** INDONESIA. 3325, Feb 2 at 1315, I am hearing one station S5-S7 with soft
talk, 1316 music, presumed still RRI Palangkaraya and not NBC Bougainville. Ron
Howard confirms the latter was again absent yesterday. So when are they going to
come back and stay on? Maybe they are now looking for a new clear frequency; fat
chance. Later: nope; Ron says both were on today with RRI dominating for him.
Karel Honzik in Czechia also heard Buka day frequency testing on 6020.7 at
0700-0842* (by long path, direct??) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Greatly expanded Brother Scare via WRMI:
USA
** U S A. Further chex of WRMI`s unexpectedly expanded Brother Scare
transmissions: Feb 1 at 1953, 5015 is inaudible but suspect on and just not
propagating. The other ``night`` frequencies are still going and detectable:
5850 at S4; 7570, 7730; also 9955, 11580 instead of 11565, 11825, 11920, 13695,
15440-not, 15770. Usual other programming still going on 9395, 21675. At 2135,
5850 is still BS, but no further chex in evening until:
0654 UT Feb 2,
11825 is JBA at S3, presumably WRMI; At 0656, 11920 is slightly stronger, and //
7570, so confirmed. Like 24 hours earlier, all these frequencies are also on
with BS: 11580-JBA, 9955 VG at S9+20, 7730, 7570, 5985, 5950, 5850, 5015.
Listening to one of them, I forget which, at 0659:30 Bob Zanotti interrupts BS
blather for a legal WRMI ID (it seems BZ does most if not all of the ID breaks
during BS: quite a feather in his career cap). There might have been some
changes at 0700, so final chex before sleep: at 0723 Feb 2, still going with BS
are 5015, 5950, 7570; at 0729, JBA carriers still on 11825, 11920. However, at
0723, 7730 has switched to other programming, music not // BS. The schedule grid
shows `In Christ We Live` is appended to 7730 Mondays at 07-08, but this is
Tuesday.
Next check at 1323 UT Feb 2: BS still on 5015, 5850, 5950 (but
not 5985, music, maybe Myanmar); 11825, 11920, 13695, 15770, but NOT on 11580
with some other station, nor 11565, 15440. At 1504-1507 UT Feb 2: 5015, 5850,
7570, 7730 and 11920 are still on with BS, and now 11580 is too, and 13695, but
nothing on 11565 or 15440 (good for Saudi on 15435).
My Feb 1 inquiry to
WRMI about what`s going on has not been replied. Their schedule grid still shows
the pre-Feb 1 output lacking all the extra time for BS. Nor is there anything
new about this on WRMI FB.
So here is an hypothesis: Brother Scare for
the new month has shoveled even more dough at WRMI, so they *have* to put him on
even more transmitter-hours, even if they don`t make much sense propagationally,
like 5 MHz frequencies all day, and 11 MHz frequencies all night.
As a
last resort we go to TOM`s own schedule, which is usually full of errors and/or
out of date:
Surprise2,
this has axually been updated as of Feb 1 to show all this as deliberate, in UT
and correct EST conversions:
WRMI
5015 Caribbean, S. America Daily
0000-2400
24 hrs/day
(Effective February 1, 2016)
5850
West/Midwest USA & NE Asia
Daily
0100-0700
0900-1000
1100-2300
8pm-2am
4am-5am
6am-6pm
5850
Western N America & Mexico
Daily
0100-0700
0800-0000
8pm-2am
3am-7pm
[two entries for
5850? Does that mean two transmitters/antennas at once? Would be something new
for WRMI. Or meant to apply to a different frequency?]
5950 Cuba,
Caribbean, Central America
Daily
0100-1100
1200-2200
8pm-6am
7am-5pm
5985 Caribbean,
Central America
Daily
0100-0300
0500-0700
2100-2300
8pm-10pm
12am-2am
4pm-6pm
7570
North America / E Asia Daily
2200-2100
5pm-4pm
9955 Caribbean &
South America
Daily
0600-1100
1500-2200
1am-6am
10am-5pm
11580 Europe,
Middle East, West Asia
Daily
0300-1300
1500-2000
2100-2300
10pm-8am
10am-3pm
4pm-6pm
11825
North America (East) Daily
0000-2400
24 hrs/day
11920 Latin America
Daily
0300-0100
10pm-8pm
13695 Western USA & Mexico
Daily
0000-2400
24 hrs/day
15770 Eur, Mid East, N Africa
Daily
2200-2100
5pm-4pm
21675 Central & South Africa
Daily
1000-1400
5am-9am
The same page also has skeds for BS on
WWCR, WWRB (``9385``), WBCQ, WINB, WHRI, Spaceline, and AM stations.
IF
this is all correct, the only impact on WORLD OF RADIO scheduling would be
bumping us off 5850 Sundays at 0900.
Based solely on the sked above, I
calculate the total frequency-hour usage of TOM via WRMI now as: 242 hours per
day or 1694 hours per week!!
A modest proposal: why not charge BS 10%
more and use that to dedicate just ONE WRMI frequency 24/7 to a much-needed
``public radio`` service on SW across North America? Something that works,
unlike Global 24.
7570, Mon Feb 1 at 2120 UT, WRMI is again playing last
week`s episode of `La Rosa de Tokio`, now in a music break of ``My Way`` in a
Spanish version, ``Mi Modo``, and on to stuff about LU9 in Mar del Plata. I
wonder if this will re-repeat week after week in this hour slot, like the
RMRC/EDXC special did? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 900, Feb 1 after 2200 UT, I`ve resorted to
NOStalgia music from KSGL Wichita, which puts a sufficient signal into Enid
despite 250 watts westward from Wichita, to accompany my nap, finding nothing
more listenable on SW --- and I notice it has a constant SAH of 214/minute =
3.57 Hz. I wonder what that is? Skywave could be showing up by now, but closest
other 900s on ground- or skywave are 1 kW KHOZ Harrison AR; 250 W KCLW Hamilton
TX & KFLP Floydada TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5980, Feb 2 at 1324, big humwhine is again here.
Sure hope it`s not running for my next Chaski-chex 0100+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN. 11860, Feb 2 at 1325, R. Sana`a is JBA, but
reliably builds up to good level by 1335 with usual fare of triumphal music and
Arabic exhortations; 1458 impassioned speech with echo effect applied, one word
or two syllables behind. 1502 martial music and song, 1505 ID, more music, and
still no call-to-prayer today as the sun has set without it (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1747 UT February 2