** BRAZIL. 4885.03 on the NRD-545, Feb 21 at 0439, very pleased to hear S9+15
signal with tropical music, soon break at 0442 for very full ID as Rádio Clube
do Pará, not only 4885 onda tropical, but also MW frequency, 690, ZYI532 --- and
I think they also gave its wavelength in the 400s, which would be approx. 433
metros; and a few other MW frequencies with calls of sibling stations, members
of Rede Brasil Amazônia de Comunicação. For info about that and much more
see
But
I don`t find a listing of affiliated stations. The carrier is a bit wobbly with
BFO, and CODAR can be eliminated by tuning LSB only. Still at 0655 check, when I
put it on 4885.020, S9+10 on the R75.
RCP has been on limited schedule
lately, but used to be the main 24 hour ZY on 60m. Hope it will stay so again.
No comparable signal, and maybe few if any on the air after local midnite; altho
I did not search for JBA off-frequency carriers during the early session.
At 0700 there`s a JBA carrier on 4824.93 with CODAR on both sides;
exactly same as I heard Jan 21 at 0632, presumably Rádio Canção
Nova,
Cachoeira Paulista SP, at its offset; rather than the other ZY listed as
inactive. That`s 4:32/5 am local when many other non-NSP stations could be
oncoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910.06,
Feb 21 at 0434, tropical music from Alcaraván Radio is good at S9+15, and
nothing audible from NHK Russian via Lithuania (which got a couple minutes on
5985 via WRMI instead; see JAPAN [non]) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Sunday Feb 21 at 0704, RHC Esperanto correctly
airing at S9+20, with all the other 49/60m frequencies now off. Wonder if it`ll
show again this week at unscheduled 2130 on 11880? Need also to reconfirm if
it`s still at 2230 Sundays on 17730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15215, Sunday Feb 21, 2016y at 1600, yearly
broadcast of Radio Öömrang starts up, confirmed by MBR as via Issoudun, FRANCE
site. Good signal but not enough to overcome all computer noise which I can`t
turn off as I hasten to complete this report. Much like last year, informal
conversation, mixing in bits of English with Frisian and (high) German, rather
hard to follow, especially with the accent in English, it`s not always clear
when languages are switching. But I try to listen. At 1611 refers to an internet
radio service always available, but can`t copy URL. By 1648 a number of women
are laughing about something; 1656 ID in English with frequency and off circa
1659*. In 2017y, of course, it`ll leap to a Tuesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Feb 20 at 0622, ERT whining at S4-8
level, and nothing on the other frequency, 9420 which is capable of normal
modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6195,
UT Sun Feb 21 at 0427, S9+35 signal from R. Japón via WHRI, with `Espacio
Diexista`, which is evidently a subsexion of the mailbag show (not a revival of
Radio Nederland`s program), acknowledging a few reception reports, so all may
know someones` SINPO readings. Already outro at 0429 in time to recite the full
now very limited Spanish transmission schedule, including // 5985 for this 0400
transmission, so I quickly check that as 6195 cuts off:
5985, UT Sun Feb
21 at 0429, R. Japón via WRMI, has been // 6195 via WHRI, but not enough time to
check synchrony; seems close. But wait! 5985 then continues with NHK opening in
Russian, amid some IADs; by 0432 it`s switched to a gospel huxter in English,
which was supposed to start at 0430, i.e. scheduled `Walking in Power`. (NHK
Russian at 0430 is supposed to be only on 5910 via Lithuania, but checking that,
I hear Alcaraván radio instead; see COLOMBIA)
(As I check WRMI
transmission grid at googledocs, Feb 21 at 1550, I see that Jeff White himself
is logged into it, with a thumbnail of him as well as two anonymous users,
Cheetah and Kangaroo, for group chat. Refreshing, Kangaroo has disappeared.)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11724.99, UT Sat
Feb 20 at 0619, RNZI is back on the AM air, whew, for the multi-hour `Saturday
Night` request show, which is one of the best things on SW, S9+20 with timecheck
as 20 past 7.
11725.015, UT Sun Feb 21 at 0615, RNZI is on the hi side
for a change, VG signal with the `TED Radio Hour` from NPR in the USA! At first
there are some intermittent carrier dropoffs. Discussion of need for equal
justice, etc. I couldn`t stop listening to this terrific program, rather than
some more bandscanning before bedtime. 0654 outro by Guy Raz as ``on Radio N Zed
National``, so fixed up just for them. It`s weekly Sundays at 0606 UT. Here the
RNZN page about it:
``The
TED Radio Hour is a National Public Radio series based on talks from annual
gatherings where some of the world's deepest thinkers and innovators are invited
to give the 18-minute "talk of their lives." TED stands for Technology,
Entertainment, Design.``
It`s scandalous that this and other excellent
NPR programs have NO SW OUTLET from our own country, public or private! This
episode content does not match the Feb 19 edition at
Nor
it seems what`s on the NZ page above, with linx to lots of other topix. As I was
saying in my interview with Chrissie on Global Voice Radio, we`re so fortunate
to have RNZI relaying RNZN on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7254.94, Feb 21 at 0708 VON in French at S9+10 but
undermodulated, so it has stayed on today, unlike Feb 19 when it dumped off at
0659* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Feb 20
at 1750 UT on caradio, very poor signal from KGYN Guymon on groundwave. IIRC it
used to be better, so continue to suspect something is amiss, like power lowered
from 10 kW, or sticking to night pattern in day, nulling toward Philadelphia and
us; it used to be the other way round, ND day pattern at night, when I don`t
hear much from it either now (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 88.3 FM, Feb 20 at 1750 UT check and for a while now, K202BY Enid is
off the air again and has been for a few days, the Family Radio satellator, so
might as well feed the BST-1 into the caradio here instead of 88.1 where there
are somethings to be heard.
92.1, Feb 20 at 1750 UT check, KAMG-LP Enid
has finally fixed its modulation after weeks of unlistenable distortion.
Unfortunately, altho it started out at a local ``Amigo`` church, all it
transmits is praise music and preaching in Spanish off some satellite, not
exactly what LPFM was designed for (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. The last week or more, I`ve had a hard time getting
a fully quiet, let alone stereo signal from our only classical music station,
90.1 KUCO Edmond/OKC, on caradio or portable homeradios. Perhaps this explain it
from their homepage which has never called itself a .org, http://www.kucofm.com
``A Note from the
General Manager --- Dear Friends, Ice and earthquakes. These have been the bane
of our existence over the last couple of months. When ice covers the antenna
(ice can form at the antenna level, 800 feet above the ground, even when the air
remains above freezing at the ground) it becomes necessary to cut transmission
power to keep from damaging the transmitter. Last Thanksgiving we had to cut
power to 5% and wait for the ice to melt. When the ice did melt, it fell
downward as rods and shattered most of the beacons and marker lights on both our
campus and Oklahoma City towers. We had both re-lamped. A second round of ice
shattered some of the newly replaced lamps on the big tower. Re-lamp
again.
Then there were two earthquakes in the course of one week. These
quakes cut of[f] power to the UCO campus. We have temporary backup power to the
studios, but the outages lasted longer than our power could hold, so we were
off-air a couple of early mornings.
Thank you for your patience during
these unexpected and unavoidable situations. Your contributions enable us to
keep our physical plant operating in spite of what nature throws at us.
Sincerely, Bradford Ferguson, General Manager``
That`s what we find on UT
Feb 21, and may have been up for a while but these notes are always undated so
hard to know how current they are. Enid is once again in the unfortunate
position of being too close to OKC for stations to justify a translator or any
kind of relay, yet too far for a city-grade signal; nor do we have any local
public radio service (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
THAILAND. 13745, Feb 20 at 0046, very poor S6 signal with heavy flutter,
presumed R. Thailand, North American service in English. It`s never really
useable here in deep NAm, but I`m checking since a Pennsylvanian recently
reported this on 13750, where I hear nothing.
Perhaps his bandwidth
setting was too wide? Or a one-off experiment from IBB Udorn? It would certainly
be a good idea to distance itself from 13740 Cuba! But that would make too much
sense. Making even more sense would be for HSK9 to insist on access to IBB
Greenville which has plenty of spare transmitter capacity! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1813 monitoring: confirmed Sat
Feb 21 circa 1548 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB via UTwente remote, well
atop the CRI CCI, but with occasional deep fades. Also confirmed Saturday Feb 20
at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB; weak but no strain to detect it this time (see
separate WBCQ logs).
WOR also confirmed UT Sunday Feb 21 on 1860-AM,
WA0RCR, having started about 0423. Steady S9 signal, but modulation level seems
a bit low. Nice thing about this MW frequency is that there is NO CCI causing
subaudible heterodyne fading, which even KMOX cannot count on. Over by 0453 for
ID and into RAIN report. Next:
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon
0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330, Feb 21 at 0058 on BST-1 caradio, enough WBCQ to
stop the memory scan during IS and ID, so I hope that means power has been
upped, but no chance to compare it now to what I get on fixed
radios.
3250v, 5109.7, 7489.9, 9330v, UT Sun Feb 21 at 0424 check, all
four WBCQ transmitters are off. It may seem late in the Eastern zone, but there
ought to be audience for programming in the rest of North America on a Saturday
night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 20 at
1359, WWCR-3 is still on night frequency an hour after scheduled closing, so
tough luck for 4835 Australia. It`s DGS, and nothing on day frequency 13845:
still 4840 at 1425, now with PMS, (and not // 7490); and 4840 still audible at
1611! Not checked again until 2109 when 13845 is finally vigent instead. Next
morning, Feb 21 at 1400 check, 13845 is already on and 4840 is off.
9980,
Feb 20 at 2115, WWCR-4 is finally back on with BS // 9955 WRMI, after missing a
few days. 5890 is off again at 0435 check Feb 21 --- but on UT Sundays only it`s
not scheduled to start until 0500, which you wouldn`t know by looking only at
transmitter schedules instead of program schedules; and indeed is on at 0701
check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.93, Feb 21
at 0451, WRNO is S9+20 with music, English announcement; haven`t yet caught them
in Chinese a couple days per week. It`s not quite justified yet to round this
off to 7505.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1380, Feb
21 at 0456 UT, Spanish gospel music is dominant, and on LSB plenty strong not to
be splashed by local ESPN 1390 KCRC. Soon Spanish promo for new customers on
``la nueva estación de Radio Aleluya, 1590-AM``, address 1600 Pasadena Blvd,
Pasadena TX 77562, phone 713-589-1336 during business hours 8-6 l-v, 9-6 sábado,
concluding with ``aún no hemos dicho nada`` (we haven`t said anything yet ---
??). Then ad still in Spanish for church services in English! Jueves a 7:30 at
La Iglesia del Pueblo in Pasadena, 713-920-1840. 0500 UT illegal ID ONLY for
``KMIC [letters in English], Houston, 15-90 AM, Radio Aleluya``. Then into
ranchera style music but must be religious.
Nothing said on 1380 about
1380! Which is really KRCM, Shenandoah TX, 2800/60 watts U1 and this was no 60
watts! Or application for 22000/43 U5, per NRC AM Log, which already had this as
a R. Aleluya as of last August, at same Pasadena address as announced above.
Shenandoah is a Houston suburb to the north along I-45 closer to Conroe, not
necessarily correlating with transmitter site.
At 0500 UT Feb 21, I check
1590 anyway and don`t hear enough for a // in the mush, but there is a
persistent LAH from about 1589.95 --- what`s that? The 1590 5/5 kW night pattern
is SE into the Gulf: KMIC calls are a holdover from R. Disney, previous occupant
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1802 UT
February 21
