** AUSTRALIA. 17840, July 17 at 0210, RA remains the OSOB, or at least the SSOB
most of the evening; now I pause for some classical music, but it`s just an
illustrative excerpt from Rachmaninoff`s Piano Concerto No. 2, second movement,
back to interview with the artist by Margaret (Throsby) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11710, 11745, 11815, July 17 at 0526, big
crackling spurs are back from 11780 RNA/RNB, after a couple nights of almost
totally suppressing them. I *knew* that couldn`t last (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 840, July 17 at 0538 UT, WHAS can be nulled to
hear Spanish, bio of Wilfrido Vargas, the Dominican merengue master. Presumably
10 kW Radio CMHW Santa Clara, rather than a Mexican. I seldom hear any XE here
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, July 17 at 0533,
this is the missing RHC English frequency tonight, the other four of The Cuban
Five nominal altho with usual defects.
9850, July 17 at 1236, RHC Spanish
missing from this one, still nominal on 9550, 9640, 9820, et al. higher.
Are these the same transmitter? No, 6100 is Bauta-2 supposed to start at
0500; 9850 is Bauta-4 supposed to end at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13850, July 17 at 0213, R. Cairo Arabic to N America is
open carrier, or rather just barely modulated, distorted
9965, July 17 at
0218, R. Cairo, other Arabic service with music, good strength but JBM with
whine; unseems distorted, anyway
9315, July 17 at 0220, R. Cairo good
signal, but English modulation to N America is suptorted (suppressed +
distorted), and hummy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE.
9935, July 17 at 0218, big whine from V of Greece atop music, which is clear on
good 9420. At least no more double audio echoing. Neither heard after 0500 when
Wolfgang Büschel says they went off today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15120, July 17 at 0212, 1 kHz tone, poor signal, 0213
wonderful AIR IS, 0215 opening a language listed as Kannada. It`s 0215-0300, 500
kW, 300 degrees from Bengaluru; to be followed by Hindi, Gujarati and Hindi
until 0530 on 240 degrees per Aoki.
13695, July 17 at 0214, ~1 kHz tone
test, but no AIR IS here, 0215 very poor into language talk, also listed as
Kannada, 500 kW, 300 degrees from Bengaluru. I didn`t try to // with 15120, as
assumed something different since one had the IS and the other not; why? 13695
is followed by Hindi until 0415, also 300 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 13560, July 16 circa 1600 UT, I am
waiting in a medical office near one of Enid`s hospitals, with the G8 to
entertain me; most signals are severely attenuated inside the building, so I
check the Industrial/Scientific/Medical part 15(?) frequency, and behold, there
are hefty pulses much like CODAR, but these extend way beyond on either side,
thru most of the 22m broadcast band. Not the kind of `hash` I hear at home
impeding HIFER beacons (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 88.3, July 17 at 1559 UT, ID only for KEAR, 88.1, Sacramento, which is
the feeder for Fámily Radio translators around the country. So now the one in
Enid, K202BY, has been reactivated. It had been missing since at least Feb 15,
opening up a good sporadic-E DX frequency, and I hoped it was gone for good. Now
repaired, with stereo signal and usual FR programming. Fortunately it`s weak
enough not to impede 88.1 KWOU Woodward`s attempts to fringereach Enid (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Fri July 17 at 0535,
WTWW-2 is unusually on with rock music, soon Ted with shoutouts to alleged
listeners, first names only, and all in the USA, then playing an alleged
request. Is it really live? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 9265, July 17 at 0222, no signal from WINB, already off, despite latest
schedule on website
dated
July 5 for Thursday evening in ET/UT:
09:00P / Fri-0200...Faith Holiness
Church
09:30P / Fri-0230...NeUventureon Wallstreet [sic]
WINB *still*
hasn`t figured out that ET is currently EDT which is 4 hours, not 5 hours behind
UT!! So maybe they really went off at 0200 UT with Wallstreet show starting at
0130 UT? Schedule is headed in general ``0730-2200 EST`` [sic] (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, July 17 at 0156 UT, I`m
deliberately checking for KIJN Farwell TX, 10 kW daytimer which if on the air
should be about to sign off at legal sunset --- but no trace of it. No het
against anything from its perpetually off-frequency transmitter --- but if I aim
N/S, I do get a het, obviously from XERDO Matamoros etc.
1060, July 17
at 0158 UT, EWTN fades in, i.e. KRCN Colorado, which has another half hour to
legally run 50 kW day power (August: until 0200 UT); it has also sometimes run
day power into the night instead of 111 watts, but not noticed lately. And still
no sign of KIJN; see previous report about its difficulties with the FCC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, July 17 at 0200 UT,
singing ID for ``All American Radio, KQQZ``, then ``Jimmy Brown``. Oh2, official
July sunset is 0130 UT (August: 0100 UT). FCC shows 10 kW daytime, 22 watts
night from Desoto MO; but has CP to change COL to Fairview Heights IL, where it
can run 650 watts at night (or hey, why not just keep on 10 kW??). (St Louis MO
market). Multiple slogans from website
Hot Talk /
Kool Killer Kountry / ``The 1st Amendment and All American Station`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7205, July 17 at 0222,
very poor AM signal with singing, presumed Sudan Radio on earlier than
Aoki-listed *0245 for what`s left of Ramadan --- but then it disappears, so
maybe instead a spoiled ham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1818 UT July 17
