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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 17, 2010
** CHINA. Firedrake June 17, scanning 8-20 MHz, 1321-1335 found only:
11100, fair at 1326
13100, good at 1330
The usual CNR1 jammers were in well on 11 and 15 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, 6010 and 5970 June 17 at 0657, RHC YL introducing new and reduced 60-minute English broadcast which is not supposed to exist after 0700. Usual disparity in audio and strength among the // frequencies.
15360, June 17 at 1354 Despertar con Cuba with very distorted audio, while // 15380, 15120 were OK. Both 15360 and 15380 peak around S9+5, no spurs audible, but probably not enough signal yet on fundamental. Poor propagation with only the strongest, nearest signals making it at all on 19m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. After more than a week of reliable signals with good modulation, not even a carrier from VOI could be detected June 17 at 1323 or 1343 on 9525.9. Other E Asian signals on 31m band with hi noise level were poor but audible, e.g. 9735 Taiwan in Japanese; somethings on 9680 maybe including RRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11655, NHKWNRJ, via Sackville, June 17 at 1327 playing ``Can`t Buy Me Love``, // weaker 11815 direct. I assume they were not pretending to be a spy station of yore; but it`s rather mystifying why NHK thinx they need to broadcast classic western pop music via a North American relay with announcements only in Japanese, while relays in English are reduced every season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. In the NTSC analog era, in Enid we could commonly view at least weak signals from the Tulsa TV stations in the 200 km range, but now by ATSC DTV they are invisible without tropo DX enhancement! That occurred June 17 from 0500 past 0600 UT, so I made a few observations:
KOTV on RF 45 has three channels: 6.1 KOTV itself, the CBS affiliate; 6.2 PSIP says KOTV-CW; and 6.3 thisTv showing old movie Topkapi starring Pyotr Ustinov. Strange about 6.2 with Oprah, as // KQCW-HD on RF 19, but 6.2 is SD; why bother to duplicate? KOTV website has schedules for all of them. No other way to see thisTv around here.
Fortunately, Enid translator K45EJ of KSBI ``52`` is still missing, gone for a couple years, else it would block KOTV and well as KSNW RF 45 NBC in Wichita. K45EJ is supposedly going to come back as DTV on same channel.
On RF channel 22 is KOKI-DT as virtual 23, Tulsa Fox affiliate. No subchannels.
On RF channel 42 is KMYTDT with My41 as 41.1, plus Untamed Sports program with e/i bug in circle upper-right on 41.2. PSIP ID for BOTH says KMYTDT (no hyphen)! What is e/i, anyway? See it as program source on many different network stations.
On RF 28, megawatt KTPX licensed to Okmulgee with Ion`s usual three channels 44.1, 44.2 and 44.3. Tiger Map shows site is really in the middle of the triangle Okmulgee-Bristow-Bixby.
I was getting OETA fine on 11.1, OKLA on 11.2, i.e. KOED, but not enough signal from KJRH RF 8 (NBC) or KTUL RF 10 (ABC). W9WI.com does show KOED with about twice the power (33 kW) on RF 11 as the commercial VHF stations, but only as an APP and a CP MOD, while it`s LIC on RF 38 with a megawatt ERP. Was I axually getting it on 38? I neglected to check with manual tuning.
God, how I hate this remapping crap! Even OETA will not tell you which RF channels they are REALLY on under ``What`s the frequency?`` at http://www.oeta.tv/about/dtv/channels.html
E.g. Cheyenne is on RF 8, not 12, and Eufaula is on RF 31, not 3!
Wait a minute, their Ponca City DTV translator is definitely on RF 38, but its PSIP ID is only OETA, while the 11 I was getting IDed as KOED, so that must really have been on RF 11, right?
I also looked for analog low-power Tulsa channels as several are listed, but none making it with antenna aimed right at Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, surprised to find KVOH at the early hour of 1334 June 17, preaching about Jeová, usual audio distortion, signal fair with fading, but at 1338 hit S9+10. Normally they don`t sign on until 1500. Perhaps could not resist taking advantage of HF sporadic E opening. In fact, FCC schedule says they are supposed to be on 9975 at 13-15, but that frequency is imaginary.
WRTH A-10 update daggers both 17775 and 9975 at 0100-0300 as ``irregular``, implying equality, while 9975 is really imaginary at both times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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