** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Oct 13 at 0517, Qur`an with heavy flutter from Issoudun, FRANCE site, while other transmitter on 9535 attained only a JBA carrier. Other reports say they are no longer // (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. QSL from KBC Radio, 9400: apparently there was a problem with my original upload of this. Try it now: http://www.w4uvh.net/KBC9400.doc You may need to use Open Office writer to see the grafix. This reminds us that another test to North America is coming not this weekend, but UT Sunday Oct 21 at 0000-0200 via Bulgaria on 9500 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610, Oct 13 at 0535 UT, Spanish music from NE/SW, ``la mejor música``. Must be CHHA Toronto, and coming in much better than usual (which is often: not at all). For a change I do not hear any IBOC noise from 1600 KATZ St Louis MO in the same direxion, which is a big help. Turned it off or long fade? [At same time I am monitoring another Canadian[?] on 6925: see NORTH AMERICA.] 0537 fade-up with ``La Bamba``; 0545 quick CHHA ID in English! Then Spanish with e-mail partially: ``arroba 1610.am`` and ``Voces Latinas, La voz de la comunidad``. 0547 plug advertising on station, phone 702-2953 for sales; another phone with 416-AC. Still going at last check 0610, but now IBOC QRM is back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6175, Oct 13 at 0514, Sackville stuck here again tonight for VOV relay, Vietnamese music, instead of correct 9555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE [non?]. Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, passed on this news to the DXLD yg at 2234 UT October 12: ``Chile 12365U Radio Cooperativa, Santiago with FIFA soccer Ecuador vs. Chile right now. UNID relaying Radio Cooperativa, Santiago with soccer FIFA match Ecuador vs Chile. (DXers Marcos Cox, Luis Valderas and others in FB via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Oct 12)`` I checked it ASAP and replied: ``Coming in well here at 2245 Oct 12 with quick CODAR pulse interference. Coastal stations around Australia may not be too pleased. Glenn, OK`` This was based on the 2002 Klingenfuss Shortwave Frequency Guide book, showing on 12365: VIB Brisbane Radio, VID Darwin, VIM Melbourne, VIP Perth, VIT Townsville. And also a general entry which Wolfgang Büschel pointed out: ``Frequency: 12365,0 [kHz] Call: worldwide Station: ship stations simplex freq. Country: Modulation: SSB`` ``Glenn, Could you hear any soccer, after all? Others DX-friends elsewhere report no sportive broadcast. But some traffic instead. Maybe the match ended before they began tuning the frequency. I am not currently listening to the SW. I was simply relaying the info. 73 Horacio Nigro, Uruguay`` ``I only had time to check it very briefly, hearing a broadcast conversation in Spanish, but not what it was about. At least I heard no gooooooal. Glenn`` Next check after 0100 Oct 13, it was no longer heard. Certainly a frequency worth further checking. Ahh, for the good ole days, when R. Cooperativa was a constant and intentional AM SWBC station, 9630? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake October 13: 7445, fair at 1317 in mix with CNR1 echo jamming, RTI, etc. 9680, also tried to detect FD, but not at 1317, in mix of RRI and China radio war. No complete search but likely fruitless above 12 MHz where very few signals were propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [non]. 7375, Oct 13 at 0211, V. of Croatia via Wertachtal, GERMANY, English segment, after news, the weather for Croatia. YL has American accent but Croatian surname; 0212 recap top stories; 0212.6 transmission info starting with satellite, MW, finally generic SW mentioning all frequencies regardless of times, none given; 0213.75 back to music. During the talk there was a ``hollow`` sound, i.e. the two transmitters very very slightly unsynchronized, (and/or the offbeam signal getting an extra bouncearound) but not enough to be a nuisance or impediment to comprehension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9374 & 9606, TDF Montsinéry is still radiating distorted hummy FMy spurs, 116 kHz each side of the 9490 transmitter carrying Radio República via RMI, also with enough modulation audible on the spurs to make a definite match to jammed 9490. Upper one again bothered Vatican Spanish via Bonaire on 9610. Hmm, desperate Cubans should try the spurs if 9490 is blocked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Oct 13 at 1200 UT, full ID for XHTNT 106.5, Radio 65, Grupo Chávez, and also mentioned ``Radio K`` in passing, so the Radio K that I heard before was definitely XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, Oct 13 at 1202 UT, KSPI Oklahoma is kindly cooperating by not modulating its carrier, so I can catch this: ``10,000 watts, Monclova`` mentioned, so per Cantú it is: 780 XEWGR Exa FM + FM 101.1 Monclova, Coah. 10,000 250 Lacking anything that definite but ``Exa FM`` ID could also have been: 780 XEZN Exa FM + FM 104.5 Celaya, Gto. 5,000 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 850, Oct 13 at 0602 UT, news quoting el gobernador de Coahuila, mentions Torreón, but there is no 850 in that state, and this is national news about the drug lord being killed and then kidnapped; loops WSW and even overrides KOA which has faded down or taken down by auroral. Very likely the usual one I hear, per Cantú: 850 XEM Milenio Radio + FM 103.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, UT Saturday Oct 13 at 0500, local KGWA Enid provides another Fox-hole (could there be others at different hourtops? I need to check). During the pentaminute of dead air, manipulating the DX-398 to null the remaining very strong carrier as much as possible, this time the main inhabitant of 960 is Mexican music; lyrix seemed to mention ``Lupe``, rather than being a slogan ID. Prime suspect XEK Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Based on proximity, number two possibility would be XEKS in Saltillo, Coahuila but Cantú shows its night power only 100 watts. Based on frequent reception area, and more toward the KGWA null, #3 would be XEIQ Cd. Obregón, Sonora, 500 watts. Based on highest night power, #4 would be XEHK Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2500 watts. Now, how about someone voicing a real ID during this window? It must radiate after 0500:00 and before 0505:00 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 13 at 0112, Médi Un, Nador transmitter is still malfunxioning, far off frequency from 9575, and producing an 880 Hz (A-note) het against the 9580 station which at this hour is CRI English via Cuba. After 0200, when CRI had switched to Chinese, the het was still audible but not as strong, altho CRI parameters remain the same per HFCC, 250 kW at 10 degrees. And the other Nador transmitter, for IGIM on 15349.1, remains totally unheard at numerous chex in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, UT Sat Oct 13 at 0519, pirate music audible, with a pumping sound, but that`s on the original, not a transmission or propagation problem. 0523 ID break but during fade, could not copy; then ``Lola`` (by the Kinks?); 0533 ``The music makes the difference`` again missing the full ID, then ``Rose Garden`` by Lynn Anderson. [Meanwhile I am distracted by much better signal than usual from CHHA 1610 Toronto, trying to listen to both; see CANADA.] 0537 ``The Edmund Fitzgerald`` by Gordon Lightfoot [could this pirate also be Canadian? Allegedly]. 0542 partial ID copied; 0547 finally full ID: ``Radio Trans-America, relayed by Radio True North; from somewhere on Planet Earth, this is Radio Trans-America`` by robotic YL voice. 0548 ``Green Onions`` by Booker T and the MGs; 0552 segué to ``Slow Ride``, by The Eagles?, ``take it easy``. 0555 another segué to YL singer, unrecognized; 0558 same ID as above, ``Fire``. Still going past 0600; 0611 another canned ID and I should add that it includes some neat electronic sounds; I quit at 0611 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, Saturday Oct 13 at 1157 UT, KSPI Stillwater is in open carrier/dead air. At least I haven`t noted this daytimer lately in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Saturday Oct 13 at 0500, KGWA provides another Fox-hole (could there be others at different hourtops? I need to check). See MEXICO, but no ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17625, Oct 13 at 1333, big humbuzz upon poor signal in Arabic talk, as BSKSA manages to penetrate from afar, while the only bigsigs on 16 and 19m were from Cuba. This is 500 kW, 100 degrees from Riyadh, while the duplicate and unhummy HQS on 17615 at 190 degrees could not be heard today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7335, Oct 13 at 0612, IWT is on and // 7275 with Arabic music and announcements. I`m seldom up late enough to hear 7335 during DST, which does not start until about 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB: AWWW finished around 0116 and announced the three frequencies re-splitting to separate programming: on 9330 GFRN, 7490 BS and 5110 Area 51. Music fill ensued, and WOR 1638 started a bit early at 0128.5. Fair reception here vs T-storm noise elsewhere in OK, KS. Next plays: Saturday 1630 on HLR 7265 (presumably, got no confirmation last week) Saturday 1730 on WRMI 9955 and WRN via SiriusXM channel 120 UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5745 Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Sunday 0800, 1730 also on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 12105, Sat Oct 13 at 1402-1407+, fast SAH and CCI from two poor signals, one in Chinese, one in Arabic, i.e. KSDA GUAM and WTWW respectively, which the FCC saw fit to assign to the same frequency at the same time. WTWW probably on early this Saturday following Saturday-only Russian until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 13 at 0108 check, no signal from WRNO. This is a great improvement, since when on the air, they were unable to modulate fully and/or free of extreme distortion. Maybe someone in Fort Worth finally turned on a radio and heard how awful their own station sounded? It was also absent the previous night just before usual 0400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 630, Oct 13 at 0558 UT, anti-Obama commentary, 0559 ``KSLR.com, AM 620, The Word in South Texas, San Antonio, Salem Communications``. Promos for programs at other times. Being a gospel huxter, it was first assumed to be KJSL Saint Louis MO. It and KHOW Denver usually dominate the frequency, but nothing from them at the moment. Conditions may be somewhat auroral. KSLR is 5000/4300/PSRA 500 watts, per NRC AM Log. NRC Pattern Book shows KSLR at night has null to the SW (Monterrey), so most of signal goes northward, while daytime also nulls XEFB, but spurts out instead to its sides, WSW and SSE with big nulls also northward, especially toward St Louis and Denver. This looks the opposite of what ought to be called for, day vs night, so I check day and night patterns at FCC AM Query: Sure enough, they are reversed in the 2006Y NRC PB, so the dotted lines for San Antonio 630 should be solid, and the solid line should be dotted. Here`s the real day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/175125-24652.pdf which matches the `night` pattern in the book. And here`s the real night pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/282725-1949.pdf which matches the `day` pattern in the book. I trust this will be fixed in the new edition under preparation, and that there were not too many other such reversals in the old one, but be on the lookout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 13 at 1152 UT, the distorted-Donald-Duck transmitter is detectable under KQCV and XEROK, so it is on the air before 1200, presumably one of two stations in NE Mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15739-SSB, Oct 13 at 1358, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, narcotraffickers or poachers? 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