** BOLIVIA. 5952.475, Oct 10 at 0013, JBA carrier approx. here from Radio Pio
Doce, Siglo Veinte (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL.
11780.1, Oct 9 at 0516, RNA/RNB is still slightly off-frequency, but good
modulation level, splashing out no more than 10 kHz. I am happy to say, that
after complaining about them for many months with countless logs, I haven`t said
anything lately, because I don`t want to jinx it, but the awful distorted spurs
at ~35 kHz and multiples below and above, e.g. 11745 and 11815, have not been
heard for a few weeks, so seem to have been fixed. You`ll be sure to hear about
it if they resume (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA.
2749-USB, Oct 10 at 0052, a bunch of pre-recorded ``Notices to Shipping`` by M
human voice, with serial numbers M2052, M2050, also mentioning XX4, i.e.
obstructions and other hazards. Soon switches to French with heavy English
accent, ``Avis aux navigateurs``, and modulation is telco-quality, from afar?
Canadian CG reference shows MCTS Sydney [NS] / VCO - Broadcasts starting at 0040
UT from site Port Caledonia, which is near Sydney and per
Wikipedia:
``Port Caledonia (also known as Big Glace Bay) is a small
community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton
Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. It is located on the Donkin
Highway, between the town of Glace Bay and the village of Donkin. It currently
has one gas station/convenience store as well as a public beach, known as the
Big Glace Bay Beach. The community received media attention in 2011 when
resident Shirley Sampson appeared on the reality television program Canada's
Worst Driver 7, ultimately being named the worst driver in Canada.[1]`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now it has received more media attention! See
also NEWFOUNDLAND
** CUBA. 670, Oct 10 at 0020, R. Rebelde bigsig
overcoming WSCR with un partido tonto de pelotas (silly ballgame = PTP/SBG),
immediately //able but with slight echo to 5025.
So I then check 1620,
also dominated by Spanish and as expected it`s not // but immediately mentions
``FM Rebelde`` which is customarily what happens to this transmitter when the
main frequencies air a PTP. We always assume this is the closest 5 kW Guanabacoa
CH transmitter tho a couple of further Rebeldes are listed on 1620 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. `The Martian`,
a great new movie I saw in Enid, Earth, in 3-D, October 9 between 1930 and 2215
UT, seems to have gone to great lengths to maintain scientific accuracy, yet I
have a few nits to pick, the first one rather big:
1: With the exception
of one brief shot probably in slo-mo, Mars appears to enjoy 1-G, i.e. same
gravity as Earth. It`s really somewhere between Earth and Moon, yet there was
none of the hopping and loping we saw from real men on the Moon. Guess it would
have been too cumbersome to simulate Mars gravity of 0.38-G! Weightlessness in
the spaceship: no problem.
2: of course Matt has to wear a helmet and
pressure suit whenever he`s outside, yet the suit just hangs loosely on his
body, obviously not pressurized from the inside. Wikipedia: ``The atmospheric
pressure on the Martian surface averages 600 pascals (0.087 psi), about 0.6% of
Earth's mean sea level pressure of 101.3 kilopascals (14.69 psi)``. So I
seriously doubt that duct/duck tape would be effective in sealing any leaks! And
a momentary loss of pressure should be fatal in what is really a near-vacuum.
(Can`t wait for Terraforming!)
3: sound depends on air pressure: yet we
hear sounds outside on the surface just as loudly as if it were on
Earth.
4: there are fabulous vistas of the rocky Martian landscape (CGI
from NASA imagery?), which is totally orange/red and relentlessly dusty between
the rocks. Not a hint of H2O! (Of course the movie was completed long before
that recent discovery.)
5: there was one brief shot of lightning in the
distance. Is that possible on Mars?
6: you`d never guess what Earth
country shows prominently in the credits and names of many crew, but surely with
nothing like Martian landscapes; interiors, post-produxion there? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. On `Allan Weiner
Worldwide` Oct 10, we learn that another new show on WBCQ 9330.22v-CUSB is
`Radio Northern Ireland` from a guy named Jordan, at 7-8 pm ET (=23-24 UT, not
clear to me which day of week, Wed or Thu?), but because of bad propagation that
will get a repeat tomorrow (Sat) at same time.
I mentioned RNI on WOR in
July or August, when it was on 6070 Germany, and Jordan sent me a [sample!] QSL
in appreciation:
But I
hadn`t heard from him since about going on WBCQ. None of this new programming
yet appears on the WBCQ online schedules.
He`s been posting his plans on
HFU, however:
``Radio
Northern Ireland tonight 9330khz 2300UTC WBCQ
« on: October 07, 2015, 2120
UTC »
Hi all throwing a quick ball out there... On the air 2300 UTC 9330 khz
on WBCQ playing a relay! Tune in and enjoy. Just a quick note I've stopped card
qsl for free due to postage cost but will send for a donation. I will however
eqsl! Thanks``
Yes, I was surprised to see a full pound postage stamp on
that little card. So it was on UT Wednesday Oct 7 at 23-24. Not yet clear
whether this was a one-shot (plus the comp repeat anyway Oct 10) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [non?]. 2598-USB, Oct 10 at
0050, YL in English, S8 with winds forecast; she has very good enunciation and
sounds like a human. The Canadian Coast Guard website I referenced recently
shows starting at 0048 is MCTS Placentia / VCP - Broadcasts via site St.
Lawrence --- that`s rather imprecise or is there a place by that name in
Newfoundland? Otherwise it may be the site just across the Labraborder in Quebec
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA [Nfld being treated here
as a separate ex-radio country]
** OKLAHOMA. 780, Oct 10 at 0024, steady
open carrier/dead air obviously from daytimer KSPI Stillwater; ditto at: 0046,
0103, 0112; and 0124 when I am hearing WBBM under it. Oct sunset is officially
0000 UT! (Nov: 2330 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN.
9740.0, Oct 10 at 0010, VP signal with ME? music. Must be RSO extending the
scheduled 22-24 UT channel instead of switching to 9500, where there is nothing
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 10 at 0038,
JBA carrier from R. Chaski; retune just in time to catch autocutoff at approx.
0107:03* which is another 6.5 seconds later than last night at 0106:56.5* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 10 at *0114:39,
JBA carrier from SLBC, soon cuts off and back on, so weak I can`t tell exactly
when the music starts, before 0115:00, and mis-timesignal ending about 0115:17
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1794
monitoring: I was unable to monitor and confirm the Friday Oct 9, 2130 on 15770
and 2130.5 on 7570 airings on WRMI --- since I was viewing the excellent new 3-D
movie `The Martian` and altho I had the G8 with me, signals would not penetrate
into the only cinema in Enid [See INTERNATIONAL VACUUM]. Did anyone hear these
WOR broadcasts or definitely try but not hear them?
The next WOR, 2330
Friday on 5850, I did check at 2355 when it should have still been on, but fill
music instead. All these are still on the WRMI schedule; apparently they had
some problems today as there was a lot more fill music on 5850 and 11580; see
separate WRMI log. Next for WOR:
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
WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850, Oct 9 at 2355 check for WORLD OF RADIO
2330 Friday broadcast, WRMI instead is playing fill music, and it continues: at
0002 Oct 10, Qur`an, quite a novelty on US SW radio, but 0003 into a song in
Spanish with piano. VG signal here and find the same thing // on 11580. 0032
still fill; at 0056 the familiar fado from the fill-music loop is playing.
During the 00-01 hour every night, both 5850 and 11580 are supposed to carry R.
Slovakia International in Slovak and then English.
At 0100, 5850 comes
to life with `Son Power Radio on World Band` mentioning 5850, 7455 and 9395.
7455 carrier had come on a few minutes earlier, and 9395 was already running as
it is 24h with TruNews, Son Power being part of that ``service``, altho TN was
not mentioned now.
By 0106, 11580 is about to fade out, which is getting
to be the usual situation. In the meantime, the sked has been updated again,
reducing Radio France International at 01-02 on 11580 to only two nights, UT Fri
& Sat, but I can`t tell if that`s on now. (Besides the one-shot Global 24 on
UT Wed, and Steve Weeks on UT Tue, as we already discussed, sked now shows
`Sounding the Alarm` on UT Thu; while UT Sun & Mon already had non-RFI
shows. Evidently, RFI has been used merely as a filler, tsk2) (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5109.70-CUSB, UT Sat Oct 10 at 0004, WBCQ
with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, // 7490, while 9330.22-CUSB is screaming Terry
Blalock, whom Allan claims, rather incredulously, people including himself
axually listen to. During this session I`m running three radios, one ear on 7490
for `AWWW`; the other on the NRD-545 bandscanning; and the PL-880 for keeping
track of other things, or checking //s. Allan starts out talking about dark
energy and dark matter, having read about that in Scientific American.
Then he raves briefly about how great the new movie `The Martian` is;
must see. I agree! See my review under INTERNATIONAL VACUUM.
Allan later
discusses how no one could hear Hal Turner`s revival UT Thu Oct 8 at 0100-0300
on 7490 due to SW blackout; so their webcast was almost maxed out instead. But
``he did a great job``. Even less so the simultaneous new shows on 9330, 01-02
UT Thu, `Mennonite Radio`, which Allan says he hasn`t listened to either, but
the guy in OK was also supposed to use part of that time for `Broad Spectrum
Radio`.
Another new show on 9330 is `Radio Northern Ireland`; see IRELAND
NORTHERN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9975.00,
Oct 10 at 0007 check during `TruNews`, KVOH back in-or-near frequency within a
couple Hz, AFAIK. Does this mean the `new` transmitter is on yet, even as a
test? We hope Ray Robinson will let us know (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, Oct 10 at 0012, WTWW-1 is already here with VG
signal, ex-9475, which Ted had been keeping on until 0200. Despite shunning me
for routinely publicizing problems, rather than suppressing bad news, he must
have seen my recent log pointing out that it wasn`t propagating! My profuse
apologies to the SWL community for inadvertently giving him useful frequency
management advice, resulting in improved audibility for Passé Pastor Pete Peters
and his SFAW! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.71,
Oct 10 at *0057, I`ve been waiting for WRNO to pop on, and so it does, JIP
music, ID for ``7505`` in ``New Orleans, Louisiana``, open live show `The
Havenist` (I think they said), Mike Randal and Laurie playing ``great gospel
music``. But it`s rather overmodulated and distorted tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Oct 10 at 0023 UT, KKOB Albuquerque
NM, good signal with quick ID; must be ideal time pre-sunset: yes, 0030 UT in
Oct, which means the 230-watt Santa Fe fill-in hasn`t come on yet --- but it`s
still in at 0105 UT with local news mentioning Balloon Fiesta, APS, APD,
Bernalillo County --- so now which KKOB is it? Official sunrise is 1315 UT, when
we should also hear the 50 kW ND daypattern pop on in Oct; November: 0000 UT
& 1345 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 990, Oct
10 at 0025 UT, signal blasting in at 25 over 9, promo Sat 8-9 am show `Mind Your
Business on 990 KWAM``. Got to be still on tight E-W 10 kW daytime pattern
rather than 450 watts night, despite official Oct sunset having been at 2330 UT
(Nov: 2300 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Thread
from ABDX reconfirms my 1080 unID as KSLL, Price UT:
Glenn, I was in Utah
the last week of September. KSLL-1080 was calling itself "Rock 105" or something
similar, mentioning "105" way more often than the other FM. 73 (Tim Hall, CA,
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ABDX via DXLD)
This is for sure
KSLL. I can't recall if slogan is Rock 105 or Classic 105 or Classic Hits 105.
They are often on at night. Recently clobbered on west array here by KYMN
running day power at night. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) =
1000/11 watts U1 Northfield MN (gh)
I'm listening to one of my recordings
now. They just referred to
themselves as "Classic Rock 105." In promos they
also mention "KUSA FM 100" fairly often. 73 (Tim Hall, ibid.)
It was a
tip from Bill Dvorak in Madison, WI that helped me nab this last week.
Definitely running day power at night. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html
ibid.)
** U S A. 1130, Oct 10 at 0027 UT, Mexican music loops E/W,
generally atop CCI with SAHs, something unusual; also at rechex 0041, 0059.
Finally Spanish SHVA ID at 0101 UT as WLBA Atlanta, and also mentioning a couple
other stations, not sure if FM or AM, right back to music. The letters WLBA were
pronounced in English altho they don`t have to be. Oh2: another 10 kW daytimer!
and non-direxional. CoL is really Gainesville GA. Supposed to go off at 2300 UT
(and reduce power for CH after 2100 UT in Oct to only 1 kW: NOT, NOT!)
(November: 2230 UT and 2030 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Re my unID on 1700 mentioning translator on 94.5 FM:
``WEUP/W233BR, per Google search. -- GREG HARDISON``. That`s Huntsville AL,
10/1 kW U1. May be new for me. Tnx again, Greg, for help with my unIDs (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 730, Oct 10 at 0021 UT, I
am again getting a station in English looping east/west; YL with possible
African-American accent discussing significance of hair color, e.g. blue.
Looking at the 730 map, a good candidate is my closest to the east, KQPN, 1/1 kW
U4 in West Memphis AR, altho listed as a YSR affiliate. Could also apply to the
Hattiesburg mention I heard before, in a neighboring state and the closest 730
to it.
BTW, I still have not been able to confirm 730, KLOE Goodland KS
is still on the air, after not hearing it by groundwave in the OK Panhandle
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re gh`s 4790 unID:
I checked it via Brisbane remote receiver and nothing else but carrier for BBC
Uzbek [TAJIKISTAN] appearing at 1250 on 4789.99 kHz today. 73, (Mauno Ritola,
Finland, Oct 9, ABDX via DXLD)
This report distributed at 0523 UT October
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