** ALBANIA. 9855-, July 26 at 0127-0134+ no signal from R. Tirana, so presumed
it isn`t going to show at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BRAZIL. 11780, July 26 at 0131 check, RNA is not putting out any audible spurs
circa 100/200 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
11760, July 26 at 1434, RHC with `Sonido Cubano` music show starting song ``Para
Nosotros Siempre Es 26`` commemorating the anniversary of the Revolution which
would turn Cuba from a ruthless capitalist oligarchy into a ruthless communist
dictatorship; how sad. This very strong signal continues to be very
distorted/overmodulated. I thought they might clean it up for the holiday, ha2.
Likewise // 15370, while // 17730 signal is VP. At 1500, 15370 is already off,
while 11760 is making frequency announcement and continues, as the usual single
all-day frequency. I thought they might have kept some others on today too.
There may yet be some special programming, anti-American rally at the Plaza,
etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315, July 26 at
0133, R. Cairo with usual humblob, but no side spur this time. However, Wolfgang
Büschel reported ``9315even EGY Radio Cairo terrible audio signal, and at least
14 x 50 Hertz apart distance, string parade like garden fence visible either
sideband, S=8-9 strength at 0304 UT July 26`` -- 14 X 50 = 700 Hz or only 0.7
kHz either side of fundamental, a.k.a. humblob (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1390 (and spurs circa 1360 & 1420), local KCRC
Enid published this small display ad in the July 26 Enid News & Eagle:
``We`re changing the face of sports radio in Enid! AUGUST 1 on 1390 KCRC!`` ---
I suppose that mean they are quitting ESPN Radio for another of the
proliferating sports networx. I may not notice as I avoid listening to it like
the plague (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 29,
KTUZ ``30-1`` Telemundo station, July 26 at 0515 UT is in freeze-frame not only
on the air but via Suddenlink Cable 21: a buxom but unexposed woman at a table
across from a man, with the hashtag lower right: #SinSenosSíHayParaíso --- I
keep an eye on it rechecking and rechecking and it`s *still* frozen for almost
another hour, when at 0607 UT it fitfully updates to some scheduled infomercial
before freezing again.
A little research shows that`s the title of a new
novela which premiered last week, produced in Colombia as a sequel to ``Sin
Senos No Hay Paraíso``. Altho I`ve never axually watched it, I had found that an
intriguing title, as literally translated means ``Without Breasts There Is No
Paradise``, and now ``Without Breasts There Really Is Paradise``. Wiki and other
sources do not explain what the title means, where it comes from, but the
background to the novel does not seem to be about breasts at all, let alone
mastectomy or augmentation. Perhaps it`s an obvious allusion for someone within
the Latin American culture; if so, what?
Altho the primary translation
of ``seno`` is ``breast`` as far as I am concerned, it seems the word is really
extremely ambiguous, according to my Random House dixionary: ``SENO m. hollow;
hole; concavity; bosom, breast; chest; uterus, womb; any internal cavity of the
body; bay, cove; lap (of a woman); interior (of anything), heart; gulf; math:
sine; anat: sinus``. So perhaps the title is a play on some of these
(translated) meanings? I`m always amused by how such feminine anatomy comes out
masculine in Spanish: Viva el machismo!
As for KTUZ freezing for over an
hour, the show is scheduled at 8-9 pm and again at 11 pm-midnight CDT = 04-05
UT, so the freeze probably occurred sometime during the latter hour. Same KTUZ
RF 29 transmitter also radiates Univisión as ``36-1`` and Estrella TV as
``48-1``, both of which remained unscathed. So was it an input problem back at
the studio? A heavy storm was hitting OKC at this time.
We also earlier
during Colbert inexplicably lost cable HD access to KWTV 109 on one set, also SD
KWTV 9 on another, which supposedly reach Enid headend by fibre-optic, not OTA;
while KWTV continued without interruption on RF 39 thru antenna, which is how I
prefer to watch it unless there be some breakup here in the DTV fringe area from
OKC (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, July 26 at
0100, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff at 0101:59*, which is 25.5 seconds
later than last check 4 nights ago, July 22 until 0101:33.5*, or 6-3/8 seconds
later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF
RADIO 1835 monitoring: confirmed Monday July 25 after 2330 on WBCQ,
9329.92-CUSB, poor at S8. Next:
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
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. 7490-, UT Tuesday July 26 at 0102, tuning in WBCQ
exactly one week after I heard an unscheduled airing of `Church of the Subgenius
Hour of Slack` --- yes, here it is again, ``subgenius`` soon mentioned,
interview with someone from Devo, mention Garden City and WLIW(?); 0104 rules of
Bob, let there be slack, etc., etc. But cut at 0115 to AW`s plug for new
programming on WBCQ, canned The Planet ID & IS, 0116:35 join Brother Scare
in progress (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505vv,
July 26 at 0122, WRNO is still off again tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, July 26 at 1431, no signal from KVOH, not even a
JBA carrier. Supposedly *1400, but propagation is unfavorable; recheck at 1610
it is on and fairly audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13559.6-CW, July 26 at 0117, pipper at the rate of
80/minute, but a couple times two pips were linked instead of a break between
them. Competing with wideband CODAR pulses at a different rate. Previously had
this or a similar pipper close to 13562. This in lieu of any regular IDable
beacons on the ISM Part 15 Band, tho I did once have a near-imagination-level
copy of K6FRC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
despatched at 1631 UT July 26
