** CUBA. 11880, Oct 19 at 1410, CRI Plus relay in English is S9+20 but
very suptorted as often but not always the case. Something`s wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5990, Oct 20 at 0007, CRI Spanish relay is S9+20/30 but
suptorted; wiggle that patchcord. // 15120 is only S4-S6 and seems
equally suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040+, Oct 20 at 0020, another night this RHC is useless, JBM
and off-frequency+plus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9605, Oct 19 at 1422, Woman narration in English; 1426
ending story until part 2 next week, song ``Long Good-Bye``; 1429 NHK
sign-off citing entire English SW sked in a minute, including this
frequency to SE Asia, until 1430*. If it`s NHK in English it can`t be
from Japan! We know it`s via Palau. 1400 English also on 9450 via
Tashkent but unheard there; see TAIWAN.
In B-19 this 1400-1430 NHK English will be on 6165-Tashkent, and 11925
via UAE and/or Palau: HFCC shows FCC and NHK plan due west from Palau;
Encompass due east from Dhabayya. That should make for quite a
collision over S Asia! unless they sort it out in a week. If 11925
proves to be off-frequency, we`ll know it`s UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 11629.771, Oct 19 at 1415, JBA carrier vs even weaker RTTY
on 11630.0. Of course, it`s R. Kuwait as often found on such offsets,
nominally 11630 too at 13-16 in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1090, Oct 19 at 0502, tonight I`m tuning an hour
earlier to get a headstart before the mattress TV infomercial I`ve
been hearing after 0600 --- but it`s already running now! And I`ve
missed another ToH ID, if any. Maybe all-mattress-all-the-time? Or
late for those who can`t sleep well on their awful mattresses. La Voz
del Colchón, or Radio Colchón Internacional? I continue to think it`s
XEAU, Monterrey NL. KAAY off the side must be nulled, and hope there
be no KEXS or anything else closer to the axis. But as late as 0613,
more mattressing, and there is still that TA carrier pest on 1089, or
really the seven UK Talksport synchros adding up to 722 kW --- not
including the 0 kW from the one in the Chunnel. The 910 stations also
suffer a Brithet from 909 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1130, Oct 19 at 0601, not much can be extracted with KWKH
nulled as much as possible, but think I hear ``Radio-Activa`` which
may or may not be an ID slogan. Trying to nail down a definite XECHAP,
new station supposed to have just started, as in previous reports
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Re the 1161.0 non-TA carrier I have: Oct 19 at 0607 UT
when all the TVs, computers are off, so is it; still on are cable
boxes, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PANAMA. 18130-USB, Oct 19 at 2115, HP1STB working US stations, for
a KB3 a new country. It`s Steven Tyler Barnett in Panama City, an
American retiree and fanatic motorcycle traveler per his QRZ.com page.
I`m checking this band after hearing that 17850 carrier believed to be
WRMI X 3, q.v.
18155-USB, Oct 19 at 2118, HP9SAM, another Panamanian, the only phone
stations on the band, maybe a selective opening? Distance Panama City
to Enid is 3568 km = 2217 statute miles; so is this F2 or multi-Es?
He`s another American retiree who managed to get a callsign with his
own initials, Stephen A. Myers, Pocri, Province of Los Santos 0758,
Panama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SAN ANDRÉS
** PITCAIRN [non]. 5085, Oct 20 around 0015, ARNL item on WTWW about
DX-peditions mentions one underway here, from Oct 18 to Nov 1. I
haven`t heard it yet; WTFK? But QRZ.com info:
VP6R - Pitcairn Island DXpedition - October 2019 including CQWW Phone
Contest.
QSL info: https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/vp6r
Team: EA3HSO, EY8MM, JR4OZR, K0IR, K0PC, K9CT, K9NW, N4GRN, N6HC,
SM5AQD, W0GJ, W0VTT, W6IZT and W8HC
The Pilots: WB9Z (Chief Pilot),
Website:
http://pitcairndx.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/58
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN ANDRES Y PROVIDENCIA. 21300-USB, Oct 19 at 2122, very rapid
QSOs with Spanish accent? More likely Czech, uttering only contact
call, ``fifty-nine, thank you`` and on to the next one at the rate of
maybe 10 per minute unless someone has to repeat a call. Occasionally
gives own call as QRZ, 5K0K, fonetikaly but I have a hard time
understanding the last letter, kilo. And ``5 up``. Among his contacts,
some from Japan JG- and JH-. First DX I`ve had on 14m in ages, usually
deadband. Checked it anyway since 18 MHz was open from Panamá. The
OPSOB. Whatever became of HK0? San Andres is axually 464 km =
288 miles *closer* to us than Panama City. QRZ.com info:
``San Andres DX pedition 2019
http://www.cdxp.cz
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.qrz.com/k/5k0k/5K0K.jpg
Dates: Arrival: October 15th, Departure: October 28th
On air approx: limited/building up 17, 18th, full operation planned
from 20th till 27th, limited/dismantling 28th
Call sign: 5K0K 2019
Operators: Rob HK3CW, Petr OK1BOA, Petr OK1FCJ, Palo OK1CRM, Pavel
OK1GK, Ruda OK2ZA, Ludek OK2ZC, Karel OK2ZI, David OK6DJ
Operation modes: SSB, CW, RTTY (incl FT8)
Radios: Elecraft K3, Kenwood TS480 (both multiple units)PA: Expert
1,3k-FA, JUMA’s, RF Power Antennas:10-15-20 incl WARC 3 x Spiderbeam
VDA antennas 30 4SQ 40 4SQ 80 vertical + radials, 1/4 vert + radials
160 vertical + capacitive hat RX: Beverages + DHDL Focus on low
bands
QSL via OK6DJ, OQRS, LOTW. OK6DJ QRZ address: David Beran, Dolni
Kamenice 55, Holysov 34562, Czech Republic. Help us reach our goal.
Donate the DXpedition via paypal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9450 & 9560, Oct 19 at 1420, S6-S8 similar open carriers.
Aoki/NDXC shows Furosato no Kaze, clandestine to North Korea is about
to start a Japanese half-hour at 1430 via two Taiwan sites, Paochung
and Tamshui, respectively. 9450 gets splash from TOMBS on 9455 WRMI.
And no sign of scheduled NHK in English via Uzbekistan. 9560 should
have just finished Kurdish from Iran until 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov:
``GERMANY, World of Radio #2004 via Hamburger Lokalradio October 19
0631-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat CUSB, good
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-of-radio2004-via-hamburger.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibMhj0Rq1c&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3PfVl5s0sg&feature=youtu.be
Wrong frequency announcement: HLR on 7265 kHz, instead of 6190 kHz``
Confirmed Saturday October 19 at 1450, the 1431 on Hamburger
Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB: JBA gh voice via UTWente SDR with heavy splash
from 9490 Romania. Next:
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
[at 0338 ham news, so maybe WOR will be later instead of earlier?]
1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17850, Oct 19 at 2111, JBA carrier, as heard several times
before around this hour, and suspect 3 x 5950 WRMI. Traces of audio,
so again I try to match it to the BS of 5950 on another receiver.
Cannot be quite positive, but cannot be quite negative either. Altho
17850 is the OSOB on this disused broadcast band, the MUF is way up as
I have Panama on 18 MHz hamband, and even San Andrés on the 21 MHz
band, qq.vv. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5130, UT Sun Oct 20 at 0013, Area 51 WBCQ is S7-S9 but dead
air or maybe JBM. 7490 is replaying AAAWWW this hour; 9330 is off this
afternoon and evening, no WLC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. This follows up my log on KQQZ 1190 of The Grim Reaper,
where I wondered what had happened about that since June: (gh)
Eric Bueneman of Hazelwood MO sends along the following dated 9/26/19
(article courtesy of St Louis Today): [some calls corrected by gh]
The AM airwaves are about to undergo another change in the St Louis
region. Salem Communications has become the second broadcast
conglomeration to exit the region in the last three years (the other
one being Emmis Communications which pulled out in 2017).
Salem has sold WSDZ 1260 and KXFN 1380 (along with relays K236CS 95.1
and K287BY 105.3) to a Catholic group (my guess is Relevant Radio). St
Louis already has Covenant Network (WRYT 1080/KHOJ 1460) which
receives the bulk of their programming from EWTN. Salem had two
formats with intense competition; the Urban Gospel format on WSDZ 1260
had competition from KSTL 690 and KATZ 1600, while the Conservative
Talk format on KXFN 1380 had competition from KFTK 1490/97.1 and to a
lesser extent KMOX-1120 and KTRS 550.
Rumor has it that the Conservative Talk format may land on KXEN 1010.
Entertainment Media Trust (d/b/a Insane Broadcasting Company), which
owns KQQZ 1190, KZQZ 1430, KFTK 1490 (leased to Intercom) and the
now-silent WQQW 1510 has filed Chapter 7 liquidation. The licenses
have been slated for a revocation hearing next year because of
irregularities in the group ownership statements to the FCC.
Bob Romanik (The Grim Reaper of Radio), who runs the stations, has
been using one of his stations, KQQZ for a one-hour talk show that
espouses his racist views. I listened to part of his show with several
DXers at the 2018 IRCA Convention in St Charles MO; we were shocked as
to the number of racial slurs uttered on his show. I, for one, was
outraged. 1190 and 1430 are arguably the most valuable parts of the
cluster.
KZQZ 1430 Saint Louis MO is temporarily operating 50 kW DA-D. The
offensive programming is on KQQZ 1190 Fairview Heights IL.
Editorial: BANKRUPTCY FILING SUGGESTS ROMANIK'S RACIST PROGRAMMING
COULD SOON BE HISTORY, By the Editorial Board September 16 2019
From the sound of it, racist radio host Bob Romanik is declaring
defeat as the Federal Communications Commission advances its effort to
revoke the license of the Belleville-based stations that carry his
programming. Entertainment Media Trust, the official name of the
broadcast licensee, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidation
of assets. Romanik has long tried to avoid on-air commentary about his
deepening FCC troubles, refusing to engage when callers raise the
subject. But since the bankruptcy filing on Wednesday, Romanik has
declared verbal war on the FCC and various politicians, including Sen.
Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who have urged action to shut him down.
On Monday, he declared, “FCC, kiss my axx... you scumbag, (expletive),
rotten bastards.” More than 15,000 complaints have been filed against
him, Romanik acknowledged. Many if not most of those complaints regard
his filthy on-air language, which during a typical daily broadcast can
include upwards of 50 usages of the N-word along with constant racist,
sexist and homophobic taunts. He leveled several on Monday against St
Louis and Missouri black politicians. An announcer states before each
broadcast that Romanik’s stations represent “white awareness radio,”
or WAR, while his Killer Klassic Kountry (KKK) nickname for station
KQQZ-AM suggest he is openly trying to provoke a race war.
“I don’t know how much longer you’re going to hear me,” Romanik
stated, citing a “full-court press” against him by the FCC. License
revocation is so rare, it was last used about 25 years ago. Much as
Romanik’s detractors would like to see his racist language silenced,
the FCC action is predicated on much more mundane legal principles.
The FCC alleges in court documents that Entertainment Media Trust lied
about the true nature of Romanik’s involvement in the ownership and
control of the stations. Romanik asserts the government is out to
curtail his First Amendment rights, but the real issue is that he is a
two-time felon – which negates his eligibility to own and operate
under an FCC license. Substantial financial records submitted for
review by a federal administrative law judge provide a convincing case
that Romanik tried to hide his true role in the four stations licensed
to Entertainment Media Trust.
Many of the financial documents subpoenaed by the FCC have been
redacted from public view, but ample publicly available evidence
exists to demonstrate that Romanik has repeatedly intermingled his
personal finances and political activities with those of the radio
stations. It’s entirely possible that the bankruptcy filing is a
flimsy ploy designed to convince the federal judge that the stations’
closure and liquidation of assets are imminent and, therefore, license
revocation would be redundant. But revoking the license, rare and
radical as such an action might be, is essential to send a clear
message that wanton abuse of the public airwaves will not be tolerated
(via IRCA DX Monitor Oct 12, published Oct 9, via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 20 at
0034-0044 UT: 531, 549, 558(2), 612, 621, 738, 774(2), 828, 846, 855,
882, 891, 909, 936(2), 945, 1008, 1017, 1026, 1044(2), 1053, 1098,
1107(2), 1125(2), 1134(2), 1152, 1179, 1206, 1215(2), 1305(2), 1341,
1413, 1458(2), 1575 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0354 UT October 20
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20191020041503226