** AUSTRALIA. 12085, Oct 3 at 1300, RA reactivated frequency absent 24 hours
earlier, and also on the other two, weaker 12065 and stronger 9580 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910.05, Oct 3 at
0110, Alcaraván Radio is on again tonite, in Spanish, S9+15 but poor; same
rating for 6010.10 music and LVC ID, but that has splatter from 6000 and/or
6020.
Not rechecked until 0459, when now (like the past bihour, no
doubt) there is huge collision with NHK Japanese via FRANCE. NHK is atop, but
suffers severe CCI from tango on HJDH. NHK timesignal at hourtop, dead air until
off at 0500.4* leaving 5910 now clear for more HJDH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315, 9965, 11935, 12070, Oct 3 at 0119
check, all four R. Cairo frequencies are AWOL; propagation OK with Greece in on
9420. I re-inquire: are any/all other R. Cairo transmissions missing? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9355, Sat Oct 3 at 1342, good
signal in Korean, no jamming, at first not obviously Protestant, but an hymn
plays thru houtop 1400, after which there is flutter and fading. HFCC shows it`s
KTWR, M-F at 1345-1500, Sat 1345-1415, Sun 1345-1445.
After 1500 until
2100, it`s all IBB on 9355 from Tajikistan and Saipan in Tibetan, Uyghur,
Mandarin, all subject to CNR1 or Firedragon jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9511.00, Oct 3 at 0121, very poor carrier with
music, and frequency wavers slightly. Presumably VIRI Zahedan off-frequency
again from 9510, but what`s wrong? It`s usually closer to 9511.5 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 800, Oct 3 at 0510, with KQCV OKC
nulled, some weak music, not the bigsig we normally get from 50 kW XEROK Ciudad
Juárez, still seemingly off the air or maybe QRP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.16, Oct 3 at 0109, very poor AM carrier,
presumably Liquid Radio as usual, and logged as such by a few here between 0016
and 0137:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6955-USB, Oct 3 at
0108, S9 pirate music, yet poor vs noise level, soft rock, basically two notes
looping, vamping. Periodic rechex such as 0125 find more music, reggae with
lyrix vamping. 0145 now better signal peaking at S9+20; 0154, ``ambient`` music,
finally quick ID at 0159, XLR-8, more music. Many more logs:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 3 until 0106:18.5*,
tuned in just in time to catch R. Chaski carrier cutoff, which is 6.5 seconds
later than last night, 0106:12* (could be 6.3; I don`t split seconds into less
than halves, unless averaging over several nights) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13565, Oct 3 at 1340, K6FRC, HIFER Part 15
beacon repeating callsign only; frequency not pinned on the FRG-7 before it
faded/quit, but previous logs were on 13565, such as July 30 also in the morning
at 1305. That references the LWCA list, which in the callsign column merely
shows FRC; anyhow it is from a real ham in Patterson CA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15580, Oct 2 after 2000 UT, VOA to
Africa (via BOTSWANA) with regular musical programming. Thus the one US SW
station you might think had a responsibility to broadcast live one of Pres.
Obama`s rare news conferences called on short notice, fails to do
so.
First I had scanned the entire AM and FM dials and found not a single
audible station carrying him --- pop music, anti-American politix or sports talk
are *so* much more important. But this *is* Oklahoma, where Obama doesn`t have a
chance.
Not even KOSU 91.7 --- stix with NPR ATC, tho NPR is probably
providing the P.O.P.C. on an alternate live feed. He is, however, on several
cable TV channels and the big 3 OKC network TV stations. Radio in general leaves
it to TV; why? It`s just talking heads, ideal for an audio-only medium (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1793
monitoring: confirmed Friday Oct 2 after 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770;
sufficient. Also after 2330 on WRMI 5850. Next:
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. 7490 & 5109.7-CUSB, UT Sat Oct 3 at 0122,
WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` live, again running way over one hour from
0000. He`s talking about current bargain deal of $25 per hour for airtime on
9330 or 5110, ``The Radio Effect``. He wants to see 9330 filled up with
programming. And some more is already imminent: from next Wednesday at 9-10 pm
ET [UT Thursday Oct 8 at 01-02 UT] two programs from ``James in Oklahoma``, half
an hour each, `Broad Spectrum Radio` and `Mennonite Radio`. As on website, http://www.wbcq.com/?p=902
``Free
radio fall special --- Now is the time to get on the air and make a difference.
For $25 the hour get on our 5110 or 9330 kHz transmitters. Buy as much time as
you like at this low rate. Minimum $50 (two shows) monthly. Now is the time to
do real radio. Call us today for this great deal. 207-538-9180 or email wbcq@wbcq.com``
Simultaneously on 7490,
starting UT Oct 8 at 0100 will see the return of Hal Turner to the air after
about 10 years (he was away in prison for threatening federal judges), but he`s
welcome back on free-speech WBCQ.
Allan says he`s not dressed formally,
still in workclothes after patching roof, as one can see via the studiocam
webvideo feed available. Keeps going thru e-mail with mostly quick replies and
acknowledgments, not always clear what the mailer said; 0153:15 brief
benedictive prayer to Jesus but more comments until 0157:15 switch to BS on
7490, and also on 5109.7-CUSB until it cuts off at 0159*. This AWWW has been
almost two hours long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
9265, Sat Oct 3 at 1402, WINB is on with soul music, but wobbly carrier
resulting in rough modulation. We used to hear it like that sometimes on 13570,
now abandoned. A warm-up problem? as transmission has just started: online
program schedule now dated Sept 6, *still* shows wrong UT with Eastern time as
EST, 5 hours behind UT, instead of EDT, 4 hours behind:
Now
starting Saturdays at ``1500`` = 1400 UT, with `Voice of Wisdom Broadcast`.
Largely because of the departure yet again of the peripat[h]etic Brother Scare,
the weekday WINB schedule has been reduced to start at ``3:45/2045`` which
really means *1945 UT; Sundays only, a day sacred to certain religionists, it
starts at ``7:30/1230`` which means really *1130 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1020, Oct 3 at 0520 UT, nulling nearby KOKP
Perry OK, I hear something in English, probably KDKA, rather than Spanish, KCKN
Roswell NM, so has it finally gone direxional as required? No, Spanish soon
fades back up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Oct
3 at 1256 UT, open carrier/dead air again from KLEY Wellington KS, SAH of about
10 Hz presumably with remnant of KWKH LA. By 1300 UT, modulating with CBS News
until cutaway at 1303 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 1510.00, Oct 3 at 1251 UT, ad for Hep-C survey at St. Luke`s hospital in
Kansas City, and ID for ``99.3 and 1510, ESPN Kansas City``. So daytimer KCTE,
CoL Independence MO, has not only achieved frequency accuracy (for now?) but has
demoted its 10,000-watt AM to an appendage of a mere FM translator, not
mentioned in the 2015 NRC AM Log.
FCC FM Query shows 99.3 in KC, MO, is
K257DZ, 99-watt translator licensed to Alpine Broadcasting. FCC correspondence
shows that Entercom objected to Alpine`s application to move K257DZ for a
*fourth* time, finally into the Big City, having started out in Butler MO, 93 km
away! But FCC granted it anyway, since it would have been ``unduly harsh and
unfair`` to stop them after granting the first three stealthy move-ins.
Radio-locator confirms that K257DZ = ``ESPN 1510`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 2339 UT October 3
