DX/SWL/Media Programs:
World
of Radio schedule:
Alan
Roe`s Hitlist of SW stations:
**
ALBANIA. 9849.95, Oct 4 at 0134, R. Tirana is very weak, S6 but clear in
English, so I take the opportunity for a precise frequency estimate (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11934.94, Oct 4 at 0031
music, 0032 Brazuguese announcement, S4, no QahiraRM; is RB2 but mentions
Aparecida which itself is absent from 11856.3! Still on and in are ZYs 11815,
11764.65, 11780 of course. On 9724.23, RB2 also there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910.05, Oct 4 at 0054, music at S9+5 from
Alcaraván Radio, still reactivated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11840, 11760, 11670, Oct 4 at 0038, RHC
signals on 25m are very poor! Strange propagation, yet longer skips are still
in, e.g. Brasil. RHC is better on 9710 now; but by 0111 that too is very
weakened as are WRMI 9955, 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315 & 9965, Oct 4 at 0044, JBA carriers from R.
Cairo so at least it`s on tonight; no carriers making it on 11935 or 12070, but
they could be on too, not propagating. If they were inbooming, we still couldn`t
listen to Spanish or English with atrocious modulation or lack of it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, UT Sun Oct 4
at 0045, The Mighty KBC, via Nauen, GERMANY, is fair at only S8, while WHRI 7385
is 55 over 9!! Cuban jamming + Radio Martí on 7365 add up to only 35 over 9. So
KBC is getting mighty squeezed. This explains the test last week on 7395, as
Richard Langley, NB, got a reply from Uncle Eric about it:
"The reason
that we were testing is that on 7375 we have neighbours on 7365 & 7385, in
some parts there is some interference, that's what several listeners are
complaining about, if we move to 7395, we only have one station on 7385 and we
probably will use 2300-0200 UT[.]"
Well, WHRI is much worse here, so 10
kHz on the other side of it will not help with that. In fact, by 0116, KBC is
weaker and WHRI is splattering upon 7375. And happened to notice some
intermittent utility pulsing on 7395 at 0045. 7400 is open now, but maybe not
for a trihour in B-15? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. 6950-USB, Oct 4 at 0026, gospel singer at S9+35, what a signal for a
pirate; 0029 cowboy song; 0034 Wolverine Radio ID, and continues for some time
but I have to keep bandscanning. Many more logs here from 0017 to 0145 showing
Trains the topic, SSTV captures:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Oct 4 at 0100 UT,
Mexican music with some dropouts, so I figure it may be R. Mujer from Austin;
but 0101 ID by SHVA is partially readable mentioning Oclajoma, and 103 FM, vs
CCI from WCKY with a KY SBG. So it`s KXTD Wagoner (Tulsa market), supposed to be
a 5 kW daytimer. Or it could have been 106 FM, which sounds almost the same in
Spanish. A look thru Tulsa and then entire OK listings in the WTFDA Database
don`t find any KXTD relays in the 102s, 103s, 105s or 106s, translator or
otherwise, but maybe some such station is now doing it.
Ajá, here it is
on own website:
Not
103, but 100.3 FM (cien punto tres), which is KCXR, licensed to Taft with 3.9 kW
per WTFDA which does not make any connexion with KXTD either. Radio-locator
still has KCXR as ``Today`s Christian Radio`` en Muskogee. Site is SW of
Wagoner, halfway between Bixby and Muskogee, i.e. just about as far outside
Tulsa to the SE as Wagoner is to the E. Taft is a very little town west of
Muskogee on the other side of the Arkansas River from the transmitter site north
of it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.005
approx., Oct 4 at 0050, JBA carrier from R. Chaski; cutoff at 0106:24* which is
5.5 seconds later than last night until 0106:18.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521.0, Oct 4 at 0059, BSKSA Duba
2-megawatt is making a JBA het against Kim Kommando on KOKC OKC 1520.0; het a
bit stronger at 0139, but nothing on 1503 and figured not enough to justify a
full 9-kHz MW TA bandscan rather than more SW and 10-kHz MW tuning (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 4 at 0114:47,
SLBC music prélude starts on very weak signal, just enough to audiblize the 2+1
mis-timesignal ending at 0115:17.5 before opening Hindi or Bengali. RHC isn`t
much stronger, much degraded on its three 25m frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4018-USB, Oct 4 at 0125, ARMY MARS net,
fonetikaly mentioning a bunch of abbr`d calls, 7OV, 7RX, 7OC, 7OX, IAX, 7FD;
finally a full call starting with AAR7--- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7455, Oct 4 at 0111, WRMI TruNews service is in secular
program, two DJs from the 60s and 70s reminiscing about how rock radio used to
be in several major US markets. One is named Bob, but never heard full names of
either; among many stations mentioned is WOSN (which is 97.1 in Indian River
Shores FL, ``The Ocean [Osean?]`` with adult standards, per WTFDA). Before a
break at 0130, program ID as ``Your Weekend Show``, then Rick Wiles plugging
nonsense. More here:
with Bob Biermann, a primarily shortwave program which I had never run
across before, so put off am I by the anti-American politix and gospel huxterism
of TruNews. Archive goes back to March 7-8, 2015. Sked on WRMI is: Sat 06, Sun
01, 06, Mon 01 UT on 5850, 7455, 9395. TruNews is a ``partner`` and Bob is ``in
the ministry`` tho you`d never know it from the few minutes I heard, whew. While
WRMI 11580, 9955, and 9395 were barely audible in poor propagation, 7455
inbooming to the extent that I could almost ignore the RTTY QRM
under.
BTW, looking over the WRMI program schedules, I see GLOBAL 24 is
back on one of the grids, UT Wednesdays 0100-0200 on 11580, instead of Radio
France International! I`ve asked Jeff White what`s up, as G24 petered out in
March, nothing on its Facebook since April, and its own website expired in
September. I wouldn`t have been able to hear it on 11580 tonight anyway (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9974.93, Oct 4 at 0110, KVOH
is on new frequency, ex-9975.10; could this mean a new transmitter in use? Good
signal with drama, i.e. `CBS Radio Mystery Theatre` this hour UT Sundays (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.705, Oct 4 at 0133
check, WRNO with usual gospel huxter, poor at only S8 in `long` propagation
beyond mere Metairie. Since the NRD-545 seems to be right-on calibration vs WWV,
I am daring to interpolate some more precise frequencies, but caution the final
digit may still be approximate. How can I be more accurate with my little old
receiver than a station with its big old transmitter? Easily (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, Oct 4 at 0148 UT, Tejano music from
KKLF Richardson TX, so I stay with it almost until hourtop to confirm someone`s
ID of it based on a ``Super Estelar`` slogan. After several segués, I barely
make out that slogan at 0157 UT, ``Super Estelar, 1700 AM``. Don`t know if they
ever gave legal CL ID. Copy is very tough with two stupid sports stations on
1700 almost collinear with KKLF and me, from south Texas and Iowa, i.e. can`t
really null any of them out. But there`s less of them if I employ the E-W
oriented ALA-330S, than the N-S not very longwire, even tho that is unfavorable
for KKLF too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 530,
Oct 4 at 0144 UT, surprised to hear some talk in English and it`s not the
HAR/NWS from KS, rather than EZL music from the Cuban Encyclopedia, tho a slow
SAH develops of 1.6 Hz. I suppose it`s the only licensed 530 broadcaster in
North America, CIAO, Brampton, Ont, 1000/250 watts with an ETHnic format, i.e.
probably not much English either. Program sked over a Tronno skyline,
shows
the only English on Sat and some other nights is at 8-9 pm [EDT = 00-01 UT
Sunday] Polish/English. T-storm noise is affecting bottom end of the band, not
top.
Then there`s the 530 on the north end of South Caicos --- WRTH 2015
said it was lp = low power? and Unconfirmed, relaying WWRV 1330 NYC (Spanish,
like KCKN 1020 Roswell). I recently heard from freelance engineer Jerry Kiefer
in FL and asked him for an update; he replied Oct 1:
``Glenn, Like they
say in the islands, "Soon come". Actually the game plan is to rebuild the 530
tower to about 360' with top loading and use the new Nautel 100 kW box that was
shipped down about 8 years ago and never installed. They have the Nautel 50 that
will become a standby. It might be after the end of the year but things are
falling in place.``
Well, I recently heard WWRV via KCKN multi-station ID
include Caicos, FWIW, probably not much (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0513 UT October 4
