** ALBANIA. 9849.95, Oct 16 at 0130, JBA carrier from R. Tirana, so at least we
know it`s on, via off-frequency, just not propagating any more than that to
North America Central (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE.
800, Oct 16 at 0120, weak Spanish underneath KQCV OKC gospel huxter in English,
making SAH of 2.53 Hz, presumed R. Transmundial, TWR, PJB, in the absence of
XEROK (or CKLW for that matter) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11934.91, Oct 16 at 0050, Brazuguese mentions São
Paulo, very poor S3, from RB2; no sign of Cairo if it`s still attempting to
reach Latin America on 11935v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EGYPT. 12070.0, Oct 16 at 0052, JBA carrier, presumed R. Cairo Spanish, which if
audiblized would surely be unlistenable. Sought here anyway after hearing not
even a carrier on // 11935, just Brasil, q.v. Then check Arabic on 9964.985
approx., S6 carrier with no modulation I can detect. Didn`t get around to
checking the fourth channel at this hour, 9315.
So where will they be
mis-broadcasting in B-15 between 0045 and 0200? HFCC B-15 as usual shows more
frequencies than transmitters, i.e. some are just wooden alternates: 9315, 9860,
9965, 11750, 11935, 12070, 12080. English at 2300-2430 still on 9965; at
0200-0330 on 9315 or 9860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA. 6155, Oct 16 at 0041, very poor signal with S Asian song, still so at
0114. HFCC shows AIR Urdu, 0000-0430, 250 kW, 282 degrees from Aligarh. No sign
of R. Fides, ex-6155.1, which very well may have been driven off that longtime
frequency by AIR inbooming to Bolivia. So far I`ve had no luck hearing Fides on
its replacement, 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO.
1300, Oct 16 at 0127, as I tune in, ``Radio México Noticias, XEP, tercera
edición, por Radio Trece, info desde Chihuahua Capital, en Radio México
Noticias``. So Ciudad Juárez dominating as usual with 38 kW instead of 200 watts
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non].
2598-USB, Oct 16 at 0053, YL in English with marine weather, very poor with
storm noise level from western and northeastern OK. CGC website says starting at
0048 is VCP Placentia, Nfld., via St. Lawrence site.
2749-USB, Oct 16 at
0053, YL in French, poor signal slightly better than 2598. CGC says starting at
0040 is VCO Sydney, Nova Scotia via Port Caledonia site, but not in French?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Oct 16 at 0125
UT, KFAQ Tulsa forecasting a high today of 91 --- guess what, it`s night
already, and this is outdated on a 50 kW IBOC-monster. You can`t do better than
that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Oct 16
at 0030 UT, Gregorian chant catches my ear, like the stuff your hear on
EWTN/WEWN network; 0031 into lo-fi Spanish talk from phone, 0032 UT mentions
Catedral de la Sagrada Familia; loops ESE/WNW, so I suppose it`s just KXTD
Wagoner, tho not the programming I would expect nor normally hear on
QueBuenaTulsa. No way it`s daytimer WJDM Elizabeth NJ, the only SS:REL 1530
listed in NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 1600, Oct 15 at 1818 UT on caradio, KUSH Cushing resumes the `Marilu
Henner Show` after a break; and at 1906 UT after some news, she herself voices a
KUSH ID. This is contrary to my recent writeup where I had found on their
website that Dennis Miller occupied the M-F 1-4 pm CT slot. So I search on
Marilu and find this:
``Happy New Year from the KUSH! Molly Payne
Published on: 12/31/2014
This past year we have also added a few new things
to the KUSH. In the fall, not only did KUSH add a new show (The Marilu Henner
Show) to its weekday afternoon programming, but we also began broadcasting
Drumright Tornado football on Citylinktv/Drumright``
So it seems Marilu
has been on KUSH for at least a year, altho the few-programs page
still
shows Dennis Miller at 1-4 pm CT. There`s a lot about her guest lineup every
day, here when show is live at 9 am-noon `PST`,
presumably meaning PDT for
the rest of October = 16-19 UT:
subtitled
`Life, Love, Laughter` and a lot lighter, more variety than you would get from
far-right convert and ex-comedian Dennis Miller.
I don`t recall running
across her talkshow before, and here`s why. Altho at a variety of delayed times,
affiliate list has only 28 stations, mostly in small markets,
with
exception of: CKLW 800 Windsor and a few small stations in bigger cities. But
Clark Howard is still on afterwards, at 2107 UT check October 15. By now a SAH
is starting, presumably from 25 kW Vietnamese KRVA The Metroplex skywaving
already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Oct
16 at 0021 UT, promo by wacko Alex Jones at 9 pm on ``KYHN``; 0024 UT, jingle
SID, ``Arklahoma`s Talk Radio, KYHN``. As of Oct 2, the FCC thinx callsign
changed to KFSW, so maybe that will be the legal ID at next hourtop? Nope: same
old KYHN SID jingle as at 0024 UT, adding ``Fort Smith``, in an adjacent state,
before 0100 UT CBS bong and news.
So --- more confusion about the
identity of FCC Facility 87114 which is really in Sallisaw, OK, but the city you
have to search on at AM Query is Ft. Smith --- the only AM station there, the
others allegedly in Fort Smith. You`ll recall an attempt earlier this year to
change calls to W, yes, W-FSM which was never heard on air either, and expunged
from FCC records after having been granted. So when will it ever become KFSW?
Note the new call could be construed as merging Fort Smith-SallisaW (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, ``Exitos 96.5`` is
getting a lot of promotion on OKC`s Estrella TV, KOCY ``48`` via RF 29 KTUZ,
which I sometimes let run muted on a spare screen to display the busty girls
they so favor (¿ojobombones?). (BTW, previously this subchannel`s aspect ratio
could be changed, but now it cannot, despite needing to compensate at times for
squeezing or stretching.)
96.5 in OKC is of course a mere 120-watt
translator, K243BJ, licensed to Tyler Media, which means it`s supposed to be
relaying some other station, even an AM one, but no such station is mentioned in
its TV promotion, so is it being illegally originally programmed? I suppose they
could get away with that if it`s officially duplicating some IBOC channel from a
real FM station not worth mentioning (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 16 at 0038, JBA carrier from R. Chaski,
Urubamba. Retune at 0106 to track the sliding shutdown, and it`s so JB that I`m
afraid I`ll miss it if it happen during a choppy fade; but I do nail it at
0107:40.5*, which is 37.5 seconds later than last check six nights ago, Oct 10
until 0107:03*, i.e. averaging 6.25 seconds per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 16 at 0115:17.5 mis-timesignal from SLBC
is JBA on extremely weak signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9777.00, Oct 16 at 0102, I`m tuning down the
9 MHz band and find a 3 kHz het, quickly refined on the NRD-545 to here, weak S4
signal in Spanish with news about Turkey, and // weaker 9870.00 which also has
some CCI, presumably India as usual. So the Emirler operator fingerslipped,
punching in 9777 instead of 9770, the scheduled and usually heard frequency ---
just one more SNAFU from this site. Still there at 0131 with Turkish
music.
The 9780 station getting abutted must have been ChiCom jamming
and/or RFA Uyghur via Kuwait. In B-15, VOT Turkish moves to 9410 and 9650, and
like everything else, one hour later at 02-03, as if coming and going of DST in
Turkey should impact listeners abroad! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1795 monitoring: confirmed Thursday
October 5 at 2100 on WRMI 7570, sufficient. Also confirmed after 0100 UT Friday
October 16, S9+20 on WBCQ 9330.06-CUSB. His voice sounds somewhat different than
usual, modified audio processing? but still quite clear. Followed at 0129 by
WBCQ The Planet ID/IS loop before closedown. 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 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9974.90, Oct 16
at 0056, KVOH at S9+25 with a `TruNews` clip of Netanyahu, soon followed by Rick
Wiles promoting his warped view of the world. Frequency continues to vary
slightly from time to time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 9475, all day Oct 15 at random chex, WTWW-1 continues to be AWOL, nor
anything on 9930, the WTWW-2 frequency. However, 12105, Oct 15 circa 2110 UT,
WTWW-3 is on the air with Bibling in French (unlike a couple days ago when it
was dead air for hours and hours). And WTWW-2 had succeeded in broadcasting Art
Bell on 5085 at 0608 UT Oct 15 while WTWW-1 was off 5830. So the other two
transmitters are funxional, even if neither is being employed for
petunia-pushing Pastor Pete Peters. Perhaps Ted does not know how to operate 2
or 3 on any but their originally programmed frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Oct 16 at 0122, KKOW Pittsburg KS with
``20/20 weather``, forecasting cooloff there like here into the 60s/40s, then
cowboy & indian love song. At least their weather is not colored, like some
radio stations claim, on a totally aural medium except for synesthesians (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0408 UT
October 16
