** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6020, Friday Oct 23 at 1333, very poor signal with talk in
Korean and distinctive Shiokaze sounders, so still here for the 1330-1430
broadcast from JAPAN, having missed presumed English on Thursday only. May well
jump to another of their alternate 49m channels in November (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1060, Oct 23 at 0630, looking for
possible KXPL El Paso at night from the west, not since 0230, but instead from
the south, weak ID from Radio Educación, XEEP DF. Also with a LAH from XERDO
Tamaulipas, off-frequency as always; almost: I meant to mention with earlier
KXPL log that then I was not hearing a het even when I aimed south (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: KXPL
** U S A. 770, Oct 23
at 1315 UT, still no pop-on from KKOB Albuquerque NM, its nominal Oct sunrise
time for ND pattern. I guess it`s strange (lack of) normal SRS propagation,
unless they are off-schedule. Used to be reliable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Oct 23 at 1315 UT, no sign of KXPL El
Paso, with the presumed all-music format, at its official Oct sunrise time when
it could go 10 kW ND; NRC AM Log says it also has a 500-watt PSRA, which means
it can start at 6 am local with that (a.k.a. 0800 ``ELT``), i.e. 1200 UT now,
1300 UT after DST is gone from November 1. However, if it`s cheating at night
two hours past sundown, why follow the rules in the morning either? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note to editors converting my domestic reports
from UT to ``ELT``: when I am talking about the conversion and timechange as
above, it won`t make any sense unless you leave in the UT references
** U
S A. 1190, Oct 23 at 1318 UT, ``All new Talk Radio 11-90`` non-ID, traffic
report but can`t recognize anything distinctive, promo new show `Watch Tower`,
Sundays at 9 am, long adstring mostly national past 1325 UT fading out. DF fits
DFW and of course it`s only KFXR, The Metroplex. Program sked at
confirms `Watch Tower` show; now who could be behind that? (The J.W.
normally make it one word, Watchtower.)
First a Yahoo search on the
slogan above suggested WOWO and KEX as well as KFXR. I try the Wikipedia article
on KFXR which includes this long list about a station which for a decade never
had been able to decide on and keep any identity. And altho the calls have
stayed KFXR now for almost a sesquidecade, the format has not:
``Former
callsigns
KLIF (1947-1991)
KLAF (1990)
KYII (1990-1991)
KUII
(1991-1992)
KGBS (1992-1995)
KDFX (1995-1997)
KOOO (1997-1998)
KLUV
(1998-2000)
KJOI (2000-2001)
KTRA (2001)``
That is no doubt based
on FCC AM Query which shows exact dates:
Altho
50/5 kW, the signal here is not reliable at all, night or day, due to extremely
complex direxional patterns requiring 4 towers in the daytime, 12 towers at
night, from two different sites! Which presumably accomplishes its main goal,
best possible coverage of The Metroplex while protecting KEX, WOWO (and XEWK?).
NRC Pattern Book shows day has major lobes to ESE and WSW and a minor lobe
north, Okieward (but lies too far away to serve us on groundwave, as even KRLD
1080 is quite weak daytimes), while night pattern has the WSW lobe only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15555-USB, Oct 23 at *1402:20,
WJHR Milton FL pops on the air with music already playing (seems it`s always 2+
minutes late), sign-on with contact addresses, but missed whether George Scott
Mock now announces 15555 instead of 15550. Then playing theme music `Rock of
Ages` and joining deceased John Hill offensive preaching in progress. The
station exists only as a memorial to him.
This replaces 15550-USB,
noticed by Walt Salmaniw yesterday and before that ``last week`` by Paul Walker,
as now on the ``wrong`` frequency. Sheryl Paszkiewicz, Wisconsin, tells me she
had it on 15555 USB, already Oct 15 at 2144.
Axually, it`s the *right*
frequency, where they should have moved long ago to avoid conflict at 1500-1630
with Vatican transmitting Radios Tamazuj and Dabanga, which is to continue in
B-15. Maybe they finally noticed my log reports about this collision? And HFCC
B-15 does show WJHR on 15555 instead of 15550, so it`s just a head-start.
Wolfgang Büschel found that they had already requested 15555 from FCC as of
August 12, before the Brisbane HFCC B-15 conference.
15555 should
encounter no direct collisions in B-15 unless Voice of Tibet via Tajikistan, and
consequent CNR1 jamming happen to land around there. Current Aoki shows *15557
at 1230-1235 only, but you never know where they will go next, and at later
hours. DW, RFI and Radio Biafra will be on 15560 during the 16-20 UT span amid
the WJHR span of 1402-2202 UT. So from 1600 to 1627 at least, WJHR will be
squeezed from both sides.
WJHR started on 15550 circa Xmas 2009y; it
remains quite an anomaly, USB and no carrier (which delayed my zeroing in on it
at sign-on), and obviously a weak transmitter, but claimed to be 50 kW, which
maybe they attain only in terms of PEP, and thus supposedly comply with FCC
requirements; azimuth 5 degrees, pretend-target CIRAF 4 only = Ontario, Quebec
and northward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 1659 UT October 23
