** BRAZIL. 11854.792v, March 17 at 0250, R. Aparecida, S6-S9 Portuguese talk. I haven`t measured this one in some time, never right on 11855.000 but had recently been closer, I think (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, March 17 at 1417, again no spurs all over the 19mb detected from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. See UNIDENTIFIED 2070
** U S A. 15580, Friday March 16 at 2105, after news not via WRMI, VOA with `Afropop Worldwide` as always hostessed by Hyper Heather --- great music, tho, and great signal thanks to Greenville on this frequency only during this hour. May be benefiting from some sporadic E boost now. Enjoy it while we can, as from A-18 this frequency will be only via Botswana in our afternoons. Of course, in the skip zone from GB, that could be an improvement in eastern North America. Friday 2105-2200 is a secret airing of APWW, at least secret to Heather who never mentions it when giving the program times at endofshow. HFCC A-18 schedule shows the only possible English from GB will be 17530 at 1700-1830, which is mainly in Shona/Ndebele for `Studio 7` to Zimbabwe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1921 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 16 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.1v-CUSB, fair.
Not confirmed, Sat March 17, 1531-1600 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 6190-CUSB via UTwente SDR: not even a trace of the WOR theme at 1531, nor anything in further chex, just the two ChiComs rather weakly mixing, including language lesson at 1554. Not until March 31 will this WOR airing change to 1431 UT, but will it also revert to 7265-CUSB? HFCC A-18 shows 6190 available 24 hours, 7265 between 05 and 17. Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE [no longer // 9455]
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1922?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1922?]
Full WOR schedule via all media, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9455 // 9955, March 17 at 0252, R. Eslovaquia Internacional via WRMI on both at equal levels, good S9+10. It is interesting to observe how widely variable are the signals on these two at different times, not always equal either.
Current skedgrid shows 9455 duplicates 9955 at these hours: 02-03, 11-14, 22-23. See the 9955 sked at http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMI9955 for what programs get to be on both: At 02-03 it`s hardly anything but Praga and Bratislava in Spanish. 13-14 & 22-23 include some media shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490+v: Tnx to WBCQ being beholden to DST clox, it now makes `Behaviour Night` compete with VOA`s `Afropop Worldwide` [q.v.] during this same real hour, Friday 2100-2200 on 15580 Greenville. I try 7490 too, but reception is already too noisy, so far into the dayside. At this distance, we may not expect good reception again until November when it revert to 2200-2300 UT, and also after sunset.
It`s too bad that excellent shows like this will not be put on the 500 kW transmitter. Maybe at least profits from that enterprise will allow incremental improvements to the other outlets? Or there may not be any profits, if it`s simply in service of whatever religious broadcaster is funding it. And since that will obviously come out when it`s all done, why keep it secret now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. (7490), UT Sat March 17 from 0000, WBCQ webcast starts with almost dead air, but some talking I can`t make out, before `Allan Weiner Worldwide` ``William Tell Overture`` theme starts. This usually happens, I suppose a delay imposed by switching/cuing to Studio 9 feed from Deland of Fla. Allan starts by railing against midgets, huh?? Over to John Carver for the rest of the story:
``Listening on 5130 this evening. Theme music started about twenty seconds late. Over the theme music Allan's words for the week were such things as munchkins, midgets and dingbats. In studio 9 in FLA with Angela, Allan is outraged over a magazine article stating that midgets molested Judy Garland during the filming of the Wizard of Oz. Says it has made it impossible for him to ever enjoy watching the movie again. Blames it on the dingbats who want to besmirch everything in this country's past including the founding fathers, the civil war, TV and movie stars of today. Said they referred to the founding fathers as oversexed slave owners. He stated that the movie was a classic, an icon. Related the story about the first time he saw the movie on TV when he was young. He wonders when they're going to attack Gone With the Wind.
He announced that the station is out of money again and that donations are down. Says he has had to cancel the snow removal at the station as the guys running the plows keep raising their rates. Told Tom at the station to dig himself out as there will be no more snow plowing this year at the station.. Commented that the snowfall is fifty-eight inches over last year's snow.
In a surprise statement, he referred to Angela as his beautiful mate instead of beautiful girlfriend.
Started reading of older emails at 0027. Read messages about the death of an AM station, news that Gates is ceasing production of AM transmitters and that iHeart Media has filed for bankruptcy.
After that, Allan announced that he's been granted a permit for an FM translator for his AM station along with descriptions of the AM and FM services he offers to the local area.
Reading of current emails began at 0055. Quick prayer at 0058. No phone calls this evening and program was off the air at 0100. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, March 17 at 0559 UT, dominant KGGF KS is still going, having abandoned its ~midnight signoff a few years ago; but fails to legal ID in the 10 second hole before 0600 UT, during which tnx to its dead air, I can clearly hear legal ID from the otherwise understation: ``KTSM, El Paso, is NewsRadio 690``. NRC AM Log says ``NewsTalk 690``; I suppose they could utter either informally. Of course, a few years ago, El Pasoans on 690 and 1380 exchanged stations with KHEY ending on the less desirable upper. KTSM is 10/10 kW U4; and the NRC Pattern Book as of 7/15/2013 showed 690 night pattern going strictly to the SSW! I am checking what`s on 690 after detecting a JBA carrier on 3 x 690 = 2070; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, March 17 at 0605 UT, ``WABC Radio, New York, thanks for tuning in``, talk about Irish stuff for SP Day. Well, thanks for coming in! Not an easy catch out here 1300+ miles away from NJ, where we are at least as likely to hear night remnants of KKOB/KKOB. Has some IBOC noise from 780 WBBM, even here from its peak at 767. I switch between LSB and USB and get clearer reception on one or the other. I wonder if someother 770 is USB or LSB only? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, March 17 at 1650 UT check, it`s another SNAFU day for KLEY, Wellington KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search. March 17 from 0600, I first notice hets/carriers on 621, 711, 774, encouraging me to scan the whole band at 9-kHz offset intervals, starting at 0608:
549, 558, 567, 585, 603, 621, 639, 657, 666, 684 vs WSCR IBOC, 711, 747, 774* stronger, 783, 801, 855, 873, 882, 936(2), 1017, 1098, 1116, 1125, 1152 --- and I fall asleep, as later discovered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2070, March 17 at 0556 UT, JBA carrier barely above noise level. Seems to be real as still there with preamps off. Could be 3 x something from 690. But off at 0557 UT. Could it be a station signing off around local midnight in the MDT zone? As with most frequencies, NRC AM Log shows everything on 690 either 24 hours or daytimer.
Mexicans are a different story. IRCA Log showed one match, XERG in Monterrey NL on a 1200-0600 UT schedule (and Mont`y is still on CST of UT-6 according to timeanddate.com, unlike ``northern NL`` --- but what does that mean? NL has only a few miles of border with USA/TX, unlike Tamaulipas and Coahuila whose border towns go along with USA DST calendar; NL includes a spur highway, just upriver from Nuevo Laredo).
IRCA Log is now at least 3 years old; we keep hoping for a new edition, but apparently delayed by trying to keep up with all the XEs which have closed down their MW. It had 8 XEs on 690, as did the final Cant as of Feb 2015. Now, the WRTH 2018 lists *only 2*, XEN and XERG, but no attempt at schedule info in the by-frequency list; however, the NL04 station linked shows 12-07 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1702 UT March 17
