** BRAZIL. 11780, Feb 24 at 0250 check, RNA/RNB is gone again after a brief
reactivation Feb 22. 6180 is still gone, never came back, AFAIK. Yet weakling
ZYs on 25m are detectable, 11764.6, 11855, 11925, 11934.8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4894.93, Feb 24 at 0216, S8 music vs CODAR;
seems romantic pop, not S Asian, and too late for Kurseong, India. But evening
bandscans have not been hitting anything here. Must be irregular Brazilian. Or
maybe it signs off early, but now an hour later with the end of DST in
Brasil.
Just music, no announcements to 0224. Recheck 0230, now
Brazuguese-intonation announcement, more music. 0257 another try can make out
talk, but too weak and too much CODAR, which can`t be notched.
Aoki
shows R. Baré and R. Novo Tempo, but Baré has been gone for years. An official
roster of ZY SW stations from last September includes neither, nothing on 4895,
nor Novo Tempo on any frequency. WRTH 2017 shows only Novo Tempo, 5 kW from
Campo Grande MS, ZYR200.
The DSWCI Tropical Bands Monitor compiled this
January shows R Novo Tempo, the only 4895 Brasilian, was reported running 24h in
seven of the twelve months in 2016, including December. Probably referring to
this from Dave Valko:
``4894.92 BRAZIL?? R. Novo Tempo?? Found a signal
here at 0856.
Nowhere near enough for audio, but did find R. Novo Tempo on
the exact
same freq using Artur Nogueiras SDR.hu web rx. Nice ID at 0901.
(Valko
24 Dec.)``.
Note the close match to my frequency offset. This
station is religious, but maybe low-key, like Alcaraván. Without being able to
make out the lyrix, could not be sure the ``romantic`` sounding songs were not
really about being in love with Jesus. Here`s info about the relatively new
station and its target audience, not admitting to being sporadic on onda
tropical:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910.25, Feb 24
at 0234, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras has distanced itself further from
Romania, but hardly enough. Even with signal level rivaling fading RRI, quite a
wavering het. However, I can notch that out and narrow the bandwidth. No ACI
problem from 5915 Zambia with its tone at 0240. Still unpleasant for music,
especially when RRI is also musical. Recheck at 0300, now HJDH in the clear with
RRI finished, and remeasured at 5910.23, as it does drift, S9 with another brief
interruption by ``running water`` ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 7530, Feb 24 at 0245, JBA talk from algo. Aoki shows
Deewa Radio in Pashto via IBB at 0100-0400. Until & unless MOI gets the
Radio Kuwait SW transmitters refurbished, we`ll have to settle for USG stuff
relayed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 92.1-FM, Feb
23 at 2048 UT check, KAMG-LP Enid is still dead air. I`ve been checking it maybe
once a day at random times since first noted silence on Feb 18. (During tropo
openings, something overrides it, probably Woodward or Tulsa.) Owned by
Maranatha with Spanish religion satellite relay. 68 watts from site I visited on
the NW edge of Enid near Carrier & Oakwood, when it debuted as a real local
LPFM station from a church on the east side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 48, Feb 24 at 0120 UT, I see that KOCY-LP is
visible again in analog with Estrella TV, now that it`s after sundown with a
little help from the troposphere, after a very warm day before a plunge tonight
to near freezing. Then it`s gone again, as the signal is cutting off the air and
on, like in the morning, e.g. 0120-0121*, *0122-0123*; then, mostly off. So if
we do NOT see it in Enid, it could be because it is really off the air, rather
than not propagating. I wonder how long this has been going on? Surely a
turn-off for OTA NTSC viewers in OKC area, if any.
RF 42, KBZC-LD, Feb 24
at 0123 UT, another OKC low-power, is also in again, and stronger than this
morning, stays locked in for a while with all seven channels. I try Country on
42-4, with headphones, and indeed the music is stereo but with some IADs. This
does not seem to correspond to video breakup so suspect it`s transmitted that
way. 42-1 is indeed American Sports Network, with BKB; and 42-2 Tuff TV has an
icehockey game. Faded below threshold decoding circa 0200 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWV outages: it seems there were some on
Feb 21 & 22, and more on an additional day beyond what was publicized, but
nowhere near 8 hours max. Website has a roster of outages going way back, the
latest being:
``WWV and WWVH Broadcast Outages
The
tables below show the date and times when NIST Radio Stations WWV and WWVH were
off the air. During normal operation the signals are available 24 hours per day,
7 days a week. The tables list all outages since January 1, 2000 that lasted for
more than 5 minutes.
WWV Broadcast Outages [MJD = Mean? Julian
Day]
Date MJD Began Ended (UTC) Frequency
02-23-2017 57807
1439 1626 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 MHz
02-22-2017 57806 1936 2156 2.5, 5,
10, 15, 20, 25 MHz
02-21-2017 57805 1608 1848 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25
MHz
09-15-2014 [. . .]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1866 monitoring: confirmed Thursday February 23 at 2130 on
WRMI 11580, S9. Also confirmed at 0056 UT Fri Feb 24 the 0030 airing on WBCQ
9329.8v-CUSB but JBA. Next:
Fri 2230 WRMI 11580 to NE, 6855 to WNW, 5950 to
S
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat
1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to
SW
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
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Tue
2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 6855 to WNW
Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 6855 to WNW
Wed
1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. (7490), UT Fri Feb 24 at 0030, WBCQ webcast with
`Furthermore 29-54`, Ramsey show which had been airing as repeat filler a
semihour earlier, but here instead of `Broad Spectrum Radio`. No recent info on
BSR website about WBCQ scheduling, but James Branum had told me he would no
longer be weekly on WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4070.3, Feb at 0228, CW beacon GT is JBA, and I do
mean JBA! Had to listen over a minute to be sure I was copying GT rather than
the other one recently heard, ZN. Still no idea whence, so time to guess: how
about Grand Teton? Or could refer to golfing while tangoing, or vice versa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0507 UT
February 24
