** ALGERIA [and non]. 13790, May 9 at 0636, Chinese with fast SAH and CCI, the latter a new ``station`` in Algeria as reported here last few days in WOR iog, ``Ifrikya FM``. In a surprise development, this is to be a pan-African service in a few languages, original stories mentioning SW but WTFK? Since then has been found on SW frequencies until now scheduled for TDA, i.e. mostly carrying Qur`an service.
At this hour big collisions. Per Aoki: 23-09 Ouargla site, but 13790 a very bad choice with plenty of other usage including, 06-07 CNR1 jamming vs RFA Chinese via Saipan; also CNR1 jamming vs Sound of Hope, 2130-1420. // 15110 Béchar now only a JBA carrier. Recheck much later at 2219 May 9, only weak ME? music on 13790. EiBi shows Algeria starting at 2000, and nothing else at this hour. OUARGLA appears to be correct spelling, not Ourgla or Ouragla! Google translates from French to Arabic as waraqla or ورقلة More about this at Tony Rogers` Africa on Shortwave: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N0T-5Bh704WY8tiUnTrtfrCIl7CdY13u/view Here`s one recent report in the WOR iog: ``ALGERIA: I have been following the new African station Ifrikya FM from Algeria, and recorded 13590 and 13790 kHz overnight from 2300 to 0300 UT (6 May into 7 May). There was overall good reception on 13790 (via Ourgla), with audible but weaker reception on 13590 (via Bechar). Programming was predominantly African music, however there was a female host from 2325 and later a male host, with various guests with short speech segments. From around 0255 there was a promo loop with a montage of voices mentioning Burkina Faso and Sudan, perhaps others) which could have been journalists covering those areas. Seems to me that the station is in "preview" mode and has yet to settle down to regular programming. Worth keeping a watch on. They have a webpage at http://www.ifrikyafm.com and a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090062677320 from where I see this email address: ifriky...@gmail.com -- Alan Roe, Teddington, UK`` Website is just ``coming soon`` -- La voix Africaine`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 5910-, May 9 at 0645, Alcaraván Radio with music, S9/+10 on signature offset about minus 50 Hz, back after missing 48 hours ago. Now there is again a much weaker JBA carrier on 6010- with almost same offset pitch on BFO, maybe LV de tu Conciencia if not Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. DEBATE MOUNTS OVER FUTURE OF OETA’S BROADCAST TOWERS By Janelle Stecklein, CNHI Oklahoma, Enid News & Eagle May 9, 2023 https://www.enidnews.com/news/debate-mounts-over-future-of-oeta-s-towers/article_ac54ff1a-ede9-11ed-a183-3302c5b897fe.html OKLAHOMA CITY — Uncertainty is growing about who would control and use a vital network of rural broadcast communication towers following a gubernatorial push to sever ties with the Oklahoma public broadcaster. Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to veto a routine measure reauthorizing the existence of Oklahoma Educational Television Authority has created some thorny and complicated logistical and operational questions, including who ultimately owns the seven broadcast towers that quietly play a vital role in rural public safety. Those have been maintained over the years with a mix of private OETA donations and state funding. A spokesman for Stitt’s office on Monday insisted the answer is clear — the state owns the towers if OETA is disbanded. OETA leaders, though, plan to ask the attorney general’s office for a formal opinion on ownership, said Bob Spinks, a Friends of OETA board member. “This whole thing has obviously raised some issues that we’ve never had to really think about before because we’ve had this great relationship with the state of Oklahoma,” Spinks said. “We’re really the only entity in the state that can actually broadcast to all 77 counties, and so we feel like that partnership is extremely important with the law enforcement and public safety folks.” In his veto message of House Bill 2820, Stitt wrote that while OETA may have played a “principal role in the provision of educational television services at one time, today the OETA’s long-term, strategic value is at best unclear, if not outright imagined.” Stitt later accused the broadcaster of using tax dollars to “indoctrinate kids” and showing programming that “overly sexualizes our kids.” Spinks, who grew up in McAlester watching OETA, said Stitt’s comments ignore the role that parents play in selecting their children’s programming. “It’s still a parent’s responsibility to decide whether what their children are watching is appropriate or not,” said Spinks, whose own children also watched OETA programming. But beyond the programming debate, Spinks said OETA and public safety entities have long had a symbiotic relationship. The public broadcaster allows police and fire dispatchers to mount dispatch repeaters on its seven broadcasting towers free of charge. OETA also broadcasts emergency communications to all 77 counties and holds the state’s FCC broadcasting license. Spinks said it’s possible OETA could continue to operate a public television station with only private funding, but that would require “complete reworking of the licensure, which is not a simple thing.” “We’re hoping that that veto is overridden because it’s just the simplest way, the most logical way to keep us able to do what we’ve been doing for so long,” Spinks said. OETA viewership continually ranks among the top nationally with about 650,000 Oklahomans tuning in each week and over 100,000 others streaming the station’s programming. Spinks, now a retiree, said the funding the state provides — $2.9 million this budget year — makes up about a third of what it takes to operate OETA. The remainder comes from private donors and grants. Ray McNair, executive director of Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association, said law enforcement agencies and fire departments have dispatch repeaters mounted to nearly every available OETA tower that funding allows. He said every tower is vital for public safety communications. Unless they’re demolished, he’s certain public safety providers would be able to continue using them, he said. “If OETA loses their license, I’m sure there’d be some mechanism in place that law enforcement, firefighters could go to utilize those towers because to drop our repeaters and move them to another tower is a pretty expensive venture,” McNair said. Meyer Siegfried, a spokesman for Stitt, said if OETA is disbanded, the state will retain ownership of OETA’s towers pursuant to state law. If the Legislature does not override Stitt’s veto, OETA has one year to wrap up operations. “It’s not OETA, the state agency, that’s critical to rural public safety, its state assets, i.e. the towers, that play a role in the safety of rural Oklahoma,” Siegfried said in an email. He said National Weather Service, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security can use independent systems to send wireless emergency alerts to geo-targeted areas of the state through wireless carriers to anyone that has a cellphone. “These alerts will continue regardless of whether the OETA towers are there or not, and certainly regardless of the governor’s veto,” Siegfried said. He also said OHP does not have any of its communication assets on OETA towers. He did not say who would be tasked with maintaining the towers if OETA shut down or from where that funding would come. Senate President ProTem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said he voted against extending OETA’s authorization around 2012. He said Senate leadership privately pulled him aside and explained how “critically important” the towers were to law enforcement and that the FCC license held by OETA was nontransferable. “They asked me not to be flippant in my vote,” Treat said. “So ever since then, I’ve supported its continuation based on (that) knowledge.” State Sen. Roger Thompson, R-Okemah, said he’s “very concerned” by the veto. He said OETA meets both a public safety and educational need. Thompson said he doesn’t know who owns the towers, but said that they’re “very, very needed in public safety” and said are a lot of unanswered questions. He said Oklahoma also needs the FCC license. “I’m not at the point yet of deciding what to do with the towers if they go out of business,” Thompson said. “I’m still hopeful they’ll still be in business.” (via gh, Enid, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, 15520, 17715, 11670, May 9 at 2217, REE check finds all four active, unlike yesterday, on a non-English Tuesday, in usual order from VG to G to F to VP when tuned direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785, May 9 9 at *2157, TRT IS comes on but only S4/S6 direct so no listening to the English hour following (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2189 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday May 9 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9/+10 direct. Next: 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support is appreciated; thanks this week to Jack Amelar, Lowell MI, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - ``To keep WOR on the air and logs. Overdue donation. TNX for what you do``. One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, May 9 at 0659, R. Vanuatu third harmonic has just popped on with QSY from JBA 7260, to 3945; amazing S9/+10 signal direct, first with music, then Bislama talk in an echoey venue, something about building materials, presumably getting into news. Also JBA carriers on 7890 = 2 x 3945; and equally JBA on 15780 = 4 x 3945. Ron Howard was listening at same time with a much more detailed report to the WOR iog. He had heard 15780 recently but not this time. Next? 19725 = 5 x 3945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 28420 USB, May 9 circa 2213, OSOB is a weak ham in English with accent, probably Latin American. Never any ID which ought to be uttered at beginning and end of each interchange, with inaudible contact. Yes, no other phoners heard on 10m, nor any CW beacons (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 2312 UT May 9 _ 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
