** ALASKA. 7355, Aug 11 at 1200, KNLS is opening English hour, fairly good
signal at first, unlike many mornings when it`s inaudible (if on; beamed
westward from Anchor Point anyway, so anything here is bonus). Lucy Grant host
for the Tuesday show of `Alaska Calling`, introduces co-host Rob Scobey; they
are both relentlessly expressive, upbeat and clearly enunciating for the ESL
folk targeted. I could hardly believe my ears when the first of the items
billboarded by Rob was: ``If you think Alaska`s capital has long winters, you`re
right. How do Anchorage residents cope? Find out on Postcard from Alaska``
---
Hey Rob, Anchorage is NOT the capital of Alaska, but Juneau (tho
Anchorageans have long coveted the title; shortly after statehood there were
several initiatives, all defeated, to move it closer to Anchorage, even
Wasilla), and Juneau in the Panhandle is considerably milder than the rest of
the state.
A major gaffe, since these ``Alaskans`` are really in
Franklin, Tennessee near Nashville, HQ of World Christian Broadcasting. Have
they ever even been to Anchor Point, let alone Anchorage or Juneau? It`s unusual
for a SW station to identify so much with its remote transmitter site rather
than studio location thousands of miles away.
I reconfirmed this by
listening to the first couple minutes of today`s (Aug 11) broadcast:
http://knls.org/today-broadcast.html
After
a 1206 item about Dick Van Patten passing at age 86; at 06:47 into the file,
Mike Osborne with Postcard from Alaska which I could somewhat hear on already
fading 7355 at 1207: Anchorage is NOT referred to on the segment itself as the
capital. At 1210, `True Stories from the Bible` --- sez who? Faith required. By
1239, 7355 reception has degraded to very poor; it has an adjacent on 7360 but
not 7350.
As always, this magazine-style hour from KNLS hooks `em with
secular features, rock music (in stereo on the web), then hits `em with stealth
evangelism segments mixed in, including the retrograde anti-science `Creation
Moment` nonsense, which most religious stations feel obligated to propagate.
Will God ever get `em for that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 6180, Aug 11 at 0048, I`m wondering if RNA
is ever active on this frequency even with low power, and there is a JBA talker
here, but not // huge 11780 music + spurs all over the 25m band, so this 6180 is
something else, such as CRI English, southward from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN at
00-02 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 9935,
Aug 11 at 0033, VOG is on tonight, and as usual with huge whine on this
frequency, while // 9420 music is clear. At 0537, 9420 is still good with music
(presumably a buffer between token foreign language news headlines), and 11645
Dabanga via Vatican is suffering rumbling CCI, presumably Avlis up from 9935
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 104.5, August 11 at
1257 UT, I`m checking KZZW Mooreland/ Woodward, for IDs and slogans since it
settled into new format July 24 after several days of countdown stunting as I
previously reported. Has live local DJ, with timechex, frequency slip as
``102.5`` (his ex-station?). 1301: ``104-5, KZZW Mooreland`` takes care of it
legally; also: ``From Dodge City to El Reno, we got the hits``.
There`s
no point in measuring from COL Mooreland since the transmitter site is on the
other side of Woodward. City-to city distances:
Woodward to Dodge City KS is
157 km = 98 miles.
Woodward to El Reno OK is 164 km = 102 miles.
Dodge
City to El Reno is 308 km = 192 miles.
The radio-locater fringe contour for
the KZZW CP, doesn`t go that far, only to Geary/Hinton OK, not quite to
Fowler/Meade KS (and not quite to the western edge of Enid, but we get it well
enough with a little tropo enhancement). Other slogans/IDs:
At 1304,
``Today`s best hits, 104-5, KZZW`` but not all `hits` current
At 1308,
``104-5, KZZW, the Tri-State Party Station``
Bill Hale says,
``StationIntel reports that the format is CHR and the slogan is 'The Tri-State's
Party Station'.`` So maybe that`s the official one? AFAIK, the Woodward area is
not generally referred to as ``tri-state``, tho it does rather apply for
KS/OK/TX tnx to OK being only one county wide in the Panhandle; unlike for
countless other border areas in the USA where three states really do abut (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 105.7, Aug 11 at 1310 UT,
KRDR Alva is modulating in stupid sports talk, from ESPN Radio but running 20
seconds behind KCRC 1390 Enid --- because they are still relaying that station
in Missouri? Need to check ToH ID. On PL-880 I need to side tune to about 105.73
to avoid local Enid 105.50 translator, while KRDR still has ACI from it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 107.5, still as of August
11, no signal from KOSN Ketchum-Tulsa, the full-power relayer of KOSU, even with
a little help from the troposphere. As previously reported, it was off the air
when I was in Tulsa July 23-24, and subsequently found to be due to burnup of
antenna feed cable.
Meanwhile, canned IDs on 91.7 continued to include
107.5 (but never 107.3, the Tulsa translator fed by 107.5 --- a neat trick, on
adjacent channels; too bad they can`t feed it otherwise). Now here`s the latest
from the KOSU mailing list August 11:
``Dear KOSU Listener, As many of
you in the 107.3 and 107.5 listening area are aware, KOSU's signal has been
off-air since Wednesday, July 22, 2015.
The tower for this listening area
suffered a catastrophic electrical fire and the coax cables that run to (and up)
the tower were destroyed. After weeks of waiting for shipping and handling, the
special coax cable arrived and our engineers successfully installed the new
cable late last week. However, the antenna itself needs extensive cleaning from
the fire damage. Due to delays from rain and heavy winds, our engineers are
currently waiting to complete this task.
A burned portion of the cabling
on the 107.5 FM tower in Ketchum, OK [caption]
Estimates of the repair
costs are currently around $27,000. CLICK HERE to make a donation specifically
to support the repair efforts and help cover the costs.
Thank you so
much for your patience. In the meantime you can listen to KOSU on iTunes Radio
or streaming on kosu.org. Please do not hesitate to call us with any questions.
You can also follow all updates on our dedicated Tulsa 107.5 FM Signal Outage
webpage.
http://kosu.org/post/update-tulsa-1075-fm-signal-outage
Thank
you for listening and supporting KOSU.
Best Regards,
Mairead Todd
Membership Specialist
405-896-4323 (OKC)
405-744-9972
(Stillwater)``
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA.
This month`s ``The Living Room`` with Gerry Bonds, on KOSU features a joint
interview with two of OK`s great musicians, classical guitarist Edgar Cruz and
fiddler Kyle Dillingham. Final airing was Tuesday Aug 11 at 1330 UT. Pre-empting
other programming, normal pattern is on the first Wednesday at 2330 UT, some
time on weekends I have forgotten, and following Tuesday at 1330.
Available:
http://www.thelivingroomgb.com/
Gerry
is a former OETA newscaster (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. On RF 13, KETA/OETA, another August fund-raiser in progress, but
ending the August 7 `Oklahoma News Report`, Dick Pryor says goodbye, moving to
Candor Public Relations in OKC. After 40 years in broadcasting, last 25 with
OETA. ONR will carry on, he says. From OETA website, with audiovideo:
http://www.oeta.tv/blogs/press-room/goodbye-and-good-luck-dick-pryor/
``Goodbye
and Good Luck, Dick Pryor!
Updated by Chase Harvick, Dick Pryor at 10:12 pm
August 6 [excerpts:]
After an unparalleled 25 years of covering
Oklahoma's most important news, people and events that OETA Deputy Director and
Editor-in-Chief Dick Pryor announced he is "hanging up the notebook". We asked
Pryor, host of ONR, Oklahoma Forum, A Conversation With..., On the Record and
OETA's live election coverage to reflect on his quarter century with the station
and to share some insights gathered along the way.
Thinking back on your
career, what news stories or events most stand out and why?
`I have been
in broadcasting for 40 years, the first 15 of which were in sports and the last
25 in news, so there is lot that stands out...`
What's next for
you?
`Bringing my life and work experiences together in a new position as
Director of Client Services for Candor Public Relations. It’s a new challenge
and new opportunity to inform and shape public discussion and opinion. I look
forward to learning, growing and developing new relationships. I am grateful for
my broadcasting career and for the new opportunities that lie ahead. In the
final scene of The West Wing, Abigail Bartlet asked her husband, President Jed
Bartlet, what he was thinking about as they left Washington. Soaring high above
the clouds on their plane flight home, Bartlet responded, "Tomorrow." I can’t
wait for tomorrow. But, I will always be a journalist.`
It's with heavy
hearts and best wishes that everyone at OETA says a fond farewell to Dick Pryor
and a big thank you for his award-winning work, professionalism and integrity.
His legacy at OETA and within Oklahoma journalism will be felt for generations
to come``
Yes, a journalist. He was always even-handed in interviewing
politicians, mostly Republican in OK, and you could never tell what his own
politix were. It seems Candor PR http://www.candorpr.com/ has been in
business for only three years; see nothing there yet about Dick being on the
Team (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 42, Aug 10
at 1503 UT, area tropo makes KMYT Tulsa come in solid with three channels, but
no decodes from any other Tulsa station. 41.1 is KMYT MyTV; 41.2 is GetTV, and
41.3 is GritTV --- both with old B&W movies --- saves on the color
bandwidth, ha! W9WI.com does not show any 41.3 for it. Rabbitears.info has all
three plus another one pending ``soon`` as 41.4, something called ``Heroes &
Icons``. Also shows the ``physical channel`` for each as 42.3 thru 42.6
respectively (which are not displayed as such; why make DTV
remapping/channelization any more complicated?) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 7285, Aug 11 at 0546, once again at
random tune-in to R. Sonder Grense (means Without Borders, an apropos name for
SW service; cf. Dutch zonder grenzen), it`s totally in English instead of
Afrikaans, in order for a YL to interview a YL, Q&A; fair-poor with deep
fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800,
Aug 11 at 0535, R. Dabanga, holding up well enough tonight after 0527-0528
switch from Madagascar site to VATICAN, but the Sudanese carrier/het jamming
about 1 kHz on the hi side is back; 13800 now synchronized with 11645 which has
been Vatican all along, but latter with rumbling CCI presumably Greece; while
against the lower channel the clueless Sudanese tone jammer stays safely away on
11650, months after Dab shifted to 11645 (while Greece was inactive) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9770, Aug 11 at 0059, VOT IS,
timesignal ending one sesquisecond late after 0100, opening Spanish originally
broadcast at 1630 on 11930 (apparently unconcerned about Cuban jamming and Radio
Martí), and now also on // 9870 but 9770 is somewhat stronger as to be expected
here from relative azimuths of 270 and 290 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Aug 11 at 0524, WRMI is JBM with a
slight scratch instead of TOM which is nominal on 7570, Alex Scourby
pontificating Bible at the moment; wiggle that patchcord? Still same at 0553,
0622. By 1250 during Slovakia relay (and probably long before), back to normal
on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, Aug 10 at
0600 UT, ``The Patriot, KQQZ ---`` ID, daytime 10 kW direxional to SW facilities
for at least the seventh night in a row from DeSoto MO station; unchecked Aug
11, but bet it`ll still be so Aug 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6220.0-AM, Aug 11 at 0028, deliberate recheck for
the station I had heard Aug 7 including one word of Spanish(?), and thought to
be a mixing product. Here is something very poor with only one audio detectable,
vocal music, country? 0029 announcement and more music, on the NRD-545, rating
S7-S9 which is really equivalent to the storm noise level. Most readable in CW
mode tuned to 6222.20, -.105 passband, 2.40 bandwidth. It`s also audible on the
PL-880 with shorter reelout antenna, but then on the latter I scan thru the MW,
49, 41, 31 and 25m bands for any audio match, and none found. Seems to go off
around 0046, altho at 0107 there is an even weaker JBA carrier. Now I am
thinking it could be a pirate, Euro?
You might assume 6220 would be a
popular Europirate frequency, but nothing reported lately. Roberto Pavanello in
PlayDX did recently get an e-QSL from Radio Python 6220 kHz, but that was after
475 days.
Then I search HF underground and find
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17926.0.html
that
Radio Tango Italia was being heard on 6220 AM just over one year ago, August 2,
2014 around this same hour, by Chris Lobdell, Massachusetts, and by a couple of
others as deep into North America as central Kentucky and western Tennessee. Of
course, any 6 MHz Euro-pirate would be quite a rarity here in OK. There was also
a Mystery Radio on 6220 but that was several years earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1843 UT August 11
