** ARGENTINA. 15345.3, Sept 24 at 2345, surprised to hear RAE in Portuguese at this hour --- no, it`s not, but Portunhol, or Spanish with a heavy Brazilian accent from a (financial?) YL correspondent in São Paulo, then back to regular Argie-accented Spanish from studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 5910, Sept 24 at 0543, TWR music-box IS, very poor but at least showing again, the 100 kW, 30 degree beam before Polish M-F quarter-hour, and confirming that COLOMBIA still hasn`t come back on its second frequency. TWR, however, is desensitized on the FRG-7 by the bigsigs from WWCR on 5890 & 5935 (not always the case, but as such tonight) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 15440, Sept 25 at 1403, S Asian music, heavy flutter. It`s AWR Urdu service, 300 kW due east from Moosbrunn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11856.3, Sept 24 at 2343, R. Aparecida with a song no doubt of Marian praise, about 1 kHz further off-frequency than usual, and // weaker 9724.4 as relayed by RB2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11620, Sept 25 at 1328, open carrier with hum, heavy flutter; 1329 hum stops; 1330:15 join AIR English sign-on in progress amid frequency announcement; 1330:45 ID and into news. Nice to hear 11620, as for months during the 1330 GOS sesquihour, it`s been inaudible, unlike the other two frequencies, 9690 and 13710. These are audible, but 11620 is much better; 13710 is slightly behind 11620, as 9690 also seems to be. Per Aoki, 11620 is only 125 kW from Delhi-Khampur, while 9690 & 13710 are 500 kW Bengalurus. Between 1336 and 1337, 13710 suffers a break in transmission for less than a minute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750-, Sept 25 at 1200, first check of session is for RRI Makassar, but only a low audible het between it and Bangladesh or China, closer to 4750.00. Therefore quite surprised at 1238 recheck to find RRI up to fair level and alone, with YL Indonesian announcement, then mostly music, still 1248. 1251 brief ``running-water`` ute QRM overrides; 1253 another YL announcement, but at *1254.5 the LAH comes back on --- so Makassar has lucked out with Bangladesh or China in a transmission break until now (why in the world don`t the three permanently spread out to 4740, 4745??). 1300 announcement from RRI but QRM is worse. Had been the best I`ve heard it so far since reactivation. It surged after our sunrise 1222 today. We hope for good DX conditions the last week of September, as minor/major geomag storms are coming the first week of October. From 1239 Sept 25, I also scan 60m for other Asian signals: 4870-, nothing from RRI Wamena (Ron Howard also says it was off today); 4820 has talk with a het = Kolkata/Lhasa-Baiding; at 1241 algo talk on 4895, also signals on 4920, 4970, 5010, 5050, pointing to India and/or Tibet/China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 774, Sept 25 at 1207, JBA carrier from the NW/SE, certainly 500 kW JOUB Akita NHK-2, my prime pilot for trans-Pacific MW DX. Then seeking others on DX-398 9-kHz stepping, and find: 693 & 594 at 1208; 828 at 1211, the latter as strong as 774. These surely are all other NHKs: 828, 300 kW JOBB Osaka, NHK-2; 693, 500 kW JOAB Tokyo, NHK-2; 594, 500 kW JOAK Tokyo, NHK-1. No more carriers found up to 1000 nor in the 1500s. Sunrise here today: 1222 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Sept 25 at 0553, Mexican music is totally dominant, soon ID for Radio 65, live TC for 6 para las 12, i.e. XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Can hear trace of WSM (and something else, KGAB WY?) only by carefully nulling this! Northerly signals from Chicago, Minneapolis, etc., are still inbooming, so not auroral condx; a fluke? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 690, Sept 25 at 0555, two Spanish stations: one IDs for 107.9 FM and into music; the other ``La 69``, promo tied in with Mexican independence just celebrated last week, then continuous talk. Both vs open carrier from KGGF KS. The `107.9` one loops further clockwise from the ``69`` one. The latter is surely 100/5 kW XEN in the DF. But all three references, IRCA, Cantú and WRTH show no 107.9 // on 690, but instead 107.1 for XEMA, 50/2 kW in Fresnillo, Zacatecas; so unless a new 107.9/690 combo show up, I`ll have to assume what I really heard was ``107.1``. Sorting out the XE 690s can be confusing: XEWW, 77/50 kW in Rosarito BCN is also listed with a ``6-90 AM`` ID (but never heard here with its tight N/S pattern); both XEMA and XECS in Colima are a.k.a. ``La Mejor`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, Sept 24 at 2335, Spanish speaker with a sense of urgency as if preaching something we haven`t already heard ad infinitum, still at 2346, too poor to make out details, but presumably the pirate predicator circa Nicaragua, offshore? but in aero band during habitual ~half-hour appearance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6955.0-USB, Sept 25 at 0110, only pirate-band signal at the moment emits dense rock music at S9+18; 0114 announcement as Def Leppard, ``don`t need to be listening to this``, ``This is Radio Broadcaster, screwing around; got one more for you, listen up, all you HF-Undergrounders``. Where I go later and find agreement that ``Radio Broadcaster`` is the ID, apparently a first-timer, or first-namer: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23583.0.html As almost always the case, I am further west than any of the other loggers of these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Sept 25 at 0101, RSO unfound on any of: 9500, 9540, 9740, so I look for a signal on 15140, and there is one very poor, but can`t tell whether it`s RSO overtime or CRI Chinese via Xi`an as also sked this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1792 monitoring: confirmed second SW broadcast, Thursday Sept 24 at 2100 on WRMI 7570; sufficient. Missed checking next airing at 2330 on 5850. Confirmed UT Friday Sept 25 at 0100 on WBCQ 9330-CUSB running S9+30! Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 760, Sept 25 at 1226 UT as I am trying to ID the nostalgic music, maybe from Mexico [see UNID log], 6 kW KCCV Overland Park KS is in ascendance, closing `Turning Point` program with San Diego address (not KFMB!), own ID for 760, 92.3 and new 101.5; ad for Hillsdale College (which is in Michigan, Baptist). NRC AM Log does not show any FM // for KCCV, nor for WJR, nor for KMTL in AR. 92.3 however matches in the WTFDA database as KCCV-FM Olathe KS; and the 101.5 to K268CF in Kansas City MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Doug Smith comments on my previous log about KQCV-800 OKC: > Standard remark about stations > broadcasting dead air for more than a minute being unworthy of their > licenses. If they can`t have at least one human constantly listening > to their own stations, and in emergency control if needed, how can > they expect anyone else to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Indeed, for only $150 a station can buy one of these: http://www.bswusa.com/Silence-Sensor-Broadcast-Tools-Silence-Sentinel-Basic-P6483.aspx which will listen for them. You just have to have one human within earshot of the alarm. If $150 is too much for a silence sensor, how's free?: http://pira.cz/show.asp?art=silence (Doug Smith, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That should be a no-brainer, but I would still not be satisfied. At least one station staffer should be *required* to *listen* constantly to own station`s output, much of it the crap they expect the audience to hear (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 880, Sept 25 at 1229 UT, plug for an event in Washington County Community Center, loops E-W, 1230 UT KLRG ID, i.e. Sheridan in central AR; while Wash. Co. is the NW corner circa Fayetteville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, Sept 25 at 0602 UT, KCKN Roswell NM ID missed but multi-station ID in progress for Mount Kisco and many others including ``530 Caicos, British West Indies``, i.e. Radiovisión Cristiana, originating in NYC at WWRV-1330; overpowering near-local 1020, KOKP Perry OK, still making a SAH with it as 50/50 kW U4 KCKN continues to ignore its requirement to protect KDKA if not KOKP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX Listening Digest) ** U S A. Doug Smith answers a question in my previous report: > BTW, KFH is (voluntarily?) downgraded to only 630 watts instead of > the usual 1000 for graveyarders (looking thru the NRC AM Log, there > are quite a few others at less than 1000 now; why?). (Glenn Hauser, > Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Antenna is too efficient. KFH is using the KZCH-96.3 FM tower. This tower is 225 electrical degrees high - at 1240 kHz, that's 151 meters. It delivers 441mV/m of signal at 1 km. The minimum tower height for a Class C station like KFH is only 45 meters, or a minimum signal of 241mV/m. The typical AM non-directional tower is somewhere near 1/4 wavelength, or 90 electrical degrees -- less than half the height of what KFH is using. I think if you checked on the other less-than-1,000-watt Class C stations, you'd find nearly all of them are using FM or TV towers which are much taller than normally used for Class C's. == (Doug Smith, W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [and non]. 17600, Sept 25 at 1339, poor signal in Somali is the 16m OSOB [only signal on band]. It`s VOA at 13-14 via SMG, violating Separation of Church and State. By 1348 a second one is starting to show, 17615, Qur`an, i.e. BSKSA Sa`udi Arabia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 760-, Sept 25 at 1218 UT, nostalgic music, slightly on lo side making LAH with KCCV KS (see USA Log); 1222 segué to ``Stranger in Paradise`` by big band; 1224 losing to KCCV. New NRC AM Log 2015 shows no ``NOS`` format in USA on 760, and there`s nothing roughly matching the DF that`s not a talker. So, is it really a Mexican? 2014 IRCA Log shows no specific NOS format there either, but from DF could be: XEES Chihuahua, XEEB Ciudad Obregón, or XENY Nogales. At least XEES and XENY have been logged here before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7851.5-USB, Sept 25 at 1304, Spanish 2-way with cambios, too close for comfort to 7850.0-CUSB CHU, CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9170-LSB, Sept 25 at 1308, 19-second poorly-edited test count loop mixing English and Spanish! ``Probando, uno, dos, uno; uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete; uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinc--- [cut to English:], one, two, testing, one, two, four; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight; testing, one, two, three, four, three, fifteen, ten . . .`` and repeats. 1315 briefly QRM from another SSB offset. These strange counts still going past 1332. Sounds like a human, not a robot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1719 UT September 25 _ 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
