** BOLIVIA. 3310-, Oct 10 at 0931, very poor music slightly on the lo side, and
since it doesn`t match the KCRC/KGWA 1390/960 local mix of talkers, conclude
it`s really R. Mosoj Chaski, which I never hear in the evenings. Quick DXLD
archive search on ``3309.`` finds several reports of it on 3309.98, from
2009-2010-2011y if not lately. Only an earthquake can get me up at this hour.
Not much else from LA, but 3290 Guyana, 4875 & 4885 Brasil are audible on
the FRG-7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Re my
observation that 11780.1 is no longer spurring, Wolfgang Büschel replies: ``So,
I guess the Brazilians have 3 transmitters at their disposal, and one of these
units produces still spurs`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
COLOMBIA. 5910 & 6010, Oct 10 at 0627 check, both HJDHs are on with fair
signals, different musix. Recheck at 0928 after our 4.3 earthquake, still on but
5910 is stronger (originally, 6010 was using a direxional antenna to protect
México which unfortunately is no longer necessary) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 11725, Oct 10 at 0617, RNZI
is playing a heartfelt version of ``Jerusalem``, their `Saturday Night`
request/dedication show, which we love to listen to, but it`s been starting too
late for us all northern-summer, 2 am CDT. Now from last Sunday in Sept, NZ is
back on its own DST of UT+13, which makes it one hour earlier here, from 1 am
CDT, --- and when we go off DST in November, will be even better, two hours
earlier, to start at midnight CST (or rather after news on the hour, not worth
mentioning in schedules). Locally on RNZ National, it`s a 5-hour show from 7 pm
until midnight. I guess the whole thing is also on SW until 1100 UT, altho the
RNZI sked does not specify it until 0908! Apparently not available on demand,
but look at the playlists of great, mostly old, music:
11725
signal is VG as usual, even if not much else is propagating on 25m except Brasil
--- Unlike Australia, which stix to 19 and 16 m until 0900! long faded out here.
After an earthquake shaking us at 0921 UT [USGS: magnitude ``4.4, 18 km
SW of Medford, Oklahoma, 2015-10-10, 09:20:43 UTC, 6.4 km`` deep --- that`s
about 15 miles due north of Enid! And there was another one I didn`t notice:
``3.7, 21 km SW of Medford, Oklahoma, 2015-10-10, 15:20:48 UTC, 5.4 km``], at
0924 I take the opportunity to check RNZI`s next frequency, 9700, and it too is
VG, now playing rock music. By now RA has sensibly moved to night frequencies,
where 9580 is also VG with soft folk rock. After 1100, RNZI 9700 beamswitch from
NNE to NNW greatly reduces its signal here for another bihour (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. In late September, I received a phone
call out of the blue from Rick Sellers of Drumright OK, who is in the oil
business, and also the ``friend and financier, and owner`s agent`` of KUSH,
1600, Cushing OK. Seems he has been reading my log reports including about KUSH,
the latest of which was in DXLD 14-45 (and brief follow-up 14-46) of last
November, when we were monitoring their Saturday morning Indian program, and
then,
``What about the CP for power increase from 1 to 5 kW? Certainly
still sounds like 1 kW. FCC shows no info about it being LIC yet for that
output, but there was a Consummation of Transfer of Control on July 14, 2014.
The confusing FCC info also shows it`s presently ND-1 with 70 watts at night,
while the CP calls for ND-2 still with 70 watts at night. Yet, it`s one tower,
and surely non-direxional at all times. Direxionality in the daytime might have
been a requirement for higher power but not so indicated (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1746, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
Rick wanted to update that
info, so told me all about KUSH, as I summarize from notes:
They have
until Xmas to activate the CP for 5 kW, and plan to meet the deadline. 5 kW
transmitter is on the way, and hope to be on air with it by mid-December. That
should also get them better into at least part of Oklahoma City, daytimes.
Already got a new transmitter in 2011, rehabbed the tower and the rest of the
station in 2012 --- it works like new altho it doesn`t look like new.
Rick wonders if co-channel Vietnamese station in The Metroplex, KRVA,
25000/930 watts U4, is cheating. Says at SR & SS, it`s hard for him to hear
KUSH only 10 miles away. Not sure here, but even if it isn`t, KUSH doesn`t have
much of a chance with 70 watts at night (when it`s Yahoo Sports Radio, anyway).
If not KRVA, it`s mostly a contest between Denver and St Louis at near right
angles to each other on 1600.
I wondered if he had looked into an FM
duplicator; he has, but so far nothing available that would be cost-effective.
KREK in Drumright, for instance, was sold for $300K. A translator closer to
Tulsa would have cost $40K.
Has several news sources; compares it to
KRMG 740 Tulsa in the good old days. Rick, 60, says he has been into radio since
childhood; put up a rock `n` roll pirate FM in the late 60s, with 900 watts from
Grove, reaching Tulsa, got TVI complaints (channel 6 there, you know), then went
straight after an FCC visit.
Rick says they are keeping the station
local, not a lot of canned stuff (but Dennis Miller and Clark Howard occupy 6
hours a weekday per sked). KUSH music format is ``Americana`` at least 11 am - 1
pm CT, and he thinx it`s the only such station in OK, at least the only one
reporting to an Americana website. Also plays some ``Red Dirt`` Texas music.
``The KUSH Team in the Morning --- 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM Monday Through
Friday on KUSH. A quick Start to your day with the latest news and local
information, local guests and more``
KUSH has been owned by the Kelly
family since the 1960s. But heir apparent Sean Kelly, son of founder Don Kelly,
was killed in car wreck last year; his widow and family continue to own it, and
most of the staff are women. Don Kelly also lent his name to KELI in Tulsa. Rick
also mentioned some connexion with KMOD in Tulsa.
Later I look up on
website info about Sean, including:
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE CHARGE FILED IN
KUSH RADIO OWNER'S FATAL ACCIDENT
Patti Weaver 1600kush.com Published on:
12/30/2014
(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Mack dump truck driver was charged
Monday with negligent homicide in a Highway 33 collision west of Cushing that
took the life of KUSH radio station owner Sean Kelly, 53, of Stillwater, nearly
a year ago.
The defendant, David Bruce Thomas, 52, of Shawnee, then an
employee of Kinder Dozer Inc. of Carney, was not arrested when the charge, which
is a misdemeanor, was filed by Payne County Assistant District Attorney Tyson
Branyan 11 months after the fatal accident. . .
Formal
obit for Sean Michael Kelly:
Partial
program schedule and link for live streaming:
Includes
the Saturday morning Indian show, `Native Air` with Hugh Foley, an OSU professor
and also the PD of KUSH. I was going to monitor it again on Oct 3, but other
activities caused me to miss it.
Friday Oct 9 I checked the caradio
around 1530 UT, and found KRVA still heavily QRMing KUSH on skywave almost a
bihour after sunrise, but it was about to fade out. Saturday Oct 10, however,
tuning the NRD-545 and ALA-330S antenna aimed eastward for best reception, and
nothing but a SAH from KRVA even when nulling KUSH on the PL-880:
I tune
in at 1457 UT during a song; 1500 UT, KUSH ID by Lee Denney, State Rep. for
District 33 (I thought she said 32, but she`s here:)
and
is axually Speaker Pro Tem.
Then some ads: 1501 UT, Quicken Loans,
mental-bright.com; 1502 UT, E-cigarette starter kit, free! 1503 UT Legal
Advocates for Indian Country, http://laic-law.com --- 1504 UT no show opening
other than drumming & chanting, which continues until 1513 UT when Hugh
finally introduces `Native Air`, talks about football games; 10:14 TC in English
and brief bit in a native language; Sac & Fox news in English including: a
``rap council`` coming Oct 24, and at this very hour Oct 10, another important
S&F meeting is in progress. I find its site:
Sac & Fox is one of the smallest tribes; Wikipedia: ``The Sac and
Fox Nation is headquartered in Stroud, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional
area covers Lincoln, Payne, and Pottawatomie Counties. Their Principal Chief is
George Thurman.[1] Five elected officials, each elected for a four-year term,
govern the tribe. Elections are held in odd-numbered years in August.[2] Of the
3,794 enrolled tribal members, 2,557 live in Oklahoma. Membership to the tribe
requires a minimum 1/8 blood quantum.[1]``
He looks at a language page,
including a word list, such as a long word for Moon he`s going to have to
practice before pronouncing; and shorter ones for fire and pumpkin. It seems
that LAIC is the show sponsor. 1517 UT plays some more drumming & chanting
featuring ``Young Bear recorded from the Enid Powwow 2015`` --- that must have
been where we were last Saturday afternoon! 1520 UT ID as ``the mighty Kush``.
At this time I decide to turn on the computer and hear it better on webcast, but
unfortunately it requires some flash plug-in I haven`t installed.
So far
I haven`t heard either slogan as in IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3:
``1600 KUSH
Cushing, OK, old slogan: "The Source"; new: "The Voice Of Cimarron Valley"``.
Nor do I see either on the website, even by searching. Tnx to Rick for calling,
and I hope he eventually sees this writeup! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Oct 10 at 1406 UT, open carrier, dead air
except for big hum from KZLS Enid/Hennessey, not unusual for them. I`ve better
things to do than keep listening for it to come back, but it is remodulating
with music at next check 1744 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7445, Oct 10 at 0624, BBCWS in English, 65 degrees
from ASCENSION, with constant splatter from 7455, WRMI music at 285 degrees from
Okeechobee. Earlier in evening these can usually coexist altho I wish they were
further apart.
Steven Luce in Houston TX, closer to the boresight of
285, says, ``I noticed that WRMI was missing from 7455 at least between 0500 and
0540 October 10, which allowed splatter-free reception of a very solid BBCWS
Ascension signal on 7445. Didn't check other WRMI frequencies`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Oct 10 at 0630 UT, still hearing
Mexican music from east, no doubt WLBA Georgia daytimer still cheating as in
earlier report; makes fast SAH but separable from KWKH to the southeast (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1823 UT
October 10
