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Today's Topics:
1. RFKanyalang ? (LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS)
2. Glenn Hauser logs December 8, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Fwd: FRS Seasonal Broadcast Dec. 30th 2012 (Manuel M?ndez)
4. EMR Website - Server Change (tom taylor)
5. logs (Robert Wilkner)
6. Glenn Hauser logs December 8-9, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
7. WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1094 (Michael Bethge)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:21 +0200 (EET)
From: LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] RFKanyalang ?
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<[email protected]>
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Just now tested R F K on 15430 and 15680 with no signal
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 09:41:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 8, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** GUAM. 5765-USB, Dec 8 at 1401, no signal from AFN, which Ron Howard also
noted absent Dec 6, tho Bob Wilkner heard it Nov 30. We hope it is just another
temporary absence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9425v, Dec 8 at 1414, the 9470 AIR Aligarh banshee blob is here at
the moment, on the frequency supposed to be occupied by another National
Channel transmitter which is not being heard at all even when clear. Within the
next minute, blob wanders up across 9430 FEBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Dec 8 at 1327, KCBS good at S9+20 with orchestral music;
quick scan found plenty of others on this ``good NK morning`` --- 3250, 3320,
3480 with het; jammers on 3912, 3985; 4450 and 4557 jammers with target also
audible; and of course the mid-6 MHz jammers which hold up longest. 2850 still
audible at 1400 somewhat weaker, with Korean announcement, triumphal music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15430, Dec 8 at 1327 and 1353, still no signal from R. Free
Kenyalang, supposedly new frequency for new 12-14 UT broadcast via WRN from
unknown site. Nor did others further east hear it nor on ex-15650. Maybe
tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17595, Sat Dec 8 at 1355, VG signal from REE with song in Spanish.
Suspect token N American service direct as before the cuts, but now never heard
here on weekdays, not even when supposedly on air to S America (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 7435, Dec 8 at 1358, REE IS weakly audible in nonsensical relay
via Kunming, China as lead-in to CRI Nepali service. // 7220 blocked this time
by perfectly legitimate SSB QRhaM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15535, Dec 8 at 1459, strong open carrier, starts modulating
just before 1500 in Arabish, Radio Tamazuj ID, but with heavy echo. At first I
think this is self-imposed nonsense for effect, which should never be done on
shortwave, with enough impediments already to clear reception; but at 1526 it`s
still echoing, so could it be short/long path? HFCC shows this is: 1500-1630,
250 kW, 150 degrees via SMG, VATICAN, CVA PNW FPU. Aimed oppositeward, with
enough signal to echo via long path, but plenty primary signal here no doubt
off the back by short path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, Dec 8 at 1411, WRMI with Spanish talk about el Papa y
el Sr. Jesucristo, so suspect Vatican Radio relay. Fair signal, mixing with
moderate pulse jamming. I see that WRMI has just put up a new program schedule
grid dated Dec 7 showing 1400-1430 Sat is `En Camino` which I think is a VR
program, but nothing about it in the WRMI alfabetical program listing nor on
the VR Spanish website. Maybe not; and not to be confused with ``El Camino`` =
KKNS New Mexico, see UNIDENTIFIED. Camino means road, or pathway.
There have been no changes to the WORLD OF RADIO times on WRMI. The grid is two
clix away from http://www.wrmi.net
BTW, Kim Elliott told the NASWA group Dec 8, but not DXLD:
``Digital text IDs this weekend on WRMI --- Radio Miami International, 9955
kHz, is sending out IDs in digital text between programs. Saturday 0500 to
Sunday 0500, PSK125 is centered at 2000, 2500, and 3000 Hz. Sunday 0500 to
Monday 0500, MFSK16 is centered at 2500 and 3000 Hz. Give or take a few Hz.
Times and days are UTC, of course.
The WRMI signal, beamed away from the USA, is usually fair at best. And then
there is the ferocious Cuban jamming. An excellent environment to test digital
text modes. You can decode from the radio or from the recording using Fldigi
available from http://www.w1hkj.com --- Kim``
Earlier, Kim justified his digital text tests via The Mighty KBC (and more of
that this UT Sunday 0130-0200 on 9450 via Bulgaria):
``I am also partial to amplitude modulation, but in this modern age, many
people are using text to send and receive information. If we can demonstrate
that text via shortwave can be a useful substitute when the internet is
disrupted by dictators or disasters, then we will have provided a good reason
not to dismantle shortwave transmitting sites.``
I comment: We`ve got enough extraneous noise already inside the SWBC bands ---
DRM racket, utility intruders from SSB to any kind of digital mode, jamming,
distorted FM spurs --- we don`t need any more non-AM non-speech or music. By
all means try digital text, SSTV if you like, but put them (and DRM too!) in
the fixed utility bands where they belong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Dec 8 at 1335 UT, Vietnamese scripted talk, bits of piano music,
1340 fading; loops N/S. One thing for sure: it`s not Tarahumara, XETAR. By far
the most likely US station to be heard here besides WWL is KFJZ, Fort Worth TX,
which had been Spanish/Catholic as in NRC AM Log 2012. A bit of searching found
this,
``Vietnamese American Broadcasting 1270 KFJZ``:
http://tunein.com/radio/VAB-Vietnamese-American-Broadcasting-870-s32636/
where Vietnamese audio autolaunches presumably from KFJZ rather than from any
of a few other such stations also displayed on page. I wonder when it flipped?
I suspect this had something to do with ChiCom imperialism, CRI relay bumping
Vietnamese from another frequency. The last time I definitely logged KFJZ in
Spanish was Oct 31, 2011.
This also linx to
http://www.vablive.com/
but is only under construxion and that also linx to:
http://esll.org/index.html
but doesn`t go anywhere.
Address in Farmers Branch TX is shown on the vablive page which is titled
``Tieng Noi The He Moi``; while the NRC AM Log 2012 showed an address in
Houston, not even Fort Worth. Anyhow, 870 is a 1 kW direxional daytimer with
PSRA of 0.5 kW. December SR-SS schedule is 1330-2330; January: 1330-2345 UT.
NRC Pattern Book of 2005y showed it non-direxional, but FCC AM Query now shows
a broad pattern peaking NW with considerable null but not a notch toward WWL,
of course. I wonder at what point between FW and NO the signals are equal on
daytime groundwave?
Topo map for KFJZ via FCC, where the exact sites are NOT marked, indicates it`s
somwhere among Garden Acres - Ft Worth Spinks Airport, Oak Grove, Rendon,
Valley Ridge, Everman --- i.e. at the southern edge of Tarrant County, just
east of I35W, i.e. south of Fort Worth. If KFJZ wanted to cover all of The
Metroplex, yet protect WWL, it should have been sited on the SE side of Dallas.
Office if not studio location in Farmers Branch, OTOH is on the NW side of
Dallas. Is that a Vietnamese neighborhood?
Calls KFJZ are heritage, going back to original 1270, and also thence to
original TV channel 11, pre-KTVT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1310, Dec 8 at 1346 UT, romantic music in Spanish, soon fading,
east-west. Lots of SS stations on 1310 in the USA, but perhaps most likely now
is KKNS Corrales (Albuquerque) NM, which is ``El Camino``, Spanish contemporary
Christian. However, official December sunrise is not until 1400 UT (January:
1415) when 5 kW non-direxional day power is legal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Channel A2 NTSC, Dec 8 at 1547 UT, bits of video flash by two or
three times, probably Geminid meteor scatter from Mexico, with antenna aimed
south as usual, on the lookout also for winter sporadic E openings. Nothing
showing on the 6m maps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:32:15 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fwd: FRS Seasonal Broadcast Dec. 30th 2012
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
-------- Mensaje original --------
Asunto: FRS Seasonal Broadcast Dec. 30th 2012
Fecha: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:55:38 +0100
De: frs.holland <[email protected]>
Para: FRS-Holland <[email protected]>
CC: FRSH-8:;
Dear FRS Friends,
For the final time we pay your attention to the fact we invite you to
participate in the upcoming December 30th broadcast.
Basically we offer the possibility to spread your very own personal *New
Year Greetings *by way of the ionosphere.
We will read them out in our 6 hour broadcast on the final 2012 Sunday.
You can dedicate your greetings to anybody or anything . It's up to you!
Greetings can be written or taped (cassette, CD, MD or mp3 file) and
send to our P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten in the Netherlands.
*Of course the easy & quick way is by sending an e-mail: <
[email protected] >.
*Remember: you can add something special to our December 30th broadcast.
_Make sure your contribution reaches us in a few days_. We are looking
forward hearing from you !!!
Up till now a number of listeners have contributed....we are trying to
have your involvement too.
/Let's do it together/....December 30th......it will only take a few
minutes to add a little bit extra/ special to that broadcast.
*Some extra news regarding our upcoming December 30th broadcast:
** in case we are forced to make no use of 7600, _7685 will be the new
frequency_;
* there's a chance we will also be on 6070 kHz that day. We will inform
you in time...
Tomorrow Sunday December 9th FRSH will do a short promotional broadcast
in the 48 mb starting around 10:30 UTC.
73s, Peter V. (on behalf of the FRS staff)
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:50:37 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] EMR Website - Server Change
Message-ID: <1A2B55840A2B4E428BC83C9D4E125FBB@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
EMR Website Server Change
Dear Listeners,
We have changed our Website server details.
Please follow the instructions below:
Please visit <http://www.emr.org.uk/> www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR
internet radio" button
which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left).
Important: If you have previously bookmarked EMR's internet service in your
favourite audio player,
please update our server details, either by clicking here:
http://europeanmusicradio.com:8000/emr.ogg.m3u
or by clicking the link on our website.
73s
Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:11:27 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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logs from South Florida
2325 Australia, VL8T Tennant Creek NT 1000 om commentary improving
and // 2485 Australia, VL8K Katherine NT, remained in till after 1100.
6 Dec.(Wilkner)
3310 Bolivia Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 0100 to 0130 with good
signal 1 December, signal slightly better 0930 with music and yl 3 Dec.
(Wilkner)
3329.53 Per?, Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco noted 1020 to 1040, om and
music deep fades 5 Dec. Noted each day for last month. Signal strength
remains fair to good. CHU notched. (Wilkner & XM)
3320t North Korea PBS Pyongyang band check with audio 1010 to 1030 6
Dec. (XM & Wilkner)
3375.1 Brasil, Radio Municipal S?o Gabriel da Cachoeira 2320 noted
with music 4 Dec. 0950 stronger with music and om on 5 Dec. (Wilkner)
4319u Diego Garcia. AFN 2250 to 2310 slow pop ballads. then into hard
driving rock music, good signal without interference 4 Dec. (Wilkner)
4451.2 Bolivia, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma 1020 to 1040,
first time noted in the local Bolivian morning 2 December, has been
noted from months 2300 to 0100* sign off varies. Also noted 5 December
1000 to 1100 (Wilkner & XM)
4700 Bolivia, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 0910 strong, 1000 om chat,
1 Dec., 1000 -1040 Christmas music and time checks, good signal 7
December (Wilkner& XM)
4716.65 Bolivia, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura 0910 on, 0940 yl vocal
into chat strong 1 Dec.(Wilkner)
4747 Per?, Radio Huanta 2000 Huanta Ayacucho 1020 yl into music,
strong signal 1 Dec.(Wilkner0
4750 Bangladesh, Bangladesh Betar seemingly 1150 to 1216, music bridge
1200 seeming news items, ments de New York Times?, seemed like om on
phone with corespondent. 6 Dec. (Wilkner)
4781.6 Ecuador, Radio Oriental, Napo 1130 noted as on, signs on later
than 1100 now 1 Dec. Noted 2300 to 0000 many days, powerful signal
(Wilkner& XM)
4795.87 Bolivia, Radio Lipez, Uyuni 0910 music, 0925 music, 0933 om
chat, 0948 possibly yl, 0952 music, 0956 fade begins 1010 chat? 1 Dec.,
0925 noted poor signal on 3 December.
Off 6 and 7 December same time.
Lipez was on for only a few days in March 2012 and may be silent now?
(Wilkner & XM)
4805 Brasil, Radio Difusora do Amazonas,Manaus 0940 - 1020 strong signal
with CODAR interference, om with Portuguese commentary 7 December (Wilkner)
4810 Per? Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto 1040 Very Strong signal/Codar
- with beautiful Peruvian instrumental music 1045 time check minutos,
1046 chorale music , 1050 vocal 1 Dec. Often the most powerful Peru on
60 meters 1000 to 1030, much weaker signal 2300 to 0000 (Wilkner & XM)
4824.49 Per? La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos 1033 beat usual 1040 sign on
also noted 2310 on 6 Dec. (Wilkner)
4826.5 Per? , Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco noted at 0910 - 0930 1 Dec.
Seems the first Peru heard during the local Peru morning(Wilkner)
4835 Australia, Alice Springs, NT 1000 to 1039 with strong signal 6
Dec. (Wilkner & XM)
4955 Per?, Radio Cultural Amauta Huanta 1027 mx bridge,1030 om ments de
numbers, 1032 om "radio xxxxx" missed ID?, 1048 music 1 Dec.
4984.2 _Unid_ reported November 28 is now silent (Wilkner)
4990 Suriname, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo 0933 to 0958 some audio 1
Dec., 0920 to 0950 om audio improving 7 December (Wilkner)
5066.3 _Unid_.- Radio T?l? Candip, Bunia, 0357 on with weak audio to
0417. Same time Long Wave opening including 189 Iceland, 198 BBC, 234
Luxembourg using long-wave antenna. 7 December (Wilkner)
5120 Peru, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba 1100 fading out with some
audio 1 Dec. (Wilkner)
5921.2 Peru, Radio Bethel Arequipa 2230 to 2255 on 2 December, noted
several days same Time (Wilkner)
5952 Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte 1052 slight pulsating interference
but clear signal 1 Dec. Noted strong 1000 and 2300 daily with or without
pulsating interference (Wilkner & XM)
6105.4 Bolivia, Radio Panamericana, La Paz 2320 to 0004 religious
content, mets de Dios, la verdad mentioned several times, la palabra
repeated , chorus, narrow filter and noise 1/2Dec. poor signal at 1050
on 5 Dec., 1042 to 1047 flauta poor signal. Being heard in Florida
(Wilkner & XM)
6134.77 Bolivia, Radio Santa Cruz 0937 very strong signal 1 Dec, 0940
-1000 with news items very strong signal 7 December (Wilkner & XM)
6160t Canada CKZU Vancouver 0950 to 1005, weak but faded in with
commentary in English "The winner was ... the answer to the question .."
2 December, First time logged (Wilkner)
6754u Canada, Trenton Military 0935 time check 1 Dec. (Wilkner)
8989u Nicaragua, "El Pescador Preacher" 2324 to 2356 preacher en
espanol with co channel chatter. Discovered by David Crawford & Terry
Krueger. Has anyone determined transmitter is in Nicaragua? Seems a
broadcast station. (Wilkner & XM)
XM - Cedar Key - Florida
NRD 525D - R8A - E5
--
Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach, Florida
NRD 535D -746Pro - R8 --
73s de Bob
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 18:50:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 8-9, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Sat Dec 8 at 2217, LTA, very poor signal in Spanish,
some yelling so maybe play-by-play; 2226 ads. I am not inclined to keep
straining to detect which of several Buenos Aires stations is being relayed
this time; just to note that it`s active again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11880, Dec 8 at 2132 tune-in, RHC Portuguese is already
underway instead of dead air like yesterday, but I can still hear the other
Portuguese underneath from NHK via Guiana French which RHC has rudely usurped,
another failure by frequency manager Prof. Arnaldo de Jes?s Coro Antich, CO2KK.
Yet, moving immediately would be tantamount to admitting his error. Maybe he`1l
stick to it and force NHK eventually to move in compensation for his mistake
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11890, Dec 8 at 2133, distorted talk and hum, can`t be sure of
language but probably R. Cairo English to Europe as scheduled; still the same
at 2219 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11670, Sat Dec 8 at 2110, nice sitar music concert to nap by from AIR
GOS; it wouldn`t be the same without the transpolar flutter. At 2130 into
hard-to-understand talk segment in Indglish, then found slightly better on //
7550 and 9445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [non]. 9955, Sat Dec 8 at 2043, on WRMI hear ``KBS World Radio``
mentioned, news about North Korea; but that`s not supposed to be on the WRN
North America satellite feed until 2100. Poor to fair with fades, then too weak
to copy, altho very little if any jamming audible. Overload from Brother Scare
on 9980 WWCR is not helpful.
Later I look up the WRN schedule and find this was really ``Asia Calling, 20:00
- Your window on Asia - Developed to reflect the lives and reality of citizens
across the region, Asia Calling is a weekly radio programme from Indonesia?s
Radio News Agency KBR68H.``
I couldn`t find ``Asia Calling`` elsewhere on http://www.wrn.org but now I know
it`s a.k.a. KBR68H, about which more:
``KBR68H is Indonesia's first and only independent national radio news agency.
Established in April 1999, today KBR68H produces 9 hours a day of information
and education based programming to over 750 radio stations and 22 million
regular listeners across Indonesia and Asia, making it by far the biggest radio
network in the country.
Among programmes produced by KBR68H are interactive talk shows on legal reform
and human rights, health, decentralization, environment, religious tolerance
and economics. A toll free phone number and text messaging facility encourages
participation in KBR68H's programmes by listeners regardless of their economic,
social or political status, or geographic location.`` See
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#kbr68h
Apparently `Window on Asia` takes segments from other broadcasters such as KBS,
so beware of misleading IDs. On WRN NAm it`s scheduled UT Sat & Sun at
0700-0800, 1100-1200, 1600-1700 and 2000-2100. Now please explain why they call
it KBR68H (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 3955-AM, Dec 8 at 2228, KBS World Radio concluding
`Business Watch`, 2229 sign-off saying they have two hours of [original]
English a day on various platforms including SW. Off at 2230 punxually. Lucked
into lack of QRhaM, perhaps helped by tuning in USB instead of LSB. This is 250
kW, 106 degrees from Skelton, so hardly USward, not even directly off the back
which would be 286 degrees, and might be best chance to hear KBSWR in English
for those east of here this winter, instead of the intentional N American
broadcast at 1200-1300, direct on 15575 despite being way above the winter
night MUF. But this is the truncated half-hour broadcast from 2200 instead of
the full hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDONESIA [non]
** MEXICO. Dec 8 had been keeping an eye on NTSC ch A2 most of the day in case
there be some winter sporadic E TV DX.
0005 UT Dec 9, ch 2, finally something fades in, Spanish from the south; in and
out.
At 0019, ch 2, it`s a dubbed comedy movie; barely visible net-5 bug in upper
right
0025, now there is 20 kHz CCI on 2, i.e. offset plus and minus 10 kHz
0045, ch 2, promo for Cristina; I think she`s on net 2, but not sure
0054, ch 3, MUF up a bit, movie from net-5
0055, ch 5, MUF up further, ads including ``554 BECAS``; what`s that?
0105, ch 5, news with riot footage
0118, ch 5, seems variety show; ad for TELE TON, large letters on two lines,
then for Hellman`s ? the mayo also known in USA but a much greater advertiser
for years on Mexican TV, despite apostrophe; why?
0122, ch 5, plug a `40 Principales` special from Brasil, domingo a las 2 de la
tarde; then ad for COLEDIA, some cholesterol product
0155, still CCI on ch 2, occasional peaks of somethings in Spanish; ditto 0211
0159, ch 2, promo for CSI Miami on Canal 5
0225, ch 2, just about gone, still occasional glimpses of video past 0235
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Dec 9 at 0139, The Mighty KBC is mighty weak, very
poor signal via Bulgaria, of no use for AM listening, let alone textual tests;
but no doubt better further east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7255, Dec 8 at 2140, VG signal from VON with raucous African music
with drumming and chanting, plus some dead air pauses, and announcement in
African language, presumably scheduled Fulfulde, instead of English which some
have heard during this hour instead, unpredictably (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, Dec 9 at 0131 UT I am checking FM just in case the Mexican
TVDX opening up to channel 5 makes it above 88 MHz: hardly any open frequencies
here, either CCI or ACI, but on 92.1 I am not hearing the local LP, KAMG with
Spanish religious music, apparently off the air! However, I am hearing on 92.1
instead, KFXI Foxy [sic] 92, which is a C&W station from Marlow east of Lawton
in that market. Listed 100 kW, yet I don`t recall hearing it before.
In further Enid news, K226BR, 93.1 translator is still making sucking-straw
noises along with some unreadable modulation, maybe part of the station it is
supposed to relay, KIMY 93.9 Watonga. This mess also spreads to 92.9 and 93.3,
and to some extent also bothers second adjacents (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See INDONESIA [non]; USA: WBCQ, WTWW, etc.
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1646 monitoring: confirmed Sat Dec 8 at 1832 just
started on WRN via WRMI 9955, but very poor signal, occasionally over the
jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! Remaining repeats on 9955 are Sun 0900, 1630, Mon
0530, Tue 1200; and many more webcasts on the WRMI schedule, and other stations.
Also: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; check 5085 for WTWW-2 in case it`s on this
early UT Sunday and even puts WOR on as it did a few weeks ago as late as 0547
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9479, Sat Dec 8 at 2105, after the two-hour QSO Show cutaway, WTWW-1
is back to Scriptures for America, and amusingly, PPP or his clone is asserting
that ``you`ve got to be an overcomer`` --- I assume not capitalized, but we
can`t tell just by listening, so TOM may have grounds for a lawsuit. Same word
mentioned a few more times.
9765 & 10215 approx. covering maybe 20 kHz each, Dec 8 at 2107, weak modulation
spur spikes from something, then matched to 9990 WTWW-2 which just came on at
2100 for Brother Scare.
How about WTWW-2 on 5085? UT Sunday Dec 9 at 0125 it`s open carrier/dead air,
with a lite whine, apparently lost feed from Ted`s studio; finally at 0152
music starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Sat Dec 8 at 2056, WBCQ with Brother Scare instead of Good
Friends Radio Network. But the 7490 schedule allegedly updated today at
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7490
still shows the ONLY Saturday program is `I Sing`, at 2000-0500 UT Sunday, a
GFRN program which knocked out all other 7490 programming on Saturdays several
months ago; some of which was moved to Sundays. Looks like that expired with
November, and B.S. has been plugged back in to fill time. A quick legal ID for
``WBCQ, Monticello, Maine USA`` was inserted circa 2100, and then more B.S.
Strangely, this Overcomer feed is not // the Overkill selexion of other
outlets, which are not synchronized but seem to be otherwise // each other:
9980 WWCR, 9370 WWRB, 9990 WTWW which has just started, and 9700 Bulgaria. At
2136 check, 7490 still with Brother Stair, but he sounds much younger and not
hoarse on this frequency; playing back vintage recording instead of live feed
from Walterboro?
So are we going to get hour after hour of more BS on 7490, or will WBCQ revive
some worthwhile programming? Skipping the BBC collision at 22-24, not rechecked
until 0100 UT Dec 9, when it is not BS, and apparently not `I Sing` either,
with some music, then at least three people talking about Solstice and Xmas,
apparently current, and mentioning Firesign Theatre. Voices do not include
Allan Weiner or anyone else I recognize on WBCQ. 0114 a Beatles tune. Continues
to be mostly conversation with occasional dramatic bits.
In fact, it must be `Firesign Theatre` from Dec 20, 1970, as scheduled on Area
51 at 01-02 UT Dec 9; I had checked 5110v-CUSB for // but with poor reception
from both could tell they did not match. At 0145 with better reception yet
using only one DX-398 radio, I perceive that they are // except 7490 is a
couple seconds behind 5110v-CUSB; why? Anyhow, for now, 7490 is filling with
simulcast of Area 51 instead of `I Sing`. I didn`t think `FST` was so much gab
rather than performance skits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4110, Dec 8 at 2213 UT, JBA carrier as I am looking for third
harmonic of WGOH 1370, Grayson KY, which Harold Frodge on DX-pedition in
Michigan heard Nov 30 at 2211 before power drop at 2215, and also Dec 1 at
2129. It`s been months since I`ve heard a non-local MW harmonic, but I`ll need
more signal than this.
FCC info: WGOH is 5000 watts day, 21 watts night, non direxional.
UT SR/SS times:
Nov 1215-2215
Dec 1245-2215
Jan 1245-2230
Also has PSRA of 500 watts starting at 1100 UT;
Also has PSSA which is more complicated;
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=1963
in December:
EST watts
|5:15-5:45| 50.0
|5:45-6:00| 50.0
|6:00-6:15| 9.0
|6:15-7:15| 6.0
So this month the best chances to hear it are just before 2215 UT, or just
after 1245 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 10:07:47 +0100
From: "Michael Bethge" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"Fernando Luiz de Souza" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1094
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The latest edition (9 December) of WORLDWIDE DX CLUB "Top News",
compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel, has been posted:
http://topnews.wwdxc.de
Best regards,
Michael Bethge
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