** ALBANIA [and non]. 7470, UT Sunday Nov 29 at 0228 and 0249 chex, R. Tirana is
AWOL again; what`s the problem? Propagation is OK. Not on 7425 or 7465 either.
7425 still occupied by Vatican/Martí mix at 0228 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1610, Nov 29 at 0200 UT, Spanish promo for
an Ecuadorian event in Toronto, i.e. CHHA Voces Latinas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9964.54, Nov 29 at 0135, R. Cairo, S9+20 but
dead air in Arabic except for lite whine
9745.00, Nov 29 at 0217, R.
Cairo, S9+20, dead air in the other Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 9445, Nov 29 at 0129, report from
Venezuela in Spanish, from VRII, fair. This is 310 degrees from Kamalabad at
0020-0220. I see in HFCC that Madagascar World Voice plans to cross beams with
this at 0100-0200 in English if it gets on the air before B-15 is over. At other
times, 9445 reserved by the imaginary KTMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRELAND. 3413-USB, Nov 29 at 0141 YL with fight weather,
Britishish accent, very poor S6 vs noise level, and can`t copy locations
mentioned, but seems usual mix of English and metric units: ceilings in feet,
visibilities in km, temps and dewpoints Celsius, winds in knots,
altimeter/barometer in millibars; finally ``Shannon VOLMET`` ID twice at 0145.
EiBi shows this frequency runs from 18 to 12 UT, but also usable by San
Francisco for 2-way, 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
KOREA SOUTH. 4900, Nov 28 circa 1330, again today nothing from the musical spy
numbers [non] station; was heard Nov 26, not 27. Wolfgang Büschel suggests it
might instead have been KBS World Radio testing some new equipment (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.0-USB, Nov 29 at
0106, sad song by YL, 0107 Wolverine Radio ID, at S9+30, equivalent level to
WBCQ on 5109.7-CUSB and 7490, but 9330 is not on (yet); also mighty KBC via
125,000 watts in Germany on 7395 is only S9+35. Wolverine must be running hefty
power level for a pirate. Wish I could keep listening but too much else is going
on Saturday evenings! Recheck 0203 hears SSTV beeps so probably closing down.
MANY other logs here, Emotions the theme:
Others
heard following immediately on 6950-USB weaker PeeWee Radio:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. The long-predicted ice
storm has indeed hit us in most of western Oklahoma, causing various anomalies
among broadcasters November 28 noted as follows, all times UT:
At 1645 I
notice that KTBO ``14``, RF-15, Trinity, OKC, is black and silent --- all 5
subchannels on the air at Good level, but nothing being transmitted. STL
problem? Power off at studio, not transmitter? Suddenlink Cable ch 3 in Enid
displays the last image transmitted on main channel instead of black: woman
playing a guitar to a puppet. This freeze-frame stays up all day and evening,
still there at 0600 UT Nov 29!
KOCB ``34`` RF 33, I notice now has the
new Comet network on 34-3. SF movie of humans vs tentacles at 0540 UT Nov 29,
`Species`.
1910 UT during opera, KUCO 90.1 Edmond/OKC dumps off the air,
and remains off all afternoon/evening. At first I thought they were back on with
dead carrier, but that turned out to be produced by the R75 when on radiating at
90.0 MHz, too close to the YB-400 I was checking for FM. KUCO website says
nothing about being off the air; and the webcast is also down. http://www.kucofm.com I hope it`s only a power
outage (rampant across OKC metro), not ice damage to antenna, etc.
From
1919 UT an FM bandscan on the PL-880, looking for signals missing that are
normally present:
88.3, K202BY, Enid Family Radio translator
89.3,
KIEL Loyal [tho not always audible anyway; really 75 kW?]
90.1, KUCO
Edmond/OKC
90.3, KHEV Fairview [already marginal]
92.1, KAMG-LP
Enid
94.3, KLGB-LP Enid [but 99.9. KVBN-LP, same site and tower stays
on!
Some other weak gospel huxter is heard; seems same as on 95.1
KQCV, so Bott network? Kansas?]
97.5, KPAK Alva
99.7, KANH
Mustang [instead, Spanish from Kansas]
103.1, KOFM Enid [briefly, back on a
few minutes later]
On MW, the only station found to be missing is 1460
KZUE, not surprising as El Reno is very hard hit by power outages.
1640,
later at 0151 UT Nov 29, KZLS Enid-OKC is dead air; maybe due to icing/power
outage somewhere, but it doesn`t take that much for this station to lose
modulation/program feed. Wish they`d turn the transmitter off too. I can hear
WTNI etc., under it.
At 2330 UT I notice that Cable 6 in Enid, KOCM,
Daystar is black and silent like KTBO ``14``, RF 15, and then find the same on
KOCM`s original RF 46, still same at 0537 UT Nov 29, i.e. on but transmitting
nothing; couldn`t happen to two more useless stations. Its on-air signal here is
usually barely Good, often breaking up into video art. Too bad Suddenlink didn`t
capture a frame of that to show for the next multi-hours, just
black.
96.9, KQOB, Enid-OKC, Nov 29 at 0202 and 0509 recheck is OFF,
unlike earlier; from its remote site west of Crescent midway.
105.7, KRDR
Alva, must be off, since at 0218 Nov 29 I am not hearing any stupid sports talk,
but Latin/jazz music, matching the schedule of KROU de KGOU, `Global Jazz Wire`
at 8-10 pm CT Sats. On the PL-880 I have to off-tune it to 105.73 to avoid local
105.5 translator still on. Tried to // it to 88.1 whence KWOU Woodward is
sometimes audible but site says ``KWOU in Woodward is on reduced power because
of ice on antenna.`` KGOU++ have plenty of streaming options:
The
situation at WOR HQ: a few quick power glitches, not enough to reset clox, and
no loss of power --- yet. Several thousand customers in Enid are down, and
almost 80K in the OG&E service area covering only part of OK.
Our
trees have taken a beating, with many broken limbs and branches from heavy ice
layers. Some of them have fallen on our main longwire, which hasn`t broken yet,
but will be easy to repair once the debris is cleared. So far I think the C-490
TV antenna larger elements have not broken off like happened to its predecessor
a few years ago. Additional icing may occur until noon Sunday (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, Nov 28-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1320, Nov 28 at 1934
UT, NewsTalk KCLI Clinton is talking about AM 1590 and FM 95.5, i.e. KWEYs
Weatherford, which I suppose are sibling stations rather than competitors, media
concentration in axion! Back to Rush weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Nov 29 at 0105, two JBA carriers, until the
stronger one, R. Chaski, autocutsoff at 0112:24*, which is 47.5 seconds later
than last check 7 days ago, 0111:36.5 UT Nov 22, averaging 6.8 seconds later
per. High time for a reset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI
LANKA [and non]. 11905, Nov 29 at 0111:54 tune-in, as soon as Chaski is off,
find JBA carrier here, but it`s not SLBC, since its much stronger carrier cuts
on at *0114:10; adding modulation of two bits of music other than the one
usually heard, 2+1 mis-timepips ending at 0115:16.5, and ``Sri Lanka
Broadcasting Corporation`` YL sign-on in S Asian language: speech modulation is
somewhat suptorted unlike the bit of music. Recheck at 0213, now it`s a JBA
carrier, so SLBC already off or not? The other 11905 from 01 is per HFCC, a 100
kW, 163 degree transmitter of CNR Beijing until 09 in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Nov 28 at 2130, VOA Greenville has
been fixed with fine modulation and signal, but it`s VOA One rock music of no
interest on Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
1860-AM, Nov 29 at 0136, WA0RCR with item on the Electronic Communications
Privacy Act (ECPA), clip of Benn Kobb; 0148 outro RAIN Report podcast. Good
clear steady signal from Wentzville MO, but I am so engrossed in compiling this
report that I forget to check for WORLD OF RADIO circa 0415 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330.0-CUSB, UT Sunday Nov 29 at 0220,
find WBCQ is ON! While it was not an hour earlier, and didn`t think anything was
scheduled at this hour and day: monolog by an unID guy with continuous music
bed, talking about HAVE GOALS (not Have Gold as I thought at first). He is a
street artist in Milwaukee and suggests that shortwave enthusiasts should Google
that name to see what he is talking about, a sticker with image of a girlchild`s
face and that slogan. It`s 3 x 5 inches and black & white. His new gallery
show is called ``Truth Be Told``. Says this will be broadcast 4 times, not
online, no app for it [so better hear it now]. Mentions having a show made up of
guns and knives he found in city sewers under Milwaukee: not sure if that is a
previous or current show.
At 0229, ID as ``Have Goals World Service``;
there were showcards at the gallery referring Milwaukee people to this SW
broadcast. Have Goals started 5 years ago, and developed a subculture around it,
overwhelmingly positive. He got the idea from the side of a train; is not
profiting from this but hopes it makes people think about making something of
their lives. By 0237 I realize we are into a repeat of what I was hearing when
first tuned in.
Checked later, as expected, there is nothing about this
on the WBCQ homepage, nor on the 9330 program schedule. You had to run across
it, or find out from one of his showcards in Milwaukee (or tune in quickly once
I posted about it on the DXLD yg --- did anyone else then hear it?) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Nov 28 at 1330 and later
chex during morning, afternoon, evening, no WTWW-2, so yesterday`s Dark Matters
relay appears more and more to have been an anomaly.
12105, Nov 28 at
2112, WTWW-3 is off, not just dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9975, Nov 29 at 0215, KVOH is only S3, much weaker than
first check an hour ago; yet Cairo neighbor 9965- is still good at S7;
therefore, KVOH could do better by broadcasting from Cairo, provided it could
modulate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.7, Nov 29
at 0249, WRNO has only a poor signal, not splattering all over the area like
last night; there can be extreme variations in WRNO reception here at one
megameter distance; or are there also extreme variations in its power output?
There certainly are in the quality of modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7410, Nov 29 at 0125, Pope Francis speaks a bit of
Latin, then S Asian language, scheduled as Malayalam, amid the VR 4 x 20 minute
transmission starting 0040 with Hindi, Tamil, ending with English, 250 kW due
east from SMG. Poor at S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, Nov 29 at 0152 UT, 1-kHz het upon KOKC,
presumed BSKSA Duba, SAUDI ARABIA; no other TA carriers noted (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1700, Nov 29 at 0150 UT, dead air is
the strongest of 3 signals here, presumably KKLF Richardson TX which can`t get
its act together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
9811.7-USB, Nov 29 at 0132, weak Spanish 2-way INTRUDERS, S4-5 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0602 UT November
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