** ALBANIA. 7464.98, Jan 16 at 0253, I check R. Tirana just in time to find it`s
now made my recommended frequency change to ``7465`` from 7470, since IBB Kuwait
usurped that frequency. Poor signal, just music fill now at end of the 0230
English to North America (except UT Mondays), but nothing audible on 7470, and
RT IS is heard briefly (with much better modulation) at 0258, off before 0259.
So there should once again be no co-channel QRM anywhere, but possibly
adjacent QRM from 7460 or 7470, worse in Europe for anyone listening in the
nightmiddle but both aimed eastish so not really bigsigs in North America. 7460
is 116 degrees from Pridnestrovye to Iran with Radio Payem-e Doost (Baha`i) and
7470 is 70 degrees from Kuwait with Deewa Radio in Pashto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11710.838, UT Sat Jan 16 at 0305, RAE in
English announcing this is a live broadcast at 12:05 am local time, on
``11710``. Just once, I`d love to hear a perpetually off-frequency station
announce its correct exact frequency! The last digit I measured could be plus or
minus 1.
On the R75, if the signal level is close to the BFO level, one
can almost hear a zero-beat in 1-Hz tuning steps, but another way is to match
pitches a split kHz above and below the tuned frequency, compute the difference,
divide by 2 and add it to the lower offset tuned position. In this case the beat
sounded the same tone when I tuned to 11710.750 and 11710.927, which would put
the midpoint at 11710.8385, but that fourth digit would be pushing beyond the
limits of accuracy. This one does vary slightly, so next time, a considerably
different reading is likely (but off the air until UT Tuesday; meanwhile one may
do the same earlier in the days on 15345v) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6145, Jan 15 at 1409, Firedragon jamming atop Chinese
talk; 1414 change tune to a little less raucous. Victim is RTI in Chinese
starting at 1400; Aoki shows PBS Qinghai, also scheduled here, is 6145x = off
the air, which is certainly a good idea under the circumstances (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 7395, Jan 16 at 0315, NHK is
signing on in Swahili, S9+30 peaking at +40! Really nice signal. Radio Japan
uses the same sounders as in English service. Too bad this isn`t in English as a
defacto North American service. The 250 kW, 320 degree beam from MADAGASCAR
crosses Córdoba, Spain, enters North America around St Anthony, Newfoundland,
thru Timmins, Cheyenne – so it crosses Nebraska, close enough to Oklahoma at
this distance from the other worldside.
Axually, it is a North American
service for our Swahili-speakers; or rather, here are the USA-only statistix,
per
36,690
total speakers in USA, including 335 in OK, the state ranking 24, more than in
the District of Columbia, believe it or not. Swahili ranks 61 among the 322
languages spoken in the United States.
``• Of the 20 counties with the
greatest number of Swahili speakers, Georgia and the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area are home to three apiece [sic].
• Swahili is the 21st
most common language spoken in Alabama and the 27th most common language spoken
in Iowa.
• Swahili is the fourth most common language spoken at home in
Columbia County, Ark. and the fifth most common language in Stephens County,
Ga.
• In the United States, 1 of every 7,151 people age five and older
speaks Swahili at home. In Maryland, this figure is 1 in 1,887 people, while in
the District of Columbia, 1 in 2,115 residents is a Swahili speaker.
•
Within the counties, Pike County, Ala. has the greatest rate of Swahili speakers
(1 in every 498 residents), followed by Columbia County, Ark. (1 in every 684
residents) and Hudson County, N.J.
(1 in every 761 residents).``
These
data do NOT reveal how many listen to Radio Japan in Swahili, or even know it
exists (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15545, Jan
16 at 1529, R. Dabanga is still here for a second day instead of 15550,
presumably still SMG VATICAN site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1808 monitoring: confirmed
Friday Jan 15 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, and at 2130.6 on WRMI 7570, both in well.
Next:
Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat
2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 0900 WRMI
5850 to NW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430.6 WRMI 9955
to SSE
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.6 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 7504.80, Jan 16 at 0303, WRNO doubly errs in ID announcement, claiming to
be on ``7505`` --- just once, I`d love to hear a perpetually off-frequency
station announce its correct exact frequency! And ``from transmitter site in New
Orleans`` --- isn`t it still in Metairie? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Jan 15 at 1339 UT, Albuquerque and Santa Fe ads,
with a slight reverb, leading me to believe that I am hearing both the 50 kW
KKOB main transmitter in the North Valley still on night pattern nulling toward
WABC, and not quite toward me --- AND its 230-watt night-only relay fill-in for
Santa Fe, a.k.a. KKOB.
They should be precisely synchronized as there
will be many places in the prime coverage area where the signals are close to
equal; and they are nearly synched but surely only milliseconds apart, at almost
the limit of perception. Night hours when both KKOBs are on air: January,
0015-1415 UT; February, 0045-1400 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, Jan 15 at 1403 UT, ``1660, The Score`` ID from
Kansas City, as the station for national sports; also promoting 610 (KCSP) for
local sports; 1405 UT into Dan Patrick show. Change of KWOD from ``KMBZ Business
Channel`` (sub-station of 980 outlet) to ``The Score`` missed the August
deadline for the 2015-2016 NRC AM Log. (Before that, from 2001 to 2011, it was
classical KXTR, sob, as a sop to ex-KXTR (FM) listeners, except for a month in
early 2007 when the WDAF calls (ex-610) were parked on 1660). And then there was
KUDL from 2011 to 2014. Strange they haven`t changed calls again to distance
from previous format.
Furthermore, in checking FCC AM Query, I see that
KWOD has a CP to change to a different transmitter site; why? It`ll remain 10/1
kW U1 like most X-banders. Old and new coördinates show it moving about 2
minutes further north and about 4 minutes further west:
Licensed: 39° 02'
17.00" N Latitude, 94° 36' 56.00" W Longitude
New site: 39° 04' 19.00" N
Latitude, 94° 40' 58.00" W Longitude
The CP expires Dec 17, 2017, granted 3
years earlier. Old site is very close to the state line, but I think barely on
the KS side, so the new site will be more securely inside Kansas (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Jan 15 at 1435, R.
Sana`a, mostly music, 1450 a brief ``Allahu Akhbar`` speech, then to formal
musical paean of sunset call to prayer, at 1451:34.5, which is only 3 seconds
later than yesterday. Look for a much greater jump in a day or two (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0547 UT
January 16
