** AUSTRALIA. 15200, Sat June 6 at 1140, special English talk about sneezing, best into the elbow, etc., fair-good signal; 1143 outro as `Spotlight` see http://www.radioenglish.net for ``Why Do I Sneeze`` episode. It`s RBA as scheduled this quarter hour in English only on Saturdays, but no ID, 1145 into another Burmesish language which is really Rawang, daily. As a language-lesson approach to evangelization, `Spotlight` is typically mixed in with other language broadcasts rather than all-English, and per Aoki, English on this 320-degree service from Kununurra is also appearing Sun/Mon/Tue/Thu at 1115-1130; other days one Chin dialect or another, or Burmese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13920, June 6 at 1149, CNR1 jammer, poor, none in the 12s, 14s, 15s or 16s. 13920 is again heard at 1340 with good signal, none in the 12s, 14s or OOB 15s. 18990, June 6 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, poor, as required for this RFA Tibetan hour on Sats & Weds via Kuwait; none in the 16s or 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, June 6 at 0543, RHC English is only fair strength and undermodulated, much worse than // 6100, 6000, and even 6060. What`s wrong? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9315, June 6 at 0226, R. Cairo with suptorted music in English service 9965, June 6 at 0230, R. Cairo, VG signal with whine but Arabic is just barely modulated 13850, June 6 at 0232, R. Cairo, very good signal with Arabic drama, somewhat distorted but still readable, not // 9965 other Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, June 6 at 0228, Greek music is VG from ERT, back on sporadically still; nothing on any of the other 7, 9, 11 or 15 MHz frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 600, June 6 at 1100 UT, music other than NA, so probably not in UT -5 zone, fades at 1102 during full ID mentioning Mazatlán, Sinaloa, so XEHW 5/1 kW, ``La Mejor`` as listed by Cantú, IRCA and WRTH but the latter puts it in Rosario. Altho Sinaloa is a hotspot for sunrise skip to here, seems I have only logged this one a couple times before in March and April of 2013, as in DXLDs 13-13 and 13-15. When I started at 1055 UT today, by the dawn`s earliest light, there were Mexicans on just about every channel at the low end of dial, as Enid SR is 1114 UT, to edge slightly earlier to 1113 UT during the next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, June 6 at 1105 UT, timecheck for 6:05 on 88.1 FM, just as it`s hit by low rumbling het from another station cutting on the air, presumably XEGD Chihuahua. No 700s are listed with an FM 88.1, but must be XEDKR in Guadalajara, relaying Radio Red out of México DF which *is* also on 88.1 there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Saturday June 6 at 1115, that preacher in some variant of Low German, whom we know comes to us via XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, fading a few minutes later. Mentions Hermosillo, and sounds like a few English words mixed in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, June 6 at 0215 UT, I`m marveling at how, even without a Fox-hole during the `Clark Howard Show`, I can null local KGWA down to nothing by extremely precise rotation of the DX-398 on the easel in my second-floor radio room. The slightest nudge will bring it back in. But as it`s sitting in the null, KGWA starts cutting in all by itself. Is something happening intermittently with their power/pattern, or is the DX-398 responsible? Have not noticed such behavior before (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1000, June 6 at 0604-0606 UT, dead air from KTOK OKC, during which I can make out some Spanish and some English from understations, the former WSW likely Juárez. 0606 UT KTOK comes to life with music presumably prélude to another C2CAM talkhour (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 21829-USB, June 6 at 0236, after finding no signals on the 21 MHz broadcast band (and didn`t notice any on ham band either), here`s intermittent SSB, first just saying ``Charlie Alfa Hotel``, then at 0237 shifts up one to 21830-USB, with same; 0238 blowing in mike, feedback or tone, and full call fonetikally as KG7CAH, except I`m not sure of the second character, which sounds more like ``frog`` than ``golf``; 0240 more knocking mike around, blowing; 0241 blowing, feedback, full call again with same question mark. Evidently an ham in the Northwest testing. Maybe he`s lysdexic, thinx he`s on 21380 inside the hamband? QRZ.com lookup shows: KG7CAH Michael G Nelson 1121 Harrison Ave PMB 128 Lacey, WA 98503 USA However, in case it`s KF7CAH, I also look that up and find that he`s not far away right here in Enid! Capitalization sic: KF7CAH Michael D Anderson 423 w elm enid, OK 73701 USA So it could be an overload or spur, unknown frequency whence. I think he must be saying ``fox`` instead of ``foxtrot``, demonstrating that there`s a very good reason for the ``-trot`` to be part of that F fonetik! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1776 monitoring: confirmed Friday June 5 good at 2130 on WRMI 15770; and very poor at 2130.6 on WRMI 7570 in noise level, but presumably much better further east and in the skip zone of 15 MHz. Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [last week: from about 0325-] 2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [irregular] 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v For all our broadcasts on all media see http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Access to podcasts, latest and previous shows: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 850, June 6 at 0218 UT, no KOA yet, but instrumental hymns looping NE/SW, presumably KFUO Clayton MO still on even after 9 pm local now at midsummer, as KOA`s sunset is not until 0230 UT in June & July. Our sunset was 0146 UT and its latest a month from now will be 0153 UT, per Gaisma.com (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, June 6 at 0602 UT, EWTN is very good dominating channel, with ``repeat of Sunday Night Prime``. I.e. KRCN, Longmont, Colorado, 50000/111 watts, obviously stuck on day power to the delight of Mother Angélica and The Vatican. Hardly any het from off-frequency XE, nor KIJN TX/NM. At 1119 UT circa sunrise here, nothing much; could KIJN be back in whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, June 6 at 0213 UT, `Open Line Friday with Colin Donovan` from EWTN, ergo KDMR Kansas City MO, 5/0.5 kW (not KPHN as in NRC AM Log: remember they then swapped calls with El Dorado 1360). FCC sunset in June & July is 0145 UT, to cut from 5 to 0.5 kW; it soon faded, maybe really powering down circa 0215 UT? I shortly also have EWTN on 1060, q.v., no doubt KRCN CO, but not enough signal on two receivers to check if matching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, June 6 at 0212 UT, heavy C&W music atop talk show, WOAI really getting QRMed! Not exactly --- I can`t get a null on either and it`s soon clear that WOAI is QRMing itself with double audio modulation; and the music cuts off a minute later uncovering the `Michael Berry Show`, who was apparently unaware what was happening to him. So much for the flagship of Clear Channel, or whatever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5980, June 6 at 0223 UT, very poor signal with talk. Unseems WWCR mix, which is capable of producing leapfrog of 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, so what? Later it occurs to me that this very date is when Scandinavian Weekend Radio is on the air for the 24 hours of the first Finnish Saturday of the month --- but according to http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm they are on 6170 until 0500 UT switching to 5980. Maybe it`s a receiver overload image of unknown origin on the PL-880 with a bit too much antenna clipped on. I could hardly believe 100 watt SWR would be making it here, least of all in the summer. (Yes, this date, I`m monitoring an hour+ later than the Chaski check.) SWR don`t always adhere to their frequency schedule, so when I`m on again at 0546 I check all four when 5980 and 11690 are supposed to be vigent, but absolutely no carrier on those nor 6170, 11720. Ivo Ivanov confirmed they were in fact active as heard in Blgaria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1625 UT June 6 _ 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
