DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated July 7 http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
** JAPAN. 17800, July 6 at 2215, Japanese at S9/+10, much stronger than 17790 WRMI, despite NHK 17800 at 305 degrees direct from Yamata per HFCC, nowhere near thisaway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, July 6 at 2227 UT, KSPI Stillwater off the air, but JBA carrier in daytime, possibly WJAG Norfolk NE if not WBBM Chicago. During unproductive FM bandscan for Es, as someone in SoCal had been getting Okies; at 0032 UT July 7, besides the weak Bott in KS on 94.3, I copy ``proving that inmates can run the asylum, Mix? 94.3`` Or Kix? Maybe that was really ``Pete 94.3``, i.e. KSPI translator, since AMs can be temporarily? absent yet still ``relayed``. The only other possible Mix 94.3 would be KDEM, 3 kW in Deming, the far side of NM, yet pretty close, and WTFDA slogans it rather ``The Mix`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785, July 6 at 2220, JBA carrier direct, presumably VOT failing to reach deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. Correxion: this item I typoed 15570 instead of correct 15770. Note: WRMI is NEVER on 15570. Unless a punch-up error, but does not seem to happen at WRMI, where each frequency is `hard-wired` into specific transmitter and antenna. Even I can err. -- so fix it, like: ``WORLD OF RADIO 2353 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 27 at 2230 on WRMI 15770, S9+10 into Maryland SDR...`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2354 monitoring: confirmed Monday July 6 at 1958 the 1930 on SW Radio Gold, Germany, 6160.000- S7 and 3975.000+ S9+10 into UTwente. Also confirmed Monday July 6 at 2330 on WBCQ 6160 -75 Hz = 6159.925, S7/9 into NH SDR, after a sesquisecond deadair when previous program finished earlyish. Yes, WBCQ still here with `7490` schedule, since that transmitter is still off the air. Germany 6160 is off air by then, but I am getting something in English into UTwente - not me, but CRI as scheduled this hour only via Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 780, UT Mon July 6, happened to tune to WBBM at 0537 UT when mentioning that StarDate was coming up - and so it did at ``40 minutes past the hour``, 0540, never uttering *which* hour. So this is an hour earlier than usual 0640 UT, when some other item aired. I understand that multi-hours of evening ``news`` are played back as ``olds`` later in night. Remains to be heard whether 0540 on Mondays will continue, and how about UT Sundays when it is never heard at 0640 either? Timechex in the nightmiddle are sometimes a few minutes off, so there may also be some editing in the meantime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 100.3, July 7 at 0028 UT, weak signal IDs just as I tune across, hunting for sporadic E DX: ``103.3 The Ride`` by YL. WTFDA FMDB finds only this: KRDQ 100.3 COLBY KS HOT AC THE RIDE 37124 100.0 kW 186.0 m 39-28-50 100-54-34 3D42 Title & Artist 100.3 THE RIDE Adult Hits -- With the turbulent overheated troposphere, fringers fade up and out a lot much like signals via the ionospheric E layer, making weaksig prop hard to differentiate. Colby is in the far NW corner of KS whence KRDQ is not normally heard, 433 km = 269 stmi (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11512-11565 approx., July 6 at 0621, multi-tone, multi-carriers beating against each other, peaking S9+18 amid. What is this? Woe betide any broadcaster attempting to emit within against it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 104.9 MHz, July 6 at 1635 UT while bandscanning for sporadic E, I encounter a weak but fairly steady signal here with a South Asian accent, something about an astrology website, mentioned Ishtar? Unusual format especially for OK, certainly not EWTN/RCC. I check WTFDA FMDB on all the 104.9 OK and KS listings, where one possibility stands out: KYOM-LP, a 50-watt community radio station in Wichita of which I was unaware and never heard before. Found their website, but no complete program schedule on it: https://www.kyom.org/about so I attempt to enquire via email. First one on the website I try bounces, so then try another, no answer yet. Email outmoded for some, but I refuse to communicate via FB or other social media (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Not getting any 87+ MHz Es FM DX, so I check 6 meters on the R75 with non-VHF loop antenna, July 6 at 2206. 50125 USB has a JBA QSO in English; and traces of a beacon JBA on 50072; at one fade peak, call seemed to start with X-, which around here means Mexico. I haven`t found a current 6m beacon list, but two which may be outdated, neither showing a Mex around here: https://mivus.org/?page_id=27 HAS two on 50072 but neither Mex, nor nearby nor any call with an X https://www.colmgt.com/RADIO_BEACONS.HTML lots more but still no hits; as of 2013?! Can anyone suggest a better current reference for 6m beacons? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0243 UT July 7 _ 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
