundays at 0200; I should try to confirm that by monitoring; instead shows local Mon-Sat in UT:
``02:00 - 02:30 Club de la Amistad y Filatélico``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1775 monitoring: confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, in progress at 0349 UT Sunday May 31, during Pakistan item, which means it would have started circa 0325 this week. Next:
2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [irregular]
2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955
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

For all our broadcasts on all media see
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Access to podcasts, latest and previous shows:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15770, Saturday May 30 at 2152, WRMI playing a bit of Beethoven`s Sixth Symphony, as fill? No announcements until 2159 Zanotti ID and off 2200*. Current sked shows Sat 2130 `Made in Italy`, and 2145 `FG Radio`, whatever that is. The WRMI programming page
http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html
is never complete, and this is one example.

15190, Sat May 30 at 2205-2210+, R. Africa Network via WRMI is playing repetitive looping music, as if plugged into a keyboard running something it is programmed to autoprovide other than for an international SW broadcast toward, rather than from, Equatorial Guinea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, May 31 at 0605 UT, I`m getting something in English besides KSTP, with that nulled as much as possible. Local weather break attributed to The Weather Channel, but can`t copy any details! Then music, which turns out to be prélude to Coast to Coast AM (they play a different piece of music at the start of every hour and after the half-hour), since 0607 UT definite mention of Coast to Coast AM.

The 2014-2015 NRC AM Log mentions no `B` network affiliate on 1500. So I try to find a 1500 affil at the Coast to Coast website, where listings are sorted state by state only. It must not be up to date.

Would you believe that yahoo search on 1500 site:coasttocoastam.com/stations leads to three possible states: MN [!], NM, and NY. But if you look at the roster for those three states there are NO 1500`s nor any explanation of why that figure would possibly come up for those pages. Google search in same way gets zero hits on 1500, but gets reasonable hits for 1490 and 1510.

Suspect this 1500 is a cheating daytimer, maybe normally carrying C2CAM on an FM translator only? There are lots of them from TX to OH and the SE quadrant of the USA, including one in Pawhuska OK which is normally sportstalk. The NRC Pattern Book shows one with a favorable lobe this way, rather than ND, Indianapolis` WBRI, which does have an FM translator, but it`s supposedly religious, and the affil there is WIBC-FM.

Could it possibly be WFED Washington DC (ex-WTOP)? We never hear it here with its very unfavorable pattern out into the Atlantic. Website http://federalnewsradio.com has nothing about C2C, but linx to weekday and weekend program schedules are not hot. C2C site state list does not even include DC.

Broadening the search thru the NRC listings, there are surprisingly few news/talk formats on 1500, with a lot of Oldies, etc. TLK was KDFN Doniphan MO, 1 kW daytimer, which had been silent since 4/2014 as of publication in 8/2014. Another is WKXO Berea KY, 250-watt daytimer which was OLD/TLK. Own site shows WKXO is now an SRN gospel station. KDFN is apparently still off as it`s not on the Fox Media Network/Fox Radio Network station list for SE Missouri.

Google search on program name and 1500 leads to this:
http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/affiliates/aa.html
mentioning two 1500s, KSTP (before it went ESPN), and KRMS Osage Beach MO, so not meant to be current? Anyhow, all affils are on one page for easy searching. Trouble is, KRMS is now on 1150; was it ever on 1500?

KJIM 1500 Sherman TX is not far, and often heard before sunset, as a nostalgic daytimer; can`t see how they could pick up a talk show AND manage to be on overnight.

Perhaps my closest 1500 is the answer, seemingly a long shot, but maybe not: KPGM Pawhuska OK, 500-watt daytimer, with ESPN and Sports Animal sub-network in OK --- BUT it`s sibling station in http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com to KWON 1400 Bartlesville which IS a C2C affiliate. BTW, KPGM 1500 using radio-locator.com claims daytime to reach Enid at fringe which is true, and KWON 1400 even a bit further --- except totally blocked by 1390v KCRC here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15649-USB, May 31 at 1311, 2-way Spanish intruder is here today, with nothing AM on 15650 to het it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1641 UT May 31