** BRAZIL. 11815, July 22 at 0523, RBC music marred by RNA/RNB crackle spur
circa 11813, also around 11846, 11747, 11714 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. After absence of all four 0045+ UT Cairo frequencies
the last few nights, I`m checking earlier July 21:
9965 at 2307 July 21,
no signal from the early English to North America sesquihour
Arabic after
2330 listed by EiBi on five frequencies, including alternates? No signal on
12035, 13820, 15460; unknown carriers on 12000, 12070
At 0110 July 22,
during Spanish broadcast: no signal on 9315, 12070; JBA unknown carriers on
12080, 12035, 12000, 11935, 9720. 9965 Arabic also off
9965, July 22 at
2355 is back on in suptorted music, presumably English service; 12070 also back
on with very good signal but heavily distorted Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, July 22 at 0524, VOG ending Spanish
news segment with temp in Salónica, poor-fair, music break, 0527 Greek ID ``I
Foni tis Helladas``, and into Russian news. This is part of VOG`s revived
foreign-language service, probably really simulcast of the domestic R. Philia
service, but would be nice if it develop into a full-fledged multi-lingual
external service. Reception here is weakened by this hour into the dayside, but
should gradually improve with latening sunrises. Back on July 9, Ivo Ivanov
recorded and listed the language schedule as follows, apparently still in effect
altho times may vary somewhat:
0500 Greek
0503 Serbian
0509
Romanian
0516 Spanish
0526 Russian
0531 Polish
0536 Albanian
0543
Italian
0548 Arabic
He`s also found more briefer language segments after
0800, 0900, 1000 and 1200, only the last including a few minutes of English,
when North American reception is unlikely (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1783, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHK Newsline via OETA OKLA, July 22 at
1600 UT includes toward the end a weather map labeled 1200 UTC, so today`s show
is not delayed from 1000 UT like previous note (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E opening July 21 continued from previous
report, UT:
With TV MUF up to channels 5 and 6, I head to the porch to
check for FM, circa 1645-1705 UT, but no DX showing. Back inside for more
TVDX:
1705 on 2, Info 7, anchor, CCI with time and temp LR, 32 degrees.
Crawler to go with current story about a big traffic accident on the
Reynosa-Juárez Hiway, where 27 were lesioned. [There is no thru hiway anywhere
near the border thru northern Coahuila; evidently refers to indirect Hwy 40 from
Reynosa to Torreón, then 40 to Jiménez, and 45 to Juárez.] This programming
points to XHTAU, Tampico, but originating in Monterrey, altho local IDs are rare
if ever.
1712 on 4, still some CCI, and on 5, algo
1719 on 2, Info
7
1719 on 4, animated 5 logo = Televisa 5 net
1727 on 2, Info 7,
also exhibiting the old Azteca 13 swish logo on the set near the LR logo. I
guess it`s generic Azteca since the 13 net itself merely bugs as TRECE anymore
1730 on 4, TVMÁS and RTV logos on full-screen; male singer in Studio;
video squeezed. It`s XHGV in Veracruz
1733 on 5, novela, with unknown
white text bug in LR
1822 on 2 and 3, still some CCI; gone by
1845
A similar opening July 22, UT:
1534 on 2, fade-in Es CCI, YL
anchor; 1536 Mérida on backdrop, SN logo by YL (elongated horizontally letters
as SIPSE Noticias); 1527 Gala bug in LR apparently same station, as the wide S
is also in the LL, i.e. XHY-TV in Yucatán, quite a regular here
1548 on
2, exercise segment led by muscular but effeminate guy; digital clock in lower
right is rolling over now only 20 seconds slow; XHY
1625 on 2, XHY still
morning variety show
1630 on 2, CCI from novela? with music
1633
on 2, Info7 takes over making same-offset almost single heavy bar video beat.
Bill Hepburn`s channel 2 map confirms what I suspected: XHY-TV and XHTAU in
Tampico are same offset-zero. These offsets must not have been planned with
DXers in mind; or platforms in the Gulf midway?
1637 on 2, PLAN B in
large font on set or backdrop, program name? Have seen it before. 7 bug in UR,
with clock 11:38 and 29 degrees. Apparently part of the Info7 XHTAU
program
1644 on 2, Gala bug LR, street scenes
1645 on 2, PLAN B,
same-offset CCI again, 30 degree temp now in UR; talking about Saltillo; 1647
it`s snow-free in color
1648 on 5, algo video in Spanish
1648 on
4, Spanish audio, and some video but 2 fades at the moment
1649 on 4,
it`s a docu/news report about bomberos [not bombers, but pumpers, i.e.
fire-fighters]. Letterboxed with open Spanish/Spanish captioning. This has a
little unknown triangular bug in the UR, but it`s not right in the corner,
somewhat toward the center
1655 on 2, PLAN B again, and I see its clock
turn over 5 seconds slow; when YL anchor appears, large Coca Cola logo behind
her
1722 on 2, CCI between novela and talk show
1730 on 2, serious
animated drama, but no 5 bug visible; instead the Azteca 7 bug in UR, and some
more same-CCI. I guess XHTAU has moved on from Info7 show after local
noon
1738 on 4, audio & video letterboxed, ads; 1740 for Felix = cat
food?
1743 on 4, Azteca Noticias promo; mentions Monclova
1816 on
3, federal PSA interviewing kids, tv3 bug in LR which means XHP-TV Puebla. The 3
is a lot larger than the tv and they are italix
1817 on 3, promo for tv3
Noticias, L-V 2:30-4 pm, and logo tv3N
1819 on 2, star bug in LR of
Televisa-2 net; CCI
1820 on 3, after ads, XHP back to film
drama
1829 on 2, Azteca novela promo
1911 on 2, game show with
Televisa-2 bug
2020 on 2, Televisa-5 bug in LR, CCI
2045 on 2,
sitcom from net-5 bug LR; algo on 3
2049 on 3, now net-5 bug LR here too
but can`t tell if // 2
2056 on 3, tv3 bug in LR now during the XHP news
sesquihour
2058 on 3, interview in Xalapa per caption
2107 on 3,
net-5 animation
2124 on 3, animation, net-5 bug LR; algo CCI on
2
Some CCI on 2 remains for a while till fadeout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, July 22 at 2150 UT on caradio,
KETU/KEOR is on with regional Mexican music, but check after 2200 it`s either
off or dead air; hard to tell. 2355 recheck, music modulation again. I have yet
to hear *any* announcements, let alone ads or IDs at many random chex (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. While checking for Es FM
DX from Mexico, no dice, I do note a couple of OK items:
89.3, July 21 at
1659-1700 UT, ID for 3 Angels Broadcasting Network [Adventist] but cut off for
local ID: ``Loyal to God and Country, KIEL, Loyal OK, 89.3``, then cut back to
network just as roughly
104.5, July 21 at 1703 UT, tropo is still up and
now favoring Tulsa over Woodward or OKC: capturing frequency is KMYZ Prior,
``The Edge`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW
GUINEA [non]. 6075, July 22 at 1253, music on VP signal, so NBC relay via
Shepparton still going, maybe for one more day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, July 22 at 0519, R. Dabanga with good
signal via MADAGASCAR, and the jammer carriers are back, two on the hi side
making different pitch hets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1782 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday July 22 at 1315 on WRMI
9955, good signal.
WORLD OF RADIO 1783 monitoring:
1130 UT Thursday
WRMI 9955
2100 UT Thursday WRMI 7570
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
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
Full schedule
including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite:
Access
to audio, podcasts of this and previous programs:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 570, July 22 at 0537 UT, PSAs
for something in Nebraska, and the South Dakota National Guard; youth carnival
August 1 in Yankton, 0538 UT discussion of baseball stats. Surprised to be
getting 5/5 kW WNAX at this time of night, yet nothing from KLIF, XEBJB, Radio
Reloj, Las Cruces or anything else! WNAX is audible all day on groundwave, but
always way below KLIF Dallas, which is twice as close, but with unfavorable E-W
patterns day and night for us. WNAX night pattern is supposed to throw most
signal slightly east of north, minor lobes to SW and SE, while day pattern is
ND. As of a year ago, WNAX format was news/talk, not sports talk per se:
hypothesis, maybe they had carried a late/west coast silly baseball game, and
forgot to go off day pattern; but how did they get rid of the other 570s? I
don`t think there was an ionospheric disturbance wiping all normal signals out
leaving this by groundwave even at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0312 UT July 23
