** AUSTRALIA. 17840, R. Australia is no longer audible in the nightmiddle circa
05-06 UT chex, as it was all our summer, but it is audible at only S2 yet
readable, Oct 2 at 0148, while // 15240 is JBA. What will they be doing for
B-15? About the same but with alternates possible:
21-09, 17840 or 13630 at
70 degrees USward; also 15240, 15415
09-21, 9580 at 70 degrees; also 6080 or
6150/12085, 12065
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA.
2749-USB, Oct 2 at 0056, OM in English-accented French with météo, S6 signal.
Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm
starting at 0040 is VCO in Sydney NS, but implied in English only. Two other
stations in the 2749 group are ``EE/FF``, but at later times: VAR-3 Yarmouth
from 0140; and VCN Magdalen from 0437. Maybe there have been some schedule
changes since this listing was last updated 2014-01-30. These and many other
marine weather 2 MHz band stations are also listed in EiBi by frequency, http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-a15.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NEWFOUNDLAND
**
COLOMBIA. 5910.02, Oct 2 at 0144, Alcaraván Radio is reactivated after missing
about 5 months, and its sibling 6010.1 La Voz de tu Conciencia already
reactivated a few weeks ago and remains reliable including now. First date back,
as definitely absent from 5910 thru last night. S9 signal, EZL music, 0147 break
for arpeggio and brief Spanish announcement about El Señor, more music.
Overridden a couple times by ``running water`` ute, but no broadcast QRM at this
hour. That will be at 03-05 from Japan via France; and 0543-0600 M-F from TWR
via Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non].
9315, Oct 2 at 0206, no signal from R. Cairo English, and 9965, no signal from
R. Cairo Arabic, either. Yet Greek music is good at S9+5 on 9420 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Oct 2 at 0153, traffic report,
mentions Zaragoza, a suburb of Ciudad Juárez, plugging 6 am show here on
``Extremo 7-20``, federal PSAs for CNDH = Derechos Humanos, on its 25th
anniversary, and 0155 for the Senado, i.e. XEJCC, Juárez, Chihuahua. Getting
this without having to avoid WGN at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Oct 2 at 0054, YL in English with
marine weather including ``visibility less than one mile`` [sic], ``strong wind
warning in effect``. Also mentions Grand Banks, Newfoundland, and Newfoundland
Daylight Time [UT minus only 2.5 hours]. Per dxinfocentre.com at this hour the
station in the N/L group is VCP-4 in Placentia, starting at 0048. Placentia is
in the southeast, on the western side of the Avalon Peninsula. About S8
signal.
2598-USB, Oct 2 at 0107 recheck, another marine weather in
English just starting mentioning ``Radio`` and ``Newfoundland``, i.e. VCM in St.
Anthony`s on the northern tip (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
CANADA
** NORTH AMERICA. 6949.7, Oct 2 at 0204, JBA music on AM at S5.
Three logs here say Captain Morgan Shortwave was on 6950-AM at 0145-0210*:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-USB, S9+5 pirate
music cuts to spoken comment about going online to express opinions, cut off and
back to music; next check 0058 another spoken rant fragment, then hard rock;
0102 distorted hard rock, canned ID ``B-I-D Radio, Burn It Down``, and ``Thanks
for listening, discovering the world, one frequency at a time, good night`` and
off just before 0103*. Many other logs here, all from further east, as far as
the UK:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Oct 1 at 1938 UT,
oldies WBBZ Ponca City is so strong on daytime groundwave that I never hear any
CCI, but on the NRD-545 listening carefully and watching the S-meter, I switch
between the N-S LW and the E-W ALA-330S, finding a difference: the S9 signal is
fluxuating slightly by about 1 S-unit on the LW, causing me to wonder at first
if it`s a clue to other than normal amplitude modulation from that station; but
on the Wellbrook, it`s steady, just like many other signals, e.g. KFAQ 1170
Tulsa. So I suspect I`m getting a SAH from remnant of another 1230 station, the
most likely being KADA Ada OK, now stupid sports talk, which I think I`ve never
IDed from here. Other close 1230s are in Pampa TX, Ft Smith AR, Joplin MO (and
none in Kansas!) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU.
5980, Oct 2 at 0049, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0106:12*,
which is 13.5 seconds later than last check Sept 30 until 0105:58.5*, i.e.
averaging 6.75 seconds later per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521.0, Oct 2 at 0110, 1.0 kHz het upon KOKC
OKC, i.e. the TA pilot 2-megawatt BSKSA Duba. This led me to survey the entire
MW band and find a bunch of others; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1793 monitoring: confirmed
Thursday Oct 1 after 2100 on WRMI 7570, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Friday Oct
2 from 0100 on WBCQ, 9329.97-CUSB at S9+25. Blalock ran a bit late, but squeezed
in his phone number, causing only a partial WBCQ ID before WOR started
automatically on time. 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
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Oct 1 at 2018, no
signal from WTWW-3; 9475 WTWW-1 is blasting in as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15607.79 & 15612.21, Oct 1 at 2021, the
parasitic spurs out of 15610 WEWN are approx. here. What we hear when the
fundamental is strong enough (often not, here, but it is now at mid-afternoon),
is the slightly varying ~2.21-kHz squealing pitch of these beating against the
main carrier --- a defect which the WEWN English transmitter has been suffering
for years without any sign of concern. There may be more of these at further
removes when the signal is even stronger. I used to find them around 9 and 18
kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSEST)
** U S A. 7504.67, Oct
2 at 0059, WRNO Fort Worth/New Orleans is already on, VG signal, measured at
0138 as prime gospel huxter is still continuing. Are they again throwing in
brief newscasts cribbed from Deutsche Welle? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 6220, Oct 2 at 0104, Mexican music reads S9, but barely
readable, enough to hear just before 0105, ``880 AM, La Ranchera, con mil[?]
watts``, i.e. WMDB Nashville TN, really 2500/2 watts, relayed by WNQM 1300
Nashville, 50000/5000 watts, mixing with 7520, 100000 watt WWCR-4 aimed 90
degrees on rhombic. Then I check the match, 1300 kHz above 7520, and can also
barely hear music at S3 on 8820. The October sked for 7520 remains UT Tue-Sat
0000-0200, i.e. the only times the 6220 and 8820 mixing products can exist.
Still alert for others like them displaced from other WWCR frequencies (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Oct 1 at 1933 UT, I
recheck the KRVN/KJOZ situation at the same daytime hour as first log two days
ago. I`m not at the quiet caradio spot, but go directly to the NRD545, and
switch between the ALA-330S antenna oriented east-west and the not-very-longwire
oriented north-south. The two signals are there again, so it wasn`t a
propagational fluke. On the N/S, both are audible, but too much KRVN Lexington
NE to copy much from KJOZ Conroe TX.
On the E/W, however, both are
weakened yet more equal in strength so as to produce a very perceptible
subaudible heterodyne (SAH), amounting to 244/minute or just over 4.0 Hz. This
is close to my interim observation yesterday morning which I thought might be
something else. Under KRVN programming is talk mostly by female, which
corresponds to the listed KJOZ programming at 17-19 UT. Too bad I don`t have a
unidirexional antenna to minimize KRVN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1500, Oct 2 at 0114 UT as I am hearing various unID
[q.v.] stations other than KSTP, it`s Greek music and then Greek talk! This has
to be the ethnic-Greek station in New Port Richey FL, address in Oldsmar, WPSO,
which is upposed to be a ND 250-watt daytimer. Tnx for cheating, long after
official FCC October sunset of 2300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Oct 2 at 0130 UT, soft YL songs in Spanish, and
ID by YL as ``Radio Mujer, muchas gracias por sintonizarnos, -algo- 5 punto 1``,
and another song. That`s KZNX Creedmore (Austin) TX, which I was also getting on
my New Mexico trip from Santa Rosa as in DXLD 15-37 (and now I see I typoed the
call there, twice, as KZNZ! Never heard it spoken in any language); and the FM
was researched as 95.1. Supposed to be 220 watts night rather than 10 kW day, 1
kW critical hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
1500, Oct 2 at 0111 UT, hardly any signal from KSTP even when aimed right at it
(yet, Saudi Arabia is in on 1521, but from a lower angle), so what else do I get
on 1500? Classic rock roughly E/W; at 0125 UT it`s blues and KSTP starts to fade
up a bit at 0128 UT. At 0200 UT I am hearing Cajun/Zydeco music, 0203 English ID
amid CCI maybe mentions Louisiana or is it just the power of suggestion?
Almost every state in the ``South`` and ``Midwest`` has a 1500 station,
most of them low-power daytimers, or with negligible power at night. Several
listed as OLDies format, and the one in LA, KCLF New Roads is AC/UC in NRC AM
Log 2015. KJIM Sherman TX should be off by now and none of these seem from the
south. Meanwhile, I get one 1500 definitely: WPSO New Port Richey FL! see U S A
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. After 1521 SAUDI
ARABIA QRMing KOKC OKC, and hearing a 3-kHz het from 1503 (200 kW IRAN? or
something closer but much weaker) when I am DXing wideband domestic on 1500, I
step thru the entire MW band from top to bottom, aiming NE/SW with the DX-398 at
9-kHz intervals, and with its BFO as usual slightly offset, making JBA hets of
the same pitch whenever there is a carrier, as I switch between USB and LSB to
avoid the 10-kHz stations (but also obscuring any in -9 or -1), I do find these,
Oct 2 between 0112 and 0122: 1422, 1413, 1296, 1215 (two?), 882. Trans-Atlantic
MW DX has been up lately, reported even from Alberta and BC, where it`s more
like trans-polar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
1710, Oct 2 at 0108 UT, JBA carrier, I would like to think is the 35 to 50 watt
relay of CHIM-FM in Timmins, Ont., as uncovered a few nights ago by Tim Tromp in
west Michigan. Does it remain active with such high power? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0514 UT October 2
