** BANGLADESH [non]. 15505, am not hearing BB much in B-12 for the Urdu broadcast at 1400. Nov 13 at 1358 something with very weak talk, not the BB IS, but cuts off at 1359:20* and nothing further, nor at 1417 check. BB may very well be on and not propagating any more, but nothing listed in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi on 15505 until 1400, so what is that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160, Nov 13 at 0705, CBC Radio 1 with weather, low -4, hi 5, but could not catch any locations; then into Quirx & Quarx, Bob McDonald about whales, so must be the Pacific zone feed, for 11 pm Monday, i.e. CKZU, not CKZN. BTW, the CBC page about Q&Q, http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/quirks_quarks claims, ``It is also heard around the world on short-wave via Radio Canada International.`` Not exactly! Nor had it been for years while RCI still existed. Anyhow, CKZN is not only off 6160.9, but also off 6160.0; what next for it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, Nov 14 before 1400: 12370, fair at 1248; unusual spot 15565, JBA at 1355 with het on hi side No others 10-18 MHz. After 1400: 15570, JBA at 1418 with het on hi side See also TIBET [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11760, Nov 13 at 1350, RHC Spanish has considerable CCI in English, i.e. CRI which is // but ahead of 9570 via Cuba; Commies vs Commies! Quite aside from unlisted RHC, HFCC B-12 shows another collision on 11760: BBC English via Oman at 11-14, switching from 10 to 320 degrees at 13 (and via Cyprus at 14-16); and CRI English via Kunming, 500 kW, 135 degrees at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 11645, Nov 13 at 0606, romantic music, very poor with flutter, 0607 announcement, maybe Russian? And another song. What`s this? I realize it must be VOG, but not // 7475, and 9420 not audible. 11645 usually carries the Radio Filia service with a variety of languages but first time audible here this season. On Oct 28, Sunday, first day of new season in the 06-07 hour, Wolfgang Büschel had Greek mass on 11645, and R. Filia on 7475 instead, in Albanian. Usage is extremely unreliable, varying from day to day, it seems; the least of Greece`s worries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Nov 13 at 1423, JBA carrier from VOI. I wonder if it was again in English this hour like yesterday. Ishida hasn`t quite caught up with 14 UT yet but agrees it was on the air earlier today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15410, Nov 13 at 1405, R. Farda stage-whisper ID between hard-rock music cuts; as usual, no jamming audible. This is surprising; I wonder if they do jam it but only at local groundwave range in major cities? As for 15410, EiBi shows on at 12-16, switching sites amid at 14 from Biblis, Germany, to Woofferton UK, and HFCC agrees, also showing a tripling of kW from 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 13 at 0623, open carrier, so XEPPM still hasn`t turned off the transmitter after sign-off circa 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 13 at 1320 UT, Mexican music from KEOR Sperry, usual SAH with KMOX of 72/minute = 1.2 Hz. Was not hearing it on caradio during several daytime chex yesterday, altho could have been an inaudible carrier only. Bruce Winkelman, dentro-Tulsa, says ``1120 KEOR on abruptly 1300:50Z 13NOV12 in the middle of Spanish vocal mx, no ID. KEOR watch continues`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 48 KOCY and 19 KUOT, Nov 13 at 0425 UT a bit of area tropo allows me to reconfirm these two low-power OKC TV stations are still in NTSC; also visible around 1500 UT before fading out. As always, 48 is much stronger than 19 and the latter is not always visible when 48 is (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 9560, Nov 13 at 1343, surprised to hear English, accompanying 9570 CRI/Cuba and 9580 Australia; soon outro program as ``This is Russia``. Fair signal but big het on lo side, no doubt from Ethiopia. HFCC shows VOR at 11-14, 250 kW, 145 degrees from Novosibirsk to CIRAF 43, 44, 49. Aoki shows all three hours in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Nov 13 at 1337, S9+10 carrier from presumed R. Hargeisa, but no modulation for a minute, then YL talking maybe English, barely audible vs CW QRhaM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 13570, Nov 13 at 1347, no signal from WINB, just CODAR around, nor 9265, despite DX Mix News, Bulgaria issue of Nov 12 claiming as of Nov 7 Brother Scare is on 13570 WINB M-F at 1200-1530 (also M-F 1900-2030). I see that http://www.overcomerministry.org/ does not mention WINB at all now. Nor is it on the even more outdated download version: ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html WINB`s own schedule has not been updated since Oct 7, when there was still a 4-hour difference between ET and UT! http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm And it shewed TOM at 1200-1530 & 1930-2030 M-F. How about new KBXD 1480 Dallas, where we just heard him last night? Not on TOM AM list either, of course: ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/AM%20Radio%20Stations.htm which even still has BS on KCKN Roswell 1020 which flipped to Spanish Radiovisión Cristiana a few months ago. See also USA: KBXD. Back to SW, how about WTWW, where we have been hearing him afternoons on 9990? TOM homepage only does show: ``Africa 9990 20-23:00 UTC Daily`` without identifying the source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 17535, Nov 13 at *1428:48 carrier on, 1430 opening in presumed Tibetan from V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR as B-12 scheduled, ex 1400 on 17560/17565/17570. Fair signal, no jamming until Firedrake hit from *1433, also causing a SAH. I wonder if this frequency too will jump around 5 kHz intervals to evade the jamming. Another new time for VOT via Talata is 1530-1558 on 15485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 9465, Nov 13 at 0618, BBCWS on new frequency? // 9410, but 9465 is a couple words behind, so different sites? Latest HFCC of Nov 12 shows no BBC on 9465, but on 9460, so I am doubting my reading, maybe FRG-7 parallax angle off. However both of these are supposed to be Ascension, during this hour only: 9460 0600 0700 46 ASC 250 55 -30 216 1234567 281012 310313 D 9410 0600 0700 47SW,52 ASC 250 65 0 547 1234567 281012 310313 D (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. George McClintock tells me that WTWW-2 is now on the air daily 2000-0100 UT on 9990. I suppose most of that is Brother Scare, and see SOUTH CAROLINA [non], where TOM admits to 9990 at 20-23 from a secret station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1310, Nov 13 at 1308 UT, ``Newstalk KZRG`` about sports, i.e. Joplin MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Jerry Kiefer tells me that KBXD began regular programming today Nov 12. I was getting it on 1480 Monday evening, UT Tue Nov 13 at 0015 on the caradio, more or less dominating frequency after sunset, with ``Gospel Express`` mentioning that they were new to Dallas, thanks to Jerry. Still hearing fast SAH which I suspect is due to KBXD being off-frequency compared to average 1480 signals. Estimate 12-15 Hz. There is also some Mexican music on 1480 I haven`t yet traced to one North American country or another. KQAM Wichita had some competition at 0135 during their BKB game, from gospel music on KBXD. Altho 50 kW daytime, I was not hearing it on groundwave earlier vs KQAM. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1480, Nov 13 at 0651 UT, Brother Scare is now here, tnx to KBXD, spending the rest of the hour giving contact info. Usual SAH, and dominates frequency from N/S, with 1.9 kW night power, but just rebuilt so should be at max efficiency now. Listened until 0702, when Alex Scourby started Bible reading, and there was no hourtop legal ID. I have yet to catch a KBXD ID at all, and The Overcomer doesn`t prompt any such interruptions. 1480, Nov 13 at 1630 UT when skywave should be out, 3.5 hours after LSR and 2 hours before local mean noon, by nulling KQAM I am getting a SAH from a very weak carrier, no doubt KBXD, and seems closer to 10 Hz than 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Nov 13 at 0139 on caradio, immediately on tune-in heard ``WQQW, Madison County`s hometown radio station``. NRC AM Log shows: ``WQQW Highland IL, D3 1000, CP D3 5000, AP TO 1530 D4 3300 CH 3300 CoL = University City [MO, in the St Louis market]`` This is long after sunset, so presumably on critical hours facilities, but still not QSY to 1530. FCC AM Query for http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=90598 makes clear that on the present 1510 facility there is NO CH authorization; however there is a PSRA and a PSSA: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=3663 No, there isn`t ---- this letter says PSRA is NOT POSSIBLE in the case of then-WXOZ as of 2007. Therefore it now has no business being on the air at all between SS and SR, in November 2245-1245 UT. Day power is 1 kW and major lobe throws most of it southwest toward me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA [and non]. 13590, Nov 13 at 0610, gospel rock, from 1Africa, CVC still existing. African signals also on 13780-Rwanda, 15120-Nigeria, 15400-RSA, 15580-Botswana all poor-fair, while many nites the higher bands are dead now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Nov 13 at 0637, Mexican music, seems NE/SW, fast SAH caused by KLIO Wichita always off-frequency, and KNX must be in a fade. The only XE in western Mexico is XEOBS in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, certainly possible, but lately there have been reports of WCSZ in Sans Souci, South Carolina: Jo Fela in NJ had it Nov 9 at 0300 (EST?) with legal ID in Spanish, Mexican music, ``Cannot be running its true night time facilities`` Robert Ross, Ont., and Rick Dau, Nebraska, also IDed WCSZ by comparing it to their webstream. WCSZ is 50 kW day/1.5 kW night, supposedly. FCC AM Query shows night pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/150128-6837.pdf with major 1.5 kW lobe to SSE, null toward the west. 50 kW day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/150128-6835.pdf is similar with an even tighter null toward the west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, Nov 13 at 0015 UT, weak Mex mx mix with KBXD Dallas. There are several SS in the US, mostly peripheral states, but most likely and closest here as in NRC AM Log is KCZZ, Radio Activo, Mission KS, = Kansas City market, beyond KQAM Wichita (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7275, Nov 13 at 0627, IWT TUNISIA has lo modulation but CCI from an understation, typically FRCN Abuja. I know IWT is about to cut off the air, and so it does before 0628 arrives, uncovering the other, but still too weak and undermodulated. Don`t you believe HFCC which shows Sfax RTT at 0500-0730 on 7275, as the clueless Tunisians keep registering all their transmissions one hour later than reality. And of course, no listing at all for Nigeria. Aoki is closer, with Tunisia at 0355-0630, and R. Nigeria, Abuja at 0530-1200 in Hausa on 7275. But there is now another possibility: Aoki has PBS Xinjiang, CNR13 in Uighur from Urumqi at 0600-0700, and HFCC shows it on a much longer span, 0100-1200, and EiBi even more than that from CNR/PBS; but I still think Nigeria is what we are hearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
