** ARGENTINA [non]. 7730, Monday July 3 at 0613, WRMI playing ME music, i.e.
World Music default filler, instead of RAE in Japanese, which must be UT Tue-Sat
only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9725.454, July 3
at 0602, VP signal here from R. Evangelizer, moved up after a long time circa
9724.9.
9665.870, July 3 at 0604, R. Voz Missionária, is currently way
off-frequency here, a little better signal than Evangelizar, some music audible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. NTSC channel
A2, July 3 at 1654 UT, brief lock of weak signal with large letters CANADA ---
lacking a call-letter or network ID, that`ll do to assume CIII-TV-2, in
Bancroft, Ontario again, also since 6m Es maps show contacts over that path
rather than to Sault Ste. Marie`s CHBX. There is also a 20 kHz difference
between them which could be detected on a radio with sufficient selectivity:
offset plus for CIII, minus for CHBX. Also for audio 4.500 MHz
higher.
Let`s hope these and a few other Canadian full-power TV stations
stay analog a good while longer!
If Mexico still had any analog TV, this
conclusion would still be uncertain, since there is a Mexican shoe line called
Canadá. Or, was: it seems the brand has been out of business for a long time
now:
Other
searches for some videos of commercials imply it has not existed since the
1980s, but I don`t find the exact ocaso date. Somewhat amusing was their slogan,
``México anda en Canadá``; no offense?
This bit of Es up to 55.26 MHz
encouraged me to try FM. At first I thought I had some skip on 89.5, two
stations fighting it out, but soon demoted merely to the two Okies, with
enhanced area tropo still vigent an hour before local mean noon, at 1724 UT:
Christian Satellite Network, i.e. KJCC, CoL Carnegie as in DXLD 17-24; and KWGS
Tulsa with TED Radio hour (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 6145, July 4 at 0611, this RHC English frequency is still off, while 6100
and 6060 are OK, 6000 undermodulated. Could they have decided that running four
// transmitters on the same band was excessive? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 11905, July 3 at 0611, RFI`s only English broadcast is
somewhat audible, S7 fading to S5, but during completely disposable sports news
with African accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA.
7254.924, July 3 at 0615, VON is S9+20 of dead air instead of Hausa modulation,
on favorite offset frequency. Recheck July 4 at 0609, now undermodulating, but
that`s something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD
OF RADIO 1884 monitoring: confirmed Monday July 3 at 2330 on WBCQ,
9330.25v-CUSB, fair with storm noise; also confirmed UT Tuesday July 4 at 0030
on WRMI, 7730, S9+30 vs nearby storm noise. Next:
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to
WNW, 15770 to NE
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. 7490.05, UT Tuesday July 4 at 0033, jazz; must be `From
the Isle of Music` on WBCQ. Now I`m on the inside longwire due to lightning
storm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Time was missing
for this log; added now: 5085, 0141 UT Friday June 30, WTWW-2 is on with S9+45
of music, ``¡Tequila!`` --- perhaps that explain the erratic nature of this
operation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched
at 1703 UT July 4
