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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2013 [more] (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: CUB 4765 (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
3. Re: CUB 4765 (Arthur Delibert)
4. Glenn Hauser logs September 30-October 1, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2013 [more]
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** CANADA. 960, Sept 30 at 0503-0505 UT during local KGWA Fox-hole, I am
getting something clearer by shooting thru the open carrier than nulling it,
with volume turned way up --- discussion in English of the Calgary Flames and
other silly puckgame teams. Therefore CFAC Calgary, Alberta is not employing
its 50 kW nighttime pattern which is cardioidish with deep null USward, but
non-direxional daytime pattern. I`ve heard it a few times before this way, but
normally no sign of it. I see in NRC AM Log 2013 it is now affiliated with ESPN
--- is there a Canadian network version, or was I necessarily hearing a local
origination segment? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non], Sept 30 before 1300:
13530, good at 1249; in fact SSOB if you consider this still the 22 mb
13830, fair at 1259; none in the 12s, 14s, 16s, 17s
Only traces on the usual inband 15 MHz frequencies
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11860 et al., Sept 30 at 1401:36, RHC YL announcer asserts it`s
``exactamente las 10, ante-meridiano``, maintaining her record of being at
least a sesquiminute slow. Exactly, my foot.
BTW, Arnie Coro reports that a new SW frequency starts tonight, 4765 with R.
Progreso relay at 0030-0400, and it`s already in Aoki as 50 kW ND from Oct 1;
and will overlap Tajikistan starting at 0300. I suspect the Brazilian listed on
4765 is not active. Coro previously mentioned that RHC itself would add a 90m
frequency around 3300. NOTE: It`s Progreso, not Progresso!! If you know the
first thing about Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [non]. 5765-USB, Sept 30 at 1154, no sign of AFN, still missing. Or
possibly due to poor propagation; PNGs and Indonesians have also been no- or
barely-shows on 90 and 60m the past week. Our sunrise now 1226 UT, well after
most of the PNGs have closed around 1200. WWV reported at 1318 that there have
been and shall be minor solar radiation storms at the S1 level (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Sept 30 at 1206 UT, ``La Poderosa`` ID, norte?a music:
700 XEGD La Poderosa + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000
per Cant?, which for those who may not be aware, refers to this excellent
online but not always totally up to date and correct reference:
http://www.mexicoradiotv.com
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, Sept 30 at 1229 UT, morning-zoo type show in Spanish, several
talkers with funny voices, laughs, SFX, automatic 2-pip timesignal a few
seconds before 1230; 1232 music, 1234 back to zoo but fading; no sign of KKOB
or KKOB yet. At this late hour, I would lean toward Los Mochis, but can`t be
sure it`s not Monterrey, per Cant?:
770 XEACH Radio F?rmula Primer Cadena?? Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000?? 100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 780, Sept 30 at 1208 UT, time & temp in ``Monclova, Coahuila``,
audible with KSPI OK nulled, fast SAH between them; Cant?:
780 XEWGR Exa + FM 101.1 Monclova, Coah. 10,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 860, Sept 30 at 1201 UT, dominating KKOW and everything else, is
Spanish mentioning ``la zona metropolitana de Monterrey`` as if a local
reference, i.e. in Cant?:
860 XENL Radio Recuerdo Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 2,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Sept 30 at 1210 UT, a bit of ma?anitas ending, then IFE PSA
aimed at those turning 18 who should now register to vote. 1212 live YL
mentions three saints whose day this is [if you believe in that sort of thing],
``en un d?a como hoy`` = efem?rides, today-in-history which goes on and on as
she reads haltingly from a long list of Sept 30 events including something in
the year 0420, ``santo patr?n de los traductores``, still going at 1217. Then,
since 2009y, Sept 30 has been ``El D?a Internacional de la Blasfemia``! in
support of freedom of expression. Here`s more about it, in English:
https://www.facebook.com/blasphemyday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day
where we learn that OK is among the states with an anti-blasphemy law,
surprise2.
Oh yeah, so what station is this on 880? At 1219 losing a bit to another SS and
to KRVN NE which I need to keep nulled; 1220 YL gives TC for 6:18 so it`s close
to the UT-6 zone; 1222 birthday wishes to someone in Los Mochis, finally a
local reference in passing; birthday song by tenor and mariachis, not to
familiar tune nor ma?anitas. I had thought it might be XEV Chihuahua, but it`s
really the only other UT-6 Mexican per Cant?:
880 XEPNK Planeta + FM 103.5 Los Mochis, Sinaloa 10,000 2,000
So now this is more definite than my 880 logs of Aug 25 and Sept 10 in DXLDs
13-35 and 13-37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1000, Sept 30 at 0543 UT, ``la voz del pueblo es ?La Rancherita!``,
music. So strong I have to null it to hear KTOK. Cant?:
1000 XEFV La Rancherita Cd. Ju?rez, Chih. 1,000 D
No, it is NOT a daytimer! IRCA shows it irregular 24h with 5/1 kW; WRTH as 1 kW
fulltime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, Sept 30 at 1236 UT, KOKP Perry is *still* having
severe problems, modulation cutting out every few seconds, and unusually weak,
allowing easy null for Spanish music, presumed KMMQ in Nebraska. 1259 recheck
it`s much stronger, making it easy to see on the DX-398 meter that the signal
drops drastically along with the modulation but does not cut out completely.
Now averaging once per second, but irregularly.
Apparently KOKP is diligently switching from night to day facilities, powering
up from 250 to 400 watts, and two different patterns, the broader day one
normally putting a semi-local signal into Enid? Not exactly; official sunrise
in Sept was already 1215 UT; October 1230. Its PSRA calls for 28 watts in
September, no more due to KDKA until 10 watts in March. But if it can run 250
watts all night, why should it have a much lower PSRA??
As usual, sibling station 1580 KOKB Blackwell has no such problem (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sept 30 at 1239 UT, KOAG Enid is still All-Ag with market
report, constant humbuzz on carrier. Maybe will flip later today to True Oldies
as rumored? 1607 UT, still ``the Farm Station, all-ag, all-day``. [See also
USA: 1070 KLIO Wichita, just flipped from True Oldies to ESPN Deportes!]
99.7, Sept 30 at 1602 UT finally catch legal ID from the new ``Hank FM``,
ex-True Oldies: ``We`re proud to be KNAH, Mustang-Oklahoma City`` --- ha ha,
that`s HANK spelt backwards --- so new it`s still not in FCC FM Query,
unassigned, with 99.7 Mustang still coming up as KZLS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 650, Sept 30 at 0535 UT, let`s see what`s inhabiting the null of WSM:
Not one, but two Coast to Coast AM affiliates as I am hearing a slight reverb,
from not-quite-synchronized feeds. One is surely KGAB in Wyoming, but the
other? NRC AM Log is no help as it does not specify C2C affiliates, which are
so pervasive overnight! So I have to hunt thru the show website.
Other 650s are CKOM in Saskatoon but also its own schedule shows it in comedy
every night during this hour, no C2C until 0600 UT. And 50/50 kW U1, KENI in
Anchorage AK!! Starting at 0500 UT = 9 pm local. That would be nice.
Unfortunately there is yet another, quite rare too but more likely, WNMT in
Nashwauk MN, 10/1 kW U2 as long as it`s really on nite pattern with two minor
lobes going west and northeast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Sept 30 at 1229 UT, another regular polka from KKOW Pittsburg KS
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1070, Sept 30 at 1237 UT, wow, it`s really flip-day all around. True
Oldies contracts must be expiring, as KLIO Wichita is suddenly in Spanish
sports! Discussing Manchester United and other British SBG teams. Could not
believe my ears at first, but it`s certainly the KLIO groundwave signal from
that direxion, usual fast SAH when nulled with remnant KNX (KLIO being the one
off-frequency). 1241 still f?tbol talk, and numerous program promos never
mentioning the station/network, but including multiple timezones from Eastern
to Pacific, so it`s not from M?xico. Altho also discusses Liga MX game
schedule; 1245 text jingle repeating 643-776 over and over, the same as EVR(?),
whatever that means. 1246 program promo finally mentions in passing ESPN
Deportes Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 88.7, KRZA Alamosa CO webcast I had on in the background, at 1529 UT
Sept 30 was playing a song whose lyrix include ``you motherf------`` but cut to
some other music after the second time that was exclaimed. Not quite blasphemy
but a nice example of free speech on the radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Note: previous report should have been subjected September 29-30, since it did
include on Sept 29 item (99.7), rather than Sept 30 only
This report dispatched at 1627 UT Sept 30
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:08:44 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "DXplorer"
<[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] CUB 4765
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Maybe 5 antenna installations at Bauta and Quivican
at Bauta site:
3 x corner reflector 5 / 6 MHz ?
22?56'55.51"N 82?32'56.07"W
22?56'52.46"N 82?32'50.80"W
22?57'00.29"N 82?32'35.87"W
at Quivican site:
NVIS Near Vertical Incidence Skywave antenna 5025/5040 kHz
22?49'21.20"N 82?17'24.04"W
22?49'24.81"N 82?17'47.37"W
vy73 wb df5sx
> 4. New Cuban Shortwave Operation starting 1 October
> Posted by: "Bryan & Sandra Clark" .nz bryanclarknz
> Date: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:00 pm ((PDT))
>
> While listening to Arnie Coro on "DXers Unlimited" via Radio Havana
> Cuba on 5040kHz at 0520 UTC, he gave details of a new Cuban
> experimental shortwave operation starting Tuesday 1 October. Radio
> Progreso, Programa Nacional will operate with 50kw on 4765kHz from
> 0030 till 0400 UTC.
>
> This means 3 shortwave operations from Cuba on 60 metres - the 100kw
> sender on 5040 that RHC uses for English to 0600 UTC, the 50kw Radio
> Rebelde on 5025 which I think is 24 hours, and the new Radio Progreso
> on 4765, also with 50kw.
>
> If we're lucky 4765 might squeak into NZ just before signoff at 0400
> but it may be a bit early I fear - will let you know tomorrow (or
> maybe Wednesday if they're talking local dates).
>
> Arnie mentioned the website www.radioprogreso.cu and there's an audio
> stream there if you click on the headphones in the header.
>
> Bryan
> Mangawhai
> AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America.
>
> PS: I hear Radio Progreso from time to time on MW frequencies 640 and
> 890. They play great Latin music!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser"
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:26 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2013 [more]
CUBA. 11860 et al., Sept 30 at 1401:36, RHC YL announcer asserts it`s
"exactamente las 10, ante-meridiano", maintaining her record of being at
least a sesquiminute slow. Exactly, my foot.
BTW, Arnie Coro reports that a new SW frequency starts tonight, 4765 with R.
Progreso relay at 0030-0400, and it`s already in Aoki as 50 kW ND from Oct
1; and will overlap Tajikistan starting at 0300. I suspect the Brazilian
listed on 4765 is not active. Coro previously mentioned that RHC itself
would add a 90m frequency around 3300. NOTE: It`s Progreso, not Progresso!!
If you know the first thing about Spanish.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:23:21 -0400
From: Arthur Delibert <[email protected]>
To: Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX <[email protected]>, DXLD
<[email protected]>, DXplorer <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] CUB 4765
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Nothing heard tonight as of 01:20 UTC. So maybe they mean it will start
October 1 local time.
Wasn't this frequency once used by Cuba to relay Russian language programs for
Russians working in Cuba? I have a vague recollection that the broadcasts
became very poorly modulated and distorted before they finally went off the
air. Maybe they've rehabilitated the old transmitter?
--Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:08:44 +0200
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] CUB 4765
>
> Maybe 5 antenna installations at Bauta and Quivican
>
> at Bauta site:
> 3 x corner reflector 5 / 6 MHz ?
> 22?56'55.51"N 82?32'56.07"W
> 22?56'52.46"N 82?32'50.80"W
> 22?57'00.29"N 82?32'35.87"W
>
>
> at Quivican site:
> NVIS Near Vertical Incidence Skywave antenna 5025/5040 kHz
> 22?49'21.20"N 82?17'24.04"W
> 22?49'24.81"N 82?17'47.37"W
>
> vy73 wb df5sx
>
>
> > 4. New Cuban Shortwave Operation starting 1 October
> > Posted by: "Bryan & Sandra Clark" .nz bryanclarknz
> > Date: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:00 pm ((PDT))
> >
> > While listening to Arnie Coro on "DXers Unlimited" via Radio Havana
> > Cuba on 5040kHz at 0520 UTC, he gave details of a new Cuban
> > experimental shortwave operation starting Tuesday 1 October. Radio
> > Progreso, Programa Nacional will operate with 50kw on 4765kHz from
> > 0030 till 0400 UTC.
> >
> > This means 3 shortwave operations from Cuba on 60 metres - the 100kw
> > sender on 5040 that RHC uses for English to 0600 UTC, the 50kw Radio
> > Rebelde on 5025 which I think is 24 hours, and the new Radio Progreso
> > on 4765, also with 50kw.
> >
> > If we're lucky 4765 might squeak into NZ just before signoff at 0400
> > but it may be a bit early I fear - will let you know tomorrow (or
> > maybe Wednesday if they're talking local dates).
> >
> > Arnie mentioned the website www.radioprogreso.cu and there's an audio
> > stream there if you click on the headphones in the header.
> >
> > Bryan
> > Mangawhai
> > AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America.
> >
> > PS: I hear Radio Progreso from time to time on MW frequencies 640 and
> > 890. They play great Latin music!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Hauser"
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:26 PM
> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2013 [more]
>
> CUBA. 11860 et al., Sept 30 at 1401:36, RHC YL announcer asserts it`s
> "exactamente las 10, ante-meridiano", maintaining her record of being at
> least a sesquiminute slow. Exactly, my foot.
>
> BTW, Arnie Coro reports that a new SW frequency starts tonight, 4765 with R.
> Progreso relay at 0030-0400, and it`s already in Aoki as 50 kW ND from Oct
> 1; and will overlap Tajikistan starting at 0300. I suspect the Brazilian
> listed on 4765 is not active. Coro previously mentioned that RHC itself
> would add a 90m frequency around 3300. NOTE: It`s Progreso, not Progresso!!
> If you know the first thing about Spanish.
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30-October 1, 2013
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** BOLIVIA. 3310.0, Oct 1 at 0129, I am hearing something besides local mix of
KGWA and KCRC Enid which has blocked this frequency for ages! (960 + 960 +
1390; both of them are still blasting in on fundamentals.) Poor signal unseems
Spanish or not all Spanish, dialog with kid voices, hard-sell ads? 0132, music
bits with talk, then fuller music. Poor signal, but surely R. Mosoj Chaski, 10
kW ND from Cochabamba, per Aoki at 0830-1200 & 2100-0200; while WRTH shows
09-13 and 21-01. Eibi has yet another version: 09-12 and 2030-0130, partly in
Quechua. S American conditions are hot tonight; cf PERU 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717, Oct 1 at 0107, no signal from Yura, presumed off; 5952.4, Oct
1 at 0100, no signal from Radio Pio Doce, also presumed off, as S American
signals are otherwise better than usual, e.g. 4875, 5980, 6135- (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4875.0, Oct 1 at 0109, Brazuguese with ``21 horas e 9 minutos``
timecheck; 0125, mentions Boa Vista. So it`s certainly R. Roraima, which is in
the minority UT-4 zone from Boa Vista in the northern tip of Brasil. Carrier is
on exact frequency, but there is a squealing blob on the hi side difficult to
pinpoint but audible 4876-4878. If there had not been several reports of this
station varying with spur, I might assume the blob is unrelated, possibly from
a local device. Anyhow, it`s now avoidable, especially by listening to 4875 on
LSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 4765, Oct 1 at 0106, no R. Progreso on new frequency Arnie
Coro announced on DXers Unlimited as to start Oct 1 at 0030-0400; I suppose he
must have meant Oct 1 local date, i.e. 24 hours later. RHC website has been
redesigned, apparently eliminating the DXers Unlimited archive, but now his
alternative blogspot is active, so here is exactly what Arnie scripted about
this for the Sept. 29 edition:
``This is Radio Havana Cuba, the name of the show is Dxers Unlimited and here
is news about the experimental Tropical Band transmissions to begin on the
first day of October by Radio Progreso Cadena Nacional, that means of course
Radio Progreso National Network, Cuba?s second most important AM, FM and now it
is going to be also on short wave.
Radio Progreso will begin its Tropical Band broadcasts on 4765 kiloHertz, again
four thousand seven hundred and sixty five kiloHertz on the 60 meters Tropical
Band starting at zero hours thirty minutes UTC with the popular music show
Nocturno, and the broadcast will end at zero four hours UTC with the late
evening news.
The Tropical Band transmission will provide excellent coverage of the Cuban
archipelago and the sorrounding countries. Transmitter power is registered at
50 kiloWatts and a classic high departure angle antenna will be used as
required for the Near Vertical Incidence Skywave transmissions.
With Radio Progreso?s new Tropical Band Service , Cuba will have on the air
three signals on that band, Radio Rebelde on 5025 kiloHertz , Radio Havana Cuba
5040 kiloHertz, and now Radio Progreso 4765 kiloHertz.
Reports of the new Radio Progreso Tropical Band transmissions may be sent to
inforhc at enet dot cu, again inforhc at enet dot cu , and I will relay the
reports to my good friend Radio Progreso?s chief engineer Jose Antonio
Fuentes.``
Meanwhile, there *is* a JBA carrier, very weak signal already on 4765, and at
0108 can hear some talk. I`ve assumed it was probably Tajikistan, but could be
Brasil, and whichever, is about to get creamed by the Cubans:
Aoki shows:
4765 R. Emissora de Educa??o Rural 0800-0300 1234567 Portuguese
10 ND Santarem PA??????????? B?? 0226S 05441W ZYG363??????????????????
4765 Radio Progreso??????????????? 0030-0400 1234567 Spanish
50? ND?????????????????????? CUB? CMBC Oct. 1-
4765 Tajik Radio 1???????????????? 2300-2000 1234567 Tajik
100? ND Dushanbe-Yangiyul??? TJK? 3829N 06848E Tajik R1????????????????
EiBi also shows Tajikistan on now plus two Brazilians:
4765 0900-0400 B?? R?dio Integra??o????? P? B?? cs
4765 0900-0200 B?? R?dio Rural, Santar?m P? B?? sa
4765 2300-2000 TJK Radio Tajikistan????? TJ CAs y
WRTH 2013 lists only R. Rural under Brazil; and only R. Integra??o, Cruzeiro do
Sul, but irregular, in the master frequency list!
We haven`t seen any updates in several months by the Brazilian DXers who were
supposedly keeping track of which ZYs are really active.
Arnie will not doubt assert that 4765 is registered with the ITU, and tough
luck to the other stations on the frequency. We recall that long ago, 4765 was
used for Soviet relays via Cuba. Dusting off old crystal? Or dormant
registration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, Oct 1 before 0100 nothing heard from AFN, but by
0116 JBA broadcast-intoned talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, Oct 1 at 0059, AIR Delhi-Khampur site is again mixed up,
running the AIR IS in the middle of what is supposed to be the 0045-0115
Sinhala service // 11740 via GOA, which is stronger and broadcasting other
music. 11985 is presumably again about to air the start of the Sindhi hour by
mistake. Recheck at 0115 to find the 11985 carrier still on until 0115:51*
while the 11740 carrier was already off by 0115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11820, Oct 1 at 0119, VIRI IS is already playing, fair with flutter;
0123 announcement, national anthem, usual sign-on routine, in this case: Kazakh
scheduled at 0123-0220, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan // 9790 Sirjan.?
In his final DX Re Mix News #800, Ivo Ivanov presents a full revised VIRI
schedule, ``Effective from Sunday, Sept. 29 all shortwave broadcasts from Voice
the Islamic Republic of Iran begin 7 minutes earlier, e.g.: new times:
xx23-xx20 / xx53-xx50, instead of xx30-xx27 / xx00-xx57.``
I asked, ``could this just be to account for the interval signal preludes which
have already been playing for several minutes before each broadcast; with
programming still opening on the half-hour???`` The answer is NO --- they
really are starting at 23 or 53 minutes past the hour, which is likely to mess
up other stations` frequency coordination; why???
Thus the so-called ``Voice of Justice`` only English to North America must now
be at 0323-0420 on 13650, 15470.
Our best wishes to Ivo who says he is now retiring from shortwave; after a job
very well done! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 15680, Sept 30 at *1629:50 carrier on, 1630:07 music starts,
could be choral anthem, 1631:30 YL sign-on announcement, the new clandestine
Radio Mehr, which appears only Mondays and Fridays during this semihour; poor
signal. Aoki shows 250 kW, 90 degrees from FRANCE without specifying Issoudun,
which of course it has to be if really from that country.
DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, final issue #800 shows this:
``IRAN (non) A new clandestine station Sedaye Radio-ye Mehr Iran has started
1630-1700 on 15680 ISS 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian Fri/Mon from Sep. 23``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 774, Sept 30 at 1159 UT, 27 minutes before sunrise here, my TP
carrier search below 1200 kHz finds only this one from the NW, and tho it`s
JBA, I decide to zero-beat the BFO on it and see if I can hear a timesignal:
yes! There it is, 3 + 1, the final one higher pitched and prolonged, typical
NHK style, so JOUB, 500 kW NHK-2 is for sure. Akita is on the far side of
Honshu, west coast toward the north end, almost 40 degrees north, but this
doesn`t prevent it from being one of the best TP signals into deep North
America. Here`s how it might have sounded with slightly better reception,
another NHK-2 recorded almost four sesquiyears ago:
http://www.intervalsignals.net/files/jap-nhk2_jorb_kochi_011107.m3u
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. David Yocis says the FCC CDBS shows 1640 changing from KOAG to
KZLS so the new format stays with the previous call. Most of the day Monday
Sept 30, 1640 was still ``The Farm Station, All-Ag`` but there`s music at 0027
UT Tuesday October 1. 0028 ``True Oldies Channel`` slogan, ``Hotel
California``. Listening on a noisy receiver, too close to the computer, the
signal suddenly weakens at 0030, which is not the correct time to cut from 10
to 1 kW, Sept LSS being 0045 UT (to be 0000 in October; LSR 1215 in Sept, 1230
in Oct) (finally straightened out these times from previous posts).
Richard N Allen, near Perry OK, heard a KZLS legal ID on 1640 but as
Hennessey-OKC, instead of Enid-OKC, Hennessey being the closest town to the
transmitter site, so are they really abandoning Enid as City of License? X-band
1640, of course, was originally supposed to *replace* KCRC 1390, which never
happened. Richard also heard promos still referring to 99.7, the ex-True Oldies
sibling, which is now Hank FM, KNAH (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 1 at 0057, R. Chaski is in much better than usual carrier
maybe with traces of modulation. Now despite 5990 China-via-Cuba still being
on, I can axually copy some program details: keyboard music first; shortly
after 0100, ``Son las 20 horas --- Red Radio Integridad``, i.e. the network ID
from Lima 700 MW always being relayed by Urubamba in the evenings without its
own ID. Modulation is somewhat muffled and too bassy. Claudio Galaz, Chile,
also hears 700 and often reports 5980 with modulation problems.
By 0101, 5990 is off. Just before 0102, 5980 plays usual daily fanfare, maybe
introducing a devotional capsule. Slightly after 0103, another music jingle.
There are some intermittent noise bursts, maybe the on-channel Cuban jammer
trying to intrude, but not too much of a problem this time. 0104 talking about
200 mil watts, sure not its power! And a website .com reference, P O Box
address somewhere.
Cuts off at 0105:39* which is 4.5 seconds later than yesterday. Intervals seem
to be varying slightly; several previous cycles had the timer being reset to
ahead of 0100 before it ever reached 0106, so we are alert for this to rehappen
any day now. However, this may depend on human intervention which could be more
variable than the timer slippage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 1 at 0114, open carrier, good with flutter, then music
thru 0115, 3-pip time signal 10 seconds late, the third one prolonged, SLBC
signing on in Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110-CUSB, UT Tue Oct 1 at 0111, WBCQ again for the second Monday
night in a row, heard with unscheduled airing of `Marion`s Attic`, she and her
sidekick discussing an ancient record, then playing it starting with an Arabic
(?) announcement and Mideast music. Still not on the 5110 schedule at:
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110
Occasional QRM from ute noise bursts, a risk this far out of band
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1070, Sept 23 at 2300 UT, since KLIO Wichita has unexpectedly flipped
from True Oldies Channel to ESPN Deportes, have they also changed callsign,
like 99.7 OKC from KZLS to KNAH? No, heard legal ID switched to English, still
KLIO, altho with a Spanish accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 130, Issue 1
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