** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, Aug 6 at 0518, crackling spurs from 11780 RNA/RNB,
the latter overcoming R. Brasil Central, which ought to be raising a stink about
this, Goiás state government vs the Feds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7385, August 5 at 1329, Firegragon! musical
jamming, fair signal mixed with Chinese, // 11785 at 1341 which is probably CNR1
jamming rather than the targets
13920, August 5 at 1355, CNR1 jammer,
poor; no others found OOB 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 1520, August 6 at 1233 UT, CRI English mixing
with Radio Oklahoma Network via KOKC OKC; almost zero-beat. CRI relay being KYND
Cypress TX (near Houston), 25 kW daytimer mostly aimed eastward but not
protecting KOKC, so always a problem here around SR/SS, worsened by KOKC`s QRP
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [non]. 11725,
August 6 at 0517, no signal from RNZI: must be another Thursday maintenance
break. R. Australia is the SSOB on both 15240, 17840-with squeal (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3275 & 3365, August 6
at 1207, JBA carriers matching NBC station activity; and another about 3229 from
who knows what (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON
ISLANDS. 5020, Aug 6 at 1158, strident preacher with closing devotional on SIBC,
which is totally Christian, violating Separation of Church and State; 1200 YL
with SIBC sign-off mentioning one MW and two SW frequencies; 1201 NA; 1202
switch to rock music, but cut off the air in less than a minute by 1203*. I
suppose that was a bit of Wantok FM, which they occasionally keep relaying
all-night, but not lately. All the while with lots of splash from 5025 R.
Rebelde, Cuba, especially during music. That is only going to worsen into fall
and winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 7285,
Aug 6 at 0522, all-English interview by R. Sonder Grense YL, with a diplomat,
who turns out to be the ambassador from Japan, on the Hiroshima 70th
anniversary; guess there aren`t too many Afrikaans-speaking Japanese; 0526 back
to Afrikaans, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1784 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 5 at
1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient, no jamming. NOT confirmed Wed Aug 5 at 2100 on
WBCQ: webcast down and no carrier detectable on 7490 by 2125; total power
failure? However, 7490 is back on by 2300 for `The Next Chapter`, one of the
more unusual and thought-provoking shows on SW.
WORLD OF RADIO 1785
monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, 1130 Thursday August 6 on WRMI 9955,
sufficient at 1153 with no jamming. Next:
2100 UT Thursday WRMI 7570
2130
UT Friday WRMI 15770
2130 UT Friday WRMI 7570
2330 UT Friday WRMI 5850
[NEW]
0630 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB
1430 UT Saturday HLR
7265-CUSB
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR
1860-AM
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
Note the NEW time for WOR,
Friday at 2330 on 5850. Contrary to Ivo who says 355 degrees, based on HFCC? per
WRMI website, this is on 315 degree antenna, i.e. due northwest across North
America. Altho Okeechobee sunset is currently not until a few minutes after 0000
UT, I could hear 5850 poorly August 5 at 2300 check with preacher; while I
couldn`t hear 5950 at same time toward Cuba which is carrying the new AWR
program, but maybe masked by local device blob (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, August 6 at 0528, as I tune across WTWW-1, Pastor
Pete Peters thinks he`s on 5070, since as a dead person, he can`t know that he
would move from WWCR to WTWW long after this was recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, August 5 at 0600 UT, KQQZ DeSoto MO
daytimer is again running at night with presumed 10 kW aimed to the southwest.
Apparently station owner thinx it`s more important to keep attacking the
``corrupt`` Democratic political establishment in St. Clair county IL
(Belleville, etc.) than to obey federal rules. Bob Romanik, ``The Grim Reaper of
Radio`` is closing his ``radical`` rantshow with thunder SFX, calling his
political enemies SOBs, bastards. 0604 UT ``They`re coming to take me away, ha
ha``; Jekyll/Hyde ID as First Amendment Radio/Killer Kountry, and into C&W
music.
St Louis` alternative newspaper, The Riverfront Times, has run
some articles on Romanik, quite a character, such as this one from a triyear
ago:
It
seems as an ex-con, convicted felon, he can`t own radio stations so technically
members of his family own them.
1190, August 6 at 0534 UT, KQQZ daytimer
is still running illegally in the nightmiddle, adstring including, motorcycles,
Autozone for batteries, back to Bob Romanik, Grim Reaper of Radio, who is well
experienced in law-breaking (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1785, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1460, August 6 at 1239 UT, Fort Worth ads with 817 area
code, i.e. KCLE Burleson TX, addresses in Cleburne, ESPN for the market; with 11
kW still at SRS an hour after sunrise, no problem overcoming my nearest 1460 on
groundwave, 500-watt KZUE El Reno OK, Spanish; in fact nothing at all heard from
it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Aug 6 at
1236 UT, solo YL hymn loops ENE/WSW, with CCI soon losing out to ESPN from KCTE
Independence MO. Most likely REL format is KMRF Marshfield MO, 5 kW daytimer, St
Louis market; or maybe 250-watt daytimer KCTX Childress TX which per last year`s
NRC AM Log is partly religious (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4845, Aug 6 at 1204, JBA carrier, much weaker than
4835 Australia, now that WWCR has signed off 4840. NO broadcasters except Brasil
are listed on 4845, certainly not at this hour; maybe an Asian --- Indians can
be off-frequency unpredictably. Or a ute --- Note: short for ``utility`` and
should not be capitalized as it is not an initialism! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1520 UT August 6
