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3. Wed Morn DX (Charles)
4. Re: Glenn Hauser logs September 5, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:25:53 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <r...@earthlink.net>
To: Arthur Delibert <radio7...@msn.com>, *HCDX
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Oriental, Ecuador
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Confirm, Radio Oriental
Being heard with slight drift in frequency at sign on by South Florida
dxers at 1100 with IDs
Also heard less regular schedule from 2300 to 0100
Robert,
Pompano Beach, South Florida
Arthur Delibert wrote:
>
>
> ECUADOR, Radio Oriental, 4781.67, 23:47 - 00:01* presumed the one here with
> Spanish talk by male anncrs, mentions of Ecuador, Macas and Quito. Decent
> signal, but too much QRN for good copy. At times, the audio would drop
> abruptly to such a low level I wasn't sure if they were still on the air;
> then it would come back just as abruptly. Seemed like some segments were
> just very undermodulated.(Delibert, Mass. 9/3/12) Art Delibert,,
> Vineyard Haven, Mass. Excalibur Pro, 30 foot vertical antenna
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:13:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 5, 2012
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** AUSTRALIA. 2325, Sept 5 at 1157, first thing I do upon awakening is tune to
CRI on 7325, turn on BFO slightly offset, and then turn the MHz dial on the
FRG-7, and repeak the preselector to detect carriers on 3325 (Indonesia/PNG),
and even on 2325, which has to be VL8T, but it`ll take a much better signal to
cut any modulation thru the noise level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, Sept 5 at 1256, HCJB with hymn in S Asian
language, would you believe is the SSOB (strongest signal on band)? 1258
announcement with P O Box, the numbers 6-9-1 presumably in that unknown
language, but own schedule grid Wednesday shows Rawang for Myanmar daily until
1300. No English ID at hourtop, ``Namaskar`` and into another language, Nepali
mentioned as scheduled for Wednesdays et al. No transmission break around 1300
either as all of this is on the 307-degree antenna, whether for SE or S Asia.
RHC never heard on 15340 this morning, tho it might have cut on and off briefly
as often happens. HCJB 15340 remained stronger even than RHC 15230, still nice
music at 1316 with Marathi. By 1342 during Hindi, HCJB has weakened and 15230
has strengthened; still, only other signals on 19m are quite attenuated and
many ordinarily heard (e.g. Turkey before 1322) are absent. At 1424 final
check, HCJB still audible in Urdu on 15340 with no RHC.
Hi-latitude paths from Asia, Europe, Mideast are suffering, but HCJB has a
great advantage of trans-equatorial propagation with great-circle paths to Enid
no further toward the poles than 38 degrees, but am I getting it long- or
short? It`s all over-water too until reaching the USA. Longpath over Indian
Ocean skirts Cape Town, and the NE point of Brasil, into NAm between Jaxonville
and Savannah; shortpath over the Pacific goes between Lisianski and Midway at
the far end of the Hawaiian chain, enters CONUS circa San Francisco.
VOA Korean 15775 also aimed USward at 21 degrees from Tinang, Philippines,
unlike usual good signal, is JBA, which leads me to believe HCJB is in fact
long-path the opposite way around thru our antipodes off Madagascar. VOA Somali
via Madagascar 15730 is also audible poorly at 1318, aimed due north (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aussie fax QRMing WEWN from another WA site:
see USA [and non]
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 5 at 1359, tone test, briefly to IS but too short to
copy for sure; timesignal is now fast, ending at 1359:35, very poor signal with
flutter, but no doubt Bangladesh Betar opening Urdu service in typical
behavior. Nothing audible on 15105 earlier for the 1230 English, 1315 Nepali,
and I am surprised to be getting this much, considering very poor hi-latitude
propagation conditions; see AUSTRALIA HCJB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 15149.5, Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning across 19m, expecting
maybe R. Africa, instead immediately hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian
Portuguese timecheck which can only come from R. Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte.
Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe .49 but probably within
margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 5, before 1300:
12230, very poor at 1246
12320, fair at 1246
12670, fair at 1246; none in the 10s, 11s, 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s
Before 1400:
13920, very poor at 1322 under fax, from Australia? See USA: WEWN
14700, poor at 1323 with flutter
15490, very poor at 1343 with noise, het on lo side
15605, very poor at 1342 with noise, het on lo side
After 1400:
15495, very poor at 1424 with flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 5965, Sept 5 at 0521, REE is back on proper frequency // 9630,
after excursion to 5995 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Sept 5 at 1347, VOI is gone again, no trace of a signal
during English hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, the mystery is solved about where ``Ke Buena`` is coming from.
As suggested by Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, it is in fact a new name for XEHB in
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, ex-Radio Viva Villa. Rather sorry to find that
colorful name in homage to Pancho Villa has been retired (or moved elsewhere?).
Sept 5 at 1200 UT, expected VG signal on SRS, but no NA is played, just hyper
Mexican music. 1201, full ID including ``XEHB-FM, 107.1, 25 kW, Hidalgo del
Parral, cadena internacional, Radiorama``. This very recent change is not
showing up yet in the listings, notably Cant?, rechecked at 1400 UT. Neil says
he`s asked Fred about it.
Ke Buena is listed there on 700 instead:
700 XEGD Ke buena + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000
so we wonder if the formats on 700 and 730 have been swapped? But it`s not that
simple as the FM frequency doesn`t match the announced 107.1 heard on 730. And
107.1 is not listed for anything in that city.
I also check 700 at 1200 UT, and a much weaker signal has a low-key discussion
in Spanish, 1203 mentions Coahuila, but that`s all I could get, source unknown.
It`s not clear if XEGD and XEHB are jointly owned, lacking weblinx for either
in Cant? by-state listings. Martin Foltz, who is compiling the next IRCA
Mexican Log, is checking whether the other Ke Buena on 730, in Ensenada BCN,
retains that slogan.
In fact, the only Hidalgo del Parral station in the Radiorama affiliate list is
yet another one:
Hidalgo Del Parral RADIO MIL XEHPC 1000AM
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 750, Sept 5 at 1205 UT, after NA, Chihuahua anthem, no ID but into
CV of some official from the steel industry, Horacio Campa?a Acosta, must be
this guy originally from Sinaloa, matching CV items:
http://sinaloensesejemplares.com/horacio-campana-acosta/
Then, president Calder?n gobierno federal PSA also mentioning Secretar?a de
Educaci?n P?blica. Relying on Cant?. station must be
750 XEOH La Jefa + FM 96.1 Cd. Camargo, Chih. 1,000 750
Altho I see he has now expanded his cross-border listings to include 5 US
K-call stations in El Paso del Norte, under Ciudad Ju?rez, including the one on
750, KAMA, with Univisi?n Am?rica. I assume KAMA has not ``gone Mexican`` to
the extent of playing their NA and state anthem; but you never know. Surely
there`s no law against a US-licensed station doing so, altho there probably is
a law prohibiting Mexicans from playing the Star Spangled Banner or Deep in the
Heart of Tejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sept 5 at 1220 UT, as I should keep bandscanning for SRS
Mexicans, I get stuck on KFAQ as they are interviewing Tulsa Mayor Dewey
Bartlett about firing some official, a Dr Addison-Turner. Read all about this,
instead Lana Turner-Addison:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=334&articleid=20120905_16_A13_CUTLIN215701
And an earlier story:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120728_16_A15_CUTLIN829256
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15615, Sept 5 at 1319, strong fax signal is obliterating
WEWN, which is only a trace of a carrier; fax maybe closer to 15616. Sounds a
lot like the Aussie fax on 13920 vs Firedrake. By 1343 the fax is off and WEWN
is poorly audible in the clear.
A June 2011 post by Hugh Stegman to the UDXF yg shows both of these:
Australian BOM Charleville: 2628 5100 11030 13920 20469 [Qsld.]
Australian BOM Wiluna: 5755 7535 10555 15615 18060 [W Australia]
BOM = Bureau of Meteorology. This correlates with the good signal from another
WA site, Kununurra; see AUSTRALIA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
** U S A. 1010, Sept 5 at 1215 UT, station break between gospel huxters, ``We
are 10-10 AM, KXEN, good news for Saint Louis``. Sufficient signal I find hard
to believe is the alleged temporary 350 watt transmitter at WGNU in Illinois.
Makes 6 bars on the DX-398 signal meter; what about 50 kW KMOX at same time?
Also 6 bars! But must have been in a fade, since the latter soon increases to 8
bars. But then a portion of its power is wasted on the IBOC sidebands. I wonder
how the groundwave strength of KXEN seems in the St Louis area now. Could be
the temporary antenna setup favors skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 14320-USB, Sept 5 at 1328, K4GFW is NCS of some net, taking check-ins
and assigning sequential numbers to each station. 5 & 9 from him but I can`t
hear any of the others, all over the US, except neighbor W4OMH, but K4GFW is
Gerry, in Plantation FL. Says it`s daily except Sundays at 9 am Eastern. Seldom
mentions name of net, but sounds like ``Narnia`` or ``Nadia``?? 1336 finally
finishes about 20 check-ins and goes back to #1 to axually start the
roundtable, but some of the first few are no longer there, out for coffee? I
finally give up after 15 minutes at 1343, and try to find it later.
Per QRZ.com lookup, K4GFW is: GERALD C GRUENBAUM, SUNRISE, FL 33322, but he
must have moved to another nearby Fort Lauderdale suburb in the meantime.
Nothing works in ARRL list under such net names starting with N, or anything on
14320. On the time I finally get a hit on: KNOTHEAD! And that matches up with
K4GFW who is also trustee of the Motorola ARC, W4MOT. Then I find that Knothead
was listed in the final Nets to You of April 2007, with slightly different
data: ``1430 1330 14310 KNOTHEAD Monday-Friday [Informal]`` What is the purpose
of this net? ``social`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Sept 5 at 1236 UT, West Texas oil drilling news with locations,
per-barrel prices, ``from the KCKM news desk, the West Texas powerhouse``, back
to music. Easily overcomes KNSS Wichita at SRS. So this Monahans station still
exists in English, despite once-related KCKN 1020 Roswell NM 50 kW flipping to
24/7 Radiovisi?n Cristiana a few days ago // 1330 in New York, Dominican
Republic, elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, Sept 5 at 1225 UT, once again dead air on large carrier; a
minute later at 1226 finally wakes up to play outro of previous preaching
program with normal modulation level, ID as 1440 AM y 102.5 FM, i.e. Radio Luz,
50 kW KTNO University Park (Dallas) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17750, Sept 5 at 1425-1427* large steady open carrier, stronger
than RHC on 17730, which is the only usable signal on 16m. Possibly RHC testing
as 17750 is their afternoon frequency, but more likely Greenville B in a tuneup
for 17530 which starts Portuguese at 1700, but not using 17530 now to avoid
interfering with S?o Tom? 17530 with VOA English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:20:28 -0000
From: "Charles" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "'Ankeer Petersen'" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "'Bob Wilkner'"
<r...@earthlink.net>, "'Chrissy Brand'" <chriss...@hotmail.co.uk>,
"'DXLD'" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "'Gayle Van Horn'"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "'Glenn Hauser'"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "'Hard-Core-dx@hard-core-dx.com'"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "'Liz Cameron'"
<ale...@yahoo.com>,
"'Marie Lamb'" <mal...@mailbox.syr.edu>, "'Short Wave World'"
<shortwavewo...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Wed Morn DX
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Peru, 4810.018, Radio Logos, Pres, 1005-1105, At tune in, noted a male in
Spanish language comments
for a couple of minutes. Could make out the language, but unable to
determine the message. After
a few comments, music was presented. Signal improved from a poor to a fair
when the music was being
presented. Still a lot of QRM on the high side of the frequency. But with
a notch filter enabled, this
helped. During the comments at 1024, noted the male mentioning "Lima".
Between 1030 and 1100,
the music is steady without any comments. The music seemed to be
inspirational however and
consisted of just one singer. Waited until 1103 for a break and ID, but
none was given. Signal was
almost lost by then too. Best period of reception was around 1035 with a
fair signal.
(Chuck Bolland, September 5, 2012)
Peru, 4747.086, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1016-1025, At tune in, noted a male
in Spanish language comments.
I could not pull out the significance of his comments with the noise from
the current condx here - raining.
The male continue with his comments as a female joined in at 1018. Signal
was poor. (Chuck Bolland,
September 5, 2012)
Peru, 4774.934, Radio Tarma, 1019-1030, At tune in, noted Huaynos type music
with the usual yelling
by the band. At the end of the first tune, a male comments briefly in
Spanish language, then back
to music with same theme of music. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland,
September 5, 2012)
Bolivia, 6134.828, Radio Santa Cruz, 1039-1045, Noted a male and female in
a instructional type
program which may have been a language lesson? Signal was poor and fading
at this time.
(Chuck Bolland, September 5, 2012)
Peru, 4939.928, Radio San Antonio,pres, 1046-1055, With a very weak signal
here, noted music as
background as a female commented in the Spanish language. (Chuck Bolland,
September 5, 2012)
Peru, 5039.27, Radio Libertad, 1049-1100, The frequency is clear this
morning which allows Radio
Libertad to broadcast without any interference from the Cuban that is
normally here. Noted music
at tune in, followed with a male in Spanish language comments. At 1052,
noted possible
ID as male continued to comment. Signal was poor unfortunately. (Chuck
Bolland,
September 5, 2012)
Excalibur
26N 081W
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:28:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 5, 2012
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CORREXION!!! I somehow wrote 15149.5 instead of 15191.5:
** BRAZIL. 15191.5, Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning across 19m, expecting
maybe R. Africa, instead immediately hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian
Portuguese timecheck which can only come from R. Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte.
Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe 15191.49 but probably within
margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Wed, 9/5/12, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Glenn Hauser logs September 5, 2012
> To: d...@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:13 PM
> ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, Sept 5 at 1157,
> first thing I do upon awakening is tune to CRI on 7325, turn
> on BFO slightly offset, and then turn the MHz dial on the
> FRG-7, and repeak the preselector to detect carriers on 3325
> (Indonesia/PNG), and even on 2325, which has to be VL8T, but
> it`ll take a much better signal to cut any modulation thru
> the noise level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
> DIGEST)
>
> ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, Sept 5 at 1256, HCJB with
> hymn in S Asian language, would you believe is the SSOB
> (strongest signal on band)? 1258 announcement with P O Box,
> the numbers 6-9-1 presumably in that unknown language, but
> own schedule grid Wednesday shows Rawang for Myanmar daily
> until 1300. No English ID at hourtop, ``Namaskar`` and into
> another language, Nepali mentioned as scheduled for
> Wednesdays et al. No transmission break around 1300 either
> as all of this is on the 307-degree antenna, whether for SE
> or S Asia.
>
> RHC never heard on 15340 this morning, tho it might have cut
> on and off briefly as often happens. HCJB 15340 remained
> stronger even than RHC 15230, still nice music at 1316 with
> Marathi. By 1342 during Hindi, HCJB has weakened and 15230
> has strengthened; still, only other signals on 19m are quite
> attenuated and many ordinarily heard (e.g. Turkey before
> 1322) are absent. At 1424 final check, HCJB still audible in
> Urdu on 15340 with no RHC.
>
> Hi-latitude paths from Asia, Europe, Mideast are suffering,
> but HCJB has a great advantage of trans-equatorial
> propagation with great-circle paths to Enid no further
> toward the poles than 38 degrees, but am I getting it long-
> or short? It`s all over-water too until reaching the USA.
> Longpath over Indian Ocean skirts Cape Town, and the NE
> point of Brasil, into NAm between Jaxonville and Savannah;
> shortpath over the Pacific goes between Lisianski and Midway
> at the far end of the Hawaiian chain, enters CONUS circa San
> Francisco.
>
> VOA Korean 15775 also aimed USward at 21 degrees from
> Tinang, Philippines, unlike usual good signal, is JBA, which
> leads me to believe HCJB is in fact long-path the opposite
> way around thru our antipodes off Madagascar. VOA Somali via
> Madagascar 15730 is also audible poorly at 1318, aimed due
> north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aussie fax
> QRMing WEWN from another WA site: see USA [and non]
>
> ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 5 at 1359, tone test, briefly to
> IS but too short to copy for sure; timesignal is now fast,
> ending at 1359:35, very poor signal with flutter, but no
> doubt Bangladesh Betar opening Urdu service in typical
> behavior. Nothing audible on 15105 earlier for the 1230
> English, 1315 Nepali, and I am surprised to be getting this
> much, considering very poor hi-latitude propagation
> conditions; see AUSTRALIA HCJB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** BRAZIL. 15149.5, Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning
> across 19m, expecting maybe R. Africa, instead immediately
> hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian Portuguese timecheck
> which can only come from R. Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte.
> Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe .49 but
> probably within margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 5, before 1300:
> 12230, very poor at 1246
> 12320, fair at 1246
> 12670, fair at 1246; none in the 10s, 11s, 13s, 14s, 15s,
> 16s
>
> Before 1400:
> 13920, very poor at 1322 under fax, from Australia? See USA:
> WEWN
> 14700, poor at 1323 with flutter
> 15490, very poor at 1343 with noise, het on lo side
> 15605, very poor at 1342 with noise, het on lo side
>
> After 1400:
> 15495, very poor at 1424 with flutter
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** COSTA RICA. 5965, Sept 5 at 0521, REE is back on proper
> frequency // 9630, after excursion to 5995 last night (Glenn
> Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Sept 5 at 1347, VOI is gone again, no
> trace of a signal during English hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** MEXICO. 730, the mystery is solved about where ``Ke
> Buena`` is coming from. As suggested by Neil Kazaross,
> IL/WI, it is in fact a new name for XEHB in Hidalgo del
> Parral, Chihuahua, ex-Radio Viva Villa. Rather sorry to find
> that colorful name in homage to Pancho Villa has been
> retired (or moved elsewhere?).
>
> Sept 5 at 1200 UT, expected VG signal on SRS, but no NA is
> played, just hyper Mexican music. 1201, full ID including
> ``XEHB-FM, 107.1, 25 kW, Hidalgo del Parral, cadena
> internacional, Radiorama``. This very recent change is not
> showing up yet in the listings, notably Cant?, rechecked at
> 1400 UT. Neil says he`s asked Fred about it.
>
> Ke Buena is listed there on 700 instead:
> 700 XEGD Ke buena + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih.
> 5,000??? 1,000
> so we wonder if the formats on 700 and 730 have been
> swapped? But it`s not that simple as the FM frequency
> doesn`t match the announced 107.1 heard on 730. And 107.1 is
> not listed for anything in that city.
>
> I also check 700 at 1200 UT, and a much weaker signal has a
> low-key discussion in Spanish, 1203 mentions Coahuila, but
> that`s all I could get, source unknown. It`s not clear if
> XEGD and XEHB are jointly owned, lacking weblinx for either
> in Cant? by-state listings. Martin Foltz, who is compiling
> the next IRCA Mexican Log, is checking whether the other Ke
> Buena on 730, in Ensenada BCN, retains that slogan.
>
> In fact, the only Hidalgo del Parral station in the
> Radiorama affiliate list is yet another one:
> Hidalgo Del Parral RADIO MIL XEHPC 1000AM
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** MEXICO. 750, Sept 5 at 1205 UT, after NA, Chihuahua
> anthem, no ID but into CV of some official from the steel
> industry, Horacio Campa?a Acosta, must be this guy
> originally from Sinaloa, matching CV items:
> http://sinaloensesejemplares.com/horacio-campana-acosta/
> Then, president Calder?n gobierno federal PSA also
> mentioning Secretar?a de Educaci?n P?blica. Relying on
> Cant?. station must be
> 750 XEOH La Jefa + FM 96.1 Cd. Camargo, Chih. 1,000 750
>
> Altho I see he has now expanded his cross-border listings to
> include 5 US K-call stations in El Paso del Norte, under
> Ciudad Ju?rez, including the one on 750, KAMA, with
> Univisi?n Am?rica. I assume KAMA has not ``gone Mexican``
> to the extent of playing their NA and state anthem; but you
> never know. Surely there`s no law against a US-licensed
> station doing so, altho there probably is a law prohibiting
> Mexicans from playing the Star Spangled Banner or Deep in
> the Heart of Tejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sept 5 at 1220 UT, as I should keep
> bandscanning for SRS Mexicans, I get stuck on KFAQ as they
> are interviewing Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett about firing
> some official, a Dr Addison-Turner. Read all about this,
> instead Lana Turner-Addison:
> http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=334&articleid=20120905_16_A13_CUTLIN215701
> And an earlier story:
> http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120728_16_A15_CUTLIN829256
> (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** U S A [and non]. 15615, Sept 5 at 1319, strong fax signal
> is obliterating WEWN, which is only a trace of a carrier;
> fax maybe closer to 15616. Sounds a lot like the Aussie fax
> on 13920 vs Firedrake. By 1343 the fax is off and WEWN is
> poorly audible in the clear.
>
> A June 2011 post by Hugh Stegman to the UDXF yg shows both
> of these:
> Australian BOM Charleville: 2628 5100 11030 13920 20469
> [Qsld.]
> Australian BOM Wiluna:? ? ? 5755 7535 10555
> 15615 18060 [W Australia]
> BOM = Bureau of Meteorology. This correlates with the good
> signal from another WA site, Kununurra; see AUSTRALIA [and
> non] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
>
> ** U S A. 1010, Sept 5 at 1215 UT, station break between
> gospel huxters, ``We are 10-10 AM, KXEN, good news for Saint
> Louis``. Sufficient signal I find hard to believe is the
> alleged temporary 350 watt transmitter at WGNU in Illinois.
> Makes 6 bars on the DX-398 signal meter; what about 50 kW
> KMOX at same time? Also 6 bars! But must have been in a
> fade, since the latter soon increases to 8 bars. But then a
> portion of its power is wasted on the IBOC sidebands. I
> wonder how the groundwave strength of KXEN seems in the St
> Louis area now. Could be the temporary antenna setup favors
> skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** U S A. 14320-USB, Sept 5 at 1328, K4GFW is NCS of some
> net, taking check-ins and assigning sequential numbers to
> each station. 5 & 9 from him but I can`t hear any of the
> others, all over the US, except neighbor W4OMH, but K4GFW is
> Gerry, in Plantation FL. Says it`s daily except Sundays at 9
> am Eastern. Seldom mentions name of net, but sounds like
> ``Narnia`` or ``Nadia``?? 1336 finally finishes about 20
> check-ins and goes back to #1 to axually start the
> roundtable, but some of the first few are no longer there,
> out for coffee? I finally give up after 15 minutes at 1343,
> and try to find it later.
>
> Per QRZ.com lookup, K4GFW is: GERALD C GRUENBAUM, SUNRISE,
> FL 33322, but he must have moved to another nearby Fort
> Lauderdale suburb in the meantime. Nothing works in ARRL
> list under such net names starting with N, or anything on
> 14320. On the time I finally get a hit on: KNOTHEAD! And
> that matches up with K4GFW who is also trustee of the
> Motorola ARC, W4MOT. Then I find that Knothead was listed in
> the final Nets to You of April 2007, with slightly different
> data: ``1430 1330 14310 KNOTHEAD Monday-Friday [Informal]``
> What is the purpose of this net? ``social`` (Glenn Hauser,
> OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** U S A. 1330, Sept 5 at 1236 UT, West Texas oil drilling
> news with locations, per-barrel prices, ``from the KCKM news
> desk, the West Texas powerhouse``, back to music. Easily
> overcomes KNSS Wichita at SRS. So this Monahans station
> still exists in English, despite once-related KCKN 1020
> Roswell NM 50 kW flipping to 24/7 Radiovisi?n Cristiana a
> few days ago // 1330 in New York, Dominican Republic,
> elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** U S A. 1440, Sept 5 at 1225 UT, once again dead air on
> large carrier; a minute later at 1226 finally wakes up to
> play outro of previous preaching program with normal
> modulation level, ID as 1440 AM y 102.5 FM, i.e. Radio Luz,
> 50 kW KTNO University Park (Dallas) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> UNIDENTIFIED. 17750, Sept 5 at 1425-1427* large steady open
> carrier, stronger than RHC on 17730, which is the only
> usable signal on 16m. Possibly RHC testing as 17750 is their
> afternoon frequency, but more likely Greenville B in a
> tuneup for 17530 which starts Portuguese at 1700, but not
> using 17530 now to avoid interfering with S?o Tom? 17530
> with VOA English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
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