** CHINA. 17480, Oct 5 at 1309, good signal with Chinese music, heavy flutter. It`s a CNR1 jammer, only here to jam BBC Uzbek via Thailand, and gone at 1333 recheck. Similar signals but somewhat less fluttery from CRI EAST TURKISTAN, Kashgar and Urumqi on 17560, 17640, 17650.
19010, Oct 5 at 1311, CNR1 jammer, music // 17480, good here but also heavy flutter; this being vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait on its Sunday-only 11-12 & 13-14 channel. No others audible in the 16s or 14s, and in the 15s, only the inbanders (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, Oct 5 at 0531, R. Cairo Arabic to America is merely open carrier/dead air on good level signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9418.0, Oct 5 at 0520, ERTOpen is 2 kHz off-frequency! pop music in English, fair-good signal; no 9935 at this hour, but // 11645 very poor with flutter. Tnx to tip from Robin Harwood in Tasmania via SDRs at 0426, and later confirmed by several other monitors. It may well have been off-9420 but not noticed at my earlier spot check 0132 merely to confirm whether on the air or not; nothing to het, with Iran moved to 9510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 4820, Oct 5 at 1238, SAH of approx. 8 Hz, and a bit of modulation, presumably Kolkata vs Lhasa. Why in the world don`t they split the difference? Nothing in Asia currently active on 4815 or 4825! This is but one of several instances of India & China fighting over the same frequencies when they don`t have to. Stupid! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 5 at 1231, music with soulish sound, 1235 Indonesian talk; poor but a bit stronger than PNG 3385 had been which just cut itself off; this being RRI Palangkaraya. Today`s Enid sunrise is 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 810, Oct 5 at 1208, slightly above QRM level, promo or ad exclaiming ``¡Chihuahua!``. Then ``La Gitana`` and ``Mexicana``. Only Chih station on 810 is XESB in Santa Bárbara, 1 kW daytimer per last year`s IRCA Log, as R. Mexicana. Cantú and WRTH say 1 kW fulltime. Cantú locates it in Hidalgo del Parral rather than S.B. Among the 13 XE stations on 810 (14 in Cantú), none include a Gitana slogan. Nor does Google find any. May have been mention of some music or commercial, department store? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Oct 5 at 0536, XEPPM with nice classical guitar music, still on past nominal 0500 close, until finally cut off mid-music at 0604*. According to playlist at http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/domingo-05-de-octubre-de-2014 This was from the album GRECE: HOMMAGE A TSITSANIS (p) 1987, to have been followed at 0603 by ALL THE BEST FROM SCOTLAND, VOL. 2. Meanwhile, Terry Krueger in FL caught their ``100 kW`` MW outlet off-frequency to 1060.1 at 1100 Oct 5, first noted the day before. Look for a tell-tale het even if you can`t get any audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1210, Sunday Oct 5 at 1226 UT, `Lutheran Hour` is wrapping up with phone 1-855-JOHN316 ---- wow, what a catch that phone number is, and website http://lutheranhour.org Probably KGYN Guymon, but straying from their US Country format. So I seek out all US stations carrying LH show via http://www.lhm.org/broadcastresult.asp and from the huge list, find three on 1210, WILY Centralia IL and WSBI Nashville TN, both at 9 am CT Sundays --- and KGYN Guymon OK but supposedly at 10:30 am! (1530 UT). (BTW, COL for WSBI is really Static TN --- what a great place for a radio station!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1530, Oct 5 at 0544 UT check, for a change, no Mexican music from KXTD cheating, nor classic rock from KCMN cheating; nothing particular in the mix of QRM, not even WCKY at the moment. And what about KLBW New Boston TX, another 1530 daytimer reliably cheating a few weeks ago? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Oct 5 at 1229, R. East New Britain, Rabaul, poor signal but can make out talk in American English, preacher? Altho speaking in normal tone of voice so can`t be very charismatic; as expected from Ron Howard`s obs, cuts off air abruptly at 1231.0* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 920, Oct 5 at 1220 UT, some local commercials all with 828- phone numbers and no area code necessary; figured it might be my nearest, KLMR Lamar CO (which reaches into NW OK in daytime, as far as Woodward but not quite Enid), but no: ``News-talk 920, KVEL``, i.e. Vernal, Utah. I`ve heard it a few times before: gets out well on SRS. KVEL is 5/1 kW U2. Night pattern is supposed to go mostly northeast, not southeast, while day pattern is ND: draw your own conclusion (inaudible KLMR must still properly be on its N/S reduced power night pattern). 828- chex out as an exchange in Vernal, altho not for the 2014y NRC-AM Log-listed KVEL phone itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 5 at 1210-1213: JBA from the NW on 774, 694, 828, all extremely likely to be NHK JAPAN; and 1053, S/N Korean radio war. Today`s Enid sunrise is 1230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 900, Oct 5 at 1219 UT, noise level being transmitted from NE/SW; again suspect open STL feed to/from the only Mexican in that direxion, XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1539 UT October 5 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
