** SPAIN. 17855, May 24 at 2200, no signal from REE to North America; off? Nothing else on band either, but no one else is even trying. Token English is sufficiently audible on ME channel 15520 off the back, S7-S3, better than 11940 for S America at S6 fading to S3. Alison Hughes hosts today: first about how ex-Spanish colony Western Sahara figures historically into the migrant problem at Ceuta & Melilla on the other side of Morocco; 2216 next topic Eurovision Song Contest of no interest to me (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830, May 24 at 2159, VOT IS in clear with no RTTY, S9/S6, but soon peaking S9+5/15 with news in English led by latest Turk COVID stats.
7275, May 25 at 0300, no signal direct from VOT English to us; while // 6165 for ME if on is totally blocked by RHC as long as it stay here instead of 6145. BUT:
7275, May 25 at 0305 via UTwente, VOT is certainly on and S9/+15; // 6165 also audible somewhat stronger than mixer RHC adding up to S7-S8; both 6165s of course far outside target areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 660, May 24 at 0601 UT, song in unknown language at ToH, no news, suspect KTNN: Loops E/W with Dallas - Belch Springs` 700 watts nulled, sounds like more than that; yes: into Dineh YL talk mixing in some English words including ``truck driver``, and ``The Voice of the Navaho Nation``, 0604 UT into chanting and drumming. Always a treat to hear this first-nations station which altho 50/50 kW is supposed to protect NYC at night, likely ND now or at least out of whack. Too much signal to be leaking around the cardioid edges? NRC Pattern Book shows not a cardioid but circle tangent west. But FCC AM Query:
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/7ec7d326bd5e49bba284c1b6063ebeb7-2089.pdf
does show a cardioid with deepest nulls at 60 and 110 degrees, but also an itty-bitty lobe in the middle of the `null` at 85 degrees (5 degree increments only calculated). The question is whether there be any signal circa Hays KS on the direct path to WFAN; or 110 degrees for Dallas? Another version of night pattern: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KTNN&service=AM&h=N Daytime pattern is ND, so not so unusual to hear it after official SR/before official SS, which are in May: 1215/0215 UT; June: 1200/0230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 690, May 24 at 0557 UT, S9/+10 of dead air from KGGF Coffeyville KS, for at least two minutes; 0559 detailed local weather but probably recorded hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1030, May 24 at 0556 UT, `Red Eye Radio` mentioned on a frequency where I haven`t noticed it before, but NRC AM Log shows the only 1030 RER affiliate is KFAY, Farmington AR, so likely as one of my closests. A strange one: altho CoL is Farmington, why? FAY obviously stands for nearby Fayetteville, where its address is (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0502 UT May 25
