** CUBA. 6165, Oct 17 at 0540, RHC is open carrier/dead air, much weaker than
6100
6060, Oct 17 at 0541, RHC English modulation is suptorted =
suppressed/distorted
6000, Oct 17 at 0541, RHC English is OK only
here
6100, Oct 17 at 0543, RHC English fully modulated, but
distorted
5040, Oct 17 at 0543, RHC English is open carrier/dead air. So
it`s SNAFU all over at RHC tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9820, Oct 17 at 1257, RHC with some Brazilian attempting
to speak Spanish at Universidad de la Habana. Heavy accent, and some Portuguese
words creep in, quite amusing Portunhol; not 9 de Julho (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Oct 17 at 0459, I start
monitoring with BFO for Bata to come on, as Stig Hartvig Nielsen reported
yesterday. At 0504 there are three brief carrier cut-ons and off --- possibly
RNGE trying and failing to keep the transmitter on. Still nothing till 0509 when
I take a break until 0515 --- still nothing, nor at 0529, 0537 when I quit.
Could also be their schedule on Saturdays is different. As the name implies, at
2 degrees north, sunrise time varies little, but as a matter of fact it was 0504
UT today in Bata; 0509 in Malabo which is almost 4 degrees north and further
west.
Kai Ludwig, Germany, replies in the DXLD yg to our previous report:
``I think it has been reported years ago that the Bata program also includes
productions from Malabo. Who knows to which extent, or indeed if still at all,
Bata and Malabo transmitters are programmed separately nowadays. Thus I would
not jump to conclusions about a reactivated Malabo shortwave outlet using the
current Bata frequency for the first time now, after five decades on 6250
kHz.
Concerning the spelling: Could it be that Batá is the Spanish one
and has officially been replaced by an Africanized one, in the same manner they
eliminated the original name of Malabo altogether?
And the whole
broadcasting operation from Equatorial Guinea appears to have no web presence at
present. rtvge.com fails to establish a server connection while rtvgeint.tv,
where the website dedicated to their international TV service is supposed to be,
greets its visitors with a friendly 403. Kai Ludwig`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9880, Oct 17 at 1259, KSDA sign-off in
English, fair signal, immediately followed at 1300 by CRI sign-on in Burmese
which is very poor here. Besides a common interest in mind-control, a fine
example of coördination between Christians and Commies, as CRI takes a one-hour
break from Burmese on 9880, filled by KSDA in Korean from 1200 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 800, Oct 17 at 0600, choral Mexican
NA is barely audible with KQCV OKC nulled as much as possible, makes fast SAH.
Can`t get enough afterwards for any ID. Assuming it`s playing at local midnite,
this means a state in the UT -6 zone, i.e. currently Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Baja
California Sur or Nayarit. Guess what! There are NO Mexican 800s listed in any
of those states. If this is therefore XEROK Ciudad Juárez, it`s nowhere near
nominal 50 kW. Normally it has no problem overcoming KQCV when nulled, close to
a right angle apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO.
980, Oct 17 at 1229, Spanish mentions 103.1 FM, during ``buenos días`` greetings
to various listeners, then intro a band from Sinaloa. But 103.1 nails it as
XEFQ, Cananea, Sonora, again, getting to be a regular on sunrise skip (today in
Enid: 1240 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 780,
Oct 17 at 1239 UT, CBS Sports Radio, obviously KSPI Stillwater, which on
weekdays runs dead air or a local-live talk show, not exclusively about sports,
but this is Saturday, so plug in the network and sleep late (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7265-CUSB, Sat Oct 17 at 1450,
confirmed WORLD OF RADIO 1795 playing on Hamburger Lokalradio as received via
Utwente web SDR. 100% readable but some ACI splash; best bandwidth setting about
2.8 kHz. I finish at 1500 sharp just in time for an unreadable quick ID (HLR??)
and off, ceding 7265 to CRI opening Hindi, southward from Kashgar (so WOR must
have started at 1431). Fortunately, I was not hearing any CCI from CRI Sinhala,
scheduled at 1400-1457, same parameters from East Turkistan. Next WOR
airings:
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)
UNIDENTIFIED. 774, Oct 17 at 0523, JBA carrier loops
NE/SW;
702, Oct 17 at 0525, JBA carrier also NE/SW, or is it more like E/W?
954, Oct 17 at 0528, JBA carrier, can`t get a DF in 960 KGWA splash.
Probably Eurafricans rather than Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1200, Oct 17 at 0613 UT, I find WOAI unusually weak
with `C2CAM`; maybe on backup/aux lower-powered transmitter? I am also getting
country music on 1200, making a SAH of 6 Hz with WOAI; at 0628-0631+ UT the song
in English has a gospel aspect. Isolating this as much as possible from WOAI,
the DF I get is NW/SE, which doesn`t compute, as there is nothing on 1200
between here and Vancouver, nor to the SE this side of a little Florida station.
(Not to overlook country KYOO Bolivar MO, but supposed to be a 1 kW daytimer;
and religious KFNW Fargo ND 50/13 kW.) I must still suspect WAMB Nashville TN,
from the east, which has been caught cheating before.
See my Aug 20-21
logs: ``George McClintock replies August 19, gist: Gary Brown is the contract CE
of WAMB; maybe running about 8 kW, or 3.5 kW critical-hours power. He was
surprised that you were hearing it. WAMB is being sold, and the C&W music is
temporary.``
Radio-locator still has WAMB 1200 as ``Real Country`` and
linx to the website of WANT-FM, 98.9 Real Country, which shows nothing about an
AM 1200 duplicate, but instead 1490 WCOR, outdated? WTFDA FM db for 98.9 WANT-FM
mentions no MW //. These are really in nearby Lebanon TN. http://www.wantfm.com/
(Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1708 UT October 17