** ARGENTINA. 15345+v, Oct 6 at 1840, JBA carrier from RAE Argentina to the
World. Richard Langley confirms that the English hour did relaunch on this
broadcast.
11710.59, UT Friday Oct 7 at 0320, the other English hour from
RAE ATTW indeed with some talk instead of music, but too weak, S2-S4 with
flutter. 0353 recheck, maybe it was really English despite saying ``hasta
mañana`` and into interval routine of IS and IDs multilingual, W&M
alternately.
What I assume is the new IS consists of four notes:
lo-mid-lo-hi. We`ll have to hear it properly only on a webcast. Could copy one
``Argentina to the World``. 0400 timesignal accurate to a semisecond compared to
WWV a minute later. And then supposed to continue one more hour in Spanish
instead of Chinese.
Brazilians are in a much better position to hear
this. On the radioescutas list, Luiz Chaine Neto in Limeira SP opines (my
translation) the morning of October 5: ``They changed name, but their shortwaves
continue worse than ever. On 19m instead of 15345, Radio Nacional or RAE is
heard on 15525 or 15530 with very distorted audio, well-saturated. They changed
their name, but if they want to continue with SW, the station has to scrap the
old transmitters and get new ones`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Correxion: I meant to say shifted one UT hour
earlier, not later; fixed:
9580, Thu Oct 6 at 1134, RA is indeed amid
`The World`, ABC TV newsmagazine, interviewing Dan, some American pundit about
Syria, US politix, etc. Shifted from one UT hour earlier due to irrelevant DST
in NSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9535, Oct 7 at
0344, S9 open carrier/dead air from RHC, while 9710 is OK at S9+30 with music.
Cannot hear any spur carriers now on 9465 or 9605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9790, Oct 7 at 0339, CRI English relay is
S9+55 but very undermodulated. This is one of those transmitters (like some
WWCR, WTWW), which are accompanied by sharp spur/carrier peaks surrounding them,
but coming and going, varying with modulation. As I tune across this wideband
signal, I note these things on approximate frequencies, most of them with
vestiges of program modulation on them, but so close they are hetting each other
as well:
9781.55, 9781.74, 9781.95, 9782.18, 9782.37, 9784.43, 9784.89,
9785.33, 9786.05, 9786.43, 9786.61, 9787.00v, 9787.07 --- but not much on the
plus side of 9790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
** ERITREA [and
non]. 7174.89, Oct 7 at 0335, carrier detectable amid DRM noise, so VOBME must
be off-frequency from 7175.0. Despite both het and Ethiopian jamming, someham on
7175.0-LSB is attempting a QSO by calling CQ 40!
7136-7156, Oct 7 at
0337, DRM jamming at S9 against the other VOBME, carrier JBA on 7146.55 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
** ITALY. 7192-LSB, Oct 7 at 0333, I2VRN,
Robert in Cremona sounds like a DX-pedition as co-channel pileups are calling
him; works YV and numerous US stations, still going at 0404 with AC9NE. Mostly
in English with quite an accent, also Italian mixed with Spanish. Recheck at
0513, I2VRN is still there with QSO in Italian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Oct 6 at 1840 check, still AWOL is MWV. Is
anyone hearing any of their scheduled broadcasts? If not, why not? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1570, Oct 7 at 1325 UT,
Spanish should be KTUZ in Tulza, by now almost an hour after sunrise, but no,
it`s still XERF, ``la forma más clara de entender las noticias`` slogan for
`Antena Radio, Primera Edición`, the IMER flagship nationwide newscast (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Oct 7 at 1248 UT, WKY
OKC with regular hiccuping, about 48 times per minute. Affects whatever Spanish
is being modulated, so rather than audio dropouts, the transmitter itself is
doing this, and with BFO it does seem to be ICDs --- intermittent carrier
dropouts. WKY is in a sorry state (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1330 & 1450, Oct 7 at 1307, weak hets slightly
off-frequencies and varying slightly against legit 1330.0 and 1450.0 stations;
obviously the second-order spurs out of local 1390 KCRC, toward which they loop,
plus and minus ~60 kHz, beyond the much stronger first-order ones which also
carry KCRC modulation circa 1360 and 1420, only ~30 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7268-LSB, Oct 7 at 0330, this is supposed
to be the night frequency of WX4NHC for hurricane emergency info, but I hear
very little activity. Maybe I`m not staying on it long enough. Still nothing
going there at 0402 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1846 monitoring: confirmed Thursday October 6 at new time of
2130.0 on WRMI 13695, VG. Ex-2100 to accommodate now daily relay of R. Slovakia
International at 2100. To accommodate `Blues Radio International`, which used to
follow WOR Thursdays at 2130, it`s been shifted 24 hours later to Friday, thus
deleting the next WOR airing. 1846 also confirmed Thu Oct 6 at 2330 on WBCQ
9330.058-CUSB, good. Next remaining WORs:
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0800 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
[ex-0700]
Sat 1300 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND [ex-1400]
Sat 1430 HLR
7265-CUSB to SW [unheard last two weeks]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat
2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 0830
Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI
7730 to WNW
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
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. Numerous WRMI
observations:
9955, Oct 6 at 1845, Brother Scare on this WRMI frequency
unusually with some hum, as far as I can tell transmitted that way, while all
other WRMI frequencies audible 11-18 MHz are OK.
11580, Oct 6 at 2015,
WRMI with big band music; 2030 announcement I can`t make out due to ignition
noise level into the BSR-1 caradio vs this weak signal; music after 2030 is more
like Dixieland. Anyhow, this does not sound like `Media Network Plus`, which is
what shows now as an additional airing on the skedgrid for Thursday 20-21 on
11580. Nor does it sound like usual World Music filler.
11530, Oct 7 at
0320 no signal from WRMI, a missing frequency, since when on, it is always
stronger than // BS 11580, which is still JBA.
9955, Oct 7 at 0320,
hurricane warning audio from the National Hurricane Center, then Jeff White
anchoring with more hurricane info, live? Certainly a departure from normal
programming for this special event. But the stats he cites mainly about Bahamas
are from 1800 UTC, more than 9 hours ago, so maybe not live. Signal quite good,
but now fading down for 0329 canned ID, and back to normal programming of
preacher at 0330, and another at 0400.
Conveniently scheduled for UT
Friday 0315 on 9955 is `Viva Miami`. It might pay to check further `VM` blox for
more Matthew coverage. You`ll find all 18 of them per week in the new update of
DX/SWL/Media programs:
along
with all two dozen weekly airings of `Wavescan` on WRMI alone.
Meanwhile
circa 0325 Oct 7, I have checked all the other WRMI frequencies I can remember:
confirmed BS u.o.s. on: 9395 (TN), 7730, 7570, 6855, 5985 (Spanish), 5950 (+
Ethiopia?), 5850, 5765, 5015. So AWOL is: 7780. Recheck at 0511, 7780 is still
off.
9955, Oct 7 at 1330, WRMI is OFF --- quickly check all other
frequencies 5-21 MHz, and they are also off, except a JBA signal on 6855 with
Brother HyStairical --- which is obviously top priority at RMI, even above 9955
to keep on air. It appears that Hurricane Matthew did not get too close to
Okeechobee, so hope the antennas didn`t get wind damage, but as I suspected,
depending on commercial power again takes down WRMI. We await Brother Scare`s
take on God`s watery and windy wrath wiping out Walterboro?
This scenario
is confirmed via Richard Langley, From the WRMI Facebook page: "As of 0630 UTC
Friday, our electricity is out at the WRMI transmitter site in Okeechobee. We
are operating on emergency generator power, which powers our lights, air
conditioning and computers. However, all transmitters are off the air except
6855 kHz, which remains on the air on extremely low power. Winds are extremely
strong here, and we do not have an estimate of when electricity will be
restored. The center of Hurricane Matthew is northeast of us
now."
Another check of WRMI frequencies at 1422 Oct 7 still finds them
all off except 6855, but there are JBA carriers from somethings on 11825 and
15440-music. I.e.: 11825 RVA Philippines in Bengali; 15440 AWR Austria in
Urdu.
1645 recheck Oct 7: all are back on from 21675 to 6855, except
17790; and 5015 if on I can`t hear in the daytime. That lowest one would be best
to pre-empt for close-in emergency broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Fri Oct 7 at 0325, WTWW-2 is on with music,
``Alfie``, at S9+50, and with BFO I can tell the carrier is somewhat unstable;
accompanied by JBA carrier spurs on 5072.1 and 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1180, Oct 7 at 1259 UT, RCatholic-style
chanting, something new, loops SW/NE, 1300 UT ID as KLPF, 1180 AM, missed city,
but it`s Midland TX. Then unaccented English talk as Guadalupe Radio Network,
and program `GRN Live` from the North Texas studio. Says network is growing by
leaps and bounds. Guess what? Midland is not in north Texas. Also with SAH of
148/minute = 2.47 Hz, probably against Omaha. KLPF is 25000/215 watts U1 with a
PSRA of 500. NRC AM Log shows it not yet on air as of August, rather a CP to
change from 1150 which was merely 1000/148/500 U1, so QSY has now been
accomplished. It remains non-direxional day and night. October sunrise is 1245
UT, so on full day power when I heard it. FCC adds, KLPF operates as a
noncommercial educational station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Oct 7 at 1308 UT, KBXD is still a FARCE. No sign
of latest occupant now, Radio Salam Namaste, but instead: dead air interrupted
periodically by the old canned ``KBXD, 1480, Dallas`` illegal IDs by
slightly-Spanish accent, some of them with a music-beat bed, and a single PSA in
English from Texas Department of Transportation to ``drive smart`` (not smartly
--- who needs adverbs anymore?), observing braking distances to avoid crashing
sound-effects. This ``programming`` repeats couple of minutes irregularly, and
sometimes the ID overrides the tail of the PSA, still audible at 1400 UT. Is
this default computer programming gone wild?
Makes 3 Hz SAH, presumably
with KQAM Wichita, which can`t compete with this 50 kW even after sunrise. But
thanks to the dead air intervals quieting, I detect some other intriguing 1480
signals: around 1310 UT, something briefly in Spanish, likely KAVA Pueblo CO if
not KCZZ Mission KS. And some rock music from WSW/ENE? which I figured could be
Hobbs NM --- except that 1480 no longer exists. Maybe it`s remnant of KTHS in AR
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7585.20-USB, Oct 7
at 0509, colloquial Spanish 2-way, one with noise in background, perhaps aboard
a craft? Mentions Florida governor, hurricane, amid whistling (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1710 UT October 7
