** ALASKA. 7355, Oct 1 at 1250, poor but audible signal from KNLS, Anchor Point,
English sermon about an Upper Room (a Protestant thing and devotional booklet
too); 1253 mentions www.knls.org, 1254 intro
Justin Bieber song! But just in a promo talking over him, plus other music on
The New Life Station. Nothing audible on 11870, alleged other transmitter
frequency; and 7355 is audible only occasionally.
BTW, the Aurora
Communications SW station in nearby Ninilchik is in the news for EPA violations,
still not really on the air since the project started in 2002y. More about this
on WORLD OF RADIO 1793, next DX Listening Digest, and already in the DXLD
yahoogroup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505,
Oct 1 at 1400:22.5, 5+1 mis-timesignal ends from Bangladesh Betar, JBA carrier
for Urdu service. If anything cuts thru, it`s the mis-time pips, a public
disservice. Yesterday it was 1400:09, but there is no predictable variation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6200, Oct 1 at 1246,
Chinese songs, V. of Jinling, fair and no CCI here from PBS Xizang, Tibet, which
Ron Howard reports has now reactivated co-channel messing up Jinling for him
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9440, Oct 1 at 1301,
CRI opening Esperanto, fair with flutter; same theme music as on 9550 with
Vietnamese. 9440 is 100 kW, 200 degrees from Nanning 954 site; and listed //
11650 via Beijing unchecked. Why are only the Commies (Cuba too) interested in
propagating this erstwhile artificial language? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, Oct 1 at 0617, RHC English time check for :21 past
the hour --- I don`t think so. ``Ed Newman``, when recording the now stale
English hour the previous afternoon, no doubt really sound asleep at this hour,
was relying on playouts to be accurately synchronized with Real Time. In this
case, must have started 4 minutes early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9542 & 9558 approx., Oct 1 at 1258,
parasitic spurs from the 9550 RHC fundamental, are each making same hets with
legit 9540 and 9560 stations, and all three RHC signals vanish at 1259:45*,
clearing 9550 for CRI open carrier, 1300 opening Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750-, Oct 1 at 1240, RRI Makassar,
fair signal with music, some modulation breaks, on FRG-7 at S9+18, as good as it
has been so far; no LAH audible until 1255 recheck now with two offset carriers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11730, Oct 1 at 1307,
VIRI in presumed Pashto as scheduled due east from Sirjan; good signal but
undermodulated with electronic music liners, until chopoff at 1320:45* during
music: unlike one biday ago when kept going, misopening Chinese from 1322. This
time, I check scheduled 13660 for Japanese from 1322, but it`s too weak, just
IS, unID language opening, 1323 NA. By 1405 recheck, however, it`s a bit better,
recognizably correct Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
JAPAN. 774, Oct 1 at 1229, JBA carrier from NHK Akita; and 828 at 1230 even
weaker one, from NHK Osaka; no others audible on the lo end. Today`s Enid
sunrise: 1227 UT; in one week will be 1232 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6020, Oct 1 at 1338, Shiokaze sounders are
recognizable, and the usual deferential Japanese-style YL voice, but not enough
to be positive she`s in English as normal on Thursdays. Nothing on 5985, so
Sea-breeze must have just made another QSY for the 1330-1430 broadcasts from
JAPAN. Aoki already agrees on this, but yet to discover whether the 1600-1700
repeat has moved from 5985 too. Anyhow, glad that the 1330 transmission is
re-beginning to propagate to here, now starting only one hour after sunrise
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 9690-, Oct 1 at 0605
tune-in to Voice of Nigeria, surprised to hear them in English! Some official is
speaking about Boko Haram; hard to follow accent, and lo-fi audio, also
interrupted a few times by humbuzz such as 0608, 0610, 0610 again. I switch to
// 7255- which is somewhat weaker but aproblematic. He addresses ``Fellow
Nigerians``, and at 0611.5 ``God bless you all`` (does that include Allah?) and
creaky military band, presumably national anthem. 0612 undermodulated but
clearer announcer outro that this was a special Independence Day address by
President Muhammadu Buhari; 0613 ``returning to normal broadcasts. Thank you for
listening, happy Independence Day``, and into percussion as switching to Hausa
which normally starts at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Greg Hardison replies to my log:
``Re KVOH schedule: "...*also
Mutual Radio News at 01, 02 and 03..."
Huh???? Yes, it appears Mutual
Radio has sorta' been dug up from the dead, and propped up on the front
porch:
Among
other things, this website links to a rather entertaining "affiliates list" --
which itself includes some questionably-existent outlets, along with apparent
LPFM and Part 15 stations. This one probably is eligible for the Network Most
Likely To Disappear medallion.
Ah! -- Then we find this on Mutual's FAQ
page: "A: The Mutual Radio News service is not affiliated with the defunct
Mutual Broadcasting System or Mutual Radio Networks. Mutual Radio News is a
trademark of MutualRadioNews.com" So this is more of a reincarnation, than
anything else. -- GREG HARDISON``
``On over 75 radio stations
nationwide!`` not listing KVOH. And it`s ``free`` for a month trial.
Terms:
I
don`t find any physical address. Who is really behind it, and where does their
news really come from? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. RF
18, Oct 1 at 1458 UT, DTV 5-1 KFSM-DT from Fort Smith AR briefly decodes, the
only DX signal to do so among several other Bad ones in my morning bandscan for
area tropo. It stops before I can look for 5-2 or more. Hepburn`s 1500 UT
forecast map shows some enhancement only east of Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11250-SSB, Oct 1 at 1303, 2-way lively
conversation with musical elements, apparently the Indonesian QSO pirates, not
staid aeronautical contacts. So I look for more in their usual band above 11.4
MHz:
11405-SSB, Oct 1 at 1306, pileups of lots of pirate QSOs, quick
back-and-forth, talkovers
11455-SSB, Oct 1 at 1311, more pirate QSOs,
including a singer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 1643 UT October 1