** ALASKA [non]. 89.3, June 5 at 1910 UT I happen to tune nearby KIEL Loyal OK,
as Ron Myers is talking about the ``Mission Alaska`` project of Radio 74
Internationale, trying to raise money. I only hear the last part of it: To put a
50 kW AM station on the air before the CP expires next January. As if Alaskans
have no gospel huxters on radio already. Needs to get work done on the antenna
site this summer before everything freezes; but still raising funds of $150K to
purchase the land. See http://www.radio74.net so I research
further:
It`s for 50 kW on 1200 kHz from Chugiak AK. More about it
here:
which
talks about this to bring Adventist/3ABN programming to Alaska.
Yet this
page, https://www.radio74.net/about-us
says ``RADIO 74
INTERNATIONALE is an independent Christian ministry and is not sponsored,
regulated or controlled by any denomination or religious
organization.``
More, if it will ever load:
NRC AM Log shows 1200 as ``K#8
Chugiak AK U1 50000/9600 new not on air ``. FCC AM Query says licensee is Steve
King, and there was correspondence about this dating back to May of 2010. Is 74
trying to acquire the CP from King, or is he the front for 74 all along?
Where is Chugiak? 32 km NE of downtown Anchorage per Wikipedia. On a US
map including Okie station, own website also shows they have two other stations
in Alaska. The affiliate list can be found under the LISTEN drop-down, which is
not a link to webcasts. The AK stations are on FM in Juneau and North Pole
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11580, Monday June
5 at 1320, RAE French relay via WRMI is in DX program, so repeat of Friday show;
content and clips seem the same as heard in English version. 1346 recheck, now
the DX program is re-starting as the French semihour is aired twice in
succession. 1400 into new Spanish relay time, previewing DX program by Arnaldo
Slaen again contained in this Monday hour; no mention of this transmission they
may not be aware of yet in Bs As, just 22-23 on 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17875, June 5 at 2347, song at S1 --- so my
local noise problem must have abated. Nothing anywhen on 17875 per HFCC, but
Aoki reminds us this is the temporary May 17-June 30 frequency for the CNR10
program, at 2300-1300 UT (except 06-09 Tuesday siesta), 100 kW, 15 degrees from
Dongfang, Hainan site, so a good azimuth onward for us, and a well-chosen
opening. WRTH shows CNR10 is ``Voice of Old Age`` or ``Senior Citizen Radio``
originally on MW 1053 in Beijing, but on SW backup while that is off for
maintenance. Glad to know millions of Chineniors must have SW
radios!
Weak as it is, 17875 is the SSOB, with nothing but weaker JBA
carriers on 17780 (also a temp Dongfang sub, for CNR16) and 17560 (VOA Chinese
via Tinang, so likely a CNR1 jammer).
15570, June 5 at 2350, Chinese at
S3, i.e. RFA via TINIAN, and I think there were some English inserts, so maybe
really this instead of CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, June 5 at 2343, raucous pirate music
at S8, stops abruptly at 2346* I leave a receiver on this, and it resumes at
2351:30, mostly percussion and chatter; 2352 brief announcement missed; 2356
unexpected brief CW and off again. A few other logs of this as unID:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 5 at 2333, JJBA
carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 2334:11.5. Last catch was six days
ago, May 30 until 2333:34.5*, so this is 37 seconds later, averaging 6.2 seconds
later per noctem, well in line with the previous recession rate when sign- off
was after 0100. Extremely weak signal fading in and out of the noise level makes
it hard to be as precise as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395 // 9495, Monday June 5 at 1314, VOA News until
1315 back to WRMI ID and Oldies. So I missed it again, presumably 5 minutes from
1310, but start times vary widely. A good way to get some credible American news
on WRMI without cost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A
[and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday June 4 at 0333 on
WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about CHU, so ~8 minutes into show which would have started
circa 0325. Also confirmed at 1030 UT June 4 on HLR 9485-CUSB, Germany, by Ivo
as weak in Bulgaria. Also confirmed Sunday June 4 at 2330 on WBCQ,
9330.08v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed here UT Monday June 5 starting at 0302 on
Area 51 webcast and presumably WBCQ 5129.82-AM. Also confirmed UT Monday June 5
at 0345 the 0330 airing on WRMI 9955. First checked webcast which has changed
URL for the 9955 stream to:
Also confirmed Monday June 5
at 2341, the 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330.12v-CUSB, fair to good. Also confirmed UT
Tuesday June 6 after 0030 on the WRMI System D webcast at its new URL (formerly
System B for 9955) of
which during this hour is
feeding the 7730 transmitter. This also applies to other light-blue blox on
11580, 15770, 5850, depending on the time, but not all the time on any of them.
Next WORs:
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315 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. 12105 & 9930
& 9475 & 5830, June 4 at 1840, all three WTWWs are OFF (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810, June 5 at 0535, WEWN Spanish is
OFF; while 11520 English is on as usual (and propagating in summer nightmiddle
better than in winter). 12050, June 5 at 1427, however, WEWN Spanish is on.
Altho only two frequencies at any one time, one Spanish, one English, I was told
that different transmitters are used for hi and low bands.
12050, June 5
at 2355, WEWN Spanish QSY announcement, off at 2355.5, and 5810 comes up about
0.5 minute later, much stronger now with Salve Regina. Even if two different
transmitters, takes a while to make the antenna switch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17815, June 5 at 1924, WHRI with gospel
huxter musing that he will still have SW ``if they take internet away from us``.
Not BS, and not // other TOM stations, but TOM was scheduled this hour M-F on
21610, which this frequency replaced a few weeks ago, altho the WHR schedule
still shows 21.610!
Might have
been TOM anyway but separate programming from the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1630, June 4 at 0611 UT, KKGM Fort Worth TX
(street address in Dallas; QSL address in Lexington KY per NRC AM Log), is still
diffusing dead air, atop KCJJ Iowa making a SAH of about 7 Hz with it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. UT June 6 the 6-m maps are
showing Es DX paths into Oklahoma and MUFs into FM, so I start DXing from the
porch:
88.1, at 0040 UT, interview about terrorism, soon evident as part
of `The World`, and RDS shows: WRJA___, but also has some CCI besides the Okies.
At 0058, still/again with same stable RDS ID as The World is outroducing. This
is it per WTFDA FM Database: [WRJA-FM, 88.1, SUMTER SC, 98.0 kW H&V, 305 m
HAAT, 33-52-52, 80-16-14, 8276, WRJA, PS} South Carolina ETV, Public, SOUTH
CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO, NEWS/TALK] 1617 km/1005 st mi
90.1, at 0047, Es
talk CCI to KUCO OK
92.9, at 0048, singing ID as ``Eagle 92.9``, and RDS
as _EAGLE__ This is: [WEGX, 92.9, DILLON SC, 100.0 kW H&V, 492.9 m HAAT,
34-22-04, 79-19-21, 5FEB, TODAY'S COUNTRY WEGX EAGLE 92.9, - Country, EAGLE 92.9
COUNTRY] 1691 km/1051 st mi
93.1, at 0050, ``Hot 95-5 and 93-1`` non-ID
twice, CCI from baseball. It`s: [WCHZ-FM, //W238AU, 93.1, WARRENTON GA, 4.1 kW
H&V, 122.0 m HAAT, 33-29-59, 82-37-09, 5ABF, HOT 95.5/93.1, CLASSIC HIP-HOP]
1427 km/887 st mi
97.1, at 0100, algo by Es briefly squeezed against
local 96.9
94.1, at 0102, Es rock, vs over-modulation spikes from local
KLGB-LP 94.3, also ruining 94.5, now playing nothing but raucous gospel
rock
97.9, at 0104, rock briefly vs 98.1 OKC; 0107 different music
CCI
But MUF drops out next few minutes and I quit for now. Finishing
writing this report at 0300, I see the MUF is again heavy into FM (Glenn Hauser,
Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 11700, June 4 at 1439, S
Asian songs and talk around S7. HFCC shows Vatican Radio daily 1430 in Hindi via
RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES, followed by 1450 Tamil, 1510 Malayalam, and Saturdays
only 1530-1600 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN
[non]. 11860, June 5 at 2358, ME music at S2, presumably Republic of Yemen
Radio, which has not had a usable signal at any hour here since last winter.
Keeps going with same thru 0000 hourtop without timesignal or announcement.
Altho the Saudis aren`t saying, common assumption that most of this 24-hour
service is from a spare transmitter at Jeddah, but there are audio overlaps
indicating a site switch at certain times, such as just before 1800. So what is
the other one? Nothing definite has come out in the two or three years this has
been in service since the Yemeni government was ousted and the civil war
enraged.
Another info source not often cited is ITU Monitoring. Large
pdf files are posted and updated with rough reports in frequency order, so I
consult the current April+ file, and the one before that. Here is what they show
for this 11860.000 (always cited as exact, so I am removing the frequency field
to save space here). The first and second entries are the monitoring site
country and location. Then day/month, UT, field strength dB, ID if any (always
misspelling Sana`a), country if any, type of transmission BC for broadcast
omitted here, occupied bandwidth, mode of transmission, bearing from the
transmitter at the receive site, and accuracy of the bearing (A being best).
Coordinates (presumed rather than confirmed? Quite a variety of them, I haven`t
traced; perhaps someone else will). Final number if any refers to a column which
may be questionable, and comments if any. It`s all much clearer in the original
table, once consulting the key to table at the top. I`ve condensed, not leaving
blank spaces for fields unfilled.
Note the first entry, from Baldock, UK,
which is slightly NE of London. The 122-degree azimuth from Baldock, crosses
thru the middle of Yemen itself, only along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia,
which includes Jeddah, and certainly not Riyadh or the UAE, but this is the only
entry guessing(?) that the site at the time monitored was UAE. An earlier entry
below is the only one that specifies Jeddah transmitter site. I`m afraid a lot
of this info is speculation: Another one from France says EGYpt! And one from
Russia says ERItrea --- of course these could possibly be totally different
stations, but also on 11860.
April-June
2017, updated 30 May:
G BALDOCK 0604 1650 R. SANNA UAE A3E 122 B
F RAMBOUILLET 1904 0600 2400 23.0 ARS 10K0E A3E 046 E 23 24 N 26 D 3
F
RAMBOUILLET 2004 0000 0600 23.0 ARS 10K0E A3E 046 E 23 24 N 26 D 3
G
BALDOCK 0101 1656 R. SANNA UAE A3E 122 B
G BALDOCK 2202
0340 RADIO SANNA ARS A3E 107 C JEDDAH TX SITE
INS MSPA-SAMARINDA 0603 0246
0249 28.8 RADIO SANNA ARS 6K37E A3E 295 A
INS MSPA-SAMARINDA 0603 1240 1245
44.9 RADIO SANNA ARS 7K80E A3E 293 A
F RAMBOUILLET 1403 0900 2320 33.0
EGY 10K0E A3E
029 E 10 30 N 28 D
3
F RAMBOUILLET 1503 0330 0700 30.0 10K0E A3E 108 A 9
RUS
NOVOSIBIRSK 1603 0210 0240 26.0 ARS 2K70 A3E
039 E 10 21 N 32 242 A
RUS
SAMARA 1603 0500 0510 76.0 ARS 2K95 A3E
045 E 30 27 N 53 189 B
RUS
SMOLENSK 1603 0605 0705 48.0 ARS 1K32 A3E
046 E 53 24 N 36 154 B
RUS
BELGOROD 1603 0650 0656 36.1 ARS 9K20 A3E 160 A
RUS ARKHANGELSK 1603
0705 0709 55.9 Radio Sanna ARS BC 2K88 A3E
046 E 03 24 N 53 172 B
RUS
MOROZOVSK 1603 0715 0730 62.0 ARS 6K00 A3E
046 E 35 26 N 50 168 C
RUS
BELGOROD 1603 1246 1250 28.8 ERI 7K80 A3E 176 A
I ROMA 3003
0738 0743 40.0 10K0 A3E 110 B
There could be lots of other gems about
unIDs or incomplete IDs in the ITU files if one sift thru them (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1820, June 4 at 0613, JBA AM
carrier with trace of music. Not overload as still there with R75 preamps 1 and
2 switched off. Could be 2 x 910 harmonic from algo. OR, 2780 minus 960, i.e.
mix of my two locals, 2 x 1390 KCRC minus KGWA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9517.4-USB, June 6 at 0004, Spanish INTRUDERS 2-way
at S3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at
0316 UT June 6
