** CUBA. 9640, Feb 17 at 0351, S9 of dead air, no doubt RHC, much stronger than modulated 9535 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, Feb 17 at 1457 check, RHC again with no spurs all over the 19m band. What`s right? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15140, Feb 17 at 1918, no signal from RHC when supposed to be in Arabic. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Is on a sesquihour later during jazz show in English service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Feb 18 at 0117, RHC in Kreyol with crackle on the modulation.. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Feb 17 at 1926 UT, another station vying in the weekend dead-air sweepstakes, 10 kW wasted by KETU Catoosa OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1210, Feb 17 at 1924 UT, weak presumed KGYN with silly basketball game Alabama vs Kentucky, has heavy SAH but no other audio audible, of 172/minute = 2.87 Hz. The other one must be some skywave at midday. Closest likely in the MW offsets reference,
http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=1210
not including KOKK or the RGV station is KHAT Laramie WY 11 years ago:
1210 1210.0001 USA KGYN (Guymon, OK) 2017-09-08
1210 1210.002 USA KHAT (Laramie, WY) 2007-03-03
i.e. would be 1.9 Hz apart, but hardly contemporary info (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Feb 17 at 1921 UT, KZLS Enid with dead air, or just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA [non]. 15420, Sat Feb 17 at 1855, African language talk, music until cut off at 1859*. It`s the weekly 1-hour broadcast of Radio Itahuka, based in Washington DC, transmitted via MADAGASCAR, surely in Kinyarwanda, not Kirundi as still listed by NDXC/Aoki. 320 degrees also easily serves Oklahoma beyond with 250 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9330.16v-CUSB, Feb 17 at 1910, TOM via WBCQ with ponderous Bible reading, but strange background noise or modulation breakup during pauses; 20 seconds ahead of // 9980 WWCR which has the same problem, so originates in Walterboro (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 417 kHz, Feb 17 at 0643, two beacons mixing, but one ID is IY, which is Charles City, Iowa, just east of Mason City in the north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9510, Feb 17 at 0350 as I tune in, ``VOA Somali`` ID in passing, averaging S8. HFCC shows it`s via VATICAN, 250 kW at 146 degrees, 0330-0400 (following Arabic on same at 0300-0330) --- violating Separation of Church & State, IBB`s unholy alliance with one particular religion, opening it up to demands from countless non-Catholic gospel huxters for access to its transmitters. Of course this is SMG, which does such a good job of broadcasting in the opposite direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1917 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday February 17 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330.30v-CUSB, very poor faded down from S9 at 0010.
Via UTwente SDR, 6190-CUSB, Saturday February 17 I start checking at 1509: just a jumble of languages, presumably Vietnamese and Mongolian from the ChiComs. 1511 fades up English with German? accent, long discussion of Islamic sects, Shia vs Sunni; 1528 Keith outro Media Network Plus as a documentary from the BBC Arabic service. 1530 Hamburger Lokalradio canned ID still claiming to be on 7265!
1531 opening WOR 1917, more or less atop the CCI, and still at 1557. Alan Gale, UK, also reports: ``Hi Glenn, No problem with reception on 6190 kHz at 1530 today, and even though the distant station was audible in the background, I can confirm that World of Radio was dominant and fully readable throughout. 73 for now, Alan``. (Alan also contributed a crude joke to The Farty KBC.)
WOR 1917 also confirmed Sat Feb 17 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair, still cutting away from expanded BS broadcasts; and Blalock the Blaster also still heard on 9330 at 2315 and UT Sun Feb 18 at 0110 chex. Meanwhile at 2315, BS on 5130 only and JP on 7490. (By 0200, WBCQ: 7490 signing off; 9330 poor with BS; no signal on 5130 instead of Area 51 as also noted by John Carver..)
WOR 1917 also confirmed the Sat Feb 17 2300 on WRMI 7780, good at 2315 check. Also confirmed UT Sunday February 18 a 0200 on WRMI 7780, reading S9 to S9+10 but fading and not solid (while BS on 7730 is S9+30).
Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 17 at 0426 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, at the JG2XA item about 10 minutes in, so started circa 0416. Next:
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1918?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW [or #1918?]
Full WOR schedule via all media, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330.301v-CUSB, Feb 17 at 0010, WBCQ S9 with TOM moan & groan hour including glossolalia; 0030 faded down at switch to WORLD OF RADIO. TOM // 5129.83-AM. By 0349, BS again audible poorly still on 9330.3.
7490.003-AM, Feb 17 at 0012, WBCQ with discussion of climate change. Over to John H. Carver, Jr., for report on `Allan Weiner Worldwide` from 0100; also on 7490:
``Show started about thirty seconds late after a patch of almost dead air. Could hear something there but couldn't tell what it was. Listening on 5130 this evening with a steady S9. Allan and Angela in the studio in FLA. Opening talk about the school shooting in Fla. Allan came out in favor of guns and the militia and stated that they were not the problem.
Early phone call at 0113 from Dave in Indiana with more talk about the shooting and what the basic problem is. Allan is upset that nothing was done by the police to stop the shooter even though they had been warned in advance but they had no problem with raiding Brother Stair's compound with hundreds of troopers over some little thing that happened forty years ago.
Allan went into a rant and sort of melted down this evening. Stated he wants to do away with the Democratic party. Then stated that he wanted to fire everyone in Congress and start over again. Touched on the sexual harassment thing again and the country's rush to paint everyone with the same brush. Said the biggest problem in this country was that people had turned away from God.
Read an email from Ross on the Cape about Columbine with a statement by one of the parents who lost a child in that shooting. Phone call from Paul Lambert in Germany at 0136 about what Merkel was doing in Germany. Paul mentioned he had heard about the recent school shooting and asked if anyone knew if any of the shooters at shootings in the country were Democrats or members of the NRA.
After the phone call, back to talk of this country turning away from God. Again stating that this was responsible for the shootings in this country. Says it's not guns as people who have turned away from God would be using spears and knives if there were no guns. He also cited Satanic influences might be part of the problem.
Announced that Brother Stair was back almost full time on 9330 and 5130. Stated that the shows have been very interesting since Brother Stair's return..
Reading of emails began at 0154 beginning with the Free Radio Report which took up the rest of the hour. Show was off the air at 0200. Brother Stair started immediately after and Brother Stair was singing!
John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Sat Feb 17 at 2215, WBCQ is on early with rock music; I thought it might be European Music Radio tribute to the late Tom Taylor, now playing online, but not //. I keep listening to EMR which lasts until 2315, but another quick check of 7490 at 2233 has a long announcement for Radio New Music, referencing http://radionewmusic.com --- this is Randy`s première on WBCQ, and only on WBCQ apparently, but not clear if it`s to be every week. 22-23 Sat (along with 21-22 Sun) had been open hours for various special, or OTO bookings on WBCQ (including the final EMR last fall that Tom Taylor produced).
``RadioNewMusic:
Real "Over-The-Airwaves" Radio Broadcast - A New Music Discovery Show Featuring Original Music Only - By The Original Artists - NO Covers! Indie Artists - Bands - Rock - Pop - Country - Folk - Alternative - Americana R&B - Soul - Blues - Gospel - Worldbeat - Acoustic and Electric!
WBCQ Morse Code tower [illustration underlies]
Inaugural Broadcast - Saturday Feb 17, 2018
5-6:00 PM Eastern US Time 2200-2300 GMT / UT
WBCQ 50,000 Watts 7490 kHz Shortwave``
Absolutely no advance publicity reached us about this, but it is already on the WBCQ 7490 program schedule. Worth further checking with less competition; stream only when also on air. That makes three good music shows Fri/Sat/Sun 22-23 on 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, Feb 17 at 1909, WTWW-1 is S9+40 of just barely modulation during QSO show; 9930 & 12105 are off as almost always.
5085, Feb 18 at 0159, no show for WTWW-2, no `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx`. Not audible on 9930 either, while WTWW-1 is still on 9475, poor signal, not yet to 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Feb 17 at 1854 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS still SNAFU, same as at least the past few days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1630, Feb 17 at 1921 UT, gospel music, as adjacent local 1640 KZLS is dead air or JBM --- obviously KKGM Fort Worth TX, skywave this early less than an hour after local mean noon. But why hear I nothing out of 1700 KKLF Richardson?
1440, Feb 17 at 1922 UT, more skywave from The Metroplex besides 1630: good in Spanish IDs, ``Su emisora favorita, Radio Luz, 1630 AM y 102.5 FM``; switch to English: ``Radio Luz, where it`s at`` with same frequencies; and SS ID again, then quoting Pres. Calvin Coolidge! It`s KTNO, University Park, 50 kW day power, and the 102.5 is merely K273BJ per NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1125-, Feb 18 at 0157, cursory TA MW carrier scan finds one considerably off-frequency-low here. MW Offsets list shows the only fit would be Libya, 1124.961 as of Aug 2015, but also varied up to 1126 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0652 UT February 18
