** ALGERIA [non]. 6105, Dec 27 at 0656, ME music with reverb, heavy
splash from 6100 CUBA, but off at 0659, and 6100 off by 0700. It`s RTA
via FRANCE, the 0600 hour supposed to be Qur`an, but evidently not
entirely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 6090, Fri Dec 27 at 0658, S9+20 of dead air, 0700 comes
to life with music, Dead Gene Scott with hum. Convoluted ``schedule``,
we found on TUN/PMS website months ago and quoted, not the merely full
registered span of 2200-1000 as in Aoki or HFCC;
EiBi now has it showing I tuned in before official sign on Fridays
only: 0700-1000; also UT Tue/Wed/Fri 0100-0400, Wed 0400-0505, and Fri
0000-0100.
Also shows fraxured sked for day frequency 11775 within 1000-2200
possible block: 1000-1300 Wed, 1200-1600 Thu, 1600-2200 Sun, 1700-2000
Sat.
Note: WRTH 2020, ANGUILLA refers us to USA: University Network for
sked, mixed in with WWCR --- but the times are wrong, for 11775 five
hours later than above! Must have been confused, misconverting EST.
But the WWCR times could be correct, not breaking the day 13845/night
5935 barrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6075, Dec 27 at 1612, 2.5 hours after sunrise
here, two stations mixing, music and Chinese. Aoki shows one of
countless spots for RTI vs CNR1 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7665, Dec 27 at 1540, Chinese, S7-S9 with flutter. Strikes
me as something new, and indeed no listings in latest Aoki, EiBi or of
course HFCC. Most likely a CNR1 jammer against a new Sound of Hope
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13560, 13630, 13770, and weaker 13840 approx., Dec 27 at
1510, today`s spurblobs from 13700 RHC at 70 kHz intervals, the lower
one clashing with constant local part 15 RF ID or ISM noises; wonder
if Cuba could cause them malfunxion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 88.0v, Dec 27 at 1440 and later, big carrier cuts on and
off irregularly, blotting out bits of 88.1 KWOU we are trying to
listen to. Surely it`s that damn Family Radio translator in Enid,
K202BY supposed to be on 88.3 but no real transmissions for months, a
legacy of Harold Camping (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521.0, Dec 27 at 2226, tell-tale 1-kHz het upon 1520
KOKC, from the 2 megawatts in Duba. I keep listening carefully for its
expected cutoff around 2230-2231. Not heard after 2230:54, altho at
first seemed off some 20 seconds earlier, but hard to tell with
musiQRM from KOKC commercial, and/or some fading. Het was the same
pitch as from 891 upon 890 KTLR/WLS. So this time it is certainly not
the nearby 1520.7 station (Glenn Hauser, OK,, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5980, Dec 27 at 2221, VOT in Turkish is still on beyond
scheduled 2200*, S8 to S9+10; off at 2243 check. Something`s always
wrong at Emirler. This is the one aimed USward and heard as early as
1900. 5960 English is successful from 2300 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7615-USB, Fri Dec 27 at 1541, Civil Air Patrol net, fonetik
maybe encrypted message slowly read out by Red Bear 4, S9+20; much
weaker contact reads it back, and Red Bear 4 makes a correxion.
Autobeep at end of each transmission saving them from having to utter
over, or talkover if overlooked. Other one ID as Triblade 327, out. I
think Triblade is the net callsign. A CAP tactical call roster shows
several Reds, but no Bears, so maybe I misheard: Dragon NJ, Fire IN,
Fox IL, Robin MI, Rock AZ, Cloud NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2014 monitoring: confirmed first USSW
broadcast, Friday December 27 from about 2300:10 vs Cuban jamming
against us on WRMI 9955. This week the jamming does not gradually
diminish to nothing but continues the entire semihour; during much of
it, WOR is atop and readable, but WRMI fades at 2318, and out at 2323,
back up at 2326.
Distracted by WBCQ and other programming, I miss checking my own
trimulcast, 0130 UT Sat on WRMIs 5050, 5810 and 7780. Did anyone hear
them? Also need to confirm whether Sat 1300 on 15770 be canceled, as
Ivo has reported, even if it takes waking up and bringing up UTwente.
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [canceled?]
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2200 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. 7490.08v, Fri Dec 27 at 2245 caught WBCQ, last quarter of
`Behaviour Night` with ``Glowworm`` playing first; poor S9-S6.
UT Sat Dec 28 from 0100, I`m on 7490 webcast instead despite
distortion/overmodulation problem on Winamp which has been going on
since last weekend; at least it is here? Is it that way for others?
`Allan and Angela Worldwide,` mostly ranting about Free Speech. No
significant news concerning S-S or programming. At 0151 says
simulcasting on 7490 and 5130, so I check SW for those at 0157: 7490
is JBA; 5130 S9 but already cut to the IS & ID loop before AAAWWW is
finished, as John Carver has been noting for weeks. Why do they do
that? Over to John for a lot more detail:
``Tonight's show started on time on a very poor 7490. No signal on
5130 as of yet. Opening talk about the upcoming new year and how lucky
Allan is to have Angela. Allan stated that the superstation was
working just fine and he was proud of the work his crew was doing up
there to keep things running smoothly. Allan also says he doesn't want
to get political this evening, but he questions whether or not the
economy is doing as well as Washington says it is, and he also wonders
if the unemployment rate is as low as they say it is, as it doesn't
seem like that to him. Angela forcefully argues that the economy is
doing really well and the unemployment rate is down. She posits that
the new people working are working for lower wages so seem to be
struggling.
While maintaining that he still backs Trump Allan questions our
relationships with North Korea and Russia implying that they are not
to be trusted. He also takes a shot at Trump's proposed space force as
he believes it will just lead to more unwinnable wars. He also takes
exception to the size of the country's defense budget.
The discussion quickly changes to an overview of the regulations
governing OTA radio and TV programs as opposed to the regulations of
cable, satellite and private radio and TV. Allan maintains that there
should just be one set of regulations for all and that there should be
no censorship. Phone call at 0139 concerning censorship. The
regulations concerning social media were also mentioned.
Phone call at 0149 from Canada concerning the superstaion and also
questioning the alleged ten second delay the caller was hearing during
his phone call. Allan explained that it was the lag that sending the
signal to the station over the internet caused {and emphasizes that
his stations never insert delays for censorship -- gh}.
He then announced that they were broadcasting on 7490 and 5130 this
evening and a quick check confirmed that 5130 was finally working. I
stayed on 5130 as the signal was better. The talk then immediately
turned to a discussion of snakes, of all things. Reading of the Free
Radio Weekly began at 0154 and immediately the nonstop station IDs for
the last six minutes of the hour started on 5130 so I moved back to
7490. Phone call at 0157 from Pirate Joe stating that 5130 was running
nonstop station IDs. Closing prayer at 0159 interrupted by the start
of the next program. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 620, Dec 27 at 1415 UT, 8:15 timecheck and Fond du Lac ad,
other Wisconsin references. No doubt WTMJ Milwaukee, U4 50/10 kW one
semihour after sunrise here. Nice to hear without really trying,
something besides KTAR AZ sports or the predominant KTNO TX gospel
huxtering in Spanish. E-W longwire helps, minimising KTNO.
O, both day and night patterns are supposed to shoot tight slightly
east of north, virtually nothing to south or side direxions. Something
must be wrong there, which explains why I seldom hear it. In fact, a
quick search of my logs does not find WTMJ in the past sesquidecade!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 820, Dec 27 at 1423 UT right into ID for ``WCPT, 820,
Chicago`s Progressive Talk``, atop WBAP TX. Lucky city to have one
progressive station among all the regressive outlets! Like WBAP,
flagship of `Red Eye Radio`. E-W longwire helps to minimise WBAP to
the south. Is U2, 5.8/1.5 kW, so day pattern N-D; CoL Willow Springs
which is just south of the I-55/294 junxion, SW of The Loop, but that
does not mean its transmitter site has to be there. WAIT, is that its
correct callsign? I guess so, matching the slogan. Here still exist on
the radio, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Amy Goodman, et al. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Dec 27 at 1425 UT, report on Indian affairs from KUER
in Utah -- it`s NPR Morning Edition, soon matched to KWOU and to KOSU
delayed by IBOC. Hearing any public radio on AM is extremely rare here
altho I did have WSUI 910 IA the other morning, but what`s on 870?
1430 UT ID for ``105.1 and 870 AM, WKAR News Talk``. Of course, East
Lansing MI, but have I ever heard it before? Steady past 1440 with no
sign of XETAR, WWL, KFJZ or any other 870. WKAR is 10 kW direxional
daytimer, but not very, emphasizing northwest but no sharp nulls.
Official Dec and Jan sunrise is 1300 UT. I had this before on the
morning of Oct 29, 2015, at first as unID.
And you guessed it, 105.1 FM is a puny translator! Yet top billing.
Kenneth Vito Zichi in Williamston has complained in MARE that he can
only get them on AM which they are now downplaying. (Of course there
is also a full-power 85/85 kW on 90.5, WKAR-FM with different format,
classical/jazz/news) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7475, Dec 27 at 1544, S9+10 open carrier, vs splatter
from 7490 WWCR; also with JBA clix once a second. This has been around
for some time, day or night. Rather like 10550 where the clix are
louder. What? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5-USB, Dec 27 at 1514, 2-way in Spanish, with
engine noise, INTRUDERS. This is a longtime channel for such, I first
reported on Oct 23, 2006; also in 2010, 2011, 2012; and in November
2019. Do DEA and USFWS know of it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0324 UT December 28
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