[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 30-31, 2010

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA. Firedrake July 31: did not do a thoro bandscan earlier, but around 1420, none at all found 8-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA [and non]. 4605-, no trace of RRI Serui July 31 at 1213. Gone again? Maybe that`s too late, but two weak signals detectable on 4750, one of which likely RRI Makassar. Atsunori Ishida reported 4605 on July 30, but his July 31 observations are not up yet. O, Ron Howard says 4605.90 was ``noticeably off the air`` today. 

I also heard something on 3905, but must be PNG, q.v. From Aoki you might think RRI Merauke is still there but it`s been gone so long it`s not even in the `silent stations` roster at Mr Ishida`s site, 
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
let alone among current ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. Looking for staple JOZ, R. Nikkei 1, July 31 at 1211, but nothing on 3925, nor at 1215 on 6055. Per Aoki, different sign-off times by day of week are: Sun 1200, Mon 1330, Tue/Thu/Fri 1400, Wed 1345, Sat 1230. Aoki shows both JOZ 50 kW, 64 degrees at main Chiba-Nagara site, and JOZ4 at Nemuro, 10 kW, non-direxional on 3925 in the local evenings with same times, but only starting at 0800, while Chiba is also on all day from morning at 2155 or 2225. I think the Nemuro is synchronized to fill in evening coverage gap. Anyhow, these are reliable signals when on, so suspect Nikkei was off earlier than scheduled this Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBERIA. 4025-, Star Radio, presumed source of JBA carrier at 0556 July 31, slightly on low side compared to Cuba 5025. Will we ever get adequate signal and modulation from this, by winter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. VOA which was heard the night before on 11850 instead of 9870, // still 9880, on July 31 at 0547 check was back on 9870 // 9880, Arabic. So maybe the foray to 11850 was caused by forgetting to change the frequency of one of the transmitters from that which had been used the previous evening; rather than seeing the light about frequency diversity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, some music audible at 1210 July 31, presumably R. East Sepik, Wewak, only known broadcaster on this frequency, but really tuned in too late after LSR.

3905, July 31 at 1211 music and talk, presumed R. New Ireland as no other broadcasters known here, Indonesia [q.v.] inactive; QRhaM in SSB, of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, Saturday July 31, poor at 1254 had DX Corner underway, reading nothing but reception reports, which is not our idea of a DX program. Later went to audio file and found it had started at 1251. YL IDs as Çerma? and says she will go thru E-mail, not having received any letters this week. Who cares what someone`s SINPO was in Germany --- except the sender and possibly the recipient? But it was more interesting to hear Ted Schuerzinger`s comments from USA about poor reception, also others, several from India. ``We have notified our technical department``. 

Lasted until 1304, back in two weeks. At least this reconfirms which weeks are on and which weeks are off. After usual promos and fillers, started playing songs at 1308. Well, we always enjoy their music, but it seems troublesome talk feature content has been cut back for more and more easy music fill; staff shortage, or usual vacation situation?

The needlessly complex full URL for the 31 July broadcast audio is:
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Galeri/Media.aspx?MedyaKodu=c04470a5-2b22-433f-a849-29847dc09c67&KategoriKodu=d2b66127-a908-46d0-9f57-38d404a5dca1&dil=en
We should try it a day or more later to see if it still exists, altho linx to each broadcast only last 24 hours. They do announce the date or day at the start of each (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1523 monitoring chex: confirmed on webcasts:
WRMI, Wednesday 1530, Thursday 1500
ACBRadio Mainstream, Friday 0100
WWRB, Friday 0330
On SW:
WWCR, Friday 2030 on 15825. Missed checking Saturday 1630 on 12160, but Liz Cameron says a screaming preacher was on instead. We`ll have to see that the August program sked shows. Try UT Sunday 0230 on 4840, 0630 on 3215, 2330 on 9980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Altho it was inaudible and believed off the air the night before, on July 31 at 0545 I could hear a very poor signal with some music on 9370, or rather slightly to the low side as is true for WTJC. Conditions were strange, as WYFR and other US stations were also weak, but Europe/Mideast were quite good on 31m. Next check at 1424, WTJC definitely back as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5755, WTWW with paranoid PPP about government conspiracy, July 31 at 0553, his audio breaking up badly, and then to dead air, along with continuous rumble and other audio garbage he outsends even when not modulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Answering yesterday`s question about whether Brother Scare would be on 9265 or 9335 for his Sabbath extravaganza via WINB: 9265, still on the air at 1535 check July 31, no 9335 where he has been showing up on weekdays, secretly, as not listed on WINB website.

However, ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
has now been corrected to show 9335 instead of 9355, but times 11 am-noon, and 2-4 pm are not specified as M-F only, still unattributed to any station, and no timezone specified in the column headed for that, even tho surely EDT = UT -4. 

Not using 9265 on weekdays after 1500 is in deference to virtually defunct WMLK which claims the frequency but never uses it, while if it existed, WMLK would not be on air for The Sabbath, unlike Brother Scare. WINB might as well use 9265 every day, as EJOM could hardly object. BTW, EJOM is not my flip monicker for the late Yahweh guru; the WMLK website employs that initialism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The afternoon of July 30 we made an expedition NW from Enid to Great Salt Plains State Park & National Wildlife Refuge OK, and to fill up on free artesian water nearby. We also found some tasty sandplums on the roadside.

This was also my chance to check out AM and FM on the caradio in midsummer full daytime, how it compares to Enid, and especially explore the coverage area of KGNO 1370 Dodge City KS, which I can`t get daytime in Enid, and led me to suspect they were off the air or with degraded facilities, nominally 5 kW nondirexional.

KGNO became audible around Hillsdale OK not far out of Enid on State 132, and on the way back down US 81 held up till about 5 miles north of Enid, then dropped out completely. Since programming is far-right talk, we aren`t missing anything. 

Strange, tho, that as I drive around all parts of Enid I can`t get any sign of it on caradio, nor on home rig in daytime. Possibly KCRC 1390 on the N side of Enid is desensitizing receivers 20 kHz away without that being obvious. Close to the site, KCRC does desensitize far more than 40 kHz, but one would think this would not be a factor on the W side where KGNO might make it in.

At GSPSP, bandscan on the shore found 970 with // talk programming to KGWA 960 Enid but a couple seconds behind, at 1954 UT. Can`t be anything but KCFO Tulsa, but the last we knew it was ``Christian Talk Radio`` while KGWA is secular, tho right-skewed. Easily found website http://www.kcfo.com/ shows it is now ``Talk You Can Trust``, which is debatable, with the likes of Focus on the Family. 

It`s still plenty Christian, but Mon-Sat at 1-4 pm CDT is Dave Ramsey whose main thrust seems to be financial advice, sort of crossover, so he also fits on KGWA. Coverage map 
http://www.kcfo.com/html/coveragemap.html 
shows KCFO putting a little more signal northward of Enid than into our Garfield County. And KGWA is an obstacle to 970 tho in some parts of town we can pull another gospel huxter past it on 950, Bott`s KJRG Newton KS.

Just trying to find KGWA`s schedule, all searches lead to website of its offspring KOFM, where there is NOTHING about KGWA, even by internal search.

By GSPSP&NWR, KOSU 91.7 signal is losing out, so we have to look elsewhere for NPR, i.e. KMUW 89.1 Wichita. It`s in and out, but hardly clear, as the Enid Oasis Network translator K06CA on 89.1, 250 watts, is still enough to be quite a problem on a nondirexional car antenna. This, its flagship KNYD 90.5 Tulsa and many other relays are licensed to ``Creative Educational Media Corp.,``, another gospel huxter group trying to portray itself as ``educational``, and ``creative`` (codeword for creationism?) to boot!

On 1470 at 1957 UT, ``The Rocket 1470 AM, blast from the past``, and ``mission control forecast`` by YL Dee2 Michaels, hi 91, lo 68 which indicates it is slightly further north and/or west than Enid. Has to be Liberal KS which has good coverage but does not make it on GW to Enid. Googling the slogan is surprisingly unproductive, but I do find it on a cache of the unavailable City of Liberal website, http://www.cityofliberal.com/b_marketing.htm ---

KSMM-AM [sic] 1470 The Rocket
150 Village Plaza
Liberal, KS 67901
Phone: (620) 624-8156
Email: efranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So it seems Enid is not the only city with a cohete for a radio station. 1470 is no longer Spanish sports as in NRC 2009 Log, tho their FM is Spanish.

On 1540 at 1959 UT, Mozart`s ``Eine Kleine Nachtmusik`` catches my ear but it has English lyrix I can`t make out. Turns out to be a PSA for http://www.americansforthearts.org --- an undoubtedly worthy cause. 

On the website I don`t find that PSA, just a 3-year old video:
http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/video_audio/video/007.asp
Then mentions central Kansas, and ``Talk Radio 1540, KNGL, McPherson``. This one also barely makes it to Enid.

On 600 at 2000 UT, a trace of talk, but some remote T-storm is too much for it. Probably groundwave remnant of KCOL in CO, the station which set off the skywave fiesta on April 20, or possibly WMT in IA. KLTT 670 from CO is of course quite a bit stronger here than in Enid close to the end of its groundwave.

On 1360 at 2112 UT, Catholic talk with a slight echo. In Enid we get one, KAHS El Dorado KS with EWTN, but at GSPSP&NWR, another affiliate, KDJW in Amarillo TX is also incoming. NRC AM Log 2009 says the latter is ``St. Valentine Radio``, 500 watts but with a CP for 6000, while KAHS is ``Holy Spirit Radio``.

1580 at 2304 UT, KOKB Blackwell OK is once again modulationless, setting up we hope for another chance to ID the Saturday morning Spanish underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. KOKB 1580 Blackwell OK coöperated by keeping its carrier unmodulated the morning of July 31, so another chance to try to pull an ID from the Spanish station underneath which so far I have detected only on several Saturdays. Started checking at 1222 UT, but no Spanish, dominant station being The Sports Hog, i.e. KHGG Van Buren AR, and it IDed with Fort Smith at 1300. Only after 1300 did I start to hear Mexican music mixing in. Some US station, not necessarily KHGG, had IRN-USA Radio News. 

At 1302, hyper Spanish announcer may have included ID --- just as in English, they employ totally insincere voice actors screaming IDs, promos and commercials, as if they would impress listeners. 

1306 station in English starting Home Business Radio Show with Tom Chenault, which Google pins on KKKK 1580 Colorado Springs (however, FCC AM Query shows the call is now KREL, with KKKK now unassigned and thus available for the Klan to klutch onto). 

I was busy unloading carload of artesian water, but rolled tape at 1318-1350, listened to it later. Only a few bits of Spanish appeared now and then, nothing identifiable, beyond circa 1345 mentioning Guadalajara, and partido, i.e. sports talk, which could be from either United States.

Back to live monitoring at 1355, ``La Zona, más música``; 1359 promo ``deportes, sin censura, en La Zona, T---``. I thought it sounded like Teotihuacán, but doubt the Mexican pyramids have such a radio station. Never heard an XE- call; soon mentioned ``la capital del estado``, which is still unhelpful. Losing it by 1402, tho KOKB still OC, and also at 1417 when nothing else is audible. 

``La Zona`` should be a good clue for research including Googling, but turns out to be totally unproductive; the word zona is a bit too generic for refined searching. There are a number of radio stations in LAm using such a slogan, but surely this is USAmerica, or at best USMexico, and get no matches with 1580 included. It could be an AM station merely simulcasting an FM station by that name. But I have not found any correlations with possible US or Mexican 1580 stations. 

Current references show only four Mexicans on 1580, but FCC AM Query comes up with lots of applications not only in Mexico but several in the US, such as Santa Fe NM, which would be a nice fit geographically and propagationally for what I am hearing on my E-W 110-foot longwire. Possibly this is a new station, one of those really on the air now. Perhaps a New Mexican could check 1580 just in case. When I lived there, an Albuquerque outlet inhabited 1580, before they started swapping around stations, frequencies, formats and locations in the upper part of the band.

And what about KMIK Tempe AZ? It is still 100% Disney, right? 50 kW non-direxional day ought to be a factor here for a while after sunrise, but never heard anything resembling Disney music format. It`s still on website http://radio.disney.go.com/music/yourstation/phoenix/about.html

Altho no help with this mystery, Googling also led me to a website worth bookmarking/favoring, crammed with linx and info including radio: http://www.zonalatina.com/Radio.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7000-SSB, July 31 at 1219, 2-way unseems Spanish, including some singing at 1250. I assume real hams would not be running SSB on this bandedge frequency, nor dare musicality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15556, weak 4 kHz het against strong Portugal 15560, July 31 at 1257. Very likely a ChiCom jammer against variable V. of Tibet via Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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