** ALBANIA [and non]. 9855, April 10 at 0126, S1 JBA carrier, too weak even to
be certain it`s the R. Tirana IS, but it better be as nothing else is supposed
to be on here. Propagation is degraded, but the other Albanian site with CRI
English relay, on 9570, is much better at S5-7, altho still poor (and 9580 Cuba
relay is off). Yet Turkey direct is usable on 9770, Spanish at S7-S6 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180v, April 10 at 0132, RNA
is gone again after a few days of reactivity, having just attained normality
last night. Meanwhile 11780.1v remains VG at S9+25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9580, April 10 at 0127, no signal from CRI
English relay still supposed to be here at 0100-0200 in A-16.
9550,
April 10 at 0130, here`s RHC in Spanish, S9+15, stronger than // 9535 S7, about
Bolivia and Che; yawn. In B-15, 9550 was in morning only, and Arnie told Wolfie
that it would no longer be used in A-16, nor does 9550 figure in his tentative
schedule, morning or night!
It`s to go into effect April 10 or 11, so
look for even more confusion than usual the next few days. We`re in a very
special transitional period.
6060, April 10 at 0134, another anomaly: RHC
in ENGLISH instead of Spanish, so // 6000 and 6165 rather than 6075. 6060 is
S9+20, 6000 is S9+40 and 6165 is S9+25 but all are undermodulated in talk, less
so when music starts. Hard to believe, but 6165 gets some splash from 6160 CBC!
And you never know if or when 6060 will show up in English instead of Spanish
before 0500, but it happens frequently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, April 9 at 1800 and 1828 chex, NO signal from MWV,
or African Pathways Radio. It`s been AWOL for more than a week, still waiting
for replacement of some failed part in their new Continental transmitter(s).
Yeah, why did both of them fail at the same time? I assume it would have been
propagating if on, as it was last week, altho conditions are not so good: Spain
17855 only ~S7 with deportes, and really nothing else on 16m from Africa to
compare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. On
the NRD-545 with ALA-330, checking out some daytime groundwave LW A2/MCW
beacons, reference the latest MARE Log Summary:
362, April 9 at 1822 UT, ORP
--- I don`t think I miscopied it, but looks like this must be OWP in Sand
Springs OK near Tulsa; miskeyed?
365, April 9 at 1823 UT, HQG: Hugoton KS
Municipal airport (200 miles = 321 km, not bad. How much power?)
350, April 9
at 1824 UT, RG: Will Rogers World Airport, OKC
341, April 9 at 1824 UT, EI:
Enid OK!
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210,
April 9 at 1818 UT, KGYN Guymon with C&W music is still reading S3 on
daytime groundwave into the Wellbrook and NRD-545. Circa 0100 UT April 10, it`s
quite strong with more of same by skywave, still presumably day 10 kW day
pattern until official April sunset of 0115 UT (May: 0145 UT; June, July: 0200
UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, April 9 at
1257 UT, open carrier/dead air, so is it KOKB Blackwell or something atop it?
Finally make out some weak modulation same as on sibling 1020 KOKP Perry, about
the joys of shooting turkeys (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PERU. 4955, April 10 at 0120, JBA carrier where usually there is none;
presumably R. Cultural Amauta, only known station here, on later than usual
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9620, April 9 at
0509, French good at S9-S7, about Romanian culture, and plugging a vacation
contest. This is RRI, 285 degrees from Galbeni for France; and should improve
slightly here at 0530 English aimed 300 degrees toward UK. 9620 also preceded by
an hour of Romanian at 0400 toward France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 10 at 0114:47.5, prélude joined in
progress after open carrier from a semiminute earlier; 2+1 mis-timesignal ends
at 0115:17.5, SLBC ID and sign-on in Hindi(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Sat April 9
at 2230 on WBCQ 9330-CUSB, poor in noise level; also confirmed at 0330 UT Sun
April 10 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, 13 minutes in, so started about 0317. Next:
Sun
0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [new]
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 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new]
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. 15440, April 9 at 1804, this WRMIBS is absent, but TOM
redundantly audible still on 13695, 11825, 11580, 11565, 9955, and a weak signal
on 17790 would be that too. 21675 with RAN remains a JBA carrier these days
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050, April 9 at 1807,
open carrier/dead air at S9 from WEWN, while // Spanish 13830 is also OC/DA at
S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 9 at
2255, WWRB again playing the Radio RSA interval signal prior to sign-on. Recheck
at 0117 April 10, now it`s S9+50 as Dave is pitching for business since format
change last week, any kind of programming now welcome including Islamic, phone
931-728-6087 for ``115,000 watts of Freedom of Speech``; then some
quintessential disco music which is enough to splatter upon 5040 RHC unless it`s
tuned with LSB. Rerecheck at 0146, now big band music, ``I`ll Be Seeing You``.
How about program schedules? No direct link on the website, but if you
dig for it,
From
there click on Global One for 5050:
and see this embedded pdf, which I am
quite sure is way out of date, still including e.g. WORLD OF RADIO Thursday at
11:30 pm ET
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, April 9 at 0059 and
0147, WRNO is still absent. Apparently has been off all month, as Walt Salmaniw
says it was off for last few days as of April 3. I`ve yet to encounter any
programming to be missed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST
** U S A.
1370, April 9 at 1222 UT, two ``1370 KGNO`` IDs before and after a commercial,
then C&W music, 1226 UT fading into QRM. At last! I am hearing KGNO Dodge
City KS, after months of trying, day, night and in-between like now just after
sunrise. This 5000/230 watt U1 = non direxional day and night, should not be so
difficult, only 151 miles = 243 km away, if it`s really been on the air with
licensed facilities.
Next check April 10 at 0056 UT tune-in, I
immediately get another ``1370 KGNO`` ID and C&W music! Yet I will never
classify KGNO as a pest after so much abstinence (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, April 9 at 1237 UT while trying to ID
the ``Ke Buena`` here (see UNIDENTIFIED), I get a bit of South Asian vocal
music, which is surely the Asian-format listed station in Pasadena TX, KLVL,
5000/500 watts U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480,
April 10 at 0140 UT, dominant signal here is classic rock, ``Bee-Bop-Baby``,
then 0141 UT, ``Wonderful K-Box in Dallas``, more tunes, heavy SAH at times of 4
or 5 Hz; 0144 UT, ``Go-go sound of wonderful K-Box in Dallas``, so reactivated
KBXD is still stunting thus. I don`t find anything recent about KBXD on
radiodiscussions or radioinsight. Radio-locator still has it as gospel music,
way outdated. Earlier, April 9 at 1229-1245 UT during my ``Ke Buena`` log, see
UNIDENTIFIED, I was wondering if that could have been another format change for
KBXD. No, but why wasn`t I getting the present KBXD then? Now its major lobe to
the NW is enough to take over 1480, but it sure sounds like 50 kW instead of
nite power of 1.9 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
1520, April 9 at 1250 UT, half a sesquihour after sunrise, classic rock is still
overcoming KOKC talk, pro-Celtic sea salt, anti-poisonous GM food, so KYND
Cypress (Houston) TX is still QRMing KOKC from way out of its market, making
very slow 26/minute SAH = 0.43 Hz. A few degrees apart, I can clear KOKC by
tight nulling of KYND, but that also lessens KOKC signal which must still be on
~half the power of KYND, self-defeating; 1254 UT fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, April 9 at 1229 UT, Spanish ID for
``1290 y 1480, Ke Buena``, and I think preceded by an FM in the 102s. Again at
1245 UT, same non-ID by SHVA (super-hype voice actor). I`m getting this only by
nulling the gardening show from KQAM Wichita which is NNE, but doesn`t mean this
is directly ESE/WNW. Makes slow SAH just over 1 Hz, 64 fades per minute.
Searching for a matchup of Ke Buenas on 1290 & 1480 is unproductive,
but it seems that 1480 KAVA Pueblo CO 1000/107 watts U3 is `Qué Bueno` per
latest NRC AM Log, yet radio-locator say it`s I-25 Talk Radio (i.e. en inglés).
And websearching leads to 1480 KCZZ Mission KS 1000/500 U4 as a Ke Buena, but
not at all certain that is current, as NRC Log has it as a Radio Luz, and so
does radio-locator now. KC is a bit clockwise from Wichita, so somewhat
separable.
No 1290s at all in Colorado, nor in the KC KS/MO area. Very
few SS on 1290 in NRC AM Log, none in adjacent or second-adjacent states except
far KRGE Weslaco TX, then a religious Radio Vida. At this late hour after
sunrise, I think all this must be nearby Unitedstatesian rather than Mexican ---
and no Ke/Que Buenas listed on 1480 there.
Of course you never know by
listening whether they are spelling it Qué in proper Spanish, or Ke, so putting
an accent on that would be nonsensical. By now maybe more format changes
unlisted yet. Any ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA
for other 1480s
This report dispatched at 0444 UT April 10