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Glenn Hauser logs August 26, 2020 |
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Wednesday, August 26 2020
 ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 26 at 1414: none in 15s, 14s, 13s nor any higher than 12190, S4-S6; skipping 25m inband; 11440 S4-S6; 11100 S5-S7; skipping 31m inband; 9155 S7-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13740, Aug 26 at 1411, RHC S9+20 but JBM during `Sonido Cubano` music, while // 13700 is only S9+10 but fully modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 13710, Aug 26 at 1411, M&W conversation in American English, which means it must be CRI: yes, scheduled this hour only via Kashgar, land of ChiCom persecuting Uighurs. I was expecting Sa`udi Arabia but that`s not till later, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 5970, Aug 26 at 1516, via UTwente SDR, marine weather in French by OM, keeps talking about whiskey --- those sailors! British DX Clubbers, who don`t need a remote, first reported this yesterday, for another Atlantic yacht race, HFCC-registered ``for new organisation`` at 1500-1600 on this and four other ISSoudun frequencies, 6105, 13730, 15300 and 17800, but no signals there. Available for entire A-20 season, mixture of 225, 255 and 250 degrees and 100 or 250 kW, but 5970 is 255 degrees at 250 kW, to CIRAFs 27SW & 37NW which basically means the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain; unneeded 17800 would go as far as CIRAF 81S = middle of North Atlantic, into 11 = Caribbean. Recheck at 1522, now marine weather by YL in English with considerable French accent; SW and NW direxions are clarified by fonetix including whiskey. 1524, ``that`s all for the weather`` and says will be no broadcast tomorrow as most should have arrived at destination by then, Azores? and ``Mission: Impossible`` theme. 1525.4 to dead air until off at 1530.1*. However there is a trace of some other talk modulation, QRM or Issoudun leakage? BBC Pashto via Oman is also sked, but don`t hear it after ISS off. It seems the current race is only along the coast of France; Azores curtailed: http://lessables-lesacores.geovoile.com/2020/tracker/ https://www.classemini.com/course-fr-les-sables---les-acores-en-baie-de-morlaix-1.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, Wed Aug 26 at 1801, IRRS via Bulgaria via UTwente, `Feature Story News` headlines, *then* 1802 IRRS Aïda theme and sign-on, into `Life Matters`, anti-abortion show from California. But also dealing the George Floyd case and BLM; somehow connecting the murderous officer`s name to chauvinism and the godless French Revolution. This is under the European Gospel Radio subset rather than NEXUS-IBA or IPAR. Usual heavy splash from both 7280 and 7290 and the warbling from 7291 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 26 at 0636 UT, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati, quite a regular now, and should be pullable well further north and east of here. I don`t expect to get any audio, and for some DXers that means they don`t care just to detect the carrier, no matter how certain and obvious it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710.014, Aug 26 at 1501, SBC Qur`an service has taken over from CRI East Turkistan, q.v. Aoki shows the handover at 1457 as if closely coördinated despite SA no longer active in HFCC. By 1519 I check it via UTwente SDR, where there is an excellent S9+40 local-quality signal on AMSynch matching my measurement, and wideband 9 kHz does it justice. I keep the incomprehensible classical Arabic beautiful music with lite reverb, artificially applied? Or really from inside a mosque? going in background past 1715; occasional interruptions for ID or brief spoken sermonizing like 1645-1648; and longer talk-only after 1650; still Qur`aning at 1740 recheck; off at 1759, scheduled until 1757*. All violating Separation of Mosque and State, ha2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. Re previous report of birdsong show on REE, 9690: later found it in podcast archive from original broadcast last March under title ``Las aves``: ``Radio 5 En clave de 5 --- Sábados a las 21.05 horas. En Radio Exterior miércoles a las 11.05 UTC [NOT when I heard it] En clave de 5 - Las aves - 21/03/20 21 mar 2020 Desde el comienzo de los tiempos el canto de las aves ha inspirado a los compositores. Escucharemos ejemplos de Janequin, Rameau, Rautaavara, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen y otros. https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/2105-clave-cinco-140320-aves-2020-03-20t11-39-39197/5542672/ reproducir audio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0648 UT, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska. 417-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0651 UT, ND beacon IY, 25 watts from Charles City, Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring, Next: 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S] Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for financial support from Samuel Sánchez, podcast listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily in US funds as PP will convert One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Aug 26 at 0632, this WWCR is S9+30 of dead air. 3215 with perpetual #1 squealing is S9+10/20 of BS. 5890 is also S9+10/20 but with double audio! BS plus some other talk slightly lower, or seems so because BS is always screaming, maybe what is supposed to be on 4840? Soon a Silver Solutions ad for ingesting metal, not a good idea. Then resuming talkshow, name sounds like Bosent Mopela?? But 0635 stops, leaving BS audio only. NO, program sked shows after 0600 weekdays, TOMBS is supposed to be on all three. Maybe intruder was from 1300 WNQM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, Aug 26 at 0625, Radio Vanuatu 3 x 3945 back to normal, music at S3-S5; while 2 x = 7890 is S4-S5 but JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 710.4, Aug 26 at 0637 UT, het upon the 710.0 stations, not 711! So not Morocco, getting too late anyway for that. It`s strong enough to DF on the hand-held altazimuth wrist-mounted DX-398 as slightly clockwise from E-W, like 100/280 degrees which isn`t SE enough for Cuba and not NE enough for Eurafrica, so likely an off-frequency domestic, and certainly neither of my closest dominants, KGNC and KCMO. So what else is near that axis? KFIA Carmichael CA, U4 25000/1000 i.e. Sacramento; WNTM Mobile AL, U2 1000/1000; two in GA, one in SC, which cannot be ruled out despite being daytimers. Locals near these areas please check for offfrequenciness; apparently intermittent, as not audible a bit later at 0651 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1820 UT August 26
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Glenn Hauser logs August 25-26, 2020 |
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Wednesday, August 26 2020
 ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 25 at 1354-1400*: none in 16s; 15165 good; none 14s; 13835 JBA; 12230, 12190, 11460 JBA carriers; 11440 Chinese S3-S8; 11170, 11150, 11120, 11100 JBA carriers; 11070 reached just in time for 1400* timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 25 at 2354: 14980, JBA probably Chinese with Doppler flutter; no others in the 15s, 14s, 13s or 12s until 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. 6135, Aug 25 at 0408, Maine SDR is getting a weak S4-S5 signal singing, presumed RNM; no het from another just below, like Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, UT Wed Aug 26 at 0006, REE is S9+25/35 with bird calls, then morphing into mixing with unfamiliar orchestral piece, announcement soon as subject ``canciones de pájaros en la música clásica``, then 0010 excerpt of Ottorino Respighi`s ``Pines of Rome`` with song of nightingale [ruiseñor]. REE may be deficient in English but certainly provides some excellent programming in Castilian. Via WOR Hitlist, program sked at https://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/ shows 0130-0230 UT Wednesday is: `En Clave de 5`. What? The sked labels the times UTC but they are really UT+2! So axually 2330 UT Tuesday to 0030 UT Wednesday; also on 11940. Each program has an individual hotlink but not this one, rather back to a generic page! But I finally find it among huge roster of programas, https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/ with 199 podcasts, but not latest episode originally last Saturday is something else; maybe a repeat from long ago but searching the entire file does not find it. The title means ``In the Key of 5``, referring to the Radio 5 network (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 25 at 2244, VOT is on today with Turkish music fill reading S9-S7, but much weaker than 9690 Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 25 at 1521 UT, now there is an S9+10 carrier here on the R75 and longwire, but just barely modulated; as KLEY Wellington KS is attempting a comeback after yesterday`s JBA when I was mobile north of Enid. Circa 1830 I`m back in the car inside Enid hearing a trace of something --- on that radio it`s hard to tell if an open carrier is involved, no strength meter. At 2128 again on the R75 like earlier, S9 and JBM vs noise level of S8. By 2312 on the NRD-545, KWKH sportstalk is propagating but with a fast SAH maybe remnant of KLEY. BTW, correcting previous report: that`s ``Wheat capital`` of the world, not ``what capitol``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, circa 0600 UT Aug 25, no signal at all from R. Vanuatu x 3, apparently off --- or intermittent per other reports: ``Aug 25 - From 0355+ (last checked 0550), had no signal from R. Vanuatu (harmonic 11835); only CNR2 being heard. Very unusual for RV to be off the air; there are no weather issues there. Ron California`` ``Fair signal of Radio Vanuatu on 3rd harmonic 11835 kHz at 0645 UTC, but around 0655 only CNR-2 being heard. Fair signal on 2nd harmonic 7890 kHz at 0700 and poor signal on 3945 at same time via SDR Brisbane`` - Ivo Ivanov, Aug 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7348-CW, Aug 25 at 0607, too fast CW for me to copy much, but starts with VVV and ends with K; no DE after VVV but maybe later inside repeating marker. Then goes into a non-marker contact including a lot of numbers. Recent UDXF iog logs of this frequency as FEMA ALE/USB from places such as Denver, Kansas City, Thomasville GA, Maine, Maryland, by patrice privat earlier around 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0202 UT August 26
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Glenn Hauser logs August 24-25, 2020 |
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Tuesday, August 25 2020
 ** BRAZIL. I soon published a correxion but at least two editors ignored it and published the original error. Correct frequency was 5939.506, while 5939.806 was a typo (or misreading my scribbled original log note). So here it is AGAIN. Please publish it correctly. Glenn
5939.506, Aug 11 at 0635, JBA carrier in 5935 WWCR splash, but no problem from 5945 NZ, no doubt also RVM, always off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) BTW, Wolfgang Bueschel has just remeasured this at 5939.507, Aug 24 at 2338 ** CUBA. 5055, Aug 25 at 0048, Rebelde/RHC leapfrog mixing product again of 5025 over 5040 another 15 kHz, S3-S6, but no reverse on 5010 leaving WRMI in the clear. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Aug 25 at 0057, R. Progreso is OFF again, rather than normal start at 0030. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. ``Hi Ron, Today at 1404 I had JBA talk on 6135 as 49m is almost faded out here except for 6170 NZ. Could this 6135 today be anything but Madagascar long path? I thought maybe you would have checked today as I have not yet gone thru all recent or new reports about this. Glenn`` to Ron Howard, Aug 24. ``Hi Glenn, Was not at the beach this morning, but I'm very confident you were in fact hearing Madagascar, because recently they have been having very decent reception on 6135, about 1330+. Here is a typical recent reception of their African music/singing - http://bit.ly/2EmlyoO Ron, California`` Also in the NASWA Flashsheet, Ralphus W Perry, IL, reports Mad on 6135.01 Aug 23 at 0408 with ``unmistakable chanting``, 0410 Christian hymn on Sunday; vs presumed Brasil on 6134.82 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 25 at 0057, S Asian song, S1-S3 and fluttery on near-transpolar path, very brief announcement and off at 0058* as SLBC is now scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 24 from 1800:47 on IRRS, 7290 via Bulgaria, S9+25; tuned in earlier via UTwente at 1745, Iran still on; retune 1758 I think the IRRS carrier has just cut on, and a few sex before 1759 cuts on music modulation but with heavy pumping, slow SAH from another carrier maybe still Iran but fortunately no mod from it. RTTYish warble from 7291 as always, and rough IRRS mod, some plus/minus 10 splash. Just before 1800 IRRS sign-on with deleted? Milano PO box, Feature Story News headlines before WOR starts. Spot-checked every 5 minutes or so on my recording finds it intact, no more pumping, but ending just before 1830, my closing cut off after ``standa --- [rdisclaimer]``. My editor is leaving a second or two of dead air at end of file, which worx on WRMI to prevent overlap, but not enough for IRRS. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S6-S8 direct and somewhat undermodulated but improving. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0330, brand-new time on WRMI 5800, good S7-S9 to Maine SDR, altho aimed SSE. Next: 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S] Good but unfortunately this means the best broadcast across USA on 5850 will be the last airing of the week rather than the first, as I am not inclined to change my produxion schedule to earlier than Thursday afternoons. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for financial support from Samuel Sánchez, podcast listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily in US funds as PP will convert One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, UT Tue Aug 25 at 0230, WRMI amid a Spanish DX program about Guyana rejecting VOA MW relay to Venezuela, not sure what but is // 7780 where RAE is scheduled on System D. This matches last night when WOR 7780 at 0230 also appeared on 5800. But the System H sked still has a gap at 0230-0300 daily for 5800 or any other frequency it might employ. The 0300-0400 block on System H 5800 is also empty on UT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon, where we already discovered Radio República has just been inserted --- but keeping it a secret? To stave off jamming sure to follow eventually (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Aug 25 at 0129, WRNO is still off, surprise2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. UT Aug 25 at 0115 UT, as the Republican national ``convention`` is underway, at least on TV, I make a quick sweep across the MW band while some woman is talking as if in a venue, and hear her only on these major signals: 750 WSB Atlanta, 1170 KFAQ Tulsa, 1510 WLAC Nashville. Otherwise most of them continue with silly ballgames or their own far-right talk. Ho, hum. [I did not do any such survey last week Democratically]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1420, Aug 25 around 0105 UT, Mexican music mixing [Mexmxmix] with English weather sounds like ``KWTE first forecast``, the two making a medium SAH. No fuzzily-similar call listed on 1420, but so many radio stations rely on TV stations for weather, and the closest-fuzzy TV rhyme to that is KWTV right here in OK, which would correlate with nearest, Hobart OK, KTJS on 1420. Checking the KTJS+ cluster website http://www.foxradiook.com/ there is no indication of wx source, but there is a link to KWTV9 for news; so that all seems circumstantially likely. Soon there`s Sean which would be a third station, not country KTJS. 1420 Spanish loops more E/W than N/S so probably Unitedstatesian. At 0107 UT, automated wrong TC for ``Las 8 de la noche con 6 minutos``, so that narrows it down to CDT. Then 0109, ``no se equivoque --- La Zeta`` which is the slogan of KBHS Hot Springs AR, 5000/87 watts ND. Oh2, official sunset there in August was 0100 UT! Sept: 0015 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Friday night satire on HBO, you may think you have to pay for a subscription, but segments soon show up free on YouTube. Once you go to one, YT will of course bring up more, plus related content like THIS WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, etc., e.g.: Bill Maher is Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJq1K20YZg (via gh) This report dispatched at 0344 UT August 25
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Glenn Hauser logs August 23-24, 2020 |
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Monday, August 24 2020
 ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 24 at 1410, after most of them have quit at 1400*: none in the 16s, 14s, 13s or 12s, but 15110 good and confirmed as such by // 10820 at 1454 an echo apart. Meanwhile only ones detected at 1410 are 11460 JBA carrier, 10870, and at S2-S4, 10820; none in the 11s or 9s either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 7310-7385, Aug 24 at 0600, jammming bleed over this entire range from the combined heavy noise centered on 7335 and 7365 which is completely unnecessary with Radio Martí totally off the air after 0400! Something`s always wrong at DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 24 at 0629, the only 9-kHz JBA carrier is here, presumed R. Kiribati, an hour really too late for Eurafrica even if propagable before, yet too early for further Pacificans --- well, almost, just after sunset in wintry NZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. Replying to my report of missing VOT `Letterbox` the past two weeks, Alan Roe, UK, says, ``Glenn - the "Letterbox" programme of 12/15 Aug was, I think, a repeat of the previous week's edition, and there was no "Letterbox" programme on 19/22 Aug --- so you haven't missed anything! Hopefully there'll be a new edition this coming week. Alan Roe, Teddington, UK.`` And Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, says, ``According to information received from the German service earlier this month, the Voice of Turkey is still operating in a covid19 mode. It is said that only one technician is in the studio building at a time taking up all responsibilities. During the German broadcast, only one member is present taking care of the news segment and some bureau work. Other parts of the programmes are repeats. The mailbag is cancelled for the time being. The producers are expected to leave the building after the broadcast. One might think that the situation at the transmitter site is similar which would explain the additional scheduling errors observed by others short wave listeners (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 24 August 2020)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Aug 24 at 1408, JBA IDs only from HIFER beacon K6FRC in Patterson CA. I check for this almost every morning, nor do I anymore hear anyothers in the 13550-13570 ISM band, but K6FRC last logged June 9, tho I did hear the 10-watt, 10-meter K6FRC/B on 28300 from Tracy on July 28; and July 2 when I see I typoed the frequency to 29300! The one on 13565 is notable whenever heard with publicized power of only *1.8 milliwatts*! And I never hear it any other time of day so can only wonder whether it`s always on or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Correxion: 2210 and 2200 UT, not 2310 & 2300! I can`t wait to resume standard time? Fixed: ``WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI airing, Friday August 21 at 2210 the 2200 on 9955, good into BSR-1 caradio on a non-DXpedition a few statute miles north of Enid; no jamming audible.`` Confirmed UT Monday August 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct --- but 0054 recheck, the transmitter is off! Unknown for how long. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 at 0130 & 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+20 at UTwente; also WRN webcast at 0130. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 ending at 0258 on WRMI 7780 after tip from Walt Salmaniw, BC: ``I did note WOR on 5800 at 02:53 tune-in at excellent level. 73, Walt`` --- surprise! the 0230-0300 block on 5800 is blank, unaccounted for all days of week on WRMI skedgrid. So replaces 0300 UT Sun on 5800? Hope it stix. More change info below. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 from 0259.6 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130, S8-S9 at a Rochester NY KiwiSDR. BUT cuts off the air for 2 minutes as I am listening, 0311*-*0313. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, unusually inaudible where it`s aimed, at TWR Bonaire SDR, but S5-S7 at Rochester; 0338 check here, S7 to S9+10 but keeps fading down further to at least S5. Meanwhile, Jeff White replied to my request for some new times: ``Glenn: WOR 0130 UTC Thursday 5850 and 0330 UTC Tuesday on 5800, effective immediately. Jeff``. So adding those to NEXTs: 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE [NEW] 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW] Good but unfortunately this means the best broadcast across USA on 5850 will be the last airing of the week rather than the first, as I am not inclined to change my produxion schedule to earlier than Thursday afternoons. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for financial support from Samuel Sánchez, podcast listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily in US funds as PP will convert One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Minor DX-pedition to 35 km north of Enid on US 81 to carry out AM & FM bandscans on caradio, Sunday afternoon Aug 23 from 2140 to 2215 UT: 750, at 2140 no KMMJ Grand Island NE, apparently still temporarily off by STA pending sale. Has unusual L3 license, i.e. almost daytime, direxional tangent west with 10.5 kW, but used to be JBA here; and neighbor 880 KRVN is always audible daytime tnx to the Ogallala Aquifer. However at 2208 I can detect a slow SAH of 64/min, slightly over 1 Hz apart. The only others nearby are KSEO Durant OK, 220 watt daytimer on the other side of the state, very difficult here; and KBNN Lebanon, center of MO, 5 kW ND daytimer which I have heard several times; unless KMMJ really be on but QRP like 1130 KLEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 1130, Aug 23 at 2142, I expect silence as KLEY Wellington KS, just across from OK, has not been heard at Enid HQ for months, after transmitter troubles, and suspected off for good. But now I have JBA music, certainly not sportive KWKH Shreveport, which despite 50 kW ND daytime does not reach this far some 500 km by groundwave. We drive a few km further north, to about a km south of the US 64/60/81 intersexion, helpfully away from some powerlines, and hear at 2154 a partial ID of ``point 3`` and rock song playing just past 2200; 2201, ``KLEY 1130 AM and --- 100.3 FM --- wellington.net -- The home of --- sports, what capitol of the world``. [Enid disputes that!] This is still a really tiny signal, vs many other further loud Kansans like 1150 KSAL, 1280 KSOK. KLEY is licensed for 250 watts day, ONE WATT night, and I can easily believe this *is* that one watt if not whatever the exciter may rate. Their 100.3 FM translator, really K262CQ, ``The Wave`` is what counts, and this much ittybitty AM to simulcast keeps it legal. Anyway this makes KLEY 1130 quite a DX target further away since I can`t even hear it inside Enid. OTOH, note my report from 2019y: ``1130, Sept 20 at 1853 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is OFF again. Still off at 1705 UT check Sept 21. It had been on since August 26 after a long hiatus since at least May 3`` --- another scenario is that it really has been totally off and just barely turned back on now to keep its license before a full year be elapsed. I had never heard it since then. 1157 & 1183, at 2203, IBOC noise is definitely ON from 1170 KFAQ Tulsa at this time, blocking anything possible on 1160 & 1180. 1370, still no trace of KGNO Dodge City KS at 2205, which I have not been able to detect in years, day or night, 5000/230 watts, and suspect OFF but it continues to be listed as if active. It would be nice if we had someone in Dodge to try to hear it, maybe QRP too? It used to be easy to Enid at least SR/SS. I check 1370 whenever I am N/W of Enid. 1440, gospel huxter in English, VP at 2205, must be KEXB University Park (Metroplex) TX in its latest incarnation, Relevant Radio, barely making it here with 50 kW daytime this high in band, not Topeka. On FM, not much of interest and am running out of time, but: 105.7, at 2214 ``Classic Hits 105.7``, adstring and rock music --- and same stuff on 106.1! but with one radio can`t tell whether synchronized. 105.7 is 50/50 kW KRDR Alva, while 106.1 is weaker with CCI from something else. Nearest ``classic hits`` format if not slogan on 106.1 in WTFDA DB is 60/60 kW KYVZ Atwood KS, way up in the NW corner beyond Colby. But 100 kW KXKU Lyons KS is closer, in between. Other possible 106.1s in OK are KBZI 50/50 kW in Mooreland west of here almost Woodward, with ``80s hits`` -- close enough to classic by now? and KTGK 100/100 kW Owasso almost Tulsa, country (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. `Feminine Fusion` is an excellent show I have been following on KUCO OKC 90.1 or webcast, Sundays at 2100-2200 UT -- usually a few minutes late due to preceding programs overrunning. About classical music composed or performed by women. I haven`t found an affiliate list for it and it`s totally missing from publicradiofan.com --- which I fear is not being updated, but it`s so huge that that would be a full-time job? Searching out I have found a few other stations carrying FF on Saturdays or Sundays including this one in Philadelphia, UT Mondays 0200 in case we miss it on KUCO: https://www.wrti.org/programs/feminine-fusion Also WIAA and WXXI. More about it from the distributor: https://exchange.prx.org/series/38388-feminine-fusion where it seems you may listen to any of 100+ episodes. The KUCO scheduling clashes with another all?-feminine show, `Marion`s Attic` on WBCQ, and I bet neither program realizes that (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6135, Aug 24 at 1404, JBA talk as the 49mb is almost outfaded here except for 6170 NZ; could this be anything but MADAGASCAR long-path? I`ve asked Ron Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) This report dispatched at 1700 UT August 24
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