** ALBANIA. 7475-, Nov 11 at 0054, JBA carrier slightly on the low side,
presumably R. Tirana about to finish Albanian hour allegedly to North America
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6105.34, Nov 11 at
0111, S8 signal in Spanish, sounds like enthusiastic fútbol coverage, including
a gooooooooal at 0116, frequent breaks for ads. Why isn`t there a Spanish word
for such an important concept?? Some splatter from 6115 WWCR, so LSB tuning
helps. Surely it`s R. Panamericana, La Paz, in one of its rare reactivations for
significant silly ballgames. I last logged it March 4 at 0153 on 6105.33, and
Bob Wilkner reported this:
``6105.3, Radio Panamericana, La Paz seems
active occasionally when relaying Bolivian sports events. in the local evenings
2300+ (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony
2010XA, circa March 26, cumbredx yg via DXLD)``
Can`t be sure on this
weak signal but maybe a tournament or championship involving Brasil and
Argentina, as I soon find more game coverage, maybe same one, on 6134.8 RSC, R.
Rebelde, and RNA, see BRAZIL and CUBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Nov 11 at 0121, Spanish game coverage, could
even be // 6105.34 Panamericana? Goooooals are yelled a few seconds apart, so
likely same football game if not same coverage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Nov 11 at 0128, RNA with coverage of
Brasil/Argentina game altho also mentions Venezuela; as already hearing via
BOLIVIA 6105.34 & 6134.8, Cuba 5025 & 1180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6010.11, Nov 11 at 0106, Spanish talk
about oración, and frequency is wobbling as I listen with BFO, i.e. The Voice of
Thy Conscience.
5910.0, Nov 11 at 0107, sibling station Alcaraván Radio
with tropical music, well under Romania in Romanian, and making fast SAH with
it, i.e. maybe only 15-20 Hz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Nov 11 at 0117, R. Rebelde is covering
fútbol/futebol, Argentina v Brasil; not // but suspect same champ game as heard
first on Bolivia 6105.33. Also het audible on low side of 5025-, no doubt R.
Quillabamba, Perú. RR // 1180 at 0137, but interestingly, 5025 is running 3
words ahead of 1180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA
[non]. 6075, Nov 11 at 0110, JBA carrier instead of Habana, which HFCC shows as
CRI English at 00-02, 100 kW, 174 degrees from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, 4980, 4850,
4500, Nov 11 at 0131, JBA carriers, checking the others once hearing 5060, as
these are the reactivated winter morning domestic frequencies of Xinjiang PBS,
Urumqi, each in a different language. It would be too great a coincidence for
this quartet to be anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. 1650, November 11 at 0138 UT, I am
finally hearing the ND beacon ``SAC``, barely against Spanish from Denver and
other broadcast stuff. I copy the ID at 12 times per minute, or every 5 seconds.
Tried passband tuning and narrow bandwidth and notching, but most audible just
with normal bandwidth on the NRD-545.
This was first reported by Tim
Tromp in Michigan on October 28. Unlisted, led to lots of speculation in a very
long thread via DXLD 16-44. SAC is the test ID used by a Beaumont TX company
which makes beacons, Southern Avionics Company, but which denied they were
transmitting on 1650. I suspect it is one of their beacons which hasn`t been
reprogrammed with ID of the new owner, likely from an offshore oil platform in
the Gulf of Mexico. But the broadcast X-band ought to be off-limits to these.
Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, reported via WORLD OF RADIO 1850 and DXLD:
``Coordinated bearings taken by myself, David Potter and Gerry Bishop --
all from separate locations between coastal central, NW and north
central
Florida -- would appear to put this north of Pt. St Joe to
west of Panama
City`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Nov 11 at
0104, JBA carrier from R. Chaski with increased splash from 5985 WRMIBS, instead
of Cuban jamming for a change, until autocutoff at 0104:31*, which is 19 seconds
later than last check 3 nights ago, Nov 8 until 0104:12*, averaging 6.33 seconds
per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 7335,
Nov 11 at 0055, scheduled RRI Spanish frequency remains unoccupied, instead
colliding with Vietnam also in Spanish via WHRI on 7315, but this time VOV is
way atop, Commies vs ex-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 6993, November 11 at 0100, S7 open carrier, about time
I logged it again for the record since April 16, as often audible evenings;
explained in DXLD 16-16, it`s WH2XWF, an experimental 164-watt transmitter with
several locations in Florida, to study ionospheric disturbances (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1851 monitoring:
confirmed Thursday November 10 at 2130, on WRMI 13695, S9+35. The UT Fri Nov 11
at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB not confirmed on the R75 or PL880 at 0035, despite
9265 WINB being sufficient; and 7490 WBCQ with BSR is too. At 0051 I try the
NRD-545, and now I can barely detect me on WBCQ, 9329.87v-CUSB, and reduced
carrier is audibly varying as I try to measure it. Next:
Fri 0830 Unique
Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0730 HLR
6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0800 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1200 Unique
Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM
ND
Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun
0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon
0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [but frequency absent
lately]
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Wed
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ
7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Full updated schedule
including satellite, webcasts, AM & FM:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, Nov 11 at 0053, this
WRMI frequency is still off, while 7780 remains on.
5950, Nov 11 at
0055, this WRMI is still very strong, S9+45 peaks, like 5850, which is closing
R. Slovakia International in English and // 11580 at only S9+25; on 5950,
something in Spanish talking about North Korea, cut off incomplete at 0059.5 for
ID, 0100 switch to Brother Scare on both. The 0030 UT Friday on 5950 is
scheduled as Antena DX (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
15700-15720, Nov 10 at 2117, WHRIBS is splattering out to at least 10 kHz above
and below 15710, bothering much weaker 15720 Radio New Zealand International;
much like ex-17765 did even worse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050, Nov 10 at 2124, WEWN Spanish with praise music
in English! Maybe default filler; very strong but not splattering, not // much
weaker 15610 English talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1540, re the ESPN Deportes station I heard, KZMP
University Park TX has supposedly flipped to ranchera. Trying again Nov 11 at
0145 UT, there`s a discussion in Spanish, maybe religious, 0149 UT some Tex-Mex
music which may or may not be same station, but now likely KEDA San Antonio.
Parked here, I happen to notice that there is no longer a het from the third
1540 Texan, KGBC Galveston, which for months was audibly off frequency on the
high side. Wayne Heinen, Aurora Colorado, of NRC AM Log
replies:
```Glenn, Can’t find anything on ESPN Deportes on 1540 but the
fact that KZMP has dropped it is reiterated here, from Radio
Insight:
``Deportes Media has lost its LMAs of three of the four stations
it operates with ESPN Deportes Radio programming. The company lost its LMA of
Liberman Broadcasting’s 1540 KZMP University Park/Dallas in September and that
station flipped to a simulcast of "La Ranchera 106.7" KZZA. Deportes Media had
moved its San Francisco LMA from 860 KTRB to iHeartMedia’s 910 KKSF in July, but
the format there is now being operated by iHeart directly. In Miami, Actualidad
Radio’s 990 WMYM Miami has replaced Deportes Media’s LMA of Multicultural
Broadcasting’s 1210 WNMA Miami Springs FL as the local affiliate. Deportes Media
continues to operate Entravision’s 1180 KGOL Humble/Houston TX. The websites for
the other three stationssimply state the stations are off the air and a Dallas
phone number for their accounting department. Deportes Media filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy in December 2015 and agreed to merge with CornerWorld Corporation
in March. The merger had to close by September 30, 2016 or would automatically
terminate. No filing or proof of closing can be found``
Also I logged
KZMP with that programing and slogan 11/7 in overnight taping. 73, Wayne, N0POH,
DM79op``` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched
at 0627 UT November 11
