[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 6, 2011

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** BRAZIL. 9665.1, August 6 at 0543 harp music (Paraguayan?), 0545 Brazilian announcements, i.e. 10 kW ZYE890, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, poorly audible tho registering S9+15. Propagation disturbance had wiped out most signals, but this and some other Brazilians were weakly audible, 9645.3, 9565 mixed with offtime Cuban jamming, 9586.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 6, found only these in full bandscans 10-18 MHz following G3 geomagnetic storms, K-index at 12 being 3:
10300, fair at 1225, good at 1258; JBA at 1336
12980, poor at 1227 and 1258
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 45, Aug 6 at 0404 UT, Tulsa tropo visiblizes KOTV`s three channels, with PSIP IDs:
6-1 KOTV-HD
6-2 KOTV-CW
6-3 Newson6
I stayed with 6-3 for some news? No, commercial after commercial until finally at 0412 I saw that 10 pm news playback had started, judging from the clock and temp bug in the LR showing 10:02 and 104 degrees(!!). Grafik style on KOTV matches co-owned KWTV-39 OKC, especially the 6 and 9 in white with red background.

Still in next morning at 1351 UT when so-called Newson6 is axually running animated kidvid, no bugs, not even e/i, and poorly selected advertising for a Bob Moore car dealership at 1357, then credit roll for `Adventures of Piggly Wiggly`. 1400 `Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?` -- animation on that sure is jerky, cheapo. 

Several other Tulsa-area DTVs were decoding, not including KRSC-36, unfortunately, only 144 kW. But yes, unfortunately including KWHB-47, WHT = World Harvest Television as in WHRI on SW, 47-2 named KWHB-D2 with adstring at 1349. One can rotate north and often get KSNW-45 from Wichita at the same time as KOTV-45 is tropo-enhanced. KSNW has no subchannels; what a waste. But then I can sometimes get KPTS-8 on 8.3 with PBS` Create, which OETA will not air.

Earlier at 1306 UT, the only analog I was getting, peaking due west was on ch 53, looked like an infomercial for YLs, but it was breakfast time and when I rechecked at 1340 it had gone. I would have guessed first K53EE in Follett TX, 1040 watts of KCIT-15 Amarillo, except there were no signals on 47 and 49 to accompany it as yesterday morning. K53CI in Seiling OK is closer and should be DXable, 815 watts of KFOR-27, but is southerly from due west, and KFOR has local news at that hour. One other possibility, much further, is K53BE, Guymon, 6.56 kW with TBN.

I have also been getting signs of analog video on ch 58, not achieving horizontal hold, even when there is no tropo, and hard to find a peak direxion; may be cable radiation? It might also have been a 2 x IF receiver image, except there are no local analogs to produce it (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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