DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS UPDATED:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. Regarding previous reports of RTA via FRANCE and BSKSA direct on 25m both Qur`aning in the 19 UT hour, I said,
``Until now we assumed each country/station did its own CTPs according to local timings, not simulnetworked all over AfroAsia. Are you sure Algeria was //, identical, even synchronized with the BSKSA CTP? To the heathen, they all sound rather alike. Need to compare them on two receivers if I can get them. Extended recitations, not just brief CTPs at variable times. 73 Glenn Hauser`` Then found them not synchronized.
Mark Coady, Ontario, now agrees on the ODXA iog: ``12060 FRANCE Radio Algerienne at 1936 in Arabic with Islamic Call to Prayer but with a different cantor than Saudi Arabia on 11820 – Fair Aug 3 Coady-ON``
I`m not sure Moslems (muezzins?) would appreciate being called cantors, but I`m all for reminding all those Abrahamists of their similarities, common roots so they needn`t be at each others` throats.
Ron Howard, California, explains further in the WOR iog:
``Hi Glenn, Thanks for your interesting Qur'an comments. Yes, I also believe some posters don't recognize the difference between reciting from the Qur'an vs the Call-To-Prayer (CTP), which are two distinctly different things. Based on my years of listening to both via SW, I can venture a few basic observations.
CTPs, as heard on SW, are always 3 to 4 minutes long. Is fairly easy to make out the CTP with the distinctive "Allahu akbar" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrF4IriUwdk
Is simple to check on-line for the local CTP times for the SW station heard.. I have found the SW CTPs to be within a few minutes of the locally scheduled times.
Over the years, the most common prayer that I have heard on SW is the Maghrib prayer (just after sunset). Of course this is a very productive time to catch a SW station, when it is going into darkness, so reception often works out very well. Back in 2015, had a wonderful visit to Istanbul (Turkey). It was the first city in which I heard the adhan (Islamic call-to-prayer), via loudspeakers. Very unique!
On the other hand, reciting from the Qur'an normally goes on much longer that 5+ minutes, and doesn't contain the same "Allahu akbar" as with the CTP. Ron California`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13570, August 4 at 1643, S0-S2 VP in Chinese? RFA scheduled via Saipan this hour only, so most likely the CNR1 jammer, especially since it`s not off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15250, August 4 at 1258, CNR1 jammer, timesignal and ID until 1300*. Was // 15040 vs India. 15250 is vs VOA Chinese via Philippines at 11-13, unheard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, August 4 at 0528, survey of The Cuban Five for RHC English: 6060 is the one AWOL tonight. 6000 is S9+10 and JBM; 6100 is S9 and BM, i.e.. slightly better than 6000; 6165 is S9+10/20 with sufficient mod; 5040 is S9+20 with plenty mod but a bit rough. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15140, August 4 at 1550, RHC Spanish is on, so when does it start? Not as early as 1400; maybe 1500 we hope after Oman`s nominal English hour.. Something`s always wrong (i.e. unscheduled) at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11880, August 4 at 2156, RHC is VG with jazz, not // 11760, 11840, 12000 Spanish, nor 11700 open carrier. I bet it`s the English service, which has happened before. Yes, 2158 Elena Valverde closes the English hour, 2200 IS and into French, which is when 11880 is supposed to start. How much of a fragment of English went out after 2100, when it is apparently on the feeder? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5990, August 5 at 0101, CRI Plus English news is still on, relay running late; while:
6000, August 5 at 0101, RHC English is still not on (tho I don`t think it`s the same transmitter as 5990; they have overlapped before). By 0103, only // 6165 is on but dead air. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 15445, August 4 at 0524, S5-S6 with flutter in Russian, i.e. CRI via Kashgar; weaker signal sounds same on 15665, yes, CRI Russian via Urumqi.
Also have a JBA carrier on 15170, presumably Saudi Arabia, which in previous more sunspotty summers would propagate well trans-midnite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 15180, August 4 at 0523, VP in Spanish, i.e. VOK, rather than totally deadband in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6045, August 4 at 1240, K-pop at S9 but about even with noise level. Aoki/NDXC shows Voice of Freedom with 4 x 5-hour broadcasts between 1-hour breaks: 03-08, 09-14, 15-20, 21-02, site Hwaseong. Matches WRTH 2018 but which adds alternate frequencies: 5920, 5940, 6020, 6135; ID: ``Yeogineun Jayu-eui Sori Bang-imnida``, operated by Ministry of National Defense, presumed 10 kW. It`s one of thirteen clandestine stations for DPRK, pp 514-517 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6975-USB, August 5 at 0056, VG S9+5 rock music about ``party``, apparently tonight`s theme from suspected Wolverine Radio, the OSOB; yes 0102 such an ID; 0124 again with ``Radio`` echoing into the distance. 0132 check is off. Many more logs *0030-0131* including SSTV image of kids wearing party cones:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,44878.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF channel 17, K17JN-D, a translator, is Enid`s only local TV station, which countless people are unaware of since it does not appear in local listings, nor is on cable, tho main 3ABN is somewhere on an upper tier. Six ch 17 channels of 3ABN (Adventist sect) programming have defaulted to dead sound and black screen, causing the STB to claim ``NO SIGNAL`` even tho the signal meter for each shows they are plenty Good. This is the case August 4 at 1630 UT and still at 2330 UT recheck. Well, it is the Seventh Day, after all, but that has not caused the station to vanish before. How long before some human-in-charge notice and fix it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 15629.84, August 5 at 0114, JBA carrier, presumed AWR hour in Chineses. Two nights ago on the other radio, I had it on 15629.871 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1941 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria reports: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB, August 4
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/08/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on.html
0631-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, weak to fair``
Noel Green, England, replies: ``It was also audible here from tune in around 0635. Best reception was using my 525 coupled to a loop antenna. My Icom R75 coupled to a random wire antenna only received a weak signal and a lot of local noise. There was plenty of local noise via the loop but I had a better signal - peaking to S7 at times, but also with deep fades. I found it very difficult to follow the items you read out, mainly because the signal wasn't at any time free of noise - a great shame, but this is what we SWL's have to put up with these days. We can hear signals but find it very difficult to copy them. In days past, I would have had little difficulty in copying this. I've heard and copied more distant signals of only 1 kW or so in the past, but it seems those days are over. Anyway, it was good to hear the programme on air via "Hambosh" as Lord Haw Haw called it at the start of his "news" programme. He called the country "Jarmunny", so it fits. 73 from Noel``
Next broadcast on HLR 6190-CUSB, Saturday August 4 at 1431 via UTwente SDR: weak but clear as I hear it. Reported direct by Alan Gale, UK:
``Hi Glenn, No problem with reception of the 1430 UT World of Radio 1941 broadcast on 6190 kHz via HLR today, the signal was good throughout the whole programme for a change. Alan``
Also confirmed UT Sunday August 5 at 0332 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, fair, about 13 minutes in, so started circa 0319. Next:
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1942?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1942?]
Full schedule for WOR on all outlets, not just SW; podcast linx:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, August 4 at 1416, WRMI still on in Saturday-only prolongation until 1630* per skedgrid, but content? That is not stated, maybe flexible. Today I am first hearing Eslovakia en Espanish after a song in presumed Slovak. At 1549 check, very poor signal in Blalock the Blaster, so is it a Full Gospel hour or semihour like the 2300 broadcast? But wait, 9955 is still on at next check 1635 with praise music in Spanish; 1659 WRMI IS and ID once, a bit more music until 1700*.
11580, August 4 at 2100, no signal from WRMI, nor after 2130 nor after 2200.. It was on for a few Saturdays only, including Kim`s `SW Radiogram` secretly the past two weeks at 2130. The real reason was VORW at 22-23, who apparently wanted and paid for that frequency-hour, but John announced this week that due to lack of funding, all the weekend repeats of his original Thursday show would be canceled.
BUT, Saturday August 4 at 2203, there he is on WRMI 9395 >> // 7780! The WRMI skedgrid is self-contradictory: by frequency/transmitter atop, still shows VORW at 22-23 on Saturdays; for System G below, same pair are shown with Oldies.
It`s beyond me why WRMI won`t run 11580 every summer day, propagating so much better than 5 or 7 MHz frequencies into absorption. In fact, 13 or 15 MHz would be even better.
You have to keep looking thru the WRMI sked grid http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs
to see if there have been any changes.
And the very last entry for System L in yellow, does show an update as of August 1: 9455 at 20-21, 21-22, 21-22 [sic] and 22-23 EDT on 9455 is now ``currently off air``. Seems like it was still on as I tuned around between 00 and 04 UT August 2, but anyhow, this must mean that its raison d`être, `Hal Turner` at 01-03 UT Thursdays, has expired with July. Maybe he continue at same time on WBCQ 7490v as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, August 4 at 1636, WTWW-1 is off, nor is it to be heard on any other possible frequency, 15810-, 12105, 9930, 5830 or 5085. At 2154, 9475 is still off, nor on 5830.
Finally August 5 at 0039 check, all three transmitters are back on the air, all with VG signals: 5085 // 15809.9 with ham stuff, and 5830 with SFAW. By 0059, 15809.9 has faded way down, as at 0100 it and 5085 are playing rock music. Keeps on and at 0107 canned ID, more music, not `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` whose nominal time has been 01 UT Sundays. 0110 non-Ted DJ Jeff? Hartman? ``here on WTWW, Saturday night, what`s left of it``, and Statler Bros. 0113 mentions requests from Jamaica and California are coming up, as 15809.9 has faded back up but only to S5. 0120 DJ name on ``The Big One``, sounds like Jack Lawrence, and says he is on FB. 0123 next break he says Ted has given him new hours to start earlier at 8 pm until midnight or as late as he likes (CDT = 01-05+ UT Sundays).
So what has become of TOITO? Is Bob Heil gone for good? And what about `Southern Talk in the Midnight` which has been starting at 05 UT Sundays? Then Ted ad for employment at the Little Ali-inn, Rachel NV across from Area 51. 0128 DJ says he is on 5085, but apparently does not know about 15810, which yes, is still running, low. Says his name again, and this time I am pretty sure it`s Jeff Lawrence (but no idea how either really be spelt); at 0131 he thinx it`s ``coming up on 25 minutes past the hour``, huh?? Seems same voice we have been hearing doing the super-hyped canned IDs.
Aha, the website has axually been updated to answer some questions:
http://wtww.us/pages/schedule.php
``LIVE THEATER ORGAN FROM THE OZARKS WITH BOB HEIL SATURDAY 6:30 PM CENTRAL ON 5085 [2330 UT Saturday]
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE SATURDAY 7 PM CENTRAL ON 5085 [00 UT Sunday]
THE RAIN REPORT WITH HAP HOLLY SATURDAY AT APROX 7:30 PM CENTRAL ON 5085 [0030 UT Sunday}
THE BOSS RADIO DREAM TEAM
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH TED RANDALL - MONDAY - WEDNESDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 [01-05 UT Tue - Thu [including Wed??]
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH STEVE TAYLOR - THURSDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 [01-05 UT Fri]
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH GRANT HUDSON - FRIDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 [01-05 UT Sat]
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH JEFF LAURENCE - SATURDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 [01-05 UT Sun]
THE GREATEST HITS OF ALL TIME - WITH BIG JIM EDWARDS - SUNDAY 8 PM - 12 AM CENTRAL ON 5085 [01-05 UT Mon]``
But no mention of `Southern Talk in the Midnight`. WTWW still listed:
http://www.tennhills-productions.com/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265V, August 4 at 1637, WINB with gospel huxter in English, carrier still very wobbly, and also at 2202 recheck. Despite publicity that Unique Radio, Australia, would broadcast via WINB today at 11-13 UT, not checked here, but per Richard Langley, and Tim Gaynor himself via Bruce Churchill, it was a no-show. Next Saturday? Langley says:
``Nothing apparently wrong with the transmitter. They signed on just before 1330 UT with ID and anthem and the "Apostolic Witness Radio Broadcast" -- the usual Saturday start of broadcasting. I guess someone forgot to modify the playout software or come in early to air the program manually``
WINB said Unique Radio would also be tested every Friday in August at 1100-1200 on 15670 DRM; I have seen no reports of anyone hearing that on August 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12160, Saturday August 4 at 1646, WWCR with `Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories` as she belts hymns with own piano accompaniment. I find her simplicity and sincerity not off-putting like so many gospel-huxters, but wish she would broaden her songbook a bit into secular.
AND, at 1700 into `The Talking Machine Show` with ancient recordings mostly musical. Glad it`s back, still on the sked, since it was pre-empted by some gospel huxter last week. Unless it were purely a mistake, here`s probably what happened. The g.h. needed a make-good, since for some reason his paid-for broadcast did not come off. So instead of a refund, WWCR blew away one of their expendable produxions to give him a free semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-6935-6945, August 4 at 2211, early check for pirates instead finds DRMish noise across 20 kHz, but not a sharp cutoff. Still there at 0057, 0132. Unthink it`s anything local, and certainly unusual. Anyone else hearing it? No AM/SSB pirates fighting in this range. Could some pirate be experimenting with broadband DRM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0345 UT August 5
