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Today's Topics:
1. VoNigeria Hausa at 0615 UT, Sept 29 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Observer SW News Sept.28-29 (Ivo Observer)
3. 9526v Voice of Indonesia from Cimanggis IS NOT ON AIR - today
after 15 UT Sept 29 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Glenn Hauser logs September 27-29, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Champions League football matches tonight - REE bcast
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. some bcast sce log of Sept 29, 1615-1720 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel)
7. India on 60 meterband today at 1730 (Manuel M?ndez)
8. LRA 36 reception report (Manuel M?ndez)
9. JRX Logs September 28, 2015. (Jota Xavier)
10. Glenn Hauser logs September 29-30, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:25:46 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] VoNigeria Hausa at 0615 UT, Sept 29
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9689.896 kHz heard on fair level in Germany, S=7-8, fluttery signal.
Nothing on 7255v despite Belarus Radio.
BUT heard in US eastern coast remote net units
7254.935 S=8-9 in NJ-US remote unit.
wb
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:15:43 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Observer SW News Sept.28-29
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BRASIL Surprisingly good reception of Voz Missionaria on Sept.29:
from 0502 on 5940 CAB 0.5 kW / non-dir to Brasil Portuguese,
videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBPsZq81ZCM&feature=youtu.be
FRANCE Unscheduled broadcast of Radio France International on Sept.28
1200-1300 on 15315 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf open carrier / dead air
1300-1325 on 15315 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf French px, four
videos:www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc-yogeHmQ8&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=wz8eqmLIcG8&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=f-R6GpKeyRI&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=zwx05Sh0B-c&feature=youtu.be
GREECE Voice of Greece broadcasts on September 29:
0500-0606 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^
^ Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Polish,
Albanian, Italian, Arabic, Greek and off at
0606UTC.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zimTbrviao&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB3-X2mO5OM&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz4h-rN9DAI&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0bbZw2202A&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxe9B2LyQ8&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6hJImQhGY&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQ84LJAHH4&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lDNj-0RYTc&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qyGTgxqo2c&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrAwMY4uiCk&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejs9tFG3Kk&feature=youtu.be
--
73!
Ivo Ivanov
*QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria
*Equipment*: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire
*Web: *http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:31:50 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 9526v Voice of Indonesia from Cimanggis IS NOT ON AIR
- today after 15 UT Sept 29
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73 wb df5sx
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:25:20 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 27-29, 2015
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** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 29 at 1359, JBA carrier, but with BFO and headphones
I strain to hear a mis-timesignal from Bangladesh Betar --- and do, the final
chime at 1400:19.5, into Urdu service theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) see also INDONESIA
** CANADA. 740, Sept 28 at 0546 UT, nostalgic song, 0549 UT ``Zoomer Radio``
ID, ``Natural Woman``. Overcomes KRMG Tulsa at one tenth the distance and one
half the power, especially when angling away from it, tho still picking up some
LAH from Mexico off the back. CFZM Toronto, via CBL (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7200, Sept 29 at 1240, soft song and Chinese talk, over
CCI, and also an LSB ham who is oblivious to such broadcast QRM. Aoki shows
jamming and RTI at 10-13; blowing away Myanmar if it`s really on too (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, Sept 29 at 1420, CRI English is fair with flutter, no
echo. Ivo Ivanov recently recorded, presumably in Bulgaria, an echo here during
this hour, confirming that CRI is really also eastward via Bamako, Mali at the
same time on same frequency:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5pAGwv4K1k&feature=youtu.be
So far in North America, we only hear Urumqi. After 1500, when I seldom
monitor, but instead write these reports, another CRI English hour on 17630 is
supposed to be via Mali only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Sept 29 at 0557, Greek music, fair with flutter. Has been a
while since both VOG and I were `on the air` at the same time (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750-, Sept 28 at 1245, RRI Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesian songs,
1252 mentions warta berita, news promo; LAH from a 4750.0 station is there
thruout, but quite weaker.
4750-, Sept 29 at 1235, RRI Makassar, YL Indonesian talk with LAH from 4750.0
but soon in the clear mostly with songs; *1258:32.5 the het cuts back on, too
much to keep listening to either. Is that the behaviour of Bangladesh or China?
At first at 1235 Sept 29, I also have carriers on 3325, 3905, 4870, which could
also be RRIs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11730, Sept 29 at 1322, VIRI is good with lite flutter, 1323 sign-on
in Chinese, NA. Don`t recall hearing this before, and here`s why: per Aoki,
11730 is only at 1220-1320 in Pashto, due east from Sirjan, so they didn`t get
it turned off in time. BUT --- the trouble is, the VIRI Chinese broadcast is
scheduled at 1150-1250! via Sirjan on 17700 and 21455. The next broadcast from
Sirjan is supposed to be Japanese on 13660 from 1323.
Had I known this was so anomalous, would have kept listening or rechecked
later. Per timeanddate.com, DST in Iran ended Tuesday Sept 22, so have they
been confused for a week in the studio, broadcasting languages an hour off the
proper UT scheduled times?! And/or further mixup between Chinese and Japanese?
I, for one, have no trouble telling those quite different spoken languages
apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Sept 29 at 1325, another great Kurdish music concert
from Denge Kurdistane, including a cappella chanting, orchestral segments past
1359. Good signal via PRIDNESTROVYE. 1417 recheck, however, 11600 is weaker and
open carrier/dead air. Has there been a too-rough transmitter-site swap in the
meantime? Yes, supposedly goes at 1400 from Prid. To B`lgariya, where Ivo
Ivanov has often noted the transition is anything but smooth (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 980, Sept 29 at 1220, talk sounds like style of Antena Radio on IMER
stations, as also on 1570 but not enough signal from both to make a // match
with XERF. The IMER station on 980 is XEFQ, 2500/500 watts, La Voz de la Ciudad
del Cobre, Cananea, Sonora, which I have logged before. At 1235 seems both are
singing, now that 980 is under KMBZ. NW Mexican SRS conditions were quite
inferior this morning, not getting much at this hour on lower channels (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 9690-, Sept 29 at 0558, open carrier/dead air on good signal from
VON; same at 0559 on 7255-. At least they are on the air unlike 24 hours
earlier. Normally by now they are drumming and chanting. Good night, so over to
Wolfgang B?schel for Hausa details at 0615 UT Sept 29: ``9689.896 kHz heard on
fair level in Germany, S=7-8, fluttery signal. Nothing on 7255v despite Belarus
Radio. BUT heard in US eastern coast remote net units 7254.935 S=8-9 in NJ-US
remote unit`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 21530-21650 approx., Sept 18 at 1404, extremely distorted wideband
FM modulation, but with pauses I can match to the chat on KTST 101.9 OKC,
instead of Twister music, peaking about 21580, i.e. the second harmonic of the
~10.7 MHz IF of some neighbor`s FM receiver becoming a relay transmitter. Heard
several times, always tuned to KTST. 13m pretty much useless lately, but can
also make out 21630 Ascension and a bit of 21505 Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, Sept 29 at 1419, poor signal but the SSOB from BSKSA in
Arabic, and would be the OSOB if it were not for even less from 21630
Ascension. These days, any propagation on 13m is noteworthy. Maybe we are
getting into the ``fall peak`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, Sept 28 at 1311, open carrier/dead air from
WWRBS with some hum; always much more hum on 9980 WWCR BS even while modulating
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5004.5-USB, Sept 29 at 1302, Navy MARS net, too close for comfort to
WWV on the FRG-7, but no problem on the DX-398 altho with lesser indoor random
wire antenna clipped on. Several stations implying a note of finality, as if
Navy MARS is about to go away. They muse about joining AF or Army MARS instead,
or setting up a ham net of their own. At 1318, NNN0YGW says, ``dedicated to
Navy MARS until it drops under the water``. 1319, he closes the net for today.
Maybe imminent end of USG fiscal year tomorrow is the deadline? Other calls
heard include NNN0AEV, NNN0AWG, NNN0FLN (in Missouri, real foggy, 58 degrees).
`YGW has been logged as NCS for Iowa, Navy MARS Region 7; `AWG in Ames IA; `AEV
in Missouri; `FLN a.k.a. N0INF = Danny E. Mann, Sr., Elkland MO. Logged this
net previously until 1417* last Dec 5 as in DXLD 14-50 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17895, Sept 28 at 1403, open carrier from VOA Greenville test at
S9+20, SSOB, off and back on for a bit; daily checkout a few hours before the
midday broadcast to Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1792 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Sept 27 at 2300 on
WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 28 from 0303 on Area 51
webcast, JL, running only slightly over; ``he`s gotta go``; and confirmed UT
Monday Sept 28 on WRMI 9955, sufficient. Next:
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. 1140, Sept 28 at 1309 UT, Spanish ad from AC 479, easily over
groundwave KRMP OKC, but starting to fade half a sesquihour after sunrise here,
i.e. KLTK Centerton AR, address in Rogers, 5 kW ND daytimer, the station named
after a supermarket, ``Radio Las Am?ricas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1260, Sept 28 at 1255 UT, ID for 104.1 KSGF, Springfield`s News-Talk,
from MO; 5/5 kW, day pattern is ND, but at night it`s all to the south. What do
you know, this FM is not a mere translator but a genuine 19 kW station,
however, licensed to Ash Grove, which is about 15 miles to the WNW, an
afterthought? Official FCC September sunrise is 1200 UT; October, 1215 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. RF 45, Sept 29 at 1435 UT, tropo is up from KSNW 3.1 Wichita KS, NBC,
even tho antenna remains stuck toward OKC; so I try 3.2 and there is
``Telemun`` as that`s how it gets into the Wichita market, piggybacking on
KSNW, but with breakup. Hepburn`s tropo maps do not show any enhancement around
here, and just marginal in eastern OK. Nor does Mountainlake, just Colorado/New
Mexico.
``Univisi`` is also decoding without breakup on RF 31 = 31-1 (kaput KXOK Enid
no longer a blocker). That`s really KDCU-DT, a megawatt pretending to be in
Derby KS, and W9WI.com shows as 46.1 Univision, 46.2 Unimas --- no, displays as
31-1 with no further subchannels. No other Wichita signals are Good enough to
decode under these circumstances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1625 UT September 29
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:26:22 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Champions League football matches tonight - REE
bcast
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SPAIN Radio Espa?a Exterior bcast
tonight from 1845 UT two games - at least
Olympique Lyon vv FC Valencia
FC Barcelona vv Leverkusen Germany
usual frequencies are 15450, 15490, 17715, and 17855 kHz.
wb
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:31:19 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] some bcast sce log of Sept 29, 1615-1720 UT
Message-ID: <DBE50FBA07B6469484C6780C00811B53@HNPC2>
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5066.316 COD Radio Candip on threshold level at 1620 UT.
5010.005 IND AIR Thiru..., S=7-8 fair signal into southern Germany.
5010.475 ... x.493 usual 20 to 30 Hertz wandering range of
MDG Radio Madigasikara S=7-8 signal strength. 1645 UT.
4949.730 AGL R?dio Nacional Angola, at least signal string
visible on remote SDR software browser screen, at 1710 UT
4879.995 IND AIR Lucknow, poor and tiny.
4819.860 KGZ Kyrghyz Radio Bishkek at 1715 UT,
\\
4010.037 KGZ Kyrghyz Radio Bishkek at 1725 UT.
wb
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:41:48 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: "DX Listenig Digest" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] India on 60 meterband today at 1730
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
Logs in Lugo
Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880
Degen 31MS active loop antenna
INDIA
4810, AIR, Bhopal, 1733-1736, 29-09, English, news. //5010, 4920, 4910. 14321.
(M?ndez)
4880, AIR, Lucknow, 1734-1736, 29-09, English, news. //5010, 4920, 4910. 14321.
(M?ndez)
4910, AIR, Jaipur, 1732-1735, 29-09, English, news. 24322. //4929. (M?ndez)
4920, AIR, Chennai, 1731-1734, 29-09, English, news. //5010, 4910. 24322.
(M?ndez)
5010, AIR, Thiruvananthapuram, 1723-1735, 29-09 Hidi music, at 1730, English,
news. 24322. (M?ndez)
5040, AIR, Jeypore, 1722-1726, 29-0, Hidi music. //5010. 14321. (M?ndez)
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:21:42 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: "DX Listenig Digest" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] LRA 36 reception report
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
ANTARCTICA, 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arc?ngel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza.
I have sent an e-mail reception report to the station for a?2012-2034 UTC,
25-09?transmission and here is the station reply:
"Desde ya muchas gracias y siempre atento Usted.?
Nos da una gran ayuda con los informe que Usted nos manda por este medio.
Muchas gracias por su disposici?n.
Esperamos mas Informes........
Un fuerte abrazo a la distancia
Atte: Sergio LUCERO - Enc LRA 36"
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:24:46 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jota Xavier <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
Yahoo! Brazil <[email protected]>, Yahoogroups
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs September 28, 2015.
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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JRX Logs September 28, 2015.
NIGERIA
+9690 9/28 1837 NIG VON,Abuja,English sce;YL talks;News and cms of Nigeria
and Africa;good signal,fair modulation,35533.
SAUDI ARABIA
+11930 9/28 1847 ARS Saudi Intl. Radio,Riyadh,Arabic sce; All Holy Qur?an
cantics;very good broadc,55544.
SPAIN
15490 9/28 1900 E REE,Noblejas,in Spanish; OM: ID,REE News; 1905 OM talks
abt Sports;good signal,fair modulation,45433.
UNITED STATES
+11615 9/28 1815 USA Afia Darfur R.,Pinheira-STP(EiBi says Udon Thani-THA),
in Arabic lang; OMs:conversation;1823 Music;fair broadc,35433.
VATICAN
+15570 9/28 1806 CVA Vatican R.,SM di Galeria,Portuguese sce;OM cms abt
Saint John?s Gospel by Pope in your USA mission;very good broadc,45544..
Jose Ronaldo Xavier (JRX).
Cabedelo - Brazil (UTC-3).
Tecsun S-2000 receiver.
Portable Telescopic antenna.
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:43:37 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 29-30, 2015
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 9645.3, Sept 30 at 0058, no signal from R. Bandeirantes; nor at 0138
when 9630v and 9665v stations are confirmed. I logged it last week, Sept 21 at
0545 with that quarter-hour timesignal, but Brazilians on the radioescutas
group have been concluding the station has quit SW for good. We hope that`s
premature, as lots of stations break down for some reason and come back; let`s
keep checking.
But this from Lenildo da Silva, No Mundo do Dexismo, via Daniel Wyllyans, HCDX
on Sept 26 [gh improved Google translation]:
``Apparently, R?dio Bandeirantes of S?o Paulo (SP), ended its shortwave
transmissions, since it is no longer captured on 9645 and 6090 kHz;
transmission on 11925 kHz had been suppressed for several months.
Affected by a financial crisis, the S?o Paulo station began a wave of layoffs
in its workforce in August, not even sparing established names from the sports
department.
The obstructive cuts, which have reached other parts of the Bandeirantes Group,
seem to have come now to shortwave transmissions. We hope, however, that the
traditional broadcaster of journalism and sport, can overcome this crisis and
re-operate on shortwave soon`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 10000, Sept 30 at 0141-0143, PPE, Observat?rio Nacional with time
beeps every dekasecond, and a louder/longer one at each minute-top. Very week,
and can barely make out ID and time announcements between, but WWV & WWVH are
just as weak here, all adding up to only S1-S2. They do seem well-synchronized
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, Sept 30 at 0103, open carrier/dead air from RHC, and so is 6000.
Finally at 0106, 6000 is IDing and signing on English, so playout operator from
studio must have known about the delay; 6165 is JBM, then 6000 dumps off the
air and 6165 to OC; *0107:35, 6000 cuts back on; and so it goes. Will this have
thrown off the timing of all the hour-by-hour repeats? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 9470, Sept 30 at 0135, CRI English with stox, even
NASDAQ, and running about two words behind 9570 ALBANIA, two words ahead of
9850 CUBA relays. So it must be between Albania and Cuba? No, Kashgar (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. Haven`t surveyed the R. Cairo frequencies for a while, so how are
they doing? Awful, as usual:
12070.00, Sept 30 at *0048:33, R. Cairo carrier cuts on late just as I tune in,
about S9 but just barely modulated, suptorted, supposedly Spanish
11935.07, Sept 30 at 0052, R. Cairo is about the same as on 12070, i.e.
useless, but with a low JBA het, Brasil?
9965.22, Sept 30 at 0056, R. Cairo, Arabic music, just JBM with LAH or whine
9315, Sept 30 at 0134, R. Cairo, supposedly Spanish, S7 but JBM, suptorted
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Sept 30 at 0117, YL in English with lots of numbers,
S5 fighting the noise level. Like my Sept 17 log at almost the same minute,
it`s VCM, St. Anthony with marine weather (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OMAN. 9500, Sept 30 at 0137, ME music, undermodulated tho S9+20, so R.
Sultanate of Oman is on correct frequency tonight, just like exactly one week
ago; could this be a behavioural pattern? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Sept 30 at 0059, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until auto-cutoff
at 0105:58.5*, which is 44.5 seconds later than last check one week ago, Sept
23 until 0105:14*, or averaging 6.36 seconds later per day (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.65, Sept 30 at 0132, bigsig of S9+40 as WRNO is reactivated! As
in DXLD 15-34, last heard on March 22, 2015. Think it`s the same main preacher
as before with his slightly strange accent; 0143 singing ``God is good``. So in
its new incarnation, WRNO has decided to reside off-frequency to the low side
instead of high. Not checked further but the previous sked was v0100-0400 only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Sept 29 at 1927 UT on caradio parked at a quiet location in
western Enid, I`m getting not only KRVN Lexington NE, usual daytime signal
here, but a second weaker station, also a talker, and in English. Try as I can,
no clues pulloutable under KRVN. No DFing on that radio, so go next to the
ALA-330S oriented east/west by the NRD-545 and compare signal that way to the
N-S random wire.
KRVN is much stronger on the latter, but unID gains nothing by nulling KRVN to
E-W, so DF rules out KLRG Sheridan AR, which tho 50 KW ND in daytime, is not
known to make it here across inferior Ozarkian ground conductivity. Still
cannot pull an ID across 2000 UT hourtop as KRVN goes to Fox ``news``. Then I
check the archive and the listings. NRC Pattern Book shows only one other
obvious possibility:
Conroe TX, 10/1 kW U4, which is now KJOZ. When we logged it last March not in
the daytime, it was confirmed to be Spanish religion. NRC AM Log 2015 still has
it as such, ``Radio Aleluya``, address in Pasadena. However, Terry Krueger, FL,
logged it in August, apparently in English. Searching for presumably current
website, we find:
http://kjozradio.com/
where it`s branded ``Progressive Talk, News, Sports and More`` with an address
in Houston. Here`s its lofty lema:
http://kjozradio.com/what-is-kjoz-880-am/
Program schedule for weekdays only,
http://kjozradio.com/show-schedule/
shows 12-2 pm, `Point of View with Carmen Watkins`; 2-5 pm, `Classic R&B Drive
Music Mix`. That`s 17-19 & 19-22 UT. Well, I wasn`t hearing any R&B around
1930-2000, just talk, much of it feminine.
A concise history of 880`s multiple owners and formats is at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJOZ
concluding with ``As of April 13, 2015, KJOZ has permanently dropped Spanish
Christian programming and relaunched as a progressive talk station with the
slogan "Where diversity finds its voice."``
U4 means directional, different patterns day and night. NRC PB of 7/15/2013
shows day pattern is almost circular but a bit lopsided favoring the north,
which is helpful for us.
That certainly makes sense for Houston area via groundwave to here, the station
with the best chance to reach us, if only it weren`t for KRVN. Radio-locator
shows site is about halfway between Houston and Huntsville to the north, i.e.
Conroe. City-to-city distance 714 km = 443 statute miles over good
conductivity.
However, it`s odd that I don`t recall hearing such an understation to KRVN
before here at full day, only an hour to one sesquihour after local mean noon.
Has something changed? KRVN 50/50 kW is ND day, westward at night away from
WCBS. Distance to Enid is 514 km = 320 miles over some of the best
ground-conductivity on the continent, producing a fully readable if not very
strong signal.
FCC Query shows that KJOZ does have an APP, but not a CP, to move to Baytown
and *reduce* daytime power to 5 kW (but apparently cover all-important Houston
better). That pattern would have a huge lobe to the NNW, right toward us and
KRVN too!
We would surely be getting 50 kW 740 Houston if not for 50 kW KRMG Tulsa and
KTRH nulling toward OK, throwing most of its day and night signals to the
southwest; 610 and 790 are direxional south; 650 is a pennywhistle 250 watts
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4450-4451, Sept 30 at 0113, weak AM carrier is jumping around to
various spots in this range as I am trying to zero-beat it exactly and maybe
draw some modulation. Is the WOOB Bolivian Radio Santa Ana known to behave this
way? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-LSB, Sept 30 at 0044, 2-way in Brazuguese; maybe ``peskies``
as the North American pirates complain of them, but none heard on the band now,
except 6770. Peskies prefer LSB and are on various spots down to 6900 or so
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0443 UT September 30
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 153, Issue 30
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