** CHINA [non]. 13670, Nov 4 at 1431, classic rock? at S5-S9, then sounds like praise music; what`s this? 1434 French talk about Chine. Yes, of course, it`s only CRI via ALBANIA at 14-16 for West Africa.
BTW, per HFCC this overlaps an English sesquihour on KBSWR from 1330; no sign of that here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15140, Nov 3 at 2037, open carrier/dead air, or JBM? RHC still running after French finished at 2030 (during DST scheduling; this hour should now be in English ex-19-20). Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11860, Nov 3 at 2135, RHC Spanish about baseball, distorted modulation and pulse-jamming itself, in the absence of any Martí on weekends; similar distortion on weaker // 5040 at 2139. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Sunday Nov 4 at 1337, RHC with `Cuba Campesina` rustic music show one hour later than before, and no `En Contacto` DX program yet, reconfirming that as a running dog of Yanqui Imperialism, Cuba makes its off-DST change date match the gusanos in Miami, moving most of its Spanish and some of its otherlangs one real UT hour later. 13700 checked at 1436, now `En Contacto` is starting.
11760, Sunday Nov 4 at 1513, RHC still in Spanish rather than weekly Esperanto, and still Spanish at 1601, but finally Esperanto starts at 1603, one real hour later than during DST. Times and frequencies for its three Sunday airings always announced at outset, but I am not listening closely enough to tell if they have been corrected. I do confirm that the additional 15140 is also // Esperanto now; since mid-season A-18 it was expanded to accompany 11760 as only active Spanish midday frequencies, still surprising some monitors consulting old skeds and not aware of my previous reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5980, Nov 4 at 0607, Radio Martí is already running and so is the jamming. Used to start at 0700, but B-18 HFCC shows 3 different antenna segments, why? 06-07 183, 07-11 172, 11-13 190 degrees from GB; all supposedly effective already from Oct 28, not Nov 4.
11860, Sunday Nov 4 at 1526, pulse jamming vs nothing except JBA carrier from presumed Yemen [non], also victimized elsewhen Radio Martí is absent from 11860. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 11965, Nov 3 at 2048, MWV APR in English hour is also VG here ex-17640, like 13670 ex-17640 has been at 18-19. 11965 continues on air for next broadcast in Portuguese, aimed souther and weaker at 2128 check, ending at 2157, then some dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 11580, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna: see USA: WRMI
** OKLAHOMA. RF 39, Nov 4 at 1607 UT, KWTV during `Face the Nation` is running a crawler saying that Nov 27 is the deadline for rescanning to avoid losing KWTV and CBS programming. Not running it later during Joel Osteen gospel huxter and NFL when there is plenty of other clutter abottom.
But KWTV repack channel, RF 25, now displays this notice, snapped at 1640 UT November 4, but which flashes on for a few seconds at a time, otherwise NO SIGNAL, even tho meter is steady on the BAD side: http://www.w4uvh.net/KWTV25TEST1.jpg
``IF YOU HAVE RESCANNED AND ARE ABLE TO READ THIS, YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RESCANNED / DUE TO FCC CONSTRAINTS KWTV 9.1 AND 9.2 PROGRAMMING WILL BEGIN NOVEMBER 19TH ON THIS CHANNEL``
Why don`t the dates match? Will there in fact be duplication Nov 19-27 before 39 is finally QRT?
PSIP now labels RF 25 as 9-3, and 9-4 is also transmitting with same screen. On both my external antennas, the RF25 signal remains markedly weaker than RF 39, boding ill for the future of KWTV reception here in the fringe, unless they still have upgrades to complete.
Replies to my previous post about this, Nov 1/2 on the WTFDA gg:
- Trip Ericson of www.rabbitears.info says about rescanoklahoma.com -``That page looks like it was set up to encourage people to rescan when KSBI added 52-2 through 52-5 [when was that?? gh]. I've been told the simulcast on 25 is temporary as a part of testing, and will revert to the color bars in another day or two until the transition date at the end of November.``
Jim Thomas, Springfield MO: ``The idea about NOT simulcasting programming on the repack channel is a BIG JOKE. KRBK 49 Springfield Missouri just repacked to RF 22 on Wednesday of this week. The RF 22 transmitter had been on since Tuesday of last week. They turned off the RF 49 transmitter at noon on Wednesday. The entire time both channels were running live Fox programming. A color bars screen wasNEVER observed on RF 22. What is the FCC going to do about stations doing this? Nothing, IMHO. I think the FCC has bigger things to *worry* about`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690, Sunday Nov 4 at 1557, REE with silly ballgame, // 12030 about equal despite opposite direxions. Some had reported REE missing the day before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035.702, Nov 4 at 1331, VOT English news, S8/S9+10, having decided to go way-off-frequency today, lite het de 12035.0 KSDA Guam in Thai.
15350.0, Nov 4 at 1332, VOT Turkish remains on frequency, S5-S7.
11815.0, Nov 4 at 1422, VOT Turkish next frequency also remains not offset, covering JBA Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXL ISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Sat Nov 3 at 2158, VOA rock music is VG, backward from Greenville, chopped off midsong at 2159:53* without any announcement, sign off or Yankee Doodle. After publicizing it twice in advance, I completely forgot to check this hour on Friday Nov 2 for `Music Time in Africa`, hearing instead `Behaviour Night` on WBCQ 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9975, Nov 3 at 2027, ``Blue Velvet``, another Oldies channel? No, 2034 Korean announcement, so it`s VOA via THAILAND at 19-21, 38 degrees from Udorn, also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1954 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday November 4 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, fair-poor with considerable storm noise level from somewhere, about 9 minutes into show, so started circa 0318.
Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, reports: ``GERMANY, 7265, Hambuerger LokalRadio, Goehren, 1130-1200, 04-11, English, Glenn Hauser's program "World of Radio". 15321`` Next:
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [ex-2130]
0230 UT Monday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW [? not last week]
0400vUT Monday Area 51 5130v via WBCQ to WSW [ex-0300v]
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE [ex-0330]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Sunday Nov 4 at 1336, WRMI with ``Bye, Bye, Love`` Oldies music instead of dead air Friday for at least a sesquihour, instead of Radio Nigeria, Kaduna; 1358 song ``Cherish`` and Oldies-style ID, but 1400 switch to another of three dozen weekly airings of `Wavescan`! (meanwhile, 9395 is BS); 11580 off by 1500.
RN,K was still being heard on the afternoon/evening broadcast circa 2130 Nov 3 on 11580. All three are still alleged on the skedgrid, 05-09, 11-15, 20-23. As usual, VG signal here in the daytime off the back, JBA carrier at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Sunday Nov 4 at 1401, WRMI with the Japo-Mississippian gospel huxtress; 1504 still on with Blalock the Blaster, who some refer to as a Cajun. Skedgrid now shows 9955 extension on Sat/Sun is at 1500-1700; and all programming on it has shifted one UT hour later to seem to stay at the same local Eastern time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330.1v, Nov 4 at 1512, NO signal from WBCQ, all-BS-all-the-time. This had been running reliably 24/7. Not prop, as nearest other SW, 9265V WINB is quite audible. At some point, surely not yet, old 9330 programming will have to go when the 500 kW superstation start testing, if it really be only on 9330 as already registered 24h. Surely the transmitter will be frequency-agile and potentially much more effective propagationally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7365, Nov 3 at 2139, VR IS and off at 2140*. Scheduled only until 2130 for Portuguese, 234 degrees from SMG to CIRAF 46W where the only Portuguese-speaking country is Guinea-Bissau. Was there a dekaminute of IS, or additional programming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 620, the C&W station in Regina is CKRM, not CKCK --- altho it used to be CKCK until 2001y. I realised this after seeing CKRM recently reported from Europe (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1844 UT November 4
