** CUBA. 9330, Fri Nov 13 at 0708, digital blaaps alternating with YL Spanish
spy numbers, on regular sked, the only signal making it on 31m otherwise dead,
not even WRMI or WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
15370, Nov 12 at 1440, RHC Spanish modulation is breaking up, but OK on 15730.
Wiggle that patchcord (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN.
11730, Nov 13 at 1422, IRIB IS, 1423 Hindi sign-on, and NA, still with IADs; 500
kW, 118 degrees from Kamalabad, good signal with flutter.
11760, Nov 13
at 1423, IRIB with Iran NA, simultaneously with 11730, but this is Bengali
service, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Kamalabad, and noticeably weaker, only fair,
why? No IADs on this one.
11880, Nov 13 at 1426, IRIB on yet another 25m
channel, fair with heavy flutter but just barely modulated. This one listed as
Russian, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MYANMAR [non]. 12105, Nov 13 at 1428 tune-in hear one word and
then dead air for two minutes until 1430* --- i.e., RFA via SAIPAN, Burmese at
1230-1430 [sic]. (Will Suu Kyi change the name back to Burma?) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1360v & 1420v, Nov 13 at 0533
UT, spurs from 1 kW KCRC 1390 Enid are not audible as close as Hennessey on
caradio, but are still heard day and night inside Enid, always slightly
off-frequency producing hets; at this point, 1390 itself not QRM-free but atop
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, Nov
13 around 0430 UT, not far outside OKC on the road north, KOKC is torn up by
CCI, presumably KOLM MN perpetually cheating, abetted by KOKC, site on the SE
side, still on 12.5 kW ND STA instead of 50 kW direxional away from Buffalo.
It`s habitually this bad in Enid too.
800, Nov 13 around 0430 UT, KQCV
OKC now has a clear signal with no XEROK QRM, since that station has powered way
down, so much that we first thought it was gone. On previous visits to OKC,
XEROK would tear up KQCV on the north side via caradio; its site on the SW
side.
740, Nov 13 around 0430 UT, KRMG Tulsa continues to put a good
signal into OKC at night, tnx direxional pattern aimed that way, but as we
approach closer to Enid, it`s losing out as we get away from that lobe. Yet KRMG
IDs mainly as 102.3 FM, which is blocked in OKC by a Del City
translator!
1170, Nov 13 around 0535 UT, KFAQ Tulsa is amazingly weak on
US 81 north of OKC, in fact creamed on the caradio by 1173 IBOC noise from KSL
1160. 50 kW KFAQ night pattern is supposed to be broad to the west, away from
WWVA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 95.3, Nov 12
around 18 UT, arriving in Oklahoma City we find a new signal since our last
visit in June: Spanish gospel-huxtering on 95.3, ID as KHBJ? ``Estéreo
Restauración, El Monte ---``; by 2300 UT copied an ID also in English, but in
neither language could I be certain of the third letter, which is in fact V:
KHVJ. It`s a new LPFM but they never append the -LP, as many such 100-watt
stations don`t want to admit how feeble they really are. FCC info:
shows
it`s licensed since July 6, 2015, by IGLESIA DE RESTAURACION, EL MONTE DE LOS
OLIVOS, 2700 NW 10TH ST., City: OKLAHOMA, State: OK, Zip Code: 73107.
Reception is rather spotty as we drive from the N to the S side of OKC,
as to be expected: 60 dbu service contour has a ``length`` of 23-miles, but from
map scale, the radius is less than 4 miles from site at the above address, near
the intersexion of I-44 and NW 10 St.:
so
it reaches roughly NW 50 St to SW 33 St (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 105.7, Nov 12 around 1630 UT as we head south from
Enid on US 81 toward OKC, when will we get to hear KROU from the University of
Oklahoma? Previously we could get it within 5 miles from Enid as soon as the
local translator on 105.5 weakened enough. Now, since 105.7 has been occupied by
50 kW KRDR Alva, that is no longer possible. The two are about equal levels
fighting over frequency as far as Hennessey, but 1.6 kW KROU Spencer has
captured the frequency by the next town south, Dover, so we can hear most of
Zorba Paster at 1706 UT Thursday. KRDR, still stupid sports talk, ESPN? 60 dbu
service contour does not even reach Enid on Bing map, but it`s enough to
significantly reduce OU`s reach (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6080, Nov 12 at 0642, VOA is VG, so must be back to Greenville
again, altho 24 hours earlier it was weak and suspected had reverted to original
site São Tomé. During `International Edition` item about an app for visiting
Rome --- not exactly hard news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1799 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, Thu Nov 12
after 1230, on WRMI 9955, atop some pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! Also
confirmed Thu Nov 12 at 2100 on WRMI 7570; and UT Fri Nov 13 at 0200 on WBCQ,
good signal but still way off frequency, approx. 9331.5-CUSB; the latter two on
the PL-880 portable while in Oklahoma City. Next:
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW
Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1530
HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 0415v WA0RCR
1860-AM ND?
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955
to SSE
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 680, Nov 13 at 0406 UT on caradio north of OKC, `Jim Bohannon` from
presumed KFEQ St Joseph MO, in and out, and it`s *not* // JimBo on 690, KGGF
Coffeyville KS. KGGF carries him live starting at 0306 UT, while the sked on
KFEQ is 0406-0700 UT, so I had assumed KFEQ would also be live for two hours,
and play back the first hour at 0606 UT (as presumably continues all night on
the WW1 network feed). Instead, KFEQ apparently delays the whole thing by one
hour, so don`t try calling in while tuning 680! The 04+ UT topic on KFEQ is the
University of Missouri situation, something else on KGGF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1080, Nov 13 circa 0530 UT, KRLD Dallas ought
to own the frequency 300-400 km away in OK on caradio between OKC and Enid, but
is torn up by CCI; cheaters from MN and/or UT? Often the case on home receivers
in Enid too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Nov
13 at 0716 UT, ``our colorful musical portfolio on KMSD``, classic rock, medium
SAH from WLAC? Loops NNE/SSW. Wasn`t certain of call at first, KNST? KNSB? But
now I`m sure it`s this, 5000/14 watts in Milbank SD. Site appears misplaced in
the NRC AM Pattern Book, circa Sioux Falls in SE SD. Daytime coverage map on
radio-locator as ``Mibank`` shows site is in NE SD, NE of Watertown barely on
the SD side of the border, i.e. where Milbank really is; but with address in
Valley City ND, which is not even within the fringe contour! So much for being
the ``Hometown Station``; or rather, plenty ambiguous (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, Nov 12 at 0650 UT, open carrier/dead
air; DF fits for KKLF Richardson TX, mixed with two talk stations, IA and RGV
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 6070, Nov
12 at 0643, VR with organ music during Latin mass, making medium SAH with CFRX
underneath.
3975, Nov 12 at 0644, JBA signal, maybe mass but really too
weak. VR traditionally uses this instead of 7250 during the B-seasons, and used
to provide a credible signal into North America. Alan Pennington in the British
DX Club says 3975 has been revived since Oct 25, altho missing from own outdated
schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1190v, Nov
13 before and after 0528 UT, low audible heterodyne on caradio, roughly 0.1 kHz?
and also noted for some time. Which station is off-frequency? At home I wasn`t
certain whether it was de a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Nov 13 at 0523 UT on caradio at Dover OK,
``spooky`` music over WLAC in & out, 0530 UT Spanish announcement; more
spooky at 0551 UT on caradio almost to Enid. Probably XEQI, Monterrey NL, which
I haven`t logged from home since Feb 24; but the music could have been another
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, Nov 13 at
0524 UT on caradio S of Enid, soul/gospel music often atop. Looks like WPFC
Bâton Rouge LA is most likely, heard before, 5000/42 watts. AFAIK, KLFJ
Springfield MO, the Branson barker, is still silent; forever? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1815 UT November 13