** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 10 at *1358 very poor carrier weaker than VOR 15510;
1358.5 the BB IS starts, timesignal ends 9.5 seconds before 1400, usual theme
and opening Urdu. I am surprised to be getting this trans-polar signal at all
as little else is audible on 19m except Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake October 10:
7445, detectable at 1406 under the CCI against RTI. Before 1400 around
1352, NO FD found 12-18 MHz, nor did I expect any under current degraded
propagation conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. Re TDF spurblobs plus/minus 116 kHz from 9490 during Radio
República relay: First time I have looked for these since original report Oct
7: 0135 UT Oct 10, 9374 and 9606 are still there, altho not as strong as the
first time. But may be due to weaker fundamental at the moment too (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526, Oct 10 at 1245 and more chex past 1400, still no sign of
even a carrier from V. of Indonesia. There was however a weak spurblob around
9522, probably from RHC 9540. I`ve been in contact with VOI about their
problem. They needed a replacement modulator tube, and were going to start
testing at 0700 UT today. So be on the lookout for them. Also on alternate
frequencies 11785, 15150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, still no signal from IGIM, Oct 10 at 0458 check. Theo
Donnelly, BC, wonders, ``why are you so challenged by Mauritania not being on
air before 0600 UT if they haven't been on-air all night? Their traditional
sked is either 0600/0630 opening anyway.``
Challenged? I wouldn`t call it that. I am simply observing their
irregularities. But for me to hear them they need to be on before 0630,
preferably before 0600. Need someone like you to note whether they are really
on the air then, as they could be completely off again.
And now we have just such info, from Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal: ``MAURITÂNIA,
7245, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, ausente no período 4~8/10, nos horários
observados`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1010, Oct 10 at 0602 UT, ID amid QRM extracted ``Chihuahua``,
``XETO``, I thought, but must have been this, Cantú:
1010 XELO Exa FM + FM 100.9 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500
And then played NA. XELO of course was the call on CiJz 800 before it became
XEROK in deference to cross-border influence, and I don`t mean the 38th
parallel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030, Oct 10 at 0600 UT, enjoying the respite from KCTA`s hummy open
carrier, mainly hearing KTWO Wyoming, but also a Mexican NA. Per Cantú there
are two stations in the UT-6 zone where this would be playing at local midnight:
1030 XEYC Radio FórmulaCd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500
1030 XEMPM Exa FM + FM 98.9 Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Wed Oct 10 at 0500, KGWA Enid continues modulating; soon I
will have two weeks of observations and maybe establish any pattern of which
days on, which days off.
1020, KOKP Perry was also revived from previous dead air, so goodbye, KDKA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Oct 10 at 1305 UT, promo for `The Rush`, weekdays at 2-6 pm
on ``1340 The Game``. NRC DX News has listed hundreds of AM stations which have
never been reported to Domestic DX Digests, including KGHM in Oklahoma City, or
rather officially now, Midwest City. This one is easy here, on daytime
groundwave, but now it`s late enough, a semihour past sunrise, to overcome the
graveyard. Was it never reported either under previous identities KOCY, KEBC,
etc.?
Other unreported Okies on their list will not be so easy, and I`m not sure all
of them are currently even on the air: KBEL-1240, KTLQ-1350, KMUS-1380,
KALV-1430, KBIX-1490, KMAD-1550, KKUZ-1560, KTAT-1570.
Except KALV 1430 Alva, which I can also hear on groundwave, altho it`s tough
with its null toward Tulsa, and helps to venture a bit north, south, or west
from Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7320, Oct 10 at 0457, R. Rossii, good signal despite degraded
hi-latitude propagation otherwise, especially from eastward. 0459 ID and
timesignal three sesquiseconds late after 0500. Aoki says 100 kW, 45 degrees
from Magadan. This is // 5940, but at this early hour, no good there,
especially with WWCR on 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 7285, Oct 10 at 0459, Sonder Grense audible now, but
notable by their absence were 7275 Tunisia, 7295 Algeria via France, (and of
course Mauritania 7245). Possibly they were all off the air, but apparently
only lower-latitude paths making it from eastward. Above 10 MHz was dead, and
nothing but Costa Rica 9630 on 31 m. WWV reported:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 October follow.
Solar flux 106 and estimated planetary A-index 42.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 10 October
