All times and dates strictly UT. MW log editors are welcome to excerpt items, reformat and change to favorite timezone if necessary. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; some caradio as specified; above 2 MHz on FRG-7 with 110-foot east-west longwire.
UNIDENTIFIED. Tnx to a tip from nearby Richard Allen, near Perry OK, that he was getting 774 Japan audio for the first time this year on Feb 21 at 1306-1311 UT, I resumed performing a 9 kHz trans-Pacific carrier bandscan Feb 23 at 1305-1307 in USB, 1307-1310 in LSB. This is with the DX-398 on 9-kHz steps, using only its internal antenna indoors; its BFO happens to be misaligned about 0.4 kHz low so if there is a carrier I hear a tone around that pitch. Seldom are any strong enough to provide audio with this setup. On USB I found carriers here: 693, 738, 774, 828, 972, 1116, 1125, 1134, 1242, 1278, 1323, 1404, 1413, 1422, 1566. Altho it was a bit later and signals may have faded somewhat, hardly any of these were heard on the way back down in LSB mode. I usually have better results with USB than LSB for some reason, altho certain frequencies ought to do better on LSB depending on which side of 10 kHz channels they are on. Today`s sunrise was 1310 UT, and it`s moving about one minute earlier every day. These signals indicate we are pulling out of the `mid-winter anomaly` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Tran-Pacific MW carrier bandscan just before sunrise Feb 25 at 1255, in USB mode on DX-398: 594, 648, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1566, not in that order. At 1302 detected 1593, 1566, 1134, 1053, 972 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, Kirk Allen in OK asked me to check out his unID Spanish as ``La Poderosa`` but never any real ID, which he has been getting as late as 1500 UT, so he thinx it`s likely a domestic rather than a Mexican such as XECPN in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, which sometimes uses that slogan. I`m not sure where that info comes from, as not shown as such in WRTH 2011 or IRCA 2010, but rather Radio Noticias, ergo a news format rather than music. Feb 25 I start checking at 1250 UT and 1320 has Spanish music dominating, and hard to null for a fix. At 1253 announcer mentions ``7 minutos``, a timecheck before some hour or other, not caught; heavy CCI. 1308 music and DJ, and now it seems to be coming from the bearing of Piedras Negras or vicinity. Chex at 1400 and later brought only Americans in English such as KOLT; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1320, Feb 25 at 1400 UT, checking out the Spanish unID, but by this hour a US station in English is dominant, KOLT ID, and KOLT.com, into Fox News Radio, looping NW/SE, from Scottsbluff NE. 1403 cut to local weather, hi 19, lo 9 [F], the ``Hometown Family Radio News forecast``, 1404 mentions west Nebraska. KOLT used to be in Spanish on weekends only, and noted as such in NRC AM Log 2010-2011, but their website which is really http://www.koltam.com now says ESPN Radio on weekends, instead of farrightwingnuts weekdays, such as Glenn Beck calling George Soros a Communist at final check 1420. Also shows new(?) slogan I have not yet heard spoken, `The Talk of Wyobraska` --- I guess that`s sexier than `Neoming` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Feb 25 at 1310 UT rock music, and DJ announces ``no school today at Northern Valley``, repeated. Name is a bit generic but let`s hope for some good Google hits. Yes: near the top of 39,300 of them is this: http://www.nvhuskies.org/ which is in the small town of Almena KS, Norton County, along the Nebraska border, and guess what, there is a 1 kW/500 W psra 1530 in Norton, KQNK, so that`s it! Strangely enough, the Northern Valley website has nothing about school being canceled; they should listen to KQNK like I do. Temps very low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, VL8T, Tennant Creek NT, Feb 23 at 1323, YL talking and intonation sounds Strine; much weaker signal on 2310 and can`t be sure it`s //, and no signal on 2485. I checked 2325 conveniently right after 3325 Indonesia, and found their frequencies matched, 1.000 MHz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Greetings: WWRB lost the use of 3145 so we had to shift our programming: Brother Stair has 3185 all night long now. The other programming on WWRB such as WORLD OF RADIO had to shift to 5050 for the time being. 3215 is off the air for a week or two: Reason: We are making antenna insulator modifications to allow the use of 2390: During a 10 kW carrier test, we noted arcing at the insulators suspending the 190 foot high, 340 degree azimuth rhombic antenna we plan on using for this 'new' frequency. We also noted that the 2390 insulator arcing caused the integrity monitors of our aircraft LOCALIZER & GLIDESLOPE facilities to alarm. We are making the changes and will do more Carrier & Flight testing on 2390 kHz (Dave Frantz, International Radio Station WWRB, Feb 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You may recall that WWCR used 2390 several years ago until about 2001, pioneering its availability to US SWBC stations. Fortunately, Guatemala and Mexico have long since abandoned it too (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Hi Glenn: 2390 is up and running. Can you hear it? We have some additional work to do on the antenna, add to the grounding screen at the rhombic tuning network. Check it out, let us know (Dave Frantz, WWRB, 0220 UT Feb 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Loud and clear here at 0253. Some hum, but you often have that (Glenn to Dave, via DXLD) Why did CR give this frequency up? Do you know? We have received VERY good reports so far. We still have some minor antenna issues, we hope to resolve in the next day or so. Had some light rain tonight. The arcing became steady so we turned off 2390 until tomorrow (Dave to Glenn, 0603 UT, ibid.) WWCR was still using 2390 in 2001, but I don`t find reports of it after that, in quick search of DXLD archive. So is your plan to move 5050 programming down to 2390, including World of Radio? (Glenn to Dave, ibid.) Not sure yet. We might use 3215 till 0200, then switch to 2390. 5050 may go back to Bible on tape. again not sure (Dave to Glenn, ibid.) ** U S A. WWRB on new 2390 // 5050 during WORLD OF RADIO 1553, UT Friday Feb 25 at 0433, after announcement by Dave Frantz asking for reports, saying results on 2390 have been very good. Here, it`s much better than 5050. I check the webcast at 0500 when WOR should still be on, having started late, but that is already in Bible-readings. I assume our program was allowed to finish on at least one of the SW frequencies, as it did once before on 3185 when this happened. Dave says he plans to bring 3215 back on shortly with station promotions, and will run 2390 all-night. However, not yet, as it was off at 0604 check. George McClintock tells me that WWCR left 2390 about a decade ago because there were not enough receivers tuning that band, and because of ``ducting`` causing the signal to reach Australia, but not much in North America beyond 500 miles; up to 500 miles, it was great. As for receivers, where the signal is extremely strong, and where there are cheap AM radios, this should break thru as a 2xIF image on 1480 or 1490 --- a deliberate tactic of the late, lamented Radio Huayacocotla, Veracruz, México when it was on 2390 and denied a real MW frequency. Of course, there are plenty of stations in USA on 1480 and 1490 already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
