** ARMENIA. 9305, Nov 3 at 1311, TWR music-box IS, S1-S5 with flutter; 1316 S Asian talk. HFCC shows 1315-1445, 300 kW, 100 degrees from ERV. But Aoki shows TWR India not until 1345-1445, variety of languages depending on day of week, quarter of hour. Must have expanded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 9455, Nov 3 at 1313, 1 kHz tone at S3-S5 with flutter, 1314, Bangladesh Betar IS, 1315 accurate! 5+1 timesignal and into listed Nepali, starting at their hourtop. Now not blocked by WRMI`s very limited usage of 9455. Next broadcast in Urdu at 1400 on 15505 isn`t making it beyond an imaginary-level JBA carrier. BB is another station absent from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, Nov 3 at 0159, R. Clube do Pará continues to be the most outstanding ZY on 60m; in a multi-station ID for their network, mostly on MW, which would be interesting to record and copy details; as usual, CODAR QRM evitable with LSB tuning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 530, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0605 UT, song in strange language mixing with EZL from Cuba, and annoying het from 531, presumably Algeria. And I presume this is multi-cultural CIAO, Brampton/Toronto. Generic program sked shows Hindi/Punjabi after local midnite. Link to full pdf sked turns out to be dated Feb 2016!
https://www.am530.ca/AM-530-Program-Schedule-February2016.pdf
and no more specific, but those languages occupied most of the 24h, with a few others in local evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9899.571, Nov 2 at 2208, dead air at S9 listening in SSB; turning up volume in AM, a trace of just-barely modulated music. HFCC shows R. Cairo now on ``9900`` in ``English`` at 2115-2245, 125 kW, 325 degrees from Abis to Europe, thus also USward beyond; and ditto French at 2000-2115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 5950, Nov 2 at 2200, WRN via WRMI opening Deutsche Welle hour in English --- thus, despite best efforts of DW to thwart SW listenership in North America, they are overridden, perhaps without even knowing it! Another time should be 07-08 UT, unconfirmed. At 2200 also subject to be overcome by Radio Martí programa diferido on certain days, and also subject to jamming but none heard now. 5950 is also among the weakest (modulation if not signal) of WRMI frequencies despite being aimed WNW almost hereward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 570, Nov 3 at 0251, ranchera music dominates, ``en BJB, tu música regional mexicana``, easily overcoming KLIF, DFW, which goes out every which way but north; i.e. XEBJB, Monterrey NL, non-direxional and looks like it will not abandon AM. ``Regional`` could mean anything, depending on what region (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 3 at 0201, NO signal from XEPPM; oh-oh. Already on standard time, should now be running until s/off circa 0600* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0242 UT, silly ballgame in English; on the E-W longwire, I wonder if it`s not WKY, until they mention HS teams Irish vs Carl Albert, the latter being an Okie. Then DF on the DX-398 confirms it`s merely WKY OKC, which is supposed to be ESPN-D in Spanish. But these guys speak English without an accent (other than Okie)! WKY doesn`t hesitate to run ads in English either, amid Spanish programming. So don`t be fooled if you hear English on 930.
I remain amused by the coincidental fact that all three call letters are the least-Spanish in the alfabet. Fortunately they are retaining the legacy call rather than replacing it. E. K. Gaylord could never have imagined how his pioneer station would wind up (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9485-9490-9495, Nov 2 at 2205, DRM noise. HFCC shows RRI, 2200-2300 in Spanish, 90 kW, 247 degrees from Tsiganeshti to CIRAF 14. Not to be confused with Cuban overrun jamming caused by Radio República (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690 // 11940, Fri Nov 2 at 2210, REE to the Americas, S9+30 and S9 resp., with Castilian discussion about sports. I keep missing the M/W/F 2300 English broadcast, inconvenient time for me, and Richard Langley confirms it signs off at 0300 before English can repeat. Virtually inaudible by then, anyway.
11685 // 12030, Fri Nov 2 at 2210, REE to ME/Africa, S1 and S6-7 resp., *separate* non-// talk from the other two frequencies, 2212 this about ``lo que suthede en África``, story about bendithión, Jesús, reporting from Guinea Ecuatorial (ex-colony of Spain), on `África Hoy` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9335, Nov 2 at 2202, Cambodian talk, 2203 VOA jingle at S9-S5, i.e. 2200-2230, 250 kW due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15600, Nov 3 at 1431, S9+10 song, 1432 talk about America, i.e. VOA Kurdish via Woofferton, 250 kW at 102 degrees. Except for Cuba 15700, 15230, one of the SSOB along with 15300 VOA Vatican relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15300, Sat Nov 3 at 1432, S9+10 VG song with heavy beat, 1435 YL mixes English and French for lesson about how ``next`` is translated by a number of different words into French depending on context, on ``Word of the Day``. This is the Sat & Sun-only VOA relay hour via VATICAN supposedly in Kirundi, as also heard with VOA-Afrique rock music last Sunday. Except for Cuba 15700 & 15230, along with 15600 via WOF, one of the SSOB via SMG`s excellent off-beam reach (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1954 monitoring: confirmed Saturday November 3 at 1239 tune-in, the 1231 on Unique Radio via WINB, 9265V, not too much wobble, S9-S6.
Barely confirmed Sat Nov 3 at new time 1531 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB via UTwente SDR: huge splash from 9490 CRI, but recognizable WOR theme with narrow 1.63 kHz bandwidth; no better toward the end at 1558. Alan Gale, NW England, reports: ``Hi Glenn, Annoyingly it faded right out after about 5 minutes, I think the skip must have gone longer, it would have been fine if it had been on at 1430. It will beinteresting to see if it does the same again next week. I actually managed to get a recording of the fade out as it happened, copy attached. Alan``.
Next airing confirmed at 1700 UT Sat Nov 3 on WRN North America webcast, ex-1600, supposedly also via WRMI 5950, a JBA carrier here. Next:
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional [nominal 0315-]
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0230 UT Monday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW [? not last week]
0400vUT Monday Area 51 5130v via WBCQ to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0205, WRMI with alternate Radio Martí programming, YL promo, not // regular RM via Greenville on 6030, 7355, 7435. 5950 has some intermittent ute-blapp burst QRM; or are they in the feed? not like jamming this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GERMANY [non]
** U S A. 15770, Nov 3, I have been meaning to recheck this WRMI frequency reactivated a few weeks ago at midday, but the skedgrid now shows all hours blank, for XMTR 9 at 44 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490.1+, Fri Nov 2 at 2130-2200, enjoyed the last half of`Behaviour Night` on WBCQ, really old music recordings; reminder that from now until early March, will be one UT hour later and one hour more of improved nightish propagation, 2200-2300 Fridays, just like allied show `Marion`s Attic` at same time Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX Listening Digest)
** U S A. (7490), Nov 3 at 00-01, I miss hearing Allan Weiner Worldwide on WBCQ, but John Carver reports:
``Tonight's show started on time this evening but there was no sign of 7490 at all so listening on 5130. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening talk about the upcoming election. It seems that Allan is still in FLA although he stated last week that he would be back in Maine at the end of the month. All of the early talk is political drivel and then morphs into a talk about religion.
First phone call is at 0025 from Freddie who chimes in with support of Allan's opinions about politics and religion albeit peppered with four letter words. Freddie calls back at 0035 to talk about Angela. Ramsey calls at 0038 with his opinion about the caravan of people making their way North to our border. Phone call at 0044 with another person talking about the caravan of people and why they should be stopped.
Allan then comments about an article in the current online edition of Spectrum Monitor about the new superstation entitled WBCQ rises from the ashes or some such. Wasn't aware that it had burned down. He then answers an email from Larry Will about Radio Sputnik. A scan of emails begins at 0058. Program was cut off in the middle of a sentence as it was last week at 0059 and a half by my clock. Didn't even get to the closing prayer. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, S9+30 and parasite JBA spur carriers 5072.1 & 5097.9, Nov 3 at 1242, WTWW-2 is on at this odd hour with ``Blue Velvet`` --- has it been classic rock all night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, Nov 3 at 1253 UT, political ad in English with Navajo accent, then canned Ace Hardware jingle and ad, from KTNN Window Rock AZ. Usual suspicions about this 50 kW failing to protect NYC when I get it over night path; sunrise here 1257; FCC sunrise for KTNN in Nov, 1345 UT (December: 1415). Also, Arizonans have noticed KTNN missing sporadically, good for DX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Nov 3 at 1255 UT, looping NW/SE, discussion of oil and water produxion, soon lapsing into creationism and plug for ICR, and more overt gospel-huxtering. DF and format make this have to be nothing but KUYO Evansville (Casper market) WY; no sign of MN, TN or LA 830s now at Enid sunrise. Trouble is, KUYO is supposed to be a 25 kW daytimer (CH: 9.2 kW) and no PSRA known. FCC shows not supposed to be on air until 1400 UT (December: 1430). God`ll get`em for that? Yeah, sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1040, Nov 3 at 1259 UT, super-hype voice-actor intones, ``live from studios in Colorado Springs, Colorado ---``, i.e. KCBR CoL Monument CO, 15 kW hip-hop daytimer. You guessed it, another cheater before official FCC November sunrise of 1345 (December: 1415). But even so, CH of only 2 kW for two hours after legal sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 620, Nov 3 at 1249 UT, C&W music loops N/S, certainly not biztalker KEXB Metroplex, but which begins to show a minute later just in time to obscure an announcement from the other. Only possibilities seem to be KMNS Sioux City IA, 1/1 kW U4 not favoring the south, supposed to be sports; and CKCK Regina SK, with double format of C&W and sports, 10/10 kW U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 702, Nov 3 at 1237 on the R75, two carriers making a 1 Hz beat, so that doesn`t fit for 2BL NSW and Magic NZ, 3 or 6 Hz apart. MWoffsets doesn`t offer something likely 1 Hz away from 2BL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 882, Nov 3 at 0230, some music detectable, presumably the 100+ kW BBC Wales synchros.
936, Nov 3 at 0230, two carriers beating, Morocco, and what? There are 3 x 20 kW Radio 5 in Spain. Much further there are hi-power ME stations. This time I have skipped a full TA carrier bandscan and honed in on some stronger ones into the R75 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 972, Nov 3 at 1242 UT, some talk modulation detectable on the DX-398, presumably the bigsig from sesquimegawatt HLCA of KBS, Korea South; 12 kHz from a local on 960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1942 UT November 3
