** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Oct 8 around 1200, even RA is severely attenuated after G3 storms and K index up to 6, now 5. Recovered sufficiently by 1308 when `Conversations with Richard Fidler` is again with a psychiatrist, same one as yesterday? No, per website that was Patrick McGorry, while today it`s Sandy McFarlane. (Tho both dated one day ahead).
While I`m at the RA program sked, let`s see what`s running now in the 14-15 UT hour: Thu, The Body Sphere; Baby Talk Fri, Unearthed (JJJ music until 17) Sat, Saturday Night Country (hour 3) Sun, Sunday Night (hour 3) Mon, ABC Editors Choice; The Main Ingredient (food) Tue, Who Are You; Brunch with Simon Marnie Wed, My Soundtrack with Lucy Durack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Oct 8 at 0549, this HJDH is absent again, but the other HJDH on 6010 is still audible fairly. With a K-index of 6, TWR Austria is not making it either on 5910 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Oct 8 at 1405, Denge Kurdistane all-talk now, usual strong and fluttery signal via PRIDNESTROVYE. It`s really amazing how well this reaches OK, slightly off the SE Turkey target area, unlike any other 25mb signal from E Europe or ME; is it longpath? Again the YL speaker with a French??? accent, and occasional borrowed(?) words such as ``democracie``. This time I keep listening closely for site swap to BULGARIA, and I`ve got it! At 1415 a slight echo starts, and a few seconds later the first signal goes off leaving a somewhat weaker one. Quite smooth and well-coördinated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 550, Oct 8 at 1202, kid choral NA, full ID for XEPL, ``La Super Estación`` 24h on AM and FM from Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua; 1203 into edition #41 of `Mundo del Trabajo` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 620, Oct 8 at 1202, ``La Norteñita`` ID from XEBU Chihuahua2 plus FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 870, Oct 8 at 1214, a bit of local version of ``Mañanitas`` faded completely out for YL announcer to give generic birthday wishes without specific names, efemérides info, XETAR, La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara ID from Chihuahua, then brings more ``Mañanitas`` song back up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Oct 8 at 1231 UT, KGYN Guymon, but with Kansas news from Mid-America network which owns it, then ad for something in Amarillo TX, nothing about OK. Meanwhile, between these there is a brief break in transmission and signal weakens a bit, which is not what one would expect if going from direxional-west night, to ND day. Anyhow, official FCC Oct sunrise is not until 1245 UT (Nov: 1330 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thursday Oct 8 before 1200 on WRMI 9955, but very poor signal with propagation disturbance, K index of 5 after G3 storms. [Yet, nearest neighbor SW site, Habana, with VG signals on 9850, 9825, 9805-jam, 9640, 9570-CRI, 9550, 9530-mix? Australia 9580 also attenuated.] Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 0100 WBCQ 9330-CUSB to WSW 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, Oct 8 at 0130, no signal audible from WBCQ. AWWW had publicized a couple new shows at 01-02 UT Thursdays, starting tonight, just when I`m busy recording the next World of Radio. I was more interested in the first one by title, `Broad Spectrum Radio`, than the 0130 one, `Mennonite Radio` from ``James in Oklahoma``, but if on, no propagation anyway. WWV says yesterday`s solar flux was only 81, almost as low as it ever gets; K index at 00 today was 6, and at 03 it would be 5; ``Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred.`` If anyone heard B.S.R., please send us a review! These don`t yet appear on http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 At the same hour on 7490, the notorious Hal Turner was to revive, unchecked. He is now on the corresponding 7490 sked for two hours, annotated `` After harshly criticizing his supporters, listeners, and WBCQ, Mr. Turner left the airwaves on March 22, 2004`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. K-index of 6 at 03 and 06 UT Oct 8 and geomag storms reaching the G3 level mean that the Tennesseans were very poor to just barely audible instead of inbooming, Oct 8 at 0548-0549 chex: 5935, 5890 (only residual Cuban jamming audible), 5830, 5085, 4840; only 3215 and 3185 remain at good levels. With its southern advantage, WRMI is still VG on 5850, as are the Cubans on 5040, 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780, Oct 8 at 1210 UT, promo for Norfolk Community Theatre, local news from WJAG, i.e. Norfolk NE, 1 kW ND daytimer, but before 1245 UT in Oct, must be only on 500 W PSRA; yes, one of those few legacy W-calls west of the Miss. Nearby KSPI OK is nulled, and at this time no WBBM, after axual Chicago sunrise today at 1155 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, Oct 8 at 1220 UT, dominant good signal is LONG adstring starting with Smiles Forever Dental Center, next to the Roswell Mall, so I know right away what I`ve got despite mostly national ads/PSAs to follow: Rite-Aid, GEICO, Grasshopper, United Way, Home Depot, NY Pork Chops, Home Depot again, Dishnet. By now it`s 1225 UT as a morning show finally resumes. It`s KKBE Roswell NM, an ID never heard, ex-KBIM since April 21, 2015. Likely on 5 kW ND day pattern already, since 500 W night pattern goes south, tho official Oct sunrise is not until 1300 UT! (Nov: 1330 UT).(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1180, Oct 8 at 1230 UT, about traffic in Sioux City, but then The Zone ID for Omaha, i.e. KZOT Bellevue NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Oct 8 at 1236 UT, mentions weather for Phœnix, then baseball discussion. Double-take, surely not KFNN Mesa yet, biz format, but rather KCTE Independence MO, on ESPN network, with heavy CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 750, Oct 8 at 1208 UT, music and ``750-AM . . . Grupo Fórmula`` ID, from ~SW, separable from northerly KMMJ, NE. Trouble is, no ORF affils listed on 750 in IRCA Mexican Log, nor Cantú. Finding any affiliates at http://www.radioformula.com.mx/estaciones.asp is frustrating. Could it be a US station? KAMA El Paso would fit except it`s with Univisión América (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1080, Oct 8 at 1227 UT, with KRLD nulled as much as possible, another station making a fast SAH with it, ``KDY? 105`` ID. I`m pretty sure of the FM number, which could refer to a 104.9 or even lower. The only two likelies to the west of here, which I have heard before, are KGVY Green Valley AZ, and KSLL Price UT, but I can`t find any connexion with a ``105`` FM for either. There is a 104.9 translator in Price, but allegedly for something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Oct 8 at 0558 UT, `Dave Ramsey Show` on signal that sounds like WLAC Nashville, except they normally carry `C2CAM` at this hour. WLAC sked shows DR at 5-8 pm CT. DR Show website station finder is most unhelpful, requiring one to enter a location or zip code, and then displays affils in or near the area, but one must go to each station`s website to find out the time! Only other DR in the NRC AM Log 2015 for 1510 is daytimer KAGC in Bryan TX, which claims DR is on there at 3-5 & 7-9 pm CT. I thought it was end of a DR program hour, but maybe it was just a promo on WLAC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4790-, Oct 8 at 1247, JBA carrier yet again amid CODAR. Is it BBC Uzbek via Tajikistan warming up already for its 1300 broadcast? Thomas Nilsson in Sweden hears that well and sent a clip of the closing by 1330 yesterday including the BaBcoCk theme music. Then I hear from him today: ``Hello Glenn, Set my Perseus for recording today. Enclosed you will find a pdf showing two signals from 1240 UT about 1.5 Hz apart. The stronger one is BBC WS. I can't tell what the other signal is, maybe a spurious signal from BBC WS as it is far too early for Indonesia here at this time of the year. The exact frequency is 4789.99 taking the misalignment into account. So I think people over there must check for a possible Indonesia. Regards, Thomas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1711 UT October 8 _ 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
