** BRAZIL. 6180, June 27 at 0145, still NO signal from RNA/RNB here; still far
too much signal on 11780 and defective: June 27 at 11808-11825, 11735-11755,
11704-11717 approx., filthy crackling spur ranges, and the fundamental is also
splattering out to 11767-11795. Can`t detect even a carrier from Argentina on
11710.7v, maybe off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA
[non?]. JBA carrier on 21550, talk? 0604 June 25, scheduled for IBB TINIAN [not
Tinang as in original report] in Tibetan from 0600, so either that or CNR1
jamming. Meanwhile I was not getting anything on 21690, the usual only
nightmiddle signal on 13m, RFA Tibetan/Chinese. Propagation is still subnormal
following the major geomagnetic storm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910+, June 26 at 0556, Alcaraván Radio is back
after a few weeks off, awaiting parts to fix the transmitter; Colombian music,
poor signal, very slightly on the hi side. Also June 27 at 0151, very poor in
music; 0234, tropical music, still poor signal in noise level. (Blockage by
NHK/France is at 03-05) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT.
13850, June 26 at 0551, R. Cairo, Arabic service fair with ME music, good
modulation, and no spurs; amazing!
9965, June 27 at 0223, R. Cairo is
good signal, undermodulated Arabic music, but big het. This is not the whine we
used to get, apparently two transmitters, one about 9964.8, the other close to
9965.0. Not clear which one is trying to modulate
9315, June 27 at 0231,
R. Cairo, music, just barely modulated in alleged English sesquihour (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 11660, June 26 at 0553, poor
signal with ME music, something new? Not noticed before. Maybe that`s because
per Aoki it`s M/W/F only, 0530-0600, Bible Voice in Arabic via Nauen (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, June 27 at 0228, Greek
music, good signal but with big whine overriding music, lower pitch than Cairo`s
on 9965. This whine seems equally on both sides of 9935; see Wolfgang Büschel`s
description of it. Don`t Avlis know that this transmitter has very serious
problems? // 9420 is loud and clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, June 26 at 0603, Chihuahua state anthem is
playing, i.e. XEACB, La Lupe, Ciudad Delicias, 3/1 kW per Cantú (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710-, June 26 at 0602, quite a het on
low side, certainly caused by XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which at last
check 72 hours earlier was on-frequency. You`ll recall we discovered in FCC
Query data that XEDP has two different transmitter sites a considerable distance
apart, ergo two different transmitters, one of which is off-frequency (it would
be inconvenient to move it back and forth every few days). At 0604 I can make
out the Mexican NA playing. Why don`t KCMO and KGNC raise a ruckus about this
international incident? Ha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MEXICO. 1060, June 27 at 0203, tune-in to partial ID ``La Poderosa, 93.9, la
estación de todos``, ranchera music. There are only two or three Mexicans on
1060, and it`s not XEEP, so likely the new XERDO in Reynosa. WTFDA and Cantú
show two Poderosas on 93.9, one in León, the other in the XERDO area, Reynosa
per Cantú, XHRAW but with power ironically missing; per WTFDA it`s in Ciudad
Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas with a paltry 2.6 kW on FM which is about right for a
station needing to claim to be ``powerful``. But neither connects XHRAW with
XHRDO. Cantú had XERDO as La Radio in yet another border city, Matamoros, 7/2.5
kW. Could there be a USSS station on 1060 with a 93.9 FM? Doubtful; none known
to NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300,
June 27 at 0156, romantic music by Spanish soprano, seems SW, so I hope this
early it`s something other than XEP, like some USSS station; 0158 CCI grows, but
0159 ``Radio Trece, presentó Radio México Noticias, tercera edición, Radio
México, XEP, 1,300, desde Grupo Radio México, en Avenida`` [street address], in
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to the WSW. And then at 0200:00 sharp, drastic power
cut but I can still barely hear it. Listed as 38 kW day, 200 watts night. They
must have misautomated (antique: played the wrong cart) as if this were the end
of a newscast rather than romx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TVDX the morning of June 26, but not into FM, all
times UT:
1417 on 2 & 3, CCI
1419 on 3, animation, Televisa-5
net bug in LR; I used to assume the most likely source would be XHBQ, Zacatecas
and maybe still is, but never get a local ID from it. 1426 the 5 icon morphs,
spins into some other symbol(s) and back to 5
1435 on 2, horoscope with
large astrological symbols, one by one, YL talking nonsense
1438 on 2,
Televisa-5 net bug
1438 on 2, audio not from net-5, same as on channel 3
at the moment, but a second behind it
1522 on 2, animation, Televisa-5
bug LR
1527 on 2, guy in a sports(?) uniform, labeled Miguel Herrera;
crawler too, but no bug visible; CCI
1630 on 2, CCI fades out around
now
1652 on 2, infomercial for female hair STYLER, phone
01-800-120-6202
UT June 27:
0247 on 2, tune-in to find a MOVER
MEXICO Gobierno de la República PSA about some business that ``cree en México``.
Maybe like Nestlé I heard previously; followed by ad for elektra; acid
indigestion; 0249 to drama(?) and fadeout. No bugs visible during the
ads
0309 on 2, Azteca-7 net bug in UR, soon gone
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid: altho I haven`t kept logs,
I think I have checked just about every night for a week now as of June 26
between 0500 and 0505 UT, never to find a Fox-hole of dead air any more, sob. So
Fox ``news`` is whole again. There could still be screwups at other times, but
this was so reliable --- once dead air started at 0500, I knew it would stay
dead until cut back on at 0505 by when I would have the volume turned down again
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, June 26 at
1945 UT on caradio, KEOR/KETU is on with usual regional Mexican music, but by
2020 recheck it`s off. Until now it had been reliably on whenever checked in
daytime for a couple weeks. But NEVER heard with any announcements, no
commercials, no IDs, no ``La Picuda`` network plugs as was previously the case.
I have not yet managed the dedication to listen to this straight thru for a full
hour, like :30 to :30 to confirm there are never any announcements.
Next
check on caradio, 0118 UT June 27 it`s on; by 0132 starting to get SAH from
KMOX; back at shack, I keep monitoring from 0144 UT as official FCC sunset in
Catoosa is supposed to be 0145 UT in June and July (and FCC still thinks it`s
KETU, unlike the station when last heard IDing as KEOR). Keeps on playing music
with a segué, but chopped off the air mid-tune at 0148:35* (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Something strange has happened with
OETA signals. Ever since it reverted to RF channel 13 following the temporary
DTV transition on RF 32 (which was blocked in Enid by KXOK!), I have not been
able to get a usable signal, first with my C-490 all-channel antenna and then
with another one for channel 7 up, permanently aimed toward OKC. All the OKC UHF
full-power stations come thru fine on either, and usually KOCO-7, but not OETA
--- continual breakups in video and audio. I can get 13.1 OETA, 13.2 OKLA via
cable, but the other two channels are available only over the air.
Yet
when I try again on the 7+ antenna, UT Thursday June 25 at 0300, now they are in
solid, not breaking up --- well, almost --- occasional IADs, but bearable if not
during music. This means I can axually watch and hear one of the few programs on
13.3 Create, which looks appealing on the schedule (mismanaged that evening
showing identical programming on 13.1 and 13.2), `Music Voyager` ---
Afro-Colombian Grooves, from Cartagena.
What has changed? Trees all the
way across Enid and surely all the way to OKC are at their DTV-signal-absorbing
leafiest, and my 7+ antenna, tho higher than the C-490, is not very high atop
the roof. I have done nothing at this end to change anything, so has OETA
incrementally increased their ERP in this direxion? They sure need to, or give
us a translator, here on the fringe of coverage from OKC. Reception has
continued to be OK the following 48 hours, and hope it keeps up. Or maybe
something in the area causing multipath self-QRM has moved? But on the C-490,
OETA is still breaking up. The other subchannel, 13.4, is PBS KIDS, useless as
far as I am concerned. And 13.1 is full of kidvid all day weekdays (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330, June 27 at 0146,
WBCQ is off; what happened to Good Friends Radio Network? Did it cut to Allan
Weiner Worldwide at 0000 UT Sat? That`s over now, anyway, with 7490 in BS and
5110- JBA in BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105,
June 27 at 0218, dead air from WTWW-3; also 9475 WTWW-1 is dead air except for
crackles, and no WTWW-2 on 5085 or 9930; by 0237, 12105 and 5085 are off, 5830
is on with modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
7505.3, June 27 at 0232, still no signal from WRNO. Ron Howard says it was last
heard May 22, so gone for over a month now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, June 27 at 0150 UT, some classic rock, soon
fading into CCI, looping as best I can make it, ESE/WSW, which unfits for KJIM
Sherman TX nostalgia; and everydaytimer east of here should be off by now. Maybe
someone is still on, like WTNE in Trenton TN, 250/6 watts, but 24 hour gospel
per NRC AM Log. At least KPGM Pawhuska OK seems to be off after sunset now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1590, June 27 at
0210 UT, preacher in Spanish about Exodus 27 & 28, loops east/west. There
are several SS on 1590 but none seem to fit by direxion, distance, format (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0458 UT June
27
