** ARGENTINA. 15345.3, Sept 24 at 2345, surprised to hear RAE in Portuguese at
this hour --- no, it`s not, but Portunhol, or Spanish with a heavy Brazilian
accent from a (financial?) YL correspondent in São Paulo, then back to regular
Argie-accented Spanish from studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 5910, Sept 24 at 0543, TWR music-box IS, very poor
but at least showing again, the 100 kW, 30 degree beam before Polish M-F
quarter-hour, and confirming that COLOMBIA still hasn`t come back on its second
frequency. TWR, however, is desensitized on the FRG-7 by the bigsigs from WWCR
on 5890 & 5935 (not always the case, but as such tonight) (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 15440, Sept 25 at 1403, S Asian music,
heavy flutter. It`s AWR Urdu service, 300 kW due east from Moosbrunn (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11856.3, Sept 24 at 2343, R.
Aparecida with a song no doubt of Marian praise, about 1 kHz further
off-frequency than usual, and // weaker 9724.4 as relayed by RB2 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, Sept 25 at 1328, open carrier
with hum, heavy flutter; 1329 hum stops; 1330:15 join AIR English sign-on in
progress amid frequency announcement; 1330:45 ID and into news. Nice to hear
11620, as for months during the 1330 GOS sesquihour, it`s been inaudible, unlike
the other two frequencies, 9690 and 13710. These are audible, but 11620 is much
better; 13710 is slightly behind 11620, as 9690 also seems to be. Per Aoki,
11620 is only 125 kW from Delhi-Khampur, while 9690 & 13710 are 500 kW
Bengalurus. Between 1336 and 1337, 13710 suffers a break in transmission for
less than a minute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA
[and non]. 4750-, Sept 25 at 1200, first check of session is for RRI Makassar,
but only a low audible het between it and Bangladesh or China, closer to
4750.00. Therefore quite surprised at 1238 recheck to find RRI up to fair level
and alone, with YL Indonesian announcement, then mostly music, still 1248. 1251
brief ``running-water`` ute QRM overrides; 1253 another YL announcement, but at
*1254.5 the LAH comes back on --- so Makassar has lucked out with Bangladesh or
China in a transmission break until now (why in the world don`t the three
permanently spread out to 4740, 4745??). 1300 announcement from RRI but QRM is
worse. Had been the best I`ve heard it so far since reactivation. It surged
after our sunrise 1222 today.
We hope for good DX conditions the last
week of September, as minor/major geomag storms are coming the first week of
October. From 1239 Sept 25, I also scan 60m for other Asian signals: 4870-,
nothing from RRI Wamena (Ron Howard also says it was off today); 4820 has talk
with a het = Kolkata/Lhasa-Baiding; at 1241 algo talk on 4895, also signals on
4920, 4970, 5010, 5050, pointing to India and/or Tibet/China (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 774, Sept 25 at 1207, JBA carrier from
the NW/SE, certainly 500 kW JOUB Akita NHK-2, my prime pilot for trans-Pacific
MW DX. Then seeking others on DX-398 9-kHz stepping, and find: 693 & 594 at
1208; 828 at 1211, the latter as strong as 774. These surely are all other NHKs:
828, 300 kW JOBB Osaka, NHK-2; 693, 500 kW JOAB Tokyo, NHK-2; 594, 500 kW JOAK
Tokyo, NHK-1. No more carriers found up to 1000 nor in the 1500s. Sunrise here
today: 1222 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO.
650, Sept 25 at 0553, Mexican music is totally dominant, soon ID for Radio 65,
live TC for 6 para las 12, i.e. XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Can hear trace of WSM
(and something else, KGAB WY?) only by carefully nulling this! Northerly signals
from Chicago, Minneapolis, etc., are still inbooming, so not auroral condx; a
fluke? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 690, Sept 25 at
0555, two Spanish stations: one IDs for 107.9 FM and into music; the other ``La
69``, promo tied in with Mexican independence just celebrated last week, then
continuous talk. Both vs open carrier from KGGF KS. The `107.9` one loops
further clockwise from the ``69`` one. The latter is surely 100/5 kW XEN in the
DF. But all three references, IRCA, Cantú and WRTH show no 107.9 // on 690, but
instead 107.1 for XEMA, 50/2 kW in Fresnillo, Zacatecas; so unless a new
107.9/690 combo show up, I`ll have to assume what I really heard was ``107.1``.
Sorting out the XE 690s can be confusing: XEWW, 77/50 kW in Rosarito BCN is also
listed with a ``6-90 AM`` ID (but never heard here with its tight N/S pattern);
both XEMA and XECS in Colima are a.k.a. ``La Mejor`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, Sept 24 at 2335, Spanish
speaker with a sense of urgency as if preaching something we haven`t already
heard ad infinitum, still at 2346, too poor to make out details, but presumably
the pirate predicator circa Nicaragua, offshore? but in aero band during
habitual ~half-hour appearance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NORTH AMERICA. 6955.0-USB, Sept 25 at 0110, only pirate-band signal at the
moment emits dense rock music at S9+18; 0114 announcement as Def Leppard,
``don`t need to be listening to this``, ``This is Radio Broadcaster, screwing
around; got one more for you, listen up, all you HF-Undergrounders``. Where I go
later and find agreement that ``Radio Broadcaster`` is the ID, apparently a
first-timer, or first-namer:
As
almost always the case, I am further west than any of the other loggers of these
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Sept 25 at 0101,
RSO unfound on any of: 9500, 9540, 9740, so I look for a signal on 15140, and
there is one very poor, but can`t tell whether it`s RSO overtime or CRI Chinese
via Xi`an as also sked this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1792 monitoring: confirmed
second SW broadcast, Thursday Sept 24 at 2100 on WRMI 7570; sufficient. Missed
checking next airing at 2330 on 5850. Confirmed UT Friday Sept 25 at 0100 on
WBCQ 9330-CUSB running S9+30! Next:
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Fri 2130.5
WRMI 7570 to NW
Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to
SW
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun
0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Mon 0300v WBCQ
5110v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Full
schedule:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 760, Sept 25 at 1226 UT as I
am trying to ID the nostalgic music, maybe from Mexico [see UNID log], 6 kW KCCV
Overland Park KS is in ascendance, closing `Turning Point` program with San
Diego address (not KFMB!), own ID for 760, 92.3 and new 101.5; ad for Hillsdale
College (which is in Michigan, Baptist). NRC AM Log does not show any FM // for
KCCV, nor for WJR, nor for KMTL in AR. 92.3 however matches in the WTFDA
database as KCCV-FM Olathe KS; and the 101.5 to K268CF in Kansas City MO (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Doug Smith comments on my
previous log about KQCV-800 OKC:
> Standard remark about stations
>
broadcasting dead air for more than a minute being unworthy of their
>
licenses. If they can`t have at least one human constantly listening
> to
their own stations, and in emergency control if needed, how can
> they
expect anyone else to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Indeed,
for only $150 a station can buy one of these:
which
will listen for them. You just have to have one human within
earshot of the
alarm. If $150 is too much for a silence sensor, how's free?:
(Doug
Smith, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
That should be a no-brainer, but I would
still not be satisfied. At least one station staffer should be *required* to
*listen* constantly to own station`s output, much of it the crap they expect the
audience to hear (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** U S A. 880, Sept 25 at 1229 UT,
plug for an event in Washington County Community Center, loops E-W, 1230 UT KLRG
ID, i.e. Sheridan in central AR; while Wash. Co. is the NW corner circa
Fayetteville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1020, Sept
25 at 0602 UT, KCKN Roswell NM ID missed but multi-station ID in progress for
Mount Kisco and many others including ``530 Caicos, British West Indies``, i.e.
Radiovisión Cristiana, originating in NYC at WWRV-1330; overpowering near-local
1020, KOKP Perry OK, still making a SAH with it as 50/50 kW U4 KCKN continues to
ignore its requirement to protect KDKA if not KOKP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
Listening Digest)
** U S A. Doug Smith answers a question in my previous
report:
> BTW, KFH is (voluntarily?) downgraded to only 630 watts instead
of
> the usual 1000 for graveyarders (looking thru the NRC AM Log,
there
> are quite a few others at less than 1000 now; why?). (Glenn
Hauser,
> Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Antenna is too efficient. KFH
is using the KZCH-96.3 FM tower. This tower is 225 electrical degrees high - at
1240 kHz, that's 151 meters. It delivers 441mV/m of signal at 1 km. The minimum
tower height for a Class C station like KFH is only 45 meters, or a minimum
signal of 241mV/m. The typical AM non-directional tower is somewhere near 1/4
wavelength, or 90 electrical degrees -- less than half the height of what KFH is
using.
I think if you checked on the other less-than-1,000-watt Class
C
stations, you'd find nearly all of them are using FM or TV towers which are
much taller than normally used for Class C's. == (Doug Smith, W9WI, Pleasant
View, TN EM66, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 17600, Sept 25
at 1339, poor signal in Somali is the 16m OSOB [only signal on band]. It`s VOA
at 13-14 via SMG, violating Separation of Church and State. By 1348 a second one
is starting to show, 17615, Qur`an, i.e. BSKSA Sa`udi Arabia (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 760-, Sept 25 at 1218 UT, nostalgic
music, slightly on lo side making LAH with KCCV KS (see USA Log); 1222 segué to
``Stranger in Paradise`` by big band; 1224 losing to KCCV. New NRC AM Log 2015
shows no ``NOS`` format in USA on 760, and there`s nothing roughly matching the
DF that`s not a talker.
So, is it really a Mexican? 2014 IRCA Log shows
no specific NOS format there either, but from DF could be: XEES Chihuahua, XEEB
Ciudad Obregón, or XENY Nogales. At least XEES and XENY have been logged here
before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7851.5-USB,
Sept 25 at 1304, Spanish 2-way with cambios, too close for comfort to
7850.0-CUSB CHU, CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9170-LSB, Sept 25 at 1308, 19-second poorly-edited
test count loop mixing English and Spanish! ``Probando, uno, dos, uno; uno, dos,
tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete; uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinc--- [cut to
English:], one, two, testing, one, two, four; one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight; testing, one, two, three, four, three, fifteen, ten . . .`` and
repeats. 1315 briefly QRM from another SSB offset. These strange counts still
going past 1332. Sounds like a human, not a robot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1719 UT September 25
