** BRAZIL. 11925.2, March 13 at 0026, enthusiastic Brazuguese, probably futebol,
sounds the same as on 9645.4, i.e. R. Bandeirantes running on both frequencies;
11925.2 is S6 with het from a 11925 station; and altho also metering S6,
neighbor on 11934.9 sounds quite louder, with Aparecida ID in passing (axually
Rádio RB2 relaying R. Aparecida); also with a het, as to be a Brazilian SW
broadcaster, you *must* be off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13740, March 13 at 0100, RHC Spanish with full frequency
announcement introducing evening span, but skips from 9 to 6 MHz band with no
mention of 6870, the semi-harmonic I have just heard again with a JBA carrier.
It`s been matched previously to 13740, so I try again for a few minutes, but
6870 is just too weak, and by 0154, 13740 itself has faded way down, while 6870
stays the same, during an Arnie Coro non-DX segment as I listen to 6075 instead
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.24, March 13 at
0024, R. Cairo English to North America sesquihour is about to end, but
accomplishing only a whine and some just-barely modulation; S8 and no panoply of
spur carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030,
March 13 at 0122, I find some Spanish dominant, PSA for Mexican maestros,
probably from the SEP tho not heard credited, and another PSA, then 0123
mentions ``Radio Fórmula Monterrey 7-70``. As I try to DF it, losing out to
English political talk NW/SE, presumably KTWO WY, and also another SS. I would
assume this is XEYC in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the only Fórmula listed on
1030, and which I used to get regularly; except this item via DXLD 16-07 said
XEYC had moved to 1460:
``Changes at Grupo Radio México, Ciudad
Juárez:
720 XEJCC El Fonógrafo, ex Extremo 7-20
970 XEJ R México
Noticias, ex La J Mexicana
1190 XEPZ R Centro, ex R Norteña
1240 XEWG La
Jefa, ex Cambio 12-40
1300 XEP R Mexicana ex R 13
1460 XEYC R Fórmula, ex
1030 kHz
(Héctor García Bojorge via Mauno Ritola, WRTH via Central [sic]
American News, ed. Tore Larsson, Feb MW News via DXLD)
I had been
hearing R. Fórmula Noticias, XEYC on 1030 as recently as Dec 29. 1460 would
certainly be a clearer spot for it, with only 4
Mexicans already listed
there, and nothing else in the tri-state area.
But not for here: XEYC often
dominated 1030 over KTWO or anything else. I had also been hearing Fonógrafo on
720, Centro on 1190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
So what is
going on here? If XEYC really vacated 1030, could XEACH 770 Monterrey have moved
to 1030 yet not updated their ID??? Unlikely, and MTY has big guns on 990 and
1050. Maybe Fórmula 770 in MTY was simply mentioned in a promo on the entire
network out of XERFR 970 DF? In any event, there is obviously still a Fórmula on
1030, so what else if not XEYC Juárez?
XEYC is nowhere to be found in
this station list
nor
do they have any Radio Fórmulas, so maybe GRM has nothing to do with the station
on 1030.
The Radio Fórmula website
is
no help at all in finding affiliates around the country.
BTW, WRTH 2016
keys 1030 XEYC as CH26, but that leads to a station addressed in
Ojinaga/Presidio TX, some mixup there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040, March 13 at 0102, The Mighty KBC is
only S7 via Nauen, GERMANY, with music, 0104 `Giant Jukebox` with Eric can
Willigen, but copy is tough even once I switch to LSB to avoid the Brazilian
het. Later he says he has bad news, but it`s a joke about something, not KBC
going off the air. He would have a much better signal in North America if he
could get on a pirate relay like Wolverine Radio! I`ve also suggested a
Saturday- or Sunday-afternoon timing via a WRMI frequency blasting across the
continent, when there would also be less competition from other SW programming
than on Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. 6930-USB, March 13 at 0133, big S9+25 signal with torch song, 0134
honky-tonk piano, 0137 Wolverine Radio ID as expected, vocal tune; still going
past 0200, and was not on at previous pirate band check circa 0100. Many other
logs of it between 0140 and 0243*; keyword for song titles was ``life``:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. Right after my nearest
streetlite ignites at 0041 UT March 13, with a burst of RF noise on the 49m band
and beyond (orange sunset and it`s cloudy so would be a bit later with clear
sky; tonight`s Enid SS was 0037 UT), I bring up the JBA carrier on 5980 from R.
Chaski: now it suffers from 5990 China-via-Cuba musical splash. As expected
second carrier from BBC/UAE cuts on about *0058:25 causing a warbling het as the
two are not exactly same frequency.
After 0100 the ACI comes from 5985
WRMI, but I still manage to detect the Chaski cutoff at 0109:28.5*. I`m making a
point of rechecking only one night later, since on UT March 12 it wasn`t too
clear circa 0109:11.5. Discounting the latter, and recomputing from previous
timing March 4 until 0108:30.5, now 9 nights ago, it`s 58 seconds later, divided
by 9 = 6.44 seconds per, closer to the slippage rate we were expecting (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 6173.9, March 13 at 0036, JBA
carrier, S5 with traces of talk, presumed R. Tawantinsuyo, Cuzco on its
signature off-frequency. No Vietnam yet via Woofferton on 6175 to block it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, March
13 at 0023, Stimme der Türkei in German! announcement, with flute music, S9+20
over lite CCI. Aoki lists this as if a scheduled broadcast, despite being 1:23
am in Germany, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler at 0000-0055 --- but I think
it`s a frequent mistake by the sleeping sloppyrator at Emirler, failing to turn
off the transmitter circa 2355 after the English to North America, as German
continues on the satellite/internet stream. No 0000 German broadcast is in WRTH,
and it`s become impossible to find any SW scheduling information on the TRT
website (about time I got a schedule in the P-mail unless they`ve deleted that
too). Yup, it`s gone at 0043, long before the German service should have ended,
uncovering the very weak S5 understation, which per Aoki should be: PBS
Xinjiang, 100 kW ND from Urumqi, East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 2097.3, March 13 at 0056 UT, CW beacon A is JBA, just
19 minutes after my sunset in Enid, so it`s still daytime in Quartzsite AZ,
alleged location of this; gaisma.com doesn`t realize Quartzsite is a major MF
transmitter site, so closest listing is for Lake Havasu City, current night
hours there 0143-1351 UT (Blythe CA would be closer but not listed either!). LSS
is nigh enough for A to be propagating eastward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7425, March 13 at 0142, gone again, no trace of the
leapfrog mixing product from Greenville-B, which was there last night, despite
huge signals again on its progenitors, 7305 Vatican relay and 7365 Martí.
Something changes from one occasion to another, like different
transmitter/antenna combination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed from 0427 UT
Sunday March 13 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, good with no QRhaM. Next:
[daylight shifted times start here:]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon
0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5129.75-AM, UT Sunday March 13 at 0029, WBCQ with
`Radio TimTron Worldwide`, S9+20, drama about a Martian
invasion.
7489.96-AM, UT Sunday March 13 at 0030, WBCQ with J. P. Ferraro
on `Shortwave Saturday Night` originating from his real station WHVW 950 in Hyde
Park NY, talking with a caller about the mafia.
9329.80-CUSB, UT Sunday
March 13 at 0033, WBCQ with anti-Jewish comments as if Christians should own the
Holy Land, reference to a revisionist history website (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 760-, March 13 at 0127 UT, country gospel
song about Jee-zus, VG signal looping ESE/WNW, making fast SAH with WJR which
can only be heard by nulling this. I bet it`s the 10-kW ND daytimer in Arkansas.
More segués of such tunes, with 7-second pauses between them; 0141 UT ``Old-Time
Religion`` by Willie Nelson. Finally long announcement at unexpected break of
0151 UT, full unashamed ID from ``KMTL, Sherwood-Little Rock-North Little Rock,
Arkansas, United States of America`` pimping for new gospel program clients,
also streaming via http://kmtl760am.com Yes,
I said it`s a daytimer, nor do they mention any FM // wagger as an excuse for
``accidentally`` being on AM at night. FCC official night hours for NO KMTL on
760 are 0015-1215 UT in March; 0045-1145 UT in April (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, March 13 at 0118, JBA het
against KOKC 1520.0 OKC with silly Capitol Hill HS football game, no doubt the
2-megawatt, BSKSA TA beacon from Duba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0508 UT March 13
