** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 30 at 0127, R. Tirana is S4 with humroar, but not as loud
as usual; unfortunately the IS cannot be heard at all until barely at 0129 under
the hum. Usually if anything is audible, it`s the IS. Still no program, just
humroar at 0156 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180,
Aug 30 at 0144, no signal from RNA, but 11780 was active a few minutes earlier
as I 25m bandscanned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
9580, Aug 30 at 0131, CRI English relay achieves only bits of distorted audio
breaking thru the dead air. Wiggle that patchcord! No such problem on 9570
Albanian relay which is S9+20, huge compared to R. Tirana at the other site,
S4.
6165, Aug 30 at 0145, RHC English is suptorted, while the only //,
6000 is OK; WTP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT.
9339-9350, Aug 30 at 0134, weak pulsing probably from the 9315.0 R. Cairo
transmitter which upon its own frequency is S5, much louder motorboating humroar
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, Aug 29 at 1207,
``información de Sinaloa``, 6:07 timecheck, opening newscast, i.e. XEORO,
Guasave, 1000/500 watts per IRCA Mexican Log 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 kHz LSB, Aug 29 at 1156 UT, I`m
getting a ham mixing with PN beacon from Ponca City --- but I hear the ham only
on the R75 preamp 2, i.e. max gain where I normally run it, but known to be
risking overload especially on this part of the band. Goes away at preamp 1 or
no preamp. Then at 1209 UT I tune thru the 160m band and find the fundamental
for the same ham is 1905-LSB, an N5 discussing lawnmowers. Guess what the
difference between 1905 and 515 is? 1390! I.e. my strongest local KCRC, but NO
modulation from it whatsoever is audible on 515. Yet must be some kind of
internal mixing involving KCRC (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTEING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: confirmed Monday August
29 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.045v-CUSB, fair. Next:
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [pre-empted last two weeks]
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. 7570, Aug 29 at 0542, WRMI is not BSing, but instead
World Music, songs in Portuguese, Spanish, Middle Eastern, French, and not //
music on 7730 & 7780 which are presumably still TOM, but why not on 7570?
Not until 0600 sharp does 7570 switch to Brother Hystairical (Glenn Hauser, KO,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Aug 30 at 0137, WTWW-3 is S9+35 of
dead air! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7520, Aug 30
at 0139, three ``shit``s in a row, unbleeped so it`s OK to swear like that on
WWCR-4, during `A Call to Decision` with Butch Paugh per sked; then a bunch of
Trump clips seemingly to demonstrate his contradicting himself. Gee, I would
have guessed the ``decision`` would be about salvation, rather than politix. O
yeah, for the far-right religionists, there is no difference (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Aug 29 at 1141 UT, Spanish call-in
classifieds, for sale items with an AC 830 phone, i.e. the region around San
Antonio, so this is KSAH Universal City, which per new NRC AM Log is 10000/890
watts U4, 24 h // KSAH-FM 104.1, ``Ranchero 104.1``. But official sunrise in Aug
is not until 1200 UT (September: 1215 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Aug 30 at 0158 UT, dominant signal is talk about
football, drops off at 0200 UT before any ID, or ``good night to our listeners
to the east``, no doubt KKOB Albuquerque NM, as 0200 UT is official FCC sunset
in August (September: 0115 UT). KKOB is reliable in switching night/day antennas
of 50/50 kW North Valley transmitter and balloon snatcher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1360, Aug 30 at 0153 UT, YL opening
`Messianic Perspective` program with Dr Gary Hedrick; odd time, but maybe it`s
only a 5-minuter. I think we can rule out Amarillo or El Dorado KS, as EWTN
would not be running such an unCatholic program. No 1360 stations in OK,
adjacent, or second-adjacent states on program website listings, so I look for
likelies in the NRC Pattern Book and AM Log: A good prospect is KHNC, Johnstown
CO, 10/1 kW U4, talk/religion. State-by-state search on program site for
affiliates doesn`t find any 1360s
and
in Colorado, KRKS 990 is the only one listed.
However, program guide of
KHNC
shows:
6:00pm
mst Ahavat Torah (R)
7:00pm mst Alex Jones (R)
So they do run Messianic
stuff, and this one could have been crammed into an end-of-hour break during
Alex. 10 kW ND day pattern lasts in August until 0200 UT (September: -0115 UT)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search
August 29 at 1140 UT: JBA on 774 from NW, so NHK; very weak on 882; at 1146 west
on 702 so Australia or NZ, and 666. But something on 594 seems to peak N/S ---
that can`t be right. Those were on the DX-398. Then at 1151 I find whether I can
hear any of them on the R75 with E-W longwire: yes on 774, 702. Today`s Enid
sunrise: 1201 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 0350 UT August 30
