December 2008 ABDX Journal
Vol 3. Issue 12
Editors Corner:
ABDX membership has reached 200 members!
It has taken from May 2001 until today to get there but it is quite a
milestone. I thank all of you for being members of ABDX.
The January CME is all about ultralight
radio logs. An ultralight is a small portable radio that will easily fit in a
shirt pocket. There has been a lot of interest in this type of DX. It’s a lot
less expensive to get started in DX using ultralights and you don’t need a lot
of land or a big name receiver.
Christmas came and passed. Some of us
were lucky and Santa brought them some new gear. If you were one of the lucky
ones, let ABDX have a review of your new equipment and we will put it in the
Journal.
We have call sign changes in the
Journal this month. The FCC finally released them!
The Rogues Gallery is always looking for new pictures! We enjoy
seeing our members who have made it to the “Hall of Fame” for those of us
with faces for radio! It has been a very long time since we have had new
additions to the Rogues Gallery. If you are a member and want to be in the
Rogues Gallery, send your pix to Michael Richard
at webmaster@americanbroadcastdx.com.
We would love to see you in the gallery.
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Kevin Redding, Phil Rafuse, Powell Way, Mike Richard, Jay Heyl
and Martin Foltz the ABDX crew.
The Broadcast Band
IEN-GA
Ira Elbert New, III, Watkinsville - SONY SRF-M37
900
WJTH GA Calhoun - 12/22/08 1735 - Weather Forecast and then Country Music.
Decent signal fading in and out of the mix of stations on the frequency.
"...WJTH". (IEN-GA)
930
WGAD AL Rainbow City - 12/22/08 1700 - Oldies. Decent signal fading in and out
of the mix of stations on the frequency. "WGAD...Oldies". (IEN-GA)
730
KQPN AR West Memphis - 12/26/08 1828 - Sports Talk, BOH ID and an ad for a local
athletics store. Good signal with slight fading. "...730, FOXSPORTS.COM".
(IEN-GA)
950
KXJK AR Forrest City - 12/26/08 1850 - Talk of happenings in east Arkansas, ad
for a business located in east Arkansas. Good signal with slight fading.
"You're listening to KXJK". (IEN-GA)
990
KWAM TN Memphis - 12/17/08 0006 - Ad for a BYOB Party at the VIP Lounge, ID.
Decent signal fading into the mix. "The New Voice of Memphis, KWAM". (IEN-GA)
1270
WTJZ VA Newport News - 12/27/08 1802 - Gospel Music and ID. Weak signal all, but
buried in the mix. "...The Light from The Lighthouse, WTJZ". (IEN-GA)
HQ 180
This is a double CME, X-Band and tube radio over 20 years old (I've
owned it for almost 30 years).
1620 WPMW407 San Juan Capistrano, CA CALTRANS HAR with loop by
woman about the construction on Ortega Hwy (74), ID during each loop. 12/1 11:53
AM PST.
1630 XEUT Tijuana, BC, Mexico Classical music pgm, ID at ToH, into
news in Spanish. 12/1 11:56 AM PST
1640 WPKA209 Irvine, CA City of Irvine Emergency Broadcast Radio
System with loop covering local information by a man, ID during each loop. 12/1
11:55 AM PST. (These guys are Hams and sent a QSL card in 2005!)
1650 (KFOX) Torrance, CA Korean talk, sounded like news. No ID
heard. 12/1 12:01 PM PST
1670 (KHPY) Moreno Valley, CA Spanish with mentions of the El
Sembrador website and Radio Catolica IDs. Into music pgm. 12/1/ 12:02 PM PST
1700 (XEPE) Tecate, BC, Mexico English ads, "San Diego's
1700" slogan, into business talk pgm. 12/1 12:05 PM PST
Parenthesis means I didn't hear the call letters.
1300 KYNO Fresno, CA 12/3 5:16-6:00 PM PST tuned in to Dr. Dean
Edell program, some local ads, "1300 kyno" slogan with kyno used as a
word and rhyming with rhino. Caught the end of the ToH ID and then into what
sounded like Larry King. Poor, in and out. New here, California #172 heard.
1250 KHIL Willcox, AZ 12/8 4:31 PM PST tuned in to Country song, ID
as "KHIL AM 12-50" and then faded.
1420 KMOG Payson, AZ 12/8 and 12/9 heard between 4:44 and 5:02 PM
PST both nights with call in garage sale type program with male host. Said the
program runs at 5:40 MST. ABC news at 5:00. Fades in and out.
1300 XEP? 12/8 5:15 PM PST tune in to Spanish songs, Radio Trece
IDs, faded to Brawley at 6:29.
1050 KTCT San Mateo, CA 12/9 5:17 PM PST ads, "KNBR
10-50" slogan, sports fading in and out.
1230 KPRL Paso Robles, CA 12/9 5:23 PM PST Sean Hannity program.
1610 WPFK505 Orange, CA 6:08AM PST (just before sunrise) 12/24 ID
loop by woman, "This is WPFK505 Orange. This Highway Advisory Radio is
operated by Caltrans on AM 16-10." barely audible but I did record a couple
audible loops.
I can't find this on the FCC website so maybe it's new. I will be
in Santa Ana near Orange tomorrow and can check to see if I can hear them there.
910 KGME Phoenix, AZ 12/26 5:18 PM PST tune in to network ads, NFL
Insider program, local ads including AZ Lottery, pgm promo for Bickley and MJ on
Xtra Sports 9-10. No call ID heard but AZ ads and slogan match and finally
enough to send a reception report. This station fades in and out and suffers
from KECR QRM.
1610 UNID ERS 12/26 9:44 PM PST only heard "city hall"
and "AM 16-10" slogan with male announcer. This sounds like a GY
channel here at night.
1430 KLO Odgen, UT 12/27 3:31 PM PST turned on the radio to find
them in like a local for a few minutes with ads, then faded to local KMRB. Also
heard 12/31 3:50 PM PST with ads, Michael Savage pgm. Gone just before ToH ID,
maybe pattern change. KMRB was mostly on top.
1250 KHIL Willcox, AZ 12/27 4:13 PM PST country music, ads, Classic
Country K-hill slogan.
1340 XEAA Mexicali, BC 12/30 6:38 PM PST tuned in to hear a nice
"XE doble A" ID and then into a song and then faded.
1400 KJOK Yuma, AZ 12/28 Oldies station faded in and out very
briefly but K-jock slogans heard at 5:06 and 5:43 PM PST.
1400 KKJL San Luis Obispo, CA 12/28 5:13-6:00 PM PST the station
that was on top the most with AC songs like Born Free, People, Bridge over
Troubled Waters, K-jewl and Fabulous 1400 KKJL IDs.
1610 CANADA
CJWI, Montréal, QC 01Dec08 1600 - SS music and talk - Fair [Black-MA]
1610 UNITES
STATES
Maine Turnpike HAR, Portland, ME 01Dec08 1758 - Highway Advisory - WPKW775
and WPVS949 (both calls given in announcement) - Fair [Black-MA]
1610 UNITES
STATES
Connecticut Department of Transportation, Hartford, CT 01Dec08 1845 - Road
conditions and construction info - WPML750 / WPQH451 (per FCC) - Fair [Black-MA]
1610 UNITES
STATES
Steamship Authority Travelers Information System 03Dec08 1947 -
"Thank you for tuning to 1610 AM. Welcome to Hyannis" WQEA969 (per
FCC) - Very Good [Black-MA]
1620 UNITES
STATES
Middletown Township Advisory Radio, Middletown, NJ 01Dec08 2100 - Operated
by the Middletown office of Emergency Management - Local announcements WQIQ629
(per FCC) - Fair [Black-MA]
1620 UNITES
STATES
Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce and Regional Development 02Dec08 1523 -
News of attractions in Plymouth area. 508 830-1620 - WQHF306 (per FCC) - Fair
[Black-MA]
1620 UNITES
STATES
WTAW, College Station, TX 02Dec08 0025 - Laura Ingram show - Poor in heavy
QRM [Black-MA]
1620 VIRGIN
ISLANDS (US) WDHP, St Croix 02Dec08 0013 -
Xmas song in Caribbean accent, then traditional Island music. 0025 woman with
Full ID. - Fair [Black-MA]
1630 UNITES
STATES
KCJJ, Iowa City, IA 01Dec08 2358 - Ad for collision repair, then Community
Motors ad with Iowa City mention, then into ABC news - Fair in heavy QRM
[Black-MA]
1630 UNITES
STATES
WRDW, Augusta, GA 02Dec08 0031 - Interview with Hockey coach, 0039 "WRDW"
mention. RV spot with Augusta mention. 0040 "News Talk Sports WRDW
16-30". - Poor-Fair in peaks in heavy QRM [Black-MA]
1630 UNITES
STATES
Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Narragansett, RI 03Dec08 1815 -
Highway Advisory - WPWL406 - Poor [Black-MA]
1630 UNITES
STATES
Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Johnson, RI 03Dec08 1855 -
Highway Advisory - WPKL358 - Poor [Black-MA]
1640 UNITES
STATES
Rockland County Radio, New City, NY 01Dec08 0200 - "Keeping Rockland
County safe and informed" WQBN316 and WQBN317 - Fair [Black-MA]
1640 UNITES
STATES
WKSH, Sussex, WI 02Dec08 0057 - Radio Disney. RadioDisney.com promo -
Poor-Fair in heavy QRM [Black-MA]
1640 UNITES
STATES
WTNI, Biloxi, MS 03Dec08 1316 - Conservative talk with caller, Blair
talking about auto bailout. WTNI ID and time check. "Let's communicate 1640
WTNI". - Good, then faded [Black-MA]
1650 CANADA
CJRS, Montréal, QC 02Dec08 0114 - ID in English, "You're listening
to CJRS" then into songs in FF. 04Dec 0325 "You're listening to Radio
shalom, 1650AM, North America's only 24 hour Jewish radio station" -
Fair-Good over/under Radio Disney [Black-MA]
1650 UNITES
STATES
WHKT, Portsmouth, VA 02Dec08 0113 - Radio Disney - 04Dec 0528 "Radio
Disney AM 16-50 Norfolk" - Fair-Good over/under CJRS [Black-MA]
1660 UNITES
STATES
WWRU, Jersey City, NJ 02Dec08 0119 - Xmas song in English, then announcer
in Korean. - Good [Black-MA]
1670 UNITES
STATES
WTDY, Madison, WI 02Dec08 0134 - Laura Ingram show - Poor in heavy QRM
[Black-MA]
1670 UNITES
STATES
WVVM, Dry Branch, GA 03Dec08 2233 - SS music - Poor-Fair over/under WTDY
[Black-MA]
1680 UNITES
STATES
WTTM, Lindenwold, NJ 02Dec08 0137 - SS Rock - Good [Black-MA]
1690 CANADA
CHTO, Toronto, ON 02Dec08 0959 - "You're listening to CHTO AM 16-90
Toronto. Visit our web site, WWW.1690.ca"
then into Greek music - Fair-Good in QRM [Black-MA]
1690 CANADA
CJLO, Montréal, QC 02Dec08 1002 - Promo for magazine.CJLO.com listing
local events around Montréal. - Good [Black-MA]
1690 UNITES
STATES
WPTX, Lexington Park, MD 02Dec08 1100 - "You're listening to WPTX
News Radio 16-90 Lexington Park" - Fair in QRM [Black-MA]
1700 UNITES
STATES
WEUP, Huntsville, AL 02Dec08 2355 - Man with ID, "WEUP, 24 hours of
gospel power" then gospel music. Re-check 0825[03Dec] man with WEUP.com and
"the Peoples Station". - Fair [Black-MA]
1700 UNITES
STATES
KVNS, Brownsville, TX 03Dec08 0600 - Man with ID "..that oldies radio
KVNS Brownsville on the Rio Grande" Re-check 0759 "What a Day for a
Day Dream" and ID "Oldies Radio 1700 KVNS" - Good - Poor in heavy
QRM [Black-MA]
1700 UNITES
STATES
(presume)WJCC, Miami Springs, FL 03Dec08 0235 - Woman in SS giving
presumed address and info for sending donations. American Express, MasterCard
and Florida mentions. - Fair [Black-MA]
1710 UNITES
STATES
[French Caribbean Pirate] R Soleil Inter, Brockton, MA 02Dec08 1814 - We
Wish You a merry Xmas' bumper, ID "Radio Soleil International ...
[FF]…" 'We Wish You a merry Xmas' bumper. - Recorded - Fair-Good
[Black-MA]
Additional
information provided by Jeff Lehmann: TIS type antenna located on an old
furniture store building at the corner of Center and Main Streets in Brockton.
They used to be on 1620 until the city of Brockton put a legal TIS station on
that frequency. http://www.radiosoleilinternational.com/
1710 UNITES
STATES
[SS Pirate] R Celestial, Boston area, MA 03Dec08 0026 - Man in SS
preaching with ID "Radio Celestial" - Recorded - Good [Black-MA]
1053 ENGLAND (UK) TalkSPORT,
Droitwich 09Dec08 2048 - Soccor match with Chelsea and UnID team. // 909
BBC Radio 5 Live - Good over weak Arabic, presume Morocco [Black-MA]
909 ENGLAND (UK) BBC Radio
5 Live, various 09Dec08 2048 - Soccor match with Chelsea and UnID team. //
1053 TalkSPORT, Droitwich - Good, mixing with ESP Radio National 5, Palma de
Mallorca sporting event [Black-MA]
909 SPAIN Radio Nacional 5,
Palma de Mallorca 09Dec08 2048 - Sporting even announcer in SS. -Fair,
mixing with UK soccor match, BBC Radio5.[Black-MA]
909 BOTSWANA Voice of
America, Sebele Pikwe 09Dec08 2100 - End of EE transmission and sign/off
with "This is the Voice of America, Washington DC" and Yankee Doodle.
- Good under UK soccor match [Black-MA]
999 MOLDOVA Voice of
Russia/Russian International Radio, Maiac 09Dec08 2032 - Woman in Russian.
EMWG shows TWR in Russian - Good [Black-MA]
756 SPAIN Radio Euskadi, Bilbao 09Dec08 2026 - Man in SS - Fair [Black-MA]
Could use some help from some of the domestic Gurus
here.
Last night at 9pm got a fairly clear ID for
"News Talk 1330 [WKSA or WASA]"
The internet shows references to WASA in MD but
100000Watts doesn't show WKSA or WASA on that frequency. It does show a WJSS on
1330 in MD.
Any help most appreciated,
1296 SUDAN (presume)Sudan National Broadcasting Corp., Reiba 14Dec08 2032 - Woman in assumed Sudanese Arabic, then plaintive African sounding vocal by man and woman and other Aftican sounding music. - Recorded - Poor-Fair mixing with ESP(COPE) with sporting event [Black-MA]
909 BOTSWANA
Voice of America, Sebele Pikwe 12Dec08 2049 - Lively African sounding
group singing and instrumentation. At 2055 more African rhythms and singing. -
Recorded - Poor-Fair under BBC. TOH ID covered by BBC fade-up but Mauno Ritola
via RealDX located a VOA recording at 2046 with confirming music. [Black-MA]
531 SWITZERLAND
(presume)DRS1/DRS Musigwälle, Beromünster 17Dec08 2039 - German folk
music as per EMWG this time. - Recorded - Fair - Also note per EMWG that
transmitter to be switched off end 2008 [Black-MA]
12/19
got to thinking about the DX test this weekend for
WOON in Rhode Island. At first I dismissed it as not much of a challenge for me
on the Cape, but then I got to wondering if I could here it (or anything) under
the IBOC monster WBUR which I can almost hit with a rock from here.
So last evening I nulled WBUR as best as I
could to see what I could get. I never did get WOON, but got three others as
noted below.
1240 WJEJ
Hagerstown, MD 18-Dec-08 2323 - "Easy 1240"
1240 WWCO Waterbury,
CT 18-Dec-08 2345 - Michael Savage
1240 WSYY
Millinocket, ME 18-Dec-08 2352 - ESPN
Maybe I'll have better luck this weekend.
720 GREENLAND:
(Denmark) (presume)KNR, Simiutaq 19Dec08
2207 - Man in Danish with mention of "some political agreements".
There has been news of late concerning Greenland severing some ties with
Denmark. - Recorded - Poor-Fair in Latin mix. Language verified Henrick Klemetz
via RealDX. [Black-MA]
1140 WQBA-Miami FL 22Dec08 0531 -
Flute music, then man in SS with "Esta es doubleve-Ku-bay-ah" -
Recorded - Poor-Fair in mix [Black-MA]
1290 WWTX,Wilmington DE - 27Dec08 2100 - Recorded -
"Delaware's all sports radio 12-90 the ticket and 12-90 dot com WWTX
Wilmington" [Black-MA]
850 WFTL,West
Palm Beach FL - 29Dec08 2354 - Man with "WFTL News Talk 8-50" then YL
with Broward County traffic info [Black-MA]
850 WXGM,Waterloo
IA - 29Dec08 2359 - YL with promo for upcoming show on weight loss. "..Join
me at 9:30 right here on WXGM" [Black-MA]
850 WTAR,Norfolk
VA - 29Dec08 2359 - Man with "..sports ..traffic and weather, AM 8-50 WTAR
Norfolk. It's 7 PM". Then fanfare and "CNN Radio, Breaking news from
the mideast.." [Black-MA]
12/6
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I'm able to post and DX
at the same time in the old home town where I was born, raised etc.
I'm DXing and typing on the laptop - using the SDR-IQ.
My Mom doesn't have internet, but I'm DXing a wireless internet link
[just one bar, but it seems to work fine].
I'm also listening to 1010 WINS.
Earlier - about 3:40 p.m. ADT I was listening to 1089 KHz Talksport
in England, so the DX capabilities are pretty decent.
The antenna is a loop - 41 feet long, 6 feet high that I installed in my
Mom's attic when I was in my early 20s. I'm
using an Erikson Engineering broadband rf transformer to match the loop to some
bnc terminated coax.
Earlier, RFI was a big problem - I had to run the laptop on its
battery, and the SDR-IQ quickly wore the laptop battery down.
So, I tried the laptop's AC adapter, but the noise was unbearable.
I slapped some ferrite on both the input and output ends of the little
"brick" and then plugged the AC plug into an isoblok.
The noise mostly disappeared.
12/17
Last night, at about 11 p.m. AST, I was cruising the MW band on the
SDR-IQ, listening for and looking for interesting things.
I came upon 560 KHz, with 560 Cuba and 560 WGAN battling it out.
Cuba winning this RF boxing match by far.
I noticed a bizarre warbling sound.
then, I thought to look at the computer monitor and lo and behold, I saw
the carrier wobbling back and forth in time to the warble, and with the zig-zag
path left in the waterfall display. The
more I watched and listened, the more intrgued I became.
The programming on Cuba 560 appeared to be a political speech,
complete with nicely piped in crowd applause.
The sense I got was that there was a deliberate jamming effort going on,
using one or more transmitters of roughly equal strength, each significantly off
frequency, but off frequency in different directions or by
different amounts. It was like the
transmitters were being cycled in a pattern to create a warble jamming effect.
But for the SDR-IQ, I would have assumed it was a single jammer,
broadcasting a warble. But the
dancing, wiggling carrier displayed told a different story.
A little later WGAN became dominant but this jammer was doing a
nice job of jamming WGAN.
Did anyone else hear this, or was the jamming efforts concentrated
at preventing listeners in PEI from hearing Raul give some big speech ;) ?
I wonder if WGAN will file a complaint with the 'Duke of the
Dweebs' at the FCC :) :) :) ?
Heard December 17, 2008 from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. AST on a
Hallicrafters SX-100 fed by a LF Engineering M601C antenna:
555 ZIZ St. Kitts
720 KNR Greenland
940 CINW Montreal QC
970 WZAN Portland ME
990 CBY Corner Brook NL
990 CKGM team 990 Montreal QC
1050 CHUM Toronto ON
1500 WFED Federal News Radio Washington DC
Just a small sampling. I
was particularly pleased to get 720 KNR Greenland, as it is not a catch I get
every night.
12/30
Heard on a Collins/Teledyne R390A fed by the usual LFE M601C
antenna at 9:55 AST:
650 WSM Nashville TN with ID
Haven't heard WSM for months.
I don't particularly like most C&W, but it was nice to hear WSM all
the same.
But wait, there's more!
840 WHAS Louisville KY with ID
Once again, same receiver and antenna - time 10:05 p.m. ADT.
Normally, 840 is just a mumble-jumble. Within
a couple minutes, it was back to mumble jumble.
1320 WATR Waterbury CT with oldies - 10:20 AST - over and under
CJMR.
1422 Germany as usual, over and under CKDY splatter
Heard on an Eton E-1 12/1:
690 WIST NOLA 1957 ad for Tulane Medical Center. Talk about UNO.
NEW! #235
710 KEEL Shreveport, LA 2004 Evan McCarty Show. ID and into Michael
Weiner [Savage]. NEW! #236
Heard on an Eton E-1 with 250 foot wire.
670 HJPL Medellin, Colombia
12/7 2230 with spoken word program in SS and announcement RCN Antena Dos [erray
say ennay] and then into music right after the bottom of the hour. Fighting with
Chicago and at times over Chicago. Good signal for coming from South America.
Had another SS on 810 but never got an ID.
Heard on an Eton E-1 and whip:
960 WABG Greenwood, MS 0500 12/9 playing some awesome blues music.
Muddy Waters and BB King right after. It was just plain hot and a great set. I
could leave XM is all radio was this good.
960 KROF Abbeville, LA 0525 12/9 popping up under WABG "The
Gator" playing Cajun chanky-chank. NEW #237
Heard on a Sangean DT200V falling apart, held together with tape
and sans accoutrement or for rednecks, nekkid:
730 XEX Mexico, DF 12/12 2130 with SS strong for a few minutes
until over taken by HSFB and using Estadio W slogan. Kinda strange since XEW
uses W.
1160 UNID 12/12 2145 with classical violin concerto. Antenna was
directional to receive north and south.
Heard on a Hallcrafters SX-99 and 100 foot wire:
1420 WIGG Wiggins, MS 0530 with news, ad stopset and ID. Running
parallel with WABG according to the ID.
Heard on a Sangean DT200V nekkid as the day it was born:
1160 KSL Salt Lake City, UT 12/16 2338 With guy telling a story
about a break in at his home in
downtown SLC after talking about a home invasion and shooting of the perp in
Ogden. Was strong for about 10 minutes then fade out.
1690 WMLB Avondale Estates, GA 12/17 0000 ToH ID CBS News after a
real nice set of Americana featuring Johnny Cash who is always cool and a lot of
bluegrass music.
Heard 12/17 on a Kenwood R-1000 and 150' wire:
960 KZIM Cape Girardeau, MO 1405 WX then into ick, Sean Hannity.
NEW
1050 KMIS Portageville. MO 1452 ESPN Radio.
1680 KRJO Monroe, LA 1525 playing oldies "Old School
1680".
1690 WVON Cicero, IL 1528 with talk about robberies and shootings
in Chicago. NEW
590 Radio Musical Nacional Santa Clara, VC, Cuba 2200 with music
from the Der Ring Des Niebelungen and classical music. NEW
640 CMBQ Guanabacoa, HA, Cuba 2234 time check at 2334 in Havana and
back to music.
Heard on an Eton E-1 and 150 foot wire:
760 HJAJ Baranquilla, Columbia [t] 12/17 2045 matched webstream but
no ID. O/U WJR. Very good sig at times. NEW
910 WALT Meridian, MS 12/17 0650 ads for downtown Meridian
businesses. NEW
940 WMIX Mt. Vernon, IL 12/17 0658 Christmas carols and ID.
NEW
950 KXJK Forrest City, AR 12/17 0700 ToH ID CNN News and ad for
Edwards Food Giant NEW
960 WRFC Athens, GA 12/17 0707 ESPN sports o/u WERC. NEW
1120 WTWZ Clinton, MS 12/17 0715 REL under KMOX. NEW
1180 WJNT Pearl, MS 12/17 0721 stupid Rick and Bubba and ID. NEW
1170 WACV Montgomery, AL 12/17 1300 ToH ID, CBS News. NEW
1580 WEAM Columbus, GA 12/17 2100 ToH ID Davis B'cstg ESPN NEW
1520 KRHW Sikeston, MO 12/17 2109 C&W blasting in. NEW
560 WIND Chicago, IL 12/17 2230 BoH ID Brian Rezny Wealth Report
promo.
570 KLIF Dallas, TX 12/17 2234 Rusty Humphries interviewing Jackie
Mason
580 WIBW Topeka, KS 12/17 2238 KU womens basketball talk.
Heard 12/20 on an Eton E-1 and 150' wire.
660 WXQW Fairhope, AL 0848 with preaching.
670 WYLS York, AL 0900 ToH ID gospel from a local Baptist church.
780 WIIN Ridgeland, MS 0922 Christian country music.
1070 WDIA Memphis, TN 0927 with old school R&B and fighting
WAPI
1260 WYDE Birmingham, AL 1108 snake oil informercial.
1530
WDAP Huntingdon, TN 1254 ID // WWDX C&W music.
1260 WSDZ Belleville, IL 12/24 1704 R. Disney, ID 3 minutes before
the hour.
580 WKAQ San Juan, PR 12/24 1800 under an XE which I did not
identify and EE from Tupelo, MS . The programming matches the streaming audio
playing music. Super weak.
630 WUNO San Juan, PR 12/24 1825 very weak and under KJSL with
salsa / meringue music. Programming matches the streaming audio.
Note: Both the PR receptions would have been impossible to ID had
it not been for the streaming audio on the net. I could barely hear the stations
and getting a match really did the trick. I would bet on a real AU day these
would be a lot better receptions.
1110 WTOF Bay Minette,
AL 1445 a legal ID at this time "WTOF, Bay Minette".
1470 WRGA Rome, GA 1504 ID WRGA into local news.
1520 KRHW Sikeston, MO 1525 ID "Classic Country" and
C&W Christmas music.
1570 WIGO Morrow, GA 1526 ID then Christmas music.
1600 WAOS Austell, GA 1532 with MX music and slogan "La
Favorita."
12/25
710 WAQI Miami, FL 1741 using slogan Radio Mambi.
1140 WQII San Juan, PR 2115 I guess when they come it comes in
bunches. This was the best of all PR receptions because clear as a
\bell there was a woman SS announcer talking about George Clooney and
\staring at a goat and then she got to talking about George and the Chupacabra and got giggly. All US ads but SS versions and SS
ad for \the US Army.
12/26
1540 KXEL Waterloo, IA 0845 with Glenn Beckless Program because he
was on vacation and had a fill in, then stopset, ID and KXEL.com
Heard on a CCRadio nekkid:
1300 WFRX West Frankfort, IL 12/27 0500 with legal ToH ID "WFRX,
West Frankfort - Marion"
Heard on a very yellow Sangean DT-400W, nekkid:
1220 WDYT Kings Mountain, NC 12/27 1615 using the "Think
Radio" slogan and with a O'Reilly promo.
Heard on an Eton E-1 and 150 foot wire.
1470 KLCL Lake Charles, LA 1712 12/30 with some nice chanky-chank
Cajun music. // 1290 KJEF. ID as
1470 and 1290 Cajun Radio.
Heard on an Eton E-1 and 150 foot wire.
820 WMGG Largo, FL 12/31 0815 with local conservative talk. Ad by
Scott Pelluer for car dealer and into talk about old topic of political
correctness. New.
Heard on an Eton E1 and 150 foot wire 12/30.
1570 WTRB Ripley, TN 1230 ID after 1215 Reelfoot Lake report.
Playing Hank Williams NOT Jr. singing
about the Lost Highway.
21-Dec-08 // 0500 local // 640 khz. // WHLO // 0.5 kw night //
Akron, Ohio // Male with "On air, on-line, and on FM at WRQK-FM HD2 Canton,
640 WHLO, Akron. Your news, traffic and weather station." // New. A 328
mile catch.
MP3 clip available here:
http://www.21centimeter.com/21centimeter/Recordings/640-khz_0500-Local_12-21-08_WHLO_Akron_OH.mp3
530, Cuban EZL, 12/4, about 9pm CST, weak, but definitely there
1220 WLPO IL
La Salle. 0430 CST. 12-10-2008 Appeared with I.D. & local weather
& a few mentions of WLPO. Gone quickly. NEW
1250 WGL IN Fort Wayne. 1525 CST. 12-11-2008. Chistmas music. "102.9 FM & 1250 AM--The River." Relog.
12/18
5;50
central WJR 760 khz Detroit Mich.
780 plus miles away
12/24
Yesterday my electricity was off for about an hour 10;00
central(for Mantainance) So i took
the time to do a little static free dx !. Found a couple new things and some
strange contacts,
At the start of the band scan i got a very clear KQAG ? I didn't
right down the khz but i think it was on the low end. Can't find anything on
that one but i'm sure i heard it right ?
KTIC 840 khz 5000w ,AM sister station of KTIC FM 107.9 West Point
NE.
Got KXRB 1000 khz ,10,000 W , a more or less local (Souix Falls
SD.) but one that i have'nt heard
in a long time.
On 1110 khz i had a clear copy of WLWT ,looked it up later and Wiki
say's it's a television station in cincinnati ???
The normal KFAB (Omaha) wasn't there but came back later when i
went back to check it.
I even got 1020 Radio Disney usually
only get it at night ?
1660 khz KXTR 10 kw from Kansas City Ks. Classical music
Anyway i almost wished i'd have had more time but it's cold here!!!
so it was good the heat came back on after a bit , HehHeh ?
12/25
Sry for being a bother on these new contacts; Had some time after
the gifts and food to DX ;
1550 khz 'Oldies 1550' 5000 watt class B , St. Joseph Mi. ,coming
in like a local at sunset and after 170
plus miles from northern Ne.
12/29
550 khz KFYR Bismark ND. 'The voice of the Northern Plains' 5000 w
class B My first ND. log
560 khz odd one here? no call signs just a voice (CBS Radio
Networks Channel 42 ) then a short tone .Repeat
620 khz CKRM Regina
SAS. CAN 'country format\news' 10,000 W Class B North west of 1190 AM
Close to Moose Jaw SAS. Great
name !
750 khz WSB News
/Talk 750 Atlanta Ga.
50,000 W Class A 770 khz KKOB
'The Talk Monster' Albuquarqe NM. 50,000
W Class B My first NM. log
800 khz KQAD 'Light
Favorites AM 800' Laverne Minn. 500
W Day/80 W night.
1000 khz KTOK
News /Talk /Info Oklahoma City OK. 5000w
Class A
1190 khz CFSL
'AM 1190' Country format
Weyburn SAS. 10,000W Day 5,000 Night
Class B
1280 KZNS Salt Lake City, UT 12/24/08 8:00 AM PST -
Fair to good. I've been hearing them the last couple of mornings on the
way in to work. I heard a "Wasatch Beer" ad yesterday, which
probably was enough to confirm, had I bothered to Google it at the time, but the
1280thezone.com mention this morning was the clincher. Anyone know if
their 50Kw CP is on yet? [NEW] BL-CA
12/12
1460 KZNT
Colorado Springs , CO 1320
UTC with ID by male, break from "Bill Bennett" , wx at BOH
"43 degrees in Colorado Springs", and repeated IDs. "On
News/Talk 1460 KZNT". Hrd w/ Palomar loop antenna nulling out Mexican QRM.
1700 XEKTT Cerro
Jaramillo y Tijuana , Baja Norte , Mexico hrd with local quality at 1030; nx
recap, local tfc and wx and ID by YL wtih
"San Diego 1700" slogan. (12/23
Barton-AZ)
1120 KANN
Roy , UT 0930
network nx , into
traditional Christmas music. Local
quality signal well after local surise (7:30 ish). also heard dashboard radio in
GMC pickup yesterday 1500 with near local quality signal with Christmas music
pgm. (12/23 Barton-AZ)
Two
new stations on the morning commute, doing some dashboard DXing with the stock
radio in my 2000 Taurus, all on December 26:
1280
WEIM, Fitchburg MA, "1280 The Blend" at 0820
1280
WJAY, Mullins SC, heard "...WJAY..." ID in the mush at 0825.
Then
some new Ultralight logs on my DT-400W barefoot:
920
WPCM, Graham NC with "Thank you for listening to AM 920, WPCM", into
oldies at 1615. A new station for the master log as well as a new
ultralight station.
990
WNTW, Somerset PA with Sean Hannity pinch-hitter at 1630
990
WEEB, Southern Pines NC, with call ID and "NCNN News" (North Carolina
News Network) at 1635. These three are new to my Ultralight log.
Ultralight station count is now at 453.
12/1 ** U S A. IBOC on WGN-AM?? We did not drop it. We just have it
turned off for now while we are evaluating some processing changes that we made.
I do not know how long we will have it off but it will probably be turned back
on some time in the future (James J. Carollo, Director of Engineering, WGN
Radio, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611; Office: 312-222-4701 Fax:
312-222-4192 jcarollo @ tribune.com replying to an inquiry Dec 1 from Artie
Bigley, OH, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12/13
With
Jolene on the evening dog walk, E10 in hand.... near Silverstreet, SC
1550 WNZF FL Bunnell time 1705 with news promo and giving of 586 number to call the News Desk good signal then gone!
12/1
For @ least 10 minutes, WPRO/630 has been off air. No carrier detected. Will keep you posted.
12/3
WHAS 840 Louisville KY and XEN 690 Mexico City,both at about 130 pm
to central Texas.
12/14
Thanks to a tip from Rick Shaftan on one of the DX lists, just
logged WJOE 700 Athol MA - simulcasting sister station WXRV 92.5 Andover/Boston,
with Traveling Wilburys into a WXRV legal ID ("Boston's
Independent Radio, 92.5 the River") at 1803 EST...new logging here
in
Rochester, and putting up quite a fight against dominant WLW!
12/17
Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to this board but figured someone out
there knows what this is.
Consistently, every night for the past few nights, a strange woo
noise has blanketed 940 here in Salt Lake City, Utah. Whatever it is, it is
strong enough to block out whatever else I can hear on 940, which is usually
CJGX from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. As of this post, I hear CJGX
and a far off talk station, which I presume is KNNZ from nearby
Cedar City.
The "wooo" comes and goes. As of this post, I can't hear
it, but about an hour ago, while driving southbound on I-15 from Ogden, I could
hear it loud and clear.
I have heard it not only in my car radio and my home radio, but in
my company's vehicles too, since I drive them often.
Any idea what this is? Is it interference, or something else.
Correction, it wasn't CJGX I was hearing, but KPSZ 940 Des Moines,
Iowa. Heard a clear ID, and confirmed the station by listening online. This one
is new for me.
The interference still bugs me though....
12/26
1360 KWDJ Ridgecrest, CA No Specified Time - The
Coyote. Station is only 100 miles from me but they only run 31 watts at night.
Faded in and out but the call letters came throguh clear.
1440 KINF Santa Maria, CA No Specified Time -
News with bottom of the hour call.
1300 KROP Brawley, CA No Specified Time - Country music. Heard call.
5
December
kHz CALL
UTC LOCATION
206 IIB
1222 IA Independence
208 YSK
1223 NU Sanikiluaq
242 CUH 1218 OK
Cushing NEW
302 EAG 1226
IA Eagle Grove
329 YEK
1228 NU Eskimo Point
362 YZS 1241
NU Coral Harbour
378 UX 1214
NU Hall Beach
13
December
NAVTEX logs
518 NMQ 0503UTC tune in to regular broadcast of navigational
warnings, fading in and out. Off at 0514:40UTC.
518 VAEt a faint signal faded up at 0517 UTC as I was saving the NMQ
data and it was weather, Explorer NW and SE, West Coast Vancouver
Island North and South, Explorer Northwestern Half and Southeastern
Half, Automated Reports for 8 locations and Ocean Bouy reports. The
last part didn't decode well:
END
N_N_
__AQ_
Ended at 0520:30. The underscores are missed characters. I'll try
again tomorrow.
12/01/08
2200EST TVX 521kHz Greencastle, IN
12/25/08
2330EST BRA 379kHz Asheville, NC
CLE/Session
Report for Jay Heyl
Listening Location: Orlando, EL98gj (28°23'28"N 081°25'45"W)
Receiver(s): AR7030+
Antenna(s): Quantum QX Pro
Report Sorted by Date
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YYYY-MM-DD UTC kHz Call mi New Location
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2008-12-25 17:40 392 VEP 80
Vero Beach, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:41 388 AM 77
'Picny' Tampa, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:43 408 SFB 29
SANFORD, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:46 417 EVB 55
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:49 346 PCM 52
Plant City, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:52 338 FJ 85
Luuce, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:52 335 LEE 37
LEESBURG, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:53 329 ISM 7
KISSIMMEE, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:55 275 FPR 90
Fort Pierce, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:56 270 TPF 71
'Knight' Tampa, FL, USA
2008-12-25 17:59 257 SQT 49
'Satellite' Melbourne, FL, USA
2008-12-25 18:06 221 OR 8
HERNY, FL, USA
2008-12-28 06:24 206 GLS 809
Galveston, TX, USA
2008-12-28 06:28 245 JYL 294
Sylvania, GA, USA
2008-12-28 06:41 280 MQW 270
Mc. Rae, GA, USA
2008-12-28 06:43 339 OP 353
YATES, GA, USA
2008-12-28 06:56 344 JA 145
'Dinns' Jacksonville, FL, USA
2008-12-28 07:00 344 ZIY 629
George Town, CYM
2008-12-28 07:01 415 CBC 609
West End (Cayman Brac), CYM
2008-12-28 07:11 376 ZIN 707
Matthew Town, BAH
2008-12-28 07:16 376 BHC 237
Baxley, GA, USA
2008-12-28 07:30 526 ZLS 507
Stella Maris- Long Island, BAH
2008-12-28 07:39 432 MHP 278
Metter, GA, USA
2008-12-28 07:48 216 CLB 445
Wilmington, NC, USA
2008-12-28 07:48 198 DIW 487
Dixon, NC, USA
2008-12-28 07:54 363 RNB 843
'Rainbow' Millville, NJ, USA
2008-12-29 05:32 369 ZDX 1469 'Coolidge'
Saint Johns, ATG
2008-12-29 05:59 382 YPL 1657 Pickle
Lake, ON, CAN
2008-12-29 06:01 332 QT 1444 Thunder
Bay, ON, CAN
2008-12-29 06:25 350 BEP 314
BAY CREEK, GA, USA
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529, NDB: LYQ, near Manchester TN, 12/4, about 9pm CST, weak, 942
miles
YMW (Maniwaki, Quebec) and ZLS (Bahamas) non-directional beacons.
MP3 clips available here:
Thanks to Kevin for the submissions this month.
Kevin Redding – Cosmic Crump, TN, Center of the Known Universe
Survey: Internet Radio Listenership Gaining
Posted by: kevin redding
Mon Dec 1, 2008 5:01 am (PST)
Survey: Internet Radio Listenership Gaining
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 12/1/2008
Somerville, N.J. — Internet radio listening is gaining in popularity,
increasing the market potential for home audio products incorporating
Internet radio streaming, an Edison Media Research study implies.
In 1998, only 6 percent of Americas ages 12 and older had ever listened to
Internet radio, but that percentage has tripled to 19 percent in a survey
conducted earlier this year by the research company. About 21 percent of people
in that age range, or a total of 54 million people, listened to Internet radio
in the prior month, and 13 percent, or around 33 million, did so in the previous
week, the survey found. All told, 46 percent of people ages 12 and older have
listened to Internet radio at some time in the past.
The percentage of people ages 12 and older who listened to Internet radio in the
past week is also way up, clocking in at only 2 percent in Edison’s 2000
survey and rising to 13 percent in the 2008 survey.
Although the weekly Internet radio audience skews slightly male, it attracts a
broad range of age groups, and the most avid listeners aren’t necessarily the
youngest, the survey also found. In fact, the 45 to 54 age group does the most
listening compared to other age groups. A total of 27 percent of 35- to
44-year-olds listened to Internet radio in the prior week, as did 18 percent of
45- to 54-year- olds. In the 25 to 34 group, it was 15 percent, and 12 percent
of the people in the 12 to 17 group and in the 18 to 24 group listened to
Internet radio in the previous week.
Weekly Internet radio listeners were 52 percent male and 48 percent female.
Audio podcasting listening is also on the upswing. Eighteen percent of the
surveyed people have listened to an audio podcast, up from 13 percent in 2007.
Nine percent, or an estimated 23 million, have listened to an audio podcast in
the past month.
Edison also determined that Internet radio is gaining on traditional radio as a
medium for learning about new music. In 2008, 49 percent of surveyed consumers
called traditional radio the medium "you turn to first to learn about new
music," with 25 percent citing Internet radio as the medium to turn to
first. In 2002, in contrast, 63 percent said they turned first to traditional
radio, with only 9 percent turning to Internet radio.
Among teens, however, "the Internet now leads radio for music
discovery," Edison said.
"Users continue to prove that they want to consume radio on their
terms," said Tom Webster, Edison VP. "On-demand media and a wealth of
portable devices are creating listening occasions that were previously either
unavailable or under-utilized, which is increasing the overall demand for audio
content."
A total of 1,857 people were interviewed earlier this year by telephone .
http://www.twice.com/article/CA6617945.html
Internet Radio, Cheaper than Satellite
Posted by: kevin redding
Tue Dec 9, 2008 4:29 am (PST)
Posted Monday, December 8, 2008, at 12:30 PM
I don't know if I will ever go back to listening to terrestrial radio again
after finding Internet Radio. Picture HAM radio from the 50s and then transpose
it to your computer. That is the world of Internet Radio.
With so many sites to choose from, www.blogtalkradio.com seems to stand out from
the rest as they have REAL radio shows hosted by everyday people just like you
and me! All you need is a high speed DSL or Broadband connection and you are
good to go! You can talk about almost anything you like and you even have a
soundboard, switchboard, profile page, and a chatroom all at your disposal as
you broadcast. Why, you can even make money doing it! The kicker? You only need
a common house phone or cell phone to call in on to do your very own show! This
site has shows on just about anything and everything and they even supply a LIVE
technical support team should you have questions or issues. Go check them out.
Now they are not the only game in town, but they are the most professional. They
seem to attract the more adult, intellectual crowd both on air and in their fan
base. There are other sites such as www.nowlive.com that provide young people
state of the art media as well as all mentioned above along with the ability to
use your webcam while you broadcast live. They too, only require a phone or VOIP
program to host your show. Nowlive seems to cater more to the teen and young
adult chat crowd of Myspace , Facebook , Fubar and other networking sites and
don't really have shows of real substance aired on there (maybe YOU could be
their first stand out show of substance!).
These sites run 24/7 and have some very interesting
personalities on them. Also check out www.live365.com and even www.justintv.com.
There are so many ways today to express yourself online.
So, if you have ever watched someone on TV or heard someone on the radio and
thought "I am wayyyy better than him or her!" Now, you have the way
and means to show off that talent!!! If you decide to do a
show, come on back and email me and I will even post it right here on my Blog!
NOTHING BEATS FREE ADVERTISEMENT!! Lol. Happy broadcasting!
Stay Tuned…..
Karen Meister can be contacted at: ksframeofmind@yahoo.com.
Posted by: Powell E. Way III
Tue Dec 9, 2008 6:35 am (PST)
This guy's first sentence is the stupidest thing I have
heard. NO, it is NOT like ham radio in the 50's or even now. Never will be. I
will not ever have Internet radio unless I move into town. I am not going to do
that. Satellite radio will eventually go away. But good internet connectivity
won't likely come here. It's too expensive to give to folks that live way out in
the middle of nowhere and sparse population density. Satellite internet has too
much latency for audio unless a miracle happens. And one of the providers is on
the edge of failure, and the one with the big name will sell you the service and
you'll never see customer service. Good luck if it even works at all.
Powell
Radio stations untangle more direct Web connections
Posted by: kevin redding
Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:01 am (PST)
Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:21pm EST
By Ken Tucker
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Radio companies took a giant step forward in 2008 by
embracing online and mobile applications like never before.
Clear Channel, with centralized Web site design services and such innovative Web
programing as its "Stripped" concert series and "New" artist
spotlight program, has long led the way, but other broadcast
groups also made momentous strides.
No company increased its commitment to the digital space in 2008 more than CBS
Radio, which announced a content and advertising partnership with AOL Music in
March. Since then, 150 CBS Radio stations and 200 AOL Music Internet stations
have become powered by a CBS Radio player. The company also launched Play.it,
which enables listeners to create their own stations.
On December 3, CBS Radio announced an agreement to power Yahoo Music's
Launchcast Radio. Beginning in early 2009, Launchcast's 150 stations and more
than 150 CBS Radio stations will be combined, with CBS Radio assuming sales
responsibility for the entire portfolio. A newly created CBS Radio player will
be integrated into the Yahoo Music site, and Launchcast will be made available
to Firefox, Mac and Safari users.
ADVERTISING PRESSURE
To meet higher royalty payments as mandated by the Copyright Review Board,
Internet radio services are under increased pressure to monetize their Web
traffic with advertising. Portals like Yahoo and AOL are geared for national ad
sales, not the localized selling that radio specializes in.
Greg Thompson, Capitol Music Group executive vice president of promotion for
North America, welcomes radio's digital expansion. "There's an old
expression, 'Adapt or die,' which I think is very pertinent," he says.
"Radio needs to hold onto their audience. People want their audio streams.
They're not hung up on if it comes off this or that or whatever."
Thompson adds that Clear Channel's "Stripped" series gave an early
boost to singer-songwriter Katy Perry's career. "It quickly helped build
the Katy Perry brand so that it's not the 'I Kissed a Girl' song, it's Katy
Perry," he says. "Now she's got a couple of No. 1 records under her
belt and they've got some great content. We've built the brand together."
Nashville-based Lynnette Garbonola, vice president of new media for Warner
Bros., appreciates the one-stop shopping that Clear Channel Online & Music
and Citadel Interactive provide. "You can hit all the
stations in one shot," Garbonola says, noting that she's particularly
positive about Clear Channel's "New" program. "They're able to
introduce newer artists sooner than the radio stations themselves can
because of the shorter playlists."
IPHONE ACCESS
Another opportunity opened when the latest edition of the iPhone made it easier
for broadcasters to make their stations available to mobile listeners. Jacobs
Media, a radio consulting company, recently announced the development of an
application for the iPhone that lets listeners access stations' streams with the
touch of a button.
Doug Perlson, CEO of the advertising company TargetSpot, says that the iPhone
will help radio. The company works with advertisers to target pure-play sites
like Yahoo Music or terrestrial radio streams
like those of CBS Radio and Entercom.
"The iPhone has had a big influence on radio for mobile devices,"
Perlson says, "because, a) you've got everyone working on an iPhone app,
and b) we're starting to see a proliferation of BlackBerry apps as well."
And while 2008 seemed like a breakthrough year for radio on the Web, Perlson
says the best is yet to come. "It seems like a watershed moment, but next
year could also be groundbreaking," he says. "I wouldn't be surprised
if we went from seeing a proliferation of applications to a proliferation of
actual users."
Reuters/Billboard
Falkland Islands Radio Service starts Internet streaming
Posted by: kevin redding
Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:39 am (PST)
December 23rd, 2008 - 13:01 UTC by Andy Sennitt
I just saw this message from “rob4aluk”on the Digital
Spy website:
“A friend from the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic emailed me to say
that the Falkland Islands Radio Service (FIRS) has started to broadcast on the
Internet for 6 hours per day (from 1000 GMT). Their stream URL is:
http://asx.abacast.com/falkland_islands_radio-live-24.asx
I’ve been told that its a direct link up with their 530kHz mediumwave signal
so the audio is not that hot but might be of interest to those who would like to
listen to a local service in a UK overseas territory.”
Indeed, I am listening to it as I type this, and it appears to be an off-air
relay with some fading. To my ears, it sounds like one of the FM transmitters
rather than mediumwave. The stream is only 32 kbps, but the audio quality is
quite good.
The schedule through 8 January 2009 is available on the FIRS website. According
to the Falklands Government website, the streaming service commenced in early
November via the station’s website, but I cannot find a link there.
Penguin News says that in the near future, podcasts of a wide range of FIRS
programmes will be available to download. Station Manager Corina Bishop said
Synergy Information Systems has been instrumental in ensuring that the streaming
could go ahead, adding that it could not have happened without the support and
sponsorship of Cable and Wireless. Although Falklands Radio will initially not
be online after the Lifestyles Programme finishes each weekday, the plan is to
extend the hours in the near future.
Internet Radio: Customize to taste on a budget
Posted by: kevin redding
Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:45 am (PST)
by Virginia DeBolt
You know how when you learn a new word, you suddenly hear it all the time? Well,
that's what it's been like lately with the word Pandora. I didn't just learn the
word, but I just learned about the internet radio site called Pandora. Now that
I know about it, I find all sorts of people talking about it.
The latest comment was from a friend who said she turned her mom on to Pandora
so they could listen to holiday music around the house for the holidays. Seems
her mom took off with the idea and set up all sorts of playlists.
It makes sense. We're spending more and more time with our computers and less
and less with our radio and TV, so why not stream radio broadcasts with your
computer? Why buy or collect music to save and store, when music you love can be
streamed into your ears all hours of the day and night? I wondered if Pandora
was the only Internet radio source, and it turns out there are several great
sites for streaming music of your choice. Here are some of them.
Pandora is popular, as I mentioned. It evokes enthusiastic endorsements from
listeners. Such as A Mom on a Misson's I Heart Pandora and iVegasFamily, who say
Pandora is so good it's "bad ass."
Pandora takes a hint from you in the form of a song or genre or artist that you
like. Using that clue, you get a custom playlist of music that fits into that
style or type. People often find new music they really like this way. Pandora
can also work on smart phones.
Rhapsody is another popular music streaming site, with music around the clock.
There's a monthy fee of about $13 at Rhapsody. For that fee, you can find music,
artists, albums, artists, even lyrics. Set up a playlist of your own and play
the music on your computer, your stereo, your mp3 player, or using a Tivo.
Rhapsody will sell you mp3s, too.
At A Second Cup, Carol Taber wrote about sites for Christmas music and mentioned
Rhapsody and free music from Karaoke Version saying,
If karaoke is your thing, some Christmas karaoke sites:
Rhapsody and Karaoke Verison You down load the music to your MP3 player. Both
these sites say they are free to use. I don't know because that tech stuff makes
my head hurt.
Rhapsody isn't free, but if you want to sing, you can find free music at Karoake
Version. Anything Said tells a funny tale about drinking a bit too much with
friends and using Rhapsody to relive junior high:
On Friday night we drank the aforementioned three bottles of wine while
listening to the greatest hits of junior high on Rhapsody. "Poison" by
Alice Cooper. "Love Song" by Tesla. The entirety of Slippery When Wet.
The husband kept trying to insert Fugazi or The Cure into the playlist. His
seventh grader would not have hung out with ours.
Napster started life as a site distributing music free, but illegally. Now you
subscribe for around $13 a month and get unlimited music of your own choosing
for that fee. Sea Bird Chronicles laments the older version of Napster, saying,
The last time I was truly up on the current music scene was 2000, when Napster
was functioning - ahem - properly.
Sea Bird Chronicles will be happy to learn that Napster once again has a free
music component. I just enjoying hearing Robert Plant and Allison Krause singing
Raising Sand and didn't have to do anything but click to stream it.
Live 365.com connects you to radio stations. You don't get customized playlists
and you can't search for a particular artist, but you can select a radio station
that plays your favorite genre of music and stream it free. The twist for this
site is that you can become a broadcaster yourself, and use the site to
broadcast music of your own choosing.
An interesting new site that connects you to radio stations that are playing
exactly what you want to hear is One Llama. You search by artist, popularity,
genre or location and a list of stations comes up that meets your requirements.
Just click and you're listening. The location search allows you to listen to
radio stations from all over the world. With the location search, One Llama
might be a huge hit with people who are far from home and want to hear their
native language, or with reporters searching for news from places where events
of interest are unfolding.
When you have the urge to hear just one particular song, or see a particular
music video, you may be able to find it on Fizy. Fizy has a huge database of
music, which you can access song by song. It's available in numerous languages
and strives to be accessible worldwide. When you search for a song, you get the
option of watching a video if one is available. I just watched Phoebe Snow and
Zap Mama sing Poetry Man. Umm, good stuff.
Do you have a favorite music streaming site we should know about?
Please share.
--
Virginia De
And that’s another month on the Net.
73’s, Martin
12/13 MS-Meteor Scatter DX
97.3 2001 M ancr "... that is your 20 minute
weather guarantee on country...."
97.3 2008 Coast to Coast replay w/Art Bell "...is
leading in the polls"
97.3 2015 M ancr "...you got it right here on the
PARTY LINE..."
97.3 2020 W ancr "...the 31st annual...
97.3 2021 M ancr "...deserve a trophy or something
too...where's the challenge, STAPLES?
97.3 2021 W ancr "...and DARRYL and JOHN go to
court..."
97.3 2026 M ancr " ...Nebraska and Oregon State
now..."
97.3 2035 M ancr "...escuchen a las lunes a
viernes..."
97.3 2047 M ancr "..in competition..a
complete...
97.3 2054 M ancr "... touched by Rayford Johnson
and then sent out of bounds..."Oregon State.. and Nebraska...."
97.3 2056 M ancr"...'only the world' on
K-N-I...B?..."
Tropo 12/17/2008
2220 92.3 KNFM TX Midland; modern country , 520 miles!
fades up nicesly with C&W mx, "Lonestar 92"
continuous country favorites. "Wake up with the LONESTAR-92 morning
crew"; "KNFM
Midland-Odessa. the most continuous COUNTRY MUSIC in WEST TEXAS!" over/under Q-92 VICTORIA w/pop-mix;
12/26
Driving to my dads house in Deer Park from northwest Houston I
noticed that KJIC was off the air & I heard a few weak stations in there.
The only one I remember was an American Family Radio outlet. I'm not sure which
one it was though. Perhaps KBAH in Plainview or KXTG in Greenville, The most
likely I think would have been KZFT Beaumont as they are the closest station to
me. Couldn't stick around for an ID as I reached my dads house soon after
turning the radio on & I didn't hear ID's from the other few stations going
in & out on the frequency.
The Whole Earth
12/20
WTCR ("Twentieth Century Radio") is on right now at 0245
UTC (or 10:45
p.m. AST in PEI) on the unusual frequency (for a pirate) of 3433.
Was awake this morning from 5:30-6:30 am Central (1130-1230 UTC)
and did some bandscanning during that period on 75 meters:
3560 NORTH KOREA Assumed Korean Central Broadcasting Station here
at low level with male talk and some louder "warbler" jamming; signal
never got above lousy.
3913 SOUTH KOREA Voice of the People clandestine at good level with
female and music, no sign of any jamming.
3925 JAPAN Radio Nikkei at terrific level with Japanese talk and
music.
3985 CHINA Central Peoples Broadcast Station, listed as Geermu in
the divinely inspired and therefore infallible 2009 Passport to World Band
Radio, nice level through ham QRM with male and female talk in Chinese.
It was interesting to parallel Mexico's Radio Mil outlets on 1000
and 6020 kHz; the 1000 kHz outlet was loud and dominant on the channel while
6010 was barely in there---I wonder why they even bother with SW, since I
imagine 1000 kHz is probably loud throughout most of Mexico.
9640 khz. // 0200 UTC // 8-Dec-08 // R. Romania International //
Bucharest,Romania // 300 kw presumed // Trumpet fanfare and male presumably in
Romanian with "Radio Romania International" followed by brief music
then female talk. Good signal.
MP3 clip available here:
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, OK in English at 1535 Dec 27, but
gone at 1552 recheck, before sign-off time
** BIAFRA [non]. For the record, Voice of Biafra International
reconfirmed Friday Dec 26 at 2029 still on WHRI 15665, tho just barely audible
with backscatter echo
** CANADA. CBCNQ transmitter out of whack again, Dec 27 at 1326
when 9625 was quite distorted, and also putting out almost constant spurs
matching modulation peaks, ranging 9645 to 9660 or so, worst at 9650, this time
also bothering IRAN 9660, q.v. At 1333 CBC mentioned Hydro-Québec; 1516 in
French and still spurring 9645 now up to 9665; see GUAM [non]. I don`t
understand why this stays on the air, unlistenable on fundamental and QRMing
other stations
** CHINA. 7220, Dec 27 at 1534, best signal on 41m band with music,
Japanese talk, mentioned ``Peking Hoso``. Is PWBR `2009` any help? Of course
not! During this hour only has misleading bars for CAR, RFE/RL, Vietnam and
Zambia. EiBi B-08 has the answer, CRI Japanese service, 95 degrees from Jinhua
at 1500-1557
** CUBA [and non]. Quite a clash on 11760, Sat Dec 27 at 1343, with
Cuban music on top of RHC talk in Spanish! This turned out to be BBCWS which is
now on a Cuba-binge celebrating the Revolution`s L anniversary; or as they put
it, Cuba Season. This being Charlie Gillett`s World of Music, including Ernesto
Lecuona, Pérez Prado and at 1353 BBC had Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaría,
1962 post-revolution.
But whence? It`s the OMAN relay until 1400, putting a better signal
than usual into here far from its target area, but favorable at 310 or 320
degrees. RHC might want to consider abandoning 11760 in the mornings, like it
did 9550 due to interference. Fortunately, RHC was mostly talk, but when they
too played music it was a royal mess. BBC off at 1359:30 leaving RHC almost in
the clear with something weaker under with timesignal, China?
Here`s the BBCWS page for the show, where I went to listen to the
whole thing without CubaRM:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/charlie_gillett.shtml
** CUBA [non]. WRMI, 9955, Sat Dec 27 at 1335 in Spanish with
rambling speaker, long pauses, talking about trabajadores. No jamming audible
for a change, and listening for a couple minutes, I could not decide if it was
political, but probably so. Sked looked up later shows Radio Cuba Libre at
13-15. Weak signal subject to fadeouts
** GUAM [non]. 9665, Dec 27 at 1516 with S Asian music, QRM from
CBCNQ 9625 spur, and also weak het from perpetually off-frequency N Korea. At
1530, giveaway AWR theme and Voice of Hope ID in English, barely audible.
Is PWBR `2009` any help? Of course not! Only thing listed during
this hour is an alleged 24-hour Brazilian. Aoki and EiBi have the answer: AWR
via Wertachtal, 1500-1530 in Punjabi, 1530-1600 in Hindi.
CBC shouldn`t bother way over there, but the P`yongyang het must be
worse in the target area; could it be that AWR picked this frequency unaware
that NK is on it (or rather off it), since that is not in HFCC?
** INDIA. AIR GOS, 9690, Dec 27 at 1337 with news in English, 1340
ID and commentary. Has continuous hum/buzz but not so annoying that one must
tune away
** IRAN. 9660, Dec 27 at 1326 in a language with both Turkic and
Slavic elements, talking about Ukraine and at 1330 about Palestine. It`s VOIRI,
scheduled 13-14 in Kazakh, 30 degrees from Sirjan. With splatter/spur QRM from
CBCNQ 9625; see CANADA
** LAOS [non]. WHRI, 11785, with Hmong Lao Radio Sat Dec 27 until
1459, including rustic music we always enjoy, then off the air for a semiminute,
foregoing any ID or OCS, back on at 1500 for Hmong World Christian Radio, http://www.hwcr.us
Unclear why there would be any break between these two closely related
shows from and for Hminnesota; one of them pays for 250 kW and the other for 100
kW? But 11785 is FCC-authorized only for 100 kW at 315 degrees any time between
1300 and 2300. I could not detect any difference in strength before and after
1500
** RUSSIA. Looking for Guinea on 7125, Dec 26 at 2330, heard music,
but hopes dashed by Russian announcement at 2333. Most references show Russia
starting at 0000. But the B-08 VOR sked from Vadim Alexeyev,
VOR Russian world service DX program editor via Michael Bethge,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via Wolfgang Büschel shows:
Russian-IRR 2300-0000 7125 Grigoriopol MDA 500 EUR from 01 Nov
IRR is International Russian Radio, ex Russian International Radio.
No trace of Guinea underneath tho it has been reported sporadically
active at various times since the coup
** U S A. Area 51 on WBCQ, 5110, Friday Dec 26 at 2350 had R. Timtron Worldwide during the first hour; 0001:30 Dec 27 into latest WORLD OF RADIO 1440; axually on about 5109.8-CUSB
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11855, Dec 3 at 2207, WYFR Spanish with
co-channel QRM which I could make out was in Portuguese, and close enough to the
same frequency to make a SAH, unlike most Brazilians. Must be Rádio Aparecida,
Catholix vs Protestants! Aparecida is listed as only 1 kW, and Aoki says azimuth
is 30 degrees, i.e. up the coast from São Paulo. I often hear QRM to WYFR here,
so it speaks well for how well Aparecida gets out; if only they had a clear
frequency.
The big guns just ignore it, as besides WYFR there are
transmissions at various times on 11855 from VOA/Thailand, BBC/Ascension, CRI/Albania,
and BSKSA/Saudi Arabia. This WYFR transmission in question is at 222 degrees for
CIRAF 11, Central America and Caribbean, so they can pretend it`s not going into
South America, or North America, but it still dominates the frequency here
** NIGERIA. 6089.9, no sign of Anguilla at 2247 Dec 3, but instead
a strong and very distorted signal with singing/chanting, unseems Arabic,
probably Hausa. Also unseems Qur`an, but 2256 followed by brief no-nonsense talk
in Arabic, probably sermon. 2257 cut to another announcer, 2259 anthem and off.
Already had open carrier 6085 on side from WYFR, and at 2257 QRM from its IS.
Also heard DRM noise on 6090, but nothing scheduled co or adjacently, per DRMDX,
closest being 6080-6085-6090 10 kW from Ismaning, but closing at 2200. Anyhow,
this must have been Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, which WRTH says is 50 kW, Aoki says
is 250 kW, PWBR says is 50 kW. I guess we should go with the mode instead of the
mean. When Anguilla is on during overlap times, Kaduna furnishes the annoying
het
** SPAIN. Surprised to hear news about Spain in Castilian, good
signal on 9690, Dec 3 at 2303, but the audio cut off for several seconds at a
time, came back, off and on again. Finally cut carrier off abruptly at 2306* REE
not scheduled here at this time. Per http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08.pdf
the URL of which somehow carries with it the Netscape logo, it`s
only for the Sephardic broadcast to NAm UT Tuesdays 0415-0445. Tho 9690 is also
used for CRI relays in Chinese and English at 0200-0400.
As soon as I heard 9690 I also checked 9640, 9630 and 9620, but no
sign of REE there, nor during the following few minutes. According to same
schedule, REE is supposed to switch from 9640 to 9620 at 2300, also switching
antenna from N to S America. So I suspect that 9690 was punched up by mistake
instead of 9640. Did find REE on scheduled 9535 at 2310 but much weaker than
9690 had been, and still nothing on 9620
**
U S A [and non]. Sometimes the first airing of WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI, 9955 is
UT Wednesday at 0630, but that depends on getting it ready and downloaded in
time. Not so for #1437 Dec 3, but the new edition did appear at the next
opportunity 1230, as checked in progress at 1240; at first no DentroCuban
jamming audible, but then could hear it building up. Excuse me if I am a bit
peeved at my fellow DX program colleague Arnaldo Coro Antich who gets no such
treatment from the USA; in fact a DXLD contributor has even been recording his
shows and availablizing them so anyone can listen at their convenience
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6230-SSB, VMW, announcing its schedule at
1355-1357* Dec 5, but under stronger SSB net involving various cap`ns, which I
at first assumed was WHX672 Brownsville, but that`s on 6224, so some other US
coastal station blocking it on 6230
** AUSTRIA [and non]. ORF domestic service relay, 6155, Dec 5 with
all-too-brief English news segment, and not much about Austria itself,
0709-0712, then into French. This M-F morning news update may be all that`s left
of English from Austria on SW after Dec 31, and maybe it will be gone too. It`s
conveniently scheduled just after an equally brief English newscast from Croatia
at 0700-0704 on 6165, which concludes by listing all their other English times,
unlike Austria
** CHINA. 4950, V. of Pujiang, Shanghai, not often audible here,
but when it was, Dec 5 at 1424 in Chinese talk and music, I found it to be
overmodulated and distorted
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze via Yamata, Japan, is still sticking
to 5910, for the 1400-1430 broadcast, and still sticking to English on Fridays,
as noted with no jamming, Dec 5 at 1408 with ID in clear American English, then
several brief Kyodo news stories about North Korea, read by someone with an
extremely heavy accent and could barely understand a word to be sure it was
really in English
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Checking 6105 for signs of Yucatán, I
was getting a weak het on a much stronger signal, Dec 5 at 1359, so the het may
be all that`s making it from Mérida. But I was quite surprised to hear Radio
Netherlands introducing its 1400 English broadcast, with frequencies 5825, 9345,
11520, 12080, 15595, plus IS briefly, before cutting to VOA Chinese, which is
what is supposed to be on 6105 at 1400. A feed/switching mixup at IBB somehow
put the RN opening on 6105; I don`t know what appeared on 12080, the only
correct Tinang frequency for RN at this time
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, again with unscheduled airing of QSO with Ted
Randall, UT Fri Dec 5 at 0734 with antenna commercial, music vamping, and
eventually 0739 resuming interview with Nelson Cosby(?), Michigan ham. Not sure
when this starts or ends or if it`s the entire two hours. Many nights the MUF is
way below 10 MHz, but this date good signal and no jamming audible. Several
other 9 MHz signals also making it
** U S A. WBCQ is drifting further off 15420, worsening the het
with BBC RSA collision on 15420.0; Dec 5 at 1820 I put WBCQ on about
15420.2-CUSB
** U S A. 4517-SSB, Air Force MARS net from Wisconsin, Fri Dec 5 at
1420 apparently starting at 7 am (1300 UT) per mentions, NCS AFF3C the only call
copied for certain, saying he would be missing the morning and evening nets
until Monday night due to family activities.
According to http://usafmars.tripod.com/officials.htm
AFF3C is Frank Miller, Region 3 director a.k.a. AFA3PQ, and here he is:
http://usafmars.tripod.com/PictureGallery/AFA3PQ.htm
But watch out for a Zwinky popup from Tripod. He has pictures on
the wall of his shack showing train and horses; another of a motorcycle
**
ZANZIBAR. RTZ, 11735, Friday Dec 5 at 1805, sounds like English as scheduled,
with heavy accent, a few words recognizable, but also distracted by definite
warble on unstable carrier, audible in AM mode and certainly with BFO on.
Off-frequency Brasilian may also have been in the mix helping to audiblize the
warble
** BRAZIL. Dec 6 at 0658, weak and very distorted Brazilian on
approximately 11960, seemed to be preacher until 0701, then tentatively heard
Globo mentioned and into music. No detectable carrier. This is probably R. Globo,
Rio, which has been reported for months by Brazilian DXers way off nominal
frequency 11805 with such distorted spurious emissions. Brazilians on 11780,
11815, 11925 were also audible, but Globo`s nominal frequency has been hijacked
by CVC Chile at 0000-0800, so one can hardly blame Globo for moving elsewhere,
except this is presumably unintentional. Previous reports have found it way
above 12000
** CUBA. Another anomaly from RHC: UT Sat Dec 6 at 0706 I was
surprised to find English still running on 11760, past nominal 0700 closing.
Quickly checked other frequencies and found it // but an echo apart on 6000,
6060, 9550, not on 6140. Recheck at 0716, still running on 6000 only. With RHC
you never know whether they are just being sloppy, experimenting or deliberate.
I suspect the program feed automatically restarts the English recording every
two hours, and if the transmitter operator is dozing, out it goes again until he
upwakes
** CUBA [non]. Checking WRMI webcast, Dec 5 at 2240, heard R. República
instead of WRN – or rather in addition to WRN, as there was something in
English mixing underneath. Not enough clear signal on 9955 to tell if they same
thing was happening there, but probably so. Strangely enough, program outro
until 2257 was Amanecer, i.e. the wake-up show for the mornings, presumably
repeating the one at 11-12 on 6100 via Sackville. By now the WRN clash was gone.
Then announced schedule on 11835, which I missed, and Sat and Sun 7-9 pm
[0000-0200 UT Sun & Mon; used to be 7 days] on 9785. This may be outdated
since R.R. is back on WRMI directly, 9955. Probably at least M-F 22-01 UT, time
which had been filled with WRN programming, so the following lose their WRMI
relays again, probably without even knowing they were on in the first place:
2200 Ireland, 2230 Romania, 2300 Netherlands, 0000 Russia, 0030 Israel. Break
for WRMI`s own ID around hourtop 2300, and then
at 2302 Patos a la
Libertad, I thought they said at first, but it`s Pasos a la Libertad
** INDONESIA. VOI, 9525.9, Dec 6 at 1502 re-opening an English
broadcast and soon cut off the air at 1502:30. This is SOP for such an
uncoordinated station
** PHILIPPINES. Checked 24 hours later, exactly the same thing
happened again, so it must be misprogrammed that way into the automation: Dec 6
at 1359 on 6105, R. Netherlands opening English broadcast, even tho followed at
1400 by VOA Chinese via Tinang. And once again a weak het, maybe Mérida. So
until fixed, RNW needs to add to its schedule a one-minute English broadcast at
1359 on 6105
** PORTUGAL. RDP Internacional, 11885, Dec 6 at 1438 with
Portuguese music, soon IDed by // 15560, but 11885 much weaker. Had not noticed
it before, but it`s scheduled weekends only at 45 degrees
**
U S A. A bit surprised to hear a DX program in Portuguese on WRMI 9955, UT Sat
Dec 6 at 0634, but after a few minutes there was Jaime Báguena speaking his
usual Castilian; I guess these were segments in the scheduled La Rosa de Tokio;
no jamming at the moment
** ALGERIA [non]. 7455, Arabic talk at 2150 Dec 6, 2155 into Qur`an;
figured it was RTA via Issoudun, FRANCE, quickly confirmed by // weaker 5865
just as scheduled. But 7455 closed abruptly at 2200* while 5865 continued,
contrary to sked via DX Mix News claiming that 7455 finishes at 2157. Just as
well, as RTTY QRM was building on 7455
** CANADA [and non]. 7335, at 2152 Dec 6, station in Russian under
CHU, 2154 ID in passing as R. Svoboda (Note: NOT ``Sloboda`` as some would have
it!), i.e. R. Liberty. This is 250 kW, 30 degrees from Thailand to eastern
Russia at 21-22 only. Yet more incentive for CHU to hurry up and QSY to 7850
** CHINA [and non]. 5030, definite Chinese at 2146 Dec 6, in the
sidebands of Cuba 5025. Commies vs Commies at an unusual time for reception from
Beijing on 60m, and not heard after 2200 altho that`s still only 6 am in China.
BTW, at 2146, Mauritania was also audible on 4845 with ute QRM, so that made
three separate continents at once on 60m
** CUBA [non]. R. República, 11835 via Sackville, Dec 6 at 2204,
good with no jamming audible; tho on weekdays when sign-on is not until *2300, I
have been hearing lite jamming in standby(?) mode as early as 2200. Programming
may or may not be // WRMI 9955 which just resumed R.R. during same time period
** JAPAN [and non]. Since I had tuned in too late for the monthly
haiku segment on NHKWNRJ`s World Interactive, on the 1400 UT Saturday Dec 6
broadcast, I wanted to catch it on the next play at 2200, but the only
frequency, 13640 was weak and mixed with VOA Cambodian via Tinian! Making a SAH
of approximately 8 Hz. If the collision is bad here, it must be awful in SE
Asia. It looks like R. Japan just tacked the 20-minute English broadcast onto
the preceding hour in Japanese, what the hell if it collides with VOA after
Japanese is over.
BTW, PWBR `2009` shows it more like 15 minutes long, as the bar
between 2200 and 2300 obviously extends less than one third of the way. So while
compiling this report, I listened to the show ondemand, no SAH or anything to
make it shortwavy, via http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/index.html
Full name of the haiku guru sounds like Shokan Tadashi Kondo as
pronounced both by himself and his co-host; axually about renku this time
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7255, Dec 6 at 2149, heard N6HK asking if
anyone is using the frequency? Well, yes! V. of Nigeria in French which was
perfectly demodulating your SSB, but I guess you can`t hear them a couple
megameters further west: Berman, Stephen D, N6HK (Extra), 24031 Sage Ave,
Tehachapi, CA 93561 per ARRL lookup
** PORTUGAL [and non]. RDPI collision with HCJB, 12040, Sat Dec 6
at 2249 making fast SAH. This starts at 2230 when HCJB comes on in German, but
at recheck 2302 HCJB was alone
** SPAIN. REE, which is supposed to be on 9640 at 2200, and which
was on 9690 past 2300 Dec 3 as in previous report, was instead on 9630 when
checked Sat Dec 6 at 2205 with sports, // 11940. Per Aoki and EiBi, REE is not
using 9630 at all this season, but in HFCC it`s a duplicate registration with
9640, identical parameters at 19-23, so they can take their pick any given day.
Or possibly it`s one of numerous weekend variations which make more sense to REE
than to anyone else
** U K [non]. 7445, at 2152 Dec 6, as tuned across, heard station
in English mentioning bbcworldservice.com so presumably BBCWS. Yes, this is
another of their fragmented 1-hour transmissions, 21-22, 100 kW from Meyerton,
South Africa, at 330 degrees to W Africa, and also favoring North America
** U S A [non]. CVC Miami via Chile, A Sua Voz in Brazilian
Portuguese on 15410, Sat Dec 6 at 2224 in Sem Limites hour of classical music.
Axually there certainly are limits, like 4 minutes max for any single selexion!
I listened to most of the rest of the hour, deeply offended by the cavalier
treatment given the greatest music. Only excerpts are played, the most
recognizable portions. Almost always the DJ talks over the music at open and
close, a sign of gross disrespect, and of course fades it in and out since
degraded attention spans of their perceived audience must be served and
observed. Name of DJ sounds like José António Sesquim, but axually spelt
Ceschin as found on website.
Music
included Tchaikovsky`s Capriccio Italien which got a full four (4!) minutes at
2224-2228 before a 3-minute commercial break. 2241 Dança dos Marineros by
Rimsky-Korsakov, marred further by a semiminute break in transmission; 2245
Assim Falava Zarathustra by R. Strauss got only 2 minutes, and it was the
jazzed-up with drumming version, only of the opening, godforbid anyone should
hear the entire tone poem. 2248 March of the Siamese Children, by Rogers &
Hammerstein II. 2256 wrapping up saying would be back tomorrow, so it`s on
Sundays too?
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, English to NAm, Dec 8 at 1530 with
usual full schedule in English to open each broadcast; fair modulation. This
being a Monday and/or a holiday, no news, but immediately into feature about a
Moslem holiday and how well the Orthodox, Catholix and Moslems get along in
Albania, their customs, etc. What about Protestants and Atheists?
** CANADA. CHU, 7335, Dec 9 around 1430, operations normal, but I
expect them to start announcing the frequency change to 7850 will go into effect
January 1, and there will also be a leap second at the end of 2008y
** CANADA. R. Canada Internal, 9610, Monday Dec 8 at 1547,
surprised to hear them in Portuguese, with program for crianças, then into
chanson in French; 1549 RCI ID in English, and back to Portuguese which is
actually an English lesson for immigrant children. Now I`m totally confused,
since the schedules at http://www.rciviva.ca/rci/PDF/2008Fall/H08_SW_24h_SIMP.pdf
and http://www.rciviva.ca/rci/PDF/2008Fall/RCI-TECH-B08-ENG.pdf
claim at 1535-1604 on 9610, RCI is in Russian on weekdays,
Ukrainian on weekends! Have they decided just to throw out all the individual
language segments and mix them all up?
** CUBA [non]. 11835 with heavy jamming, Dec 8 at 2327 but could
not hear any Radio República. May have been replaced by WRMI direct on 9955
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 11520, under WEWN Spanish heard station in
English giving frequencies at 1358 Dec 9. That`s RNW opening hour via Madagascar
at 50 degrees, so they assume there will be no collision in S Asian target area.
Still, knowing a bit about SW propagation, I would not pick a frequency also
used by a superpower station on the other worldside.
The anomaly of RNW opening English on 6105 at 1359 via Tinang,
Philippines, was not repeated Dec 7 as the transmitter did not come on until
after 1400 when VOA Chinese was underway
** ROMANIA. RRI on new 11970 ex-17745 for the 1300 English
broadcast to Europe (and NAm beyond); Dec 9 just tuned in 11970 in time to hear
the IS at 1356 but quite poor signal compared to Romanian on 11940 which
continued another hour; how could that be?
17745 was 300 kW, 307 degrees from Tiganesti, so 11970 should be
too, while 11940 is 300 kW, 285 degrees from Galbeni. 17745 used to come in well
on good days, but that leaves // 15105 which should remain reliable. Anyhow,
11970 collides with WYFR until 1345
** U K [non]. 9625, two stations in English mixing with 3 Hz SAH at
about equal level, one surely CBC NQ, but at 1428 Dec 8 the other IDed as BBC
World Service --- what? Same Dec 9 at 1423 check, quickly confirmed as BBCWS by
// 5975 via Thailand, interviewing Jamaican PM. Not scheduled on this frequency;
supposed to be Channel Africa in English at 14-16. Meyerton putting the wrong
feed on the air? SENTECH has been notified
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, Tue Dec 9 at 0610 in Viva Miami, Jeff &
Thaïs White in Spanish about Cusco, Peruvian Xmas music. Good with no jamming
but deep fades. S Florida was dominating 31m at this time, also WYFR but not
much else. 0619 WRMI into DX Partyline but not the latest edition, dated Nov 29.
Did not have these on my DX program schedule, as not on WRMI`s program schedule,
just 06-07 M-F miscellaneous repeats of DX and other programs. Viva Miami is
sometimes only 7 minutes long now to fill out odd purchased times. Also AWR
Wavescan after 0630
** U S A [and non]. 9385, Dec 8 at 1541, usual huge signal from
WWRB in Brother Scare service, but now some other preacher in progress,
obviously influenced by B.S., accusing the Jesuits of ``dirty work``. More
interesting was the undercurrent of co-channel interference in Korean. EiBi and
Aoki say it`s R Free Asia via Sri Lanka, while HFCC says Saipan.
What does PWBR `2009` say? Saipan, but language is only ``other``
and jammed. Hey, what about WWRB! NO listing of WWRB on 9385 at all, despite
having used that frequency as early as the A-06 season per FCC. WWRB also does
not make the cut on page 326 about US stations. If you think PWBR info is
comprehensive, you are seriously mistaken; for that you need the World Radio TV
Handbook
** U S A [non]. 13700 with talk in S Asian language, Dec 8 at 1512
past 1530; at 1523 paused for a different announcer to mention something about
kiloHertz. I`m not going to specify their presumed genders but you have a 50-50
chance of guessing right. Fair signal and would have been OK if not for much
stronger WYFR in Spanish on 13695 splattering. What does PWBR `2009` say, stored
right next to the radio, and the computer in another room not yet upfired?
NOTHING.
Believe me, I don`t have to go looking for PWBR`s shortcomings.
They just keep appearing frequently when I try to look up an unID! B-08 online
listings, of course, have the answer. YFR in Hindi at 14-16 via Germany, tho
which site is contradictory, Nauen or Wertachtal. Family Radio vs Family Radio!
**
U S A. WINB is quite flexible about when it switches frequencies. 13570v missing
Monday Dec 8 at 1540, so I check 9265v --- yes, still going there, non-Brother
Stair preacher. On Saturdays for sure they extend 9265 much later to accommodate
the B.S. Sabbath service
** ALGERIA [non]. 5865, weak with Qur`an at 0652 Dec 10; relay via
FRANCE. DX Mix News asserted that these relays of RTA via France are no longer
the Qur`an program, but we sure hear a lot of it anyway. Can Arabic-speakers
please identify which Algerian program is really being relayed, or does it vary?
** GUAM [non]. 11675, Dec 10 at 1500 AWR Voice of Hope ID in
English and introducing program in Nepalese; started with nice music but soon
overshadowed by bilingual Venezuela via Cuba on 11680. Whence? Wertachtal,
GERMANY, per EiBi
** INDIA. Dec 10 may have been a poor morning for Indonesia, but it
was a good morning for AIR GOS, 9690, SE Asian service, with ID at 1336 amid
news mostly about Indo/Pak situation; still fairly well heard at 1424 check with
comments on Mrs. Clinton as Secretary of State. Hmm, we don`t hear her maiden
name Rodham much any more; why?
** INDONESIA. VOI inaudible on 9526, Dec 10 at 1330 check during
English hour, but apparently just poor propagation as it had become audible
poorly during Malay hour at 1422 on 9525.9
** KUWAIT. 15110 with good but fluttery Qur`an, Dec 10 at 1505,
joined by chorus at 1508. This is R. Kuwait in Arabic to S Asia, per EiBi
** MONGOLIA [non]. 12025, Dec 10 at 1350 with IS I first thought
was one of the gospel huxters, but a rather odd time for it, followed by ID in
Russian which I first thought was saying ``Radiostantsiya Golos Angoliy`` ---
but there is no Russian from Angola! Then I realized it is ``Radiostantsiya
Golos Mongoliy``, the relay via Golos Rossii, which has been reported on 13600
at 1334-1359 by Rumen Pankov in DXLD 8-125. Could not hear it there, but I
previously noted the two were //. Fair signal with flutter
** PHILIPPINES. Another check of 6105 at 1359 Dec 10 to see whether
IBB Tinang has managed to avoid relaying one minute of Radio Netherlands in
English: almost; at 1359:55 heard a fragment of RN`s instantly recognizable
carillon IS, but then into VOA Chinese. Meanwhile the constant het which is
believed to be Yucatán on the low side, and also co-channel, probably Chinese
jamming other than Firedrake
** SLOVAKIA [and non]. No luck so far here with reactivated Solomon
Islands on 9541.5v; Dec 10 at 1420 all I could hear was Russian on 9540, which
is RSI, and worse, QRDRM from DW 9540-9545-9550 via Woofferton UK. Doesn`t
Slovakia kind of ruin the DRM reception around Europe?
** U K [non]. Not only Dec 8 and 9, but still Dec 10, 9625 carrying
BBCWS in English instead of expected Channel Africa, at 1423 check mixing with
CBC Northern, and // a reverb away from BBCWS via Thailand 5975. I check the
SENTECH schedule and see that yes, 9625 is still supposed to be Channel Africa:
Kathy Otto replies with monitoring clips from Harare on Dec 8 and 9
during that hour proving that Channel Africa was indeed the programming on 9625.
So there must be some other explanation. Rampisham is scheduled from 1500 in
BBCWS Russian, so possibly VTC has added an hour of English before that from one
site or another. Also Sackville could have a double feed, except that on Dec 8
there was a 3 Hz SAH indicating separate transmitters if not separate sites. And
if Channel Africa is still there as usual, I am not hearing a third station in
the mix now, tho I have heard it previously colliding with CBC
**
U S A. RTI in Spanish via WYFR, 5950, Dec 10 at 0654 was splattering or spurring
plus and minus 10 kHz, not usually the case
** CANADA. CHU has started announcing the upcoming frequency change
from 7335 to 7850, heard on 7335 Dec 11 at 0723:15 in French, 0724:15 in
English, alternating from minute to minute; and the pips are deleted for the
duration of each brief message, referring to http://nrc.gc.ca/inms
which leads to this as already quoted in DXLD:
http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/common_files/stories/chu/communique_e.pdf
** CUBA. RHC, 12000, Dec 11 at 1429 referring to webcast via http://www.radiohc.cu said that programming is
repeated ``integramente`` at 1500-1900. That`s when SW is off the air, except
when they forget to turn off the transmitters at 1500 sharp. At 1453 when I
happened to be tuned to 15120, plugging the date`s Mesa Redonda show at 6:30 pm
= 2330 UT on 9820, 6000, which would be about --- human rights! What chutzpah!
** LIBYA. V. of Africa, 11860, Dec 10 at 1926 in African language,
music, fair. Scheduled 19-20 in Hausa due south from Sabrata
** MEXICO [and non]. Still trying to hear some audio from XEQM, to
tell whether it is really in Maya now during daytime, but all I can detect is a
het from 6104.8 against 6105.0 stations: Dec 11 until 1459:30 VOA Chinese
closing, but Tinang carrier seemed to stay on; then I heard CRI IS, which is
opening in Russian, and VOA opening Uzbek via Tinian, both much weaker than
Tinang had been, but still way too much for Mérida
** U K [non]. For the fourth day in a row, BBCWS in English on
9625, Dec 11 at 1423 under CBC Northern, and easily confirmed as such by // 5975
BBCWS via Thailand. Again there is a SAH of about 3 Hz, and possibly RSA is in
the mix too. Now we have a VTC schedule update showing that it`s Cyprus with
BBCWS at 14-15, 64 degrees
** U S A [and non]. 15580 open carrier, Dec 11 at 1450-1458* and
covering up a weaker signal, i.e. VOA São Tomé blocked by VOA Greenville-B,
which doesn`t modulate on this frequency until 1700
** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV via Cuba, 15290, Dec 10 at 1922 somebody
other than Chávez giving a speech but big hum; pause for some music without the
hum, and resume speech by Jesse Chacón with hum. I should have paid more
attention as he was otherwise reported to have announced that RadioSur would
begin in the first quarter of `09 --- is that referring to their new SW facility
under construxion, or something else?
** ZANZIBAR. RTZ, 11735, good signal Dec 10 at 1927 with hilife music, but the unstable transmitter warbling is getting worse. I was thinking they got a new transmitter only a few years ago, but TDP shows the 50 kW Dole unit started in 1984y, http://www.tdp.info/tza.html so is TDP not up to date, or was the transmitter refurbished? It was off the air for a considerable period
** ALGERIA [non]. RTA, 5865 via FRANCE, Dec 12 with Qur`an until
abrupt cutoff at 0657*. Allah`ll get `em for that
** CANADA [and non]. 9625, CBCNQ seems Inuk, but heavy QRM from
FEBC 6 Hz away in listed Khmu language with Aleluya hymn Dec 12 running past
1400 to 1401 Jesus Saves IS and off. Meanwhile, CBC with French ID, then English
news at 1400, distorted modulation. As soon as FEBC went off I could hear BBCWS
news in English as well, which is via Cyprus.
9650, KBSWR via Sackville, when tuned in Dec 12 at 1405 was just an
open carrier, but Korean modulation kicked in at 1406.
But the next morning, Dec 13, no Sackville frequencies heard! Must
be the ice storm in the Maritimes downing powerlines, if not damaging antennas
too. Does Sackville not have any backup power generating capability? I did not
attempt to check all possible frequencies, but these were absent: at 1439, BBC
sports via Cyprus in the clear on 9625, no sign of NQ service. 9650, normally a
big signal with KBS in Korean, missing. 9610, no RCI at 1510. 13675, no CRI
relay before 1600, no Austria after 1600.
BTW, Sackville`s nearest neighboring SW station, WBCQ, was
operating normally, heard after 1500 with Brother Scare both on 9330 and 15420+
** CHAD. With RNT reported reactivated on 4905 in the evenings, I
have wanted to check for it in the mornings, but haven`t managed to as early as
0430. However, Dec 13 at 0613, there was a weak signal with indistinct
modulation, CODAR QRM, presumably Chad
** CUBA. RHC is now announcing that they are playing back their
morning programming from 1100 UT on their `audio real` webcast at 1500-1900, as
heard Dec 12 at 1430 on 13680. Trouble is, it is not Real Audio, but Windows
Media. Poor Real, getting the kleenex treatment as a reward for being the
pioneer. Also mentioned Dec 13 at 1457 on 11760, but sign-off announcement
included 955 kHz (``novecientos cincuenta y cinco en la banda de 31 metros``) to
be used later in day, the announcer not knowing enough to realize that it was a
typo in the script for 9550, and RHC could not possibly be on a MW frequency 955
kHz. But then the rest of the frequency announcement for transmissions starting
at 0000 was cut off before he could botch anything further, and after another
plug for programming continuing on their portal de Internet, off at 1459*
Meanwhile, the DentroCuban Jamming Command pulsing away against
nothing at 0615 Dec 13 on 9785, 9825, 7365, frequencies not currently in use for
any hostile programming; and also on 9885 QRMing some station other than VOA
Spanish, with music --- now it`s VOA English via South Africa. Pulses of a
different pitch and different rate at same time on 9955 against inaudible WRMI
** CZECHIA. R. Prague, 13580, Fri Dec 12 at 1425 caught end of
interesting feature on The Arts program about Martinu revisited, the composer
Bohuslav Martinu, who is getting more respect these days; see http://martinu.cz His name actually has a circle over the final u, but that is
too exotic for MS Word to handle in a font other than WST-Czec from the symbol
archive: $ which also appears to have Braille in it! And no doubt would not
survive into plain text conversion. When I copy his name from the above website
it just shows up as a plain old u. I am not clear about what fonetik funxion the
circle serves, and I seldom see it on other Czech words; is it archaic? But we
digress: back to his music!
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Big mess on 9704-9705, Sat Dec 13 at 1441,
somewhat distorted Chinese on 9705.0 and het from 9704.3 or so. Per Aoki, 9705
is VOA Cantonese via Saipan. 9704.3 must be the always-off-frequency Ethiopia,
by long path? But per Aoki, their English broadcast at 14-15 is M-F only.
Nevertheless the transmitter must have been on; could not pull any audio from it
separable from VOA
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160, with R. Australia via WRN via CBC Overnight,
via CKZN, with Media Report, mid-program ID from National Radio at 0645 Fri Dec
12. Quite good reception
** PHILIPPINES. FEBC, 9430, Fri Dec 12 at 1450, scheduled in
Chinese, but a truly bilingual program with M in English, W in Chinese
discussing origin of and playing Xmas carols, such as O Come, All Ye Faithful,
which they said dates only from the XIX century, not as ancient as it seems with
Latin title Adeste, Fideles. VG signal despite 345 degree azimuth from Bocaue;
could be mistaken for a North American service. See also CANADA [non], 9625
** PORTUGAL. RDPI, 15520, with silly ballgame in Portuguese, Sat
Dec 13 at 1508 // much stronger 15560. What`s the schedule of 15520? Is PWBR
`2009` any help? Of course not! No listing at all for RDPI on 15520. EiBi shows
Sat/Sun only at 15-17 to Africa. Aoki agrees, adding the azimuth 144 degrees
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service, via Sines, PORTUGAL,
Sat Dec 13 at 1510 with didactic discussion by M&W in English about animals;
F-G peaks, but increasingly bothered by splatter from WYFR 17760 English. Is
PWBR `2009` any help? Of course not. No SRS listed there, but Aoki & Eibi
have English as daily 1500-1530. At 1529 into Arabic, or some dialect thereof,
accompanied by steel drumming
** U S A. WBOH, distorted 5920, Fri Dec 12 at 1345, OM preacher in
gringo Spanish, e.g. pronouncing código as codígo, followed by YL with better
accent. There is no Spanish shown on the schedule at this time, 8:45 am local: http://www.fbnradio.com/new_page_copy(1).htm
Sister station WTJC, Dec 13 at 0610 with Joy to the World during
Xmas medley not only on distorted 9370 but also splattering as far as down as
9220 and as far up as 9490, but worse the closer to 9370, interfering with many
other stations! Not the first time this has happened. // 5920 distorted but not
splattering.
Checked again at 1438, 9370 itself had a big het since WTJC is also
off-frequency, but VOA Deewa service in Pashto via Sri Lanka is really on
9370.0. And WTJC still splattering, now detectable between 9320 and 9410 again
interfering with many other stations. I then tried to notify the FBN chief
engineer David Gernoske but got a bounce from the earthlink address I had for
him, so resent it to the generic FBN e-mail address
** VENEZUELA [non]. Someone reported RNV during the 0000 hour on 9550, which would be a new time via Cuba, but Dec 13 at 0005, no sign of it, just something weak in Chinese which per EiBi is CRI from domestic site in Hakka to SE Asia. There was another weaker signal under; EiBi also shows RHC itself on 9550 during this hour in French to S America, where, I understand, French is not a major language, but neither is Arabic in the Caribbean. These were both overshadowed by analog German from DW on 9545 which is currently via Ascension at 00-02
** BRAZIL. RNA, 11780, VG signal Dec 13 at 2322, but audio cutting
out every few sex. Weakest link syndrome
** CANADA. All RCI/CBC/CRI relay frequencies, etc., still missing
Sunday morning Dec 14. Jeff White hears from Sackville that they don`t expect to
have power back until 1800 UT Monday. There`s something wrong with the switching
at the main power substation; apparently not related to the ice storm in New
England
** CUBA. RHC, 11690, Dec 13 at 2323, song in Spanish, VG signal way
over DW Rwanda, barely detectable underneath; 2324 RHC said show is ``Sonido
Cubano``. As usual their own transmission schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm
claims this frequency does not start until 0000. Furthermore, their
own program schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/programacion.htm
does not show any programming in Spanish at all in the 23-24 UT
hour
** INDONESIA. Glad to hear at least two of the RRI on 60m, 4750
Makassar and 4790 Fak2, Dec 14 at 1409, with talk and music respectively, both
bothered by CODAR; and both registering about S9+15 tho 4790 sounded a bit
louder. A few minutes later, both with music but not //. No other Indos detected
on 60m. Recheck at 1440, 4750 and 4790 still audible but weaker. Sunrises are
already getting earlier, tho sunsets are still getting later, to gang up at the
Winter Solstice for the shortest day overall
** LATVIA. I don`t often hear the various special programs from
Ulbroka, as they are scheduled too early in the morning, but Sunday Dec 14 at
1345 I came upon a signal occupying the usually vacant 9290. A YL was talking
about Latvia in English, fair but fading down into noise level; 1349 outroduxion
as Latvia Today, Goodbye, but more music filling, still rock music at 1355. I
understand this transmitter will be closed down at yearend, so glad I had a
chance to hear it this well
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Another previously undiscovered one-minute
English broadcast from RN! Dec 14 at 1357 I happened to tune to 9390, and heard
a promo in English for ``Curious Orange``, before the transmitter cut off at
1358*. RN is not supposed to have any English until 1400, on other frequencies.
Checking the schedules, there is an RN Dutch transmission via Tinang,
Philippines on 9390, supposedly at 1259-1357 only. This probably correlates with
the RN English introduxion I have heard previously on 6105 Tinang at 1359:
transmitter switching is NOT properly coordinated with program source switching.
I quickly changed to 6105 again this time, but no RN heard there and VOA Chinese
again started a few seconds late after 1400. And again the het, presumably XEQM,
a bit stronger than before but still could not detect any Maya
** POLAND [non]. PRES, 9450 via Germany, Sunday Dec 14 at 1351,
good signal as Slawek Szefs was interviewing someone about the exhumation of the
body confirmed as Gen. Sikorsky`s. BTW, they pronounce his name starting with
Sh- even tho it`s not spelt Sz-; why? Googling on the Szikorsky spelling, one
gets a very few hits in the Polish language spelling it that way but the
preferred spelling is Sikorsky
** PORTUGAL [and non]. The 12040 collision between RDPI and HCJB
German starting at 2230 extended longer than ever heard before, Sat Dec 13,
still going at 2321. Must have been a rather late-running silly ballgame
** SPAIN. REE, 17595, Sunday Dec 14 at 1435 with two sopranos in
song outroed as ``Mi Bien Amor``, which I think the announcer said was recorded
in Guatemala; 1444 music from Venezuela sung by the RTVE Chorus. Excellent
modulation and usual strong, steady signal. I am as impressed by this service
direct from Noblejas as I am unimpressed by the muddy Costa Rican relays. Per
program grid I found at
http://www.rtve.es/files/70-12182-FICHERO/Parrilla_colores_corporativos.pdf
this show is Solo Canciones, Sundays at 14-15. It`s going onto my
Monitoring Reminders Calendar
** U K [non]. 6030 is overwhelmed with signals now reducing any
chance for CFVP to be heard in the mornings here. At least the DentroCuban
jamming is gone by 1400, but the Chicom CNR1 jamming is in full force, against
what? Aoki says Ming Hui Radio, Tanshui, Taiwan is on 6030 with 100 kW, 325
degrees at 1300-1400 only, and is jammed. They also show CNR1 from Beijing site
#572 on 6030, all the way from 2000 to 1735, 50 kW non-direxional. But Dec 14 at
1404 I was definitely pulling news in Arabic thru this mess, and that is BBCWS
via Cyprus, 300 kW at 101 degrees, longpath or grayline shortpath?
** U S A. WEWN, 5755, Sunday Dec 14 at 1406 with two-tone mass in
English --- what`s the proper name for that kind of chanting --- a whole string
of words `sung` at one pitch, and then the last one at a lower pitch, and why?
However, this was getting severe self-QRM from WEWN`s own squealing modulation
card, getting worse and worse. Why don`t they fix this problem which has been
ongoing for years at varying levels? Do they assume no one is really trying to
listen, anyway? Later checked other WEWN frequencies: at 1415, 7555 had much
lighter squeal by comparison, not nearly so annoying, as Panis Angelicus was
being sung. At 1426, 11520 in Spanish gospel rock, no squeal
**
U S A. WTJC, 9370, back in whack without splattering all over the band, Dec 14
at 1350 with preacher talk. Somewhat distorted audio on fundamental, but as long
as they keep it within 4 kHz of 9370, we can live with it
**
VENEZUELA [non]. Another Sunday without Hugo! No sign of previous frequencies
for ``Aló, Presidente`` via Cuba, at 1550 check Dec 14 of 13750, 13680, 11875,
11680
** BULGARIA. No warbling problem on 11700, Dec 18 at 1356 with R.
Bulgaria folk music // much stronger 15700. Also OK Dec 19 around 1430
** CUBA. RHC 6000 still on the air past 0700, Dec 19 at 0704 with
news in English, as 2-hour program had started automatic replay and transmitter
engineer was dozing? However, 6060 was off and 6140 had just gone off after open
carrier. Recheck at 0706, 6000 was also off, no doubt frustrating those
listeners legitimately expecting to hear a full newscast from Habana. SNAFU.
Maybe the webcast keeps running at least until 0900?
** JAPAN. NHKWNRJ, Dec 19 at 0658 not only very strong on 6145
usward, but also on much weaker // 6165 mixing with Croatia, and then in
Japanese bothering VOC`s brief English news at 0700. Had not noticed them on
6165 before; 300 kW, 330 degrees from Yamata
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185 often noted with audible hum, estimated
30 Hz or so, such as Dec 19 at 0702. RNA BRAZIL in Portuguese could be heard,
but no other audio. I suspect it`s caused by off-frequency XEPPM, Radio Educación,
on the air but not modulating
** ROMANIA. RRI, which was missing from 11970 a few days ago, back
on Dec 18 at 1352 check towards end of English hour, with football news. So it`s
still colliding with WYFR before 1345
** UZBEKISTAN. 6225 with easily recognizable Harold Camping
intoning, Dec 18 at 1405. Is PWBR `2009` any help? Yes! Says Family Radio via
Uzbekistan, and that is confirmed by HFCC, Aoki and EiBi; during the 14-15 hour
only, 200 kW, 131 degrees.
So I will criticize Uzbekistan instead, not exactly a
Christian-friendly country, for selling out to the gospel huxters after
cancelling its own lamented external service, Radio Tashkent. They probably
figure the ordinary listener in South Asia will never know this is coming from
Uzbekistan, as there are no announcements, ``This is the Family Radio
transmitter leased from Uzbekistan, signing off``
Furthermore,
I was hearing a much weaker signal on 6260, some music barely audible, and heavy
flutter. The online listings agree this can only be CVC International, another
evangelical outfit, in Hindi to S Asia, also via Tashkent, 100 kW at 153
degrees, 1400-2000 and also 0000-0400. Being a land-locked country, Uzbekistan
obviously has no respect for the marine band 6200+, as long as the Christians
can get blamed for the intrusion
** CANADA [non]. 11895 good and clear Dec 20 at 1505, disgusting
sermon in slow English about bringing a female (animal?) without defect as a sin
offering, slaughtering and pouring out the blood on the altar, removing the fat
and burning it, avoiding unclean stuff; Leviticus V mentioned.
What does PWBR `2009` say this is? AWR Guam is the only bar, but
summer-only and language-other, so that would be a bum rap. EiBi and Aoki have
the answer as usual: Bible Voice Broadcasting, 90 degrees to South Asia at
1500-1530 when English is only on Saturdays; EiBi says Nauen, Aoki says
Wertachtal. The Franco-Germans are always jumping the sites around, presumably
for logistical reasons
** CUBA [and non]. RHC, 9550, Dec 19 at 2306 news in English, with
clear echo during brief fades. Suspect this was long-path, quite a haul from
here at some 38 megameters. SE Asian signals were inbooming such as VOA on 9490,
which is Tinang at 200 degrees
** SLOVAKIA. R. Slovakia International IS and ID in English at 1427
Dec 20 on 6055, weak with flutter, 1430 into German as scheduled. Europe on 49m
at this time of day is quite a treat, but surely possible at solstice, and just
a band away from regular Pridnestrovye at same hour on 7370. Beam of 305 degrees
from RSO helps too, exactly the same azimuth used for English to NAm at 0100,
still intruding in the 40m hamband on 7230. This being a Saturday instead of a
Friday, the usual dominant on 6055, R. Nikkei was already off at 1415
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. Weak signal on 9541.5, Dec 20 at 0730 with
talk, seems English intonation; a bit better at 0735, mostly YL talking and
occasional bits of music. Just not enough against noise level, but BFO helped
and proved it was not drifting. What else could it be on this frequency? Next
check at 1407, no trace of a carrier, just something on 9540.0 masked by QRDRM
from 9540-9550, BBC/DW Woofferton 100 kW, 114 degrees. I really wonder if SIBC
is running 31m 24 hours
** SWEDEN. 9400, weak with umlauty language Dec 20 at 1511. As a
-00 frequency, first suspect naturally Bulgaria, but not this time: Radio Sweden
in Swedish scheduled from Hörby. An hour earlier I was getting it much better
on 11540 as I was confirming Solomon Islands was not being heard on 9541.5, but
instead a carrier from something matching 2.0 MHz below on 9540.0. Anyhow, seems
Radio Sweden/Teracom facilities survived the earthquake a few days ago
** TURKEY. 11810, weak signal in Arabic, Dec 20 at 1501,
pronouncing a website with English letters including .net. I assumed it was
Jordan but EiBi and Aoki agree Jordan is off by then, and V. of Turkey is
opening Arabic at 1500, until 1700, 252 degrees from Emirler, so that is how I
will list-log it, presumably, the .net also a positive clew
**
U K. Nice to hear Bow Bells preceding BBCWS transmission on 12095, Dec 20 at
1459, but only until 1459:30 opening, and 1500 into stupid ballgames, this being
a Saturday when BBC wastes its vast resources on such Sportsworld nonsense. Good
signal from Rampisham, 250 kW at 95 degrees for this bihour. Originally,
out-of-band 12095 could be used only from UK sites, but now you never know. At
other dayparts, it`s Cyprus or Ascension. Also noticed timesignal on the hour
was about 1 second late compared to WWV; so why bother, misleading countless
listeners about the correct time?
**
ALASKA. Most days KNLS is inaudible or beneath adjacent channel signals, but Dec
22 at 1452 it was coming in well, tho with some deep fades, on 6150 toward end
of English program. Unfortunately that was a Creation Moment, favorite mini-show
of the gospel huxters dedicated to debunking Evolution. This anti-intellexual
nonsense makes me want to puke. 1454 outro with times and frequencies of the
four English broadcasts, credit list including Rob Stewart who produces them
**
ALBANIA. R. Tirana finally made frequency/antenna adjustments to B08 schedule on
Dec 22. Back on 7425 to NAm, which it had used in previous seasons and would
have used from the start of this season if Russia hadn`t made a wooden
registration for it. At 0001 UT Dec 23, 7425 with sign-on in Albanian giving
schedule with several kHz mentions, audio lofi but modulation fairly good. Some
adjacent interference from 7420, Prague via Ascension to S America, another
recent change, but only until 0030 and can be avoided here by side-tuning
slightly. Tirana // 6110, also lo-fi audio but no QRM and less fading. Both read
S9+20 on the meter but 6110 definitely sounded better than 7425; SINPO 45544 and
44433 respectively. By 0120, 7425 had faded down considerably and little of it
left for English at 0130-0145, but certainly has a better chance over winter
night path at solar min than ex-9345. I was out and could not check the other
significant change yet, 7435
ex-9345 in Albanian at 2130-2300 to W Europe,
C&E NAm
**
CANADA. CBC NQ 9625 transmitter at Sackville out of whack again, Dec 22 at 1510
when extremely distorted talk in English(?) was centered about 9645 and covering
at least 9640-9650 with no detectable carrier. Still the same at 1540. RCI
Russian on 9610 was OK. On 9625 only heard two other weak stations mixing,
presumably BBC and Channel Africa. The same thing was happening Dec 21 at 0600,
but not at 1410. This time I notified Sackville and Montréal
**
CHINA. 9820, Dec 22 at 2352 with open carrier, and het, weak audio which I
finally decided was Vietnamese. I first figured the open carrier was Habana, but
no audio from it developed; the Mesa Redonda show is quite irregular. If that
had been on, nothing of this would have been possible.
0000 heard
music, IS of chimes, electronic instrument, IDs in Chinese and Vietnamese but
missed the key words. Aoki shows:
9820 CNR 2 2100-0100 1234567
Chinese 150 290
Baoji-Xinjie CHN 10710E 3430N CNR2=11845 b08
9820
GUANGXI FOREIGN BS 2300-0100 1234567 Vietnamese 15 225
Nanning CHN 10811E
2247N GUANG
9820 R.HABANA CUBA 2300-0100 .23456. Mesa Redonda 50 230
La Habana CUB 08223W 2256N RHC b07
To further confuse
matters, WRTH 2009 in the domestic sexion page 153 shows nothing but Xi`an on
9820 with CNR2 until 2400. In the international sexion, page 439, there is
Guanxi FBS, Nanning on 9820 with Vietnamese at 2300-0100 // 5050 in winter sked.
So looks like I had Guangxi for sure, and not bad for 15 kW as
Aoki and WRTH agree, aimed oppositely; unlikely the Chicom would really run
Baoji-Xinjie on same frequency at same time.
EiBi doesn`t get into
details such as powers and azimuths but does show both Xian CNR2 and Nanning
with Guangxi FBS between 2300 and 0100.
This time I check PWBR
`2009` last rather than first. It shows both Xian and Nanning on 9820 at 0000,
with 50 kW for the latter, which I am afraid is more likely than 15 as well I
was getting it. Had to be Nanning as I definitely heard
Vietnamese.
The het was probably R. Nove de Julho, Brasil, always
reported off-frequency on low side
**
CUBA. RHC 9550 transmitter is becoming unstable, showing a slight warble at 2350
Dec 22 in English. This is apparent with BFO on, slightly off-tuned, compared to
off-tuning other nearby frequencies
**
MEXICO. XEXQ barely confirmed on 6045, Dec 22 at 1459 with traces of classical
music, Pachelbel? Traces of Spanish announcement at 1500; heard a couple
numbers, as in telephone? And right back to music. Helped that China on 6040 was
weaker than usual
**
U K [non]. Add another fragmented BBCWS transmission inadvertently making it
well to NAm: 9570 at 2300-2400. Dec 22 at 2351 heard surprisingly good signal,
no QRM, in interview about Georgia, then Somalia. 2359 closing The World Today,
cut off at 2359:30* This is via Thailand, 250 kW at 20 degrees, thus favoring us
far beyond the nominal targets of NE China and N Korea
**
U S A. Dave Frantz`s home-made WWRB transmitter may have oomph of S9+22, but it
has some defects (I toned that down), as evidenced Dec 22 at 1508 when Alex
Scourby and then Brother Scare were splattering 9350 to 9420 from the 9385 unit,
QRMing several stations, the worst victim being WTJC 9370, which also goes
haywire at times. Not surprising, as Dave told me WTJC stole the plans from him
at WGTG. Still the same at 1540
** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Altho I haven`t log-reported it lately, I
continue to enjoy R. Solh music in the mornings here when I can force myself to
suspend the usual bandscanning. One piece they always play at 1420-1426 on 13830
via UK, as heard again Dec 24, is especially captivating, and I wonder what the
lyrix are saying. Does it have a political message, or just entertainment?
Perhaps Aslam Javaid or Al Muick can enlighten us. I can only hope the psyopped
Afghans are appreciating Radio Solh as much as we taxpayers do
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, carrier on as early as 1525, then IS
from 1528, opening English to NAm at 1530 with full English schedule, including
updated 7425 at 0130; she says broadcasts to North America are Monday to Sunday
--- but that means from 1525 Monday to 0457 UT Sunday; it`s still six days a
week except local Sundays
** CANADA. Further chex of the defective CBCNQ transmitter: Dec 24
at 0555, funxioning normally and nominally on 9625. But at 1318 it was acting up
again: distorted Inuk(?) talk on 9625, ``Gloria`` carol, with spurs at
modulation peaks audible as high as 9670 but worst around 9640-9645. Doesn`t
seem to do it on the lower side. No replies received about this from Sackville
or Montréal, to my recent notification about this problem
** CANADA. CFRX, 6070, still holding up with good signal and
modulation; Dec 24 at 1336 ad for smart dishwashing machines at Home Depot.
Still seems odd to hear a genuine (very) commercial North American station on
SW, with lots of spots. CFRB ought to charge a premium on its ad rates now as
long as SW is on the air, funxioning properly, and not subject to random
overrides for SW IDs. But they would be laughed out of the ad agencies
** CHAD. Paul Brouillette, in IL, reported to DXLD hearing RNT on
6165 until 2233* Dec 22, so I was wondering if they had moved all transmissions
back to 6165 after a brief revival on 4905? No, in the morning, Dec 24 at 0601,
heard only Croatia on 6165, and good signal from Chad on 4905 with music; 0603
non-French announcement, more music, then YL talking in non-French until 0613
more music, 0615 drumming and 0616 into OM speaking Arabic. Lite CODAR QRM
thruout, which would have been worse without the strength of the Chad signal to
diminish it
** CHINA. 8400 still with Firedrake after a couple of weeks, so
Sound of Hope must be sticking here too, Dec 24 at 1347
** CUBA. The DentroCuban Jamming Command continues to ruin many
other frequencies besides the ones they need to. If you`re going to jam, do it
responsibly, only against your enemies! That is, only on enemy frequencies, only
when they are axually in use, and in Spanish. Incidentally, this would make your
operation more efficient and effective against the real targets, without making
more enemies!
Dec 24 at 1324, I found the pulses centered on 11930 against R.
Martí were extending plus/minus 25 kHz, and thus also marring R. Romania
International`s music on 11940. Also similar pulsing heard on 11490-11495
against nothing at 1326, further spur?
** EGYPT. 15710 with constant tone test, Dec 24 at 1406 and for
next few minutes. Presumably R. Cairo after closing Indonesian service until
1400, as they habitually run tone afterwards for reasons unknown --- maybe it`s
just occupying the audio feed channel and they don`t get around to turning off
the transmitter promptly. Would that the clarity of the programming, normally
extremely distorted, approached the purity of this tone!
** ITALY. Ham Roberto, I2VRN inbooming on SSB 7162 Dec 23 around
0700, working US hams in English. Not too surprising as Vatican Radio is a
regular on 7250, but with somewhat more power and he was rivalling it. QRZ.com
says he is: ROBERTO VERANI, VIA PAGLIARI BIVIO 6, I-26049 STAGNO LOMBARDO,
CREMONA, ITALY
** KURDISTAN [non]. 7540, Dec 23 at 1455 with rather repetitive
chanting, fair, continuing after 1500 with weaker talk; hmmm, what is this? Is
PWBR any help? Of course not! Nothing listed on 7540 at this time. O yes, it`s
Voice of Mesopotamia = Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish as in Aoki, 1400-1800, 500
kW at 129 degrees via Ukraine, but this scheduling is to expire at yearend, with
11530 extended another hour until 1500. We usually hear it better on 11530 until
1400*, but only after WYFR closes at 1345
** LIBYA. V. of Africa, 17725, 1442 Dec 24 with a bit of its
habitual produxion music, probably off some American service years ago as it
sounds familiar, then talking in English about Qaddafi with even more familiar
Beethoven`s Ninth in the background. They never seem to tire of this subject;
wonder why? Do not assume Ludwig would endorse Muammar
** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, less classical and more exmassy, Dec 24 at
1332 with vocal group, 1333 YL solo ``Let it Snow``, 1335 ``Ave María`` ---
maybe a medley moving right along. As usual, quite weak signal, and presumed.
This led me to wonder if it ever snows on San Luís Potosí?
Searching on its clima I kept getting current and predicted weather pages rather
than long-term climate data! Latitude is +22º 16, so snow not very likely, but
altitude is 1903m, and at one point the cota de nieve was shown at 3500m, so
mountains around may certainly get whitened, and SLP`s own low temp is soon to
be 4 degrees; a bit colder and snow is possible
** MEXICO. Looking for XEQMaya, Dec 24 around 1330 could only hear
a weak het on low side of 6105 against FE stations, and no het at all after 1400
with VOA Chinese
** RUSSIA [non]. Looking for anything from GUINEA`s only SW
frequency, 7125, tuned in Dec 24 at 0600 only to hear Golos Rossii, Novosti
opening, but cut off the air at 0600:20, unconvering absolutely nothing. Lúcio
Otávio Bobrowiec, Brasil, was still hearing nothing from Guinea at 0650-0730.
Russian International Radio, in Russian to NAm, is designed to
occupy the 6 hours per night when Guinea is not scheduled on 7125, i.e.
0000-0600; HFCC and EiBi say site is ``Armavir`` but Aoki, PWBR and WRTH say
Moldova = Grigoriopol = Pridnestrovye
** U K [non]. 7135 with weak B-B-C chimes, Dec 24 at 1343, poor
with QRhaM. At this odd hour figured it must be the Burmese service about to
open with that wacky timesignal. Sure enough, 1344:30 began some music, 1345
timesignal which was one second late compared to CHU 7335. Standard complaint
about inaccurate timesignals. And then into Burmese. This transmission is a
semisesquihour at 340 degrees from Singapore
** U S A [non]. VOA news in English, surprised to hear good signal
on 7575, Dec 24 at 1338 as announcer stumbled, blowing pronunciation of Guantánamo.
What does PWBR `2009` say? Nothing! No listings at all for this frequency. WRTH,
Eibi and Aoki don`t have it either as this is a late IBB change.
7575 just started Dec 21: 12-13 Sri Lanka at 33 degrees, 13-14
Tinian at 279 degrees ex-Tinang 9345 at 21 degrees which was good for NAm; 14-16
Thailand at 280 degrees
**
U S A [non]. 13600, Dec 24 at 1456 with instrumental version of ``Away in the
Manger``, QRMing CODAR. Does PWBR have it? Of course not! 1458 into YFR theme
music, as per EiBi it`s Uzbek at 14-15 via Wertachtal
** ALASKA. KNLS, 6150, with an interesting extended feature report
on the Navajo rug market in Crownpoint NM, Dec 25 around 1410, part of a series
about stuff near I-40
** ALBANIA. After hearing CFRX at 1905 [see CANADA], I scanned 49m
for anything from Europe at that early time, only a semi-hour after low noon
here at 1832 UT Dec 25. And I found a weak signal on 5970 talking in French.
This fits the CRI relay via Albania, and the only other transmission on 5970 at
that time is the Ukrainian domestic relay.
Cërrik has the advantage of being aimed 310 degrees toward France,
and incidentally North America far beyond. That azimuth, also used by nearby
Shijak for R. Tirana North American broadcasts, crosses near Paris, Montréal,
Indianapolis and Texarkana, only 4 degrees away from Enid at 314 from Albania.
R. Tirana`s new frequency in Albanian to Eu and NAm at 2130-2300,
7435 ex-9345 at 310 degrees, had a fair signal with deep fades at 2230 Dec 25;
no co- or adjacent-channel interference
** CANADA. I can now confirm that CFRX, 6070 Toronto, makes it this
far all day, as just a semi-hour after low noon, Dec 25 at 1905, it was audible,
and somewhat readable altho lower into the noise level than at less bright
times. The only other significant 49mb signal was 24-hour WBOH, NC on 5920, but
CFRX was better. At 2230 CFRX was atop a lot of QRM from Romania, which uses
6070 only at 22-23 in Spanish for SAm
** CANADA. CBCNQ, 9625, in whack when checked Dec 25 at 1505 with
Xmas music special, and also around 1915
** CHAD [and non]. Altho RNT was on 4905 the morning before, on UT
Dec 25 at 0645 nothing heard there, and instead heavy QRM on 6165 with Croatia.
At 0647 I was getting African music mixing with talk. At 0655 Croatian talk was
on top and at 0657 a song sung by a mezzo(?) soprano, perhaps the Croatian
national anthem? The two signals were making a het on the boundary between
audible and subaudible, maybe 20-25 Hz? Rechecked at 2230, nothing on 6165 or
4905; may have just missed the sign-off
** ETHIOPIA. 9556v making a big het on VOA Korean, 9555.0, Dec 25
at 1458 just before VOA closing at 1500, when I immediately heard ``Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia`` mentioned. 1501 Arabic ID ``Huna, Sawt ---`` something, and seemingly
in other languages including the word ``Demokrasi``. The signal now good and
clear with nothing on 9555 to het it; with BFO I could tell it was varying
slightly, sometimes below 9556 such as at 1502, but mostly on the hi side, such
as at 1504. Also found the other off-frequency Ethiopian transmitter on 9704.2
or so.
This closely matches Brian Alexander`s log on Dec 21, when R.
Ethiopia was varying 9556.04 to 9556.32, but at quite a different time,
0703-0711. This is obviously the same transmitter at Gedja, which had previously
been varying much closer to nominal 9560.
But it`s not R. Ethiopia programming at 1500. Aoki says it`s Voice
of Democratic Alliance at 1500-1600, which in the first half hour is in Arabic
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday; Tigrinya on Tuesday, Thursday [such
as Dec 25] and Saturday. There must be a mistake there with both languages shown
for day 3 = Tuesday.
WRTH 2009 page 492 clarifies that this is clandestine for Eritrea,
with Arabic on M/W/F/Sun, Tigrinya on Tue/Thu/Sat. Confusion probably arises
from WRTH starting the week on Monday, Aoki and HFCC starting the week with day
1 = Sunday. The second half of the hour is in Kunama M/W/F, Afar Tue/Thu/Sat,
and on Sundays Tigrinya; // thruout is 7165, both 100 kW non-direxional
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, Thu Dec 25 at 1508 with Frecuencia al Día
over jamming, unscheduled time, instead of R. Prague. Jeff White tells me their
new computer playout system skipped a program, but they hope to have everything
straightened out shortly
** TURKEY [and non]. 7205, best signal on 41m, Dec 25 at 1911 was
playing ME music. This must have been VOT`s German service at 1830, 310 degrees
from Emirler, so carrying on directly to N America. Was also hearing Greek music
on 7450 which is the Makedonias service at 323 degrees from Avlis; nothing yet
from VOG itself on 7475, not opening until 2000
**
U S A. WBCQ, 9330-CUSB, Dec 25 at 1913 with `Sound Body` program from Christian
Media Network in southern Oregon, YL pushing colloidal silver. What became of
the financial show during this hour? Modulation distorted probably because of
Syrian carrier on slightly different frequency. It was hard to tell, but I think
WBCQ was now very slightly above 9330. Helped to turn on the BFO for proper
demodulation of The Planet
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, OK in English at 1535 Dec 27, but
gone at 1552 recheck, before sign-off time
** BIAFRA [non]. For the record, Voice of Biafra International
reconfirmed Friday Dec 26 at 2029 still on WHRI 15665, tho just barely audible
with backscatter echo
** CANADA. CBCNQ transmitter out of whack again, Dec 27 at 1326
when 9625 was quite distorted, and also putting out almost constant spurs
matching modulation peaks, ranging 9645 to 9660 or so, worst at 9650, this time
also bothering IRAN 9660, q.v. At 1333 CBC mentioned Hydro-Québec; 1516 in
French and still spurring 9645 now up to 9665; see GUAM [non]. I don`t
understand why this stays on the air, unlistenable on fundamental and QRMing
other stations
** CHINA. 7220, Dec 27 at 1534, best signal on 41m band with music,
Japanese talk, mentioned ``Peking Hoso``. Is PWBR `2009` any help? Of course
not! During this hour only has misleading bars for CAR, RFE/RL, Vietnam and
Zambia. EiBi B-08 has the answer, CRI Japanese service, 95 degrees from Jinhua
at 1500-1557
** CUBA [and non]. Quite a clash on 11760, Sat Dec 27 at 1343, with
Cuban music on top of RHC talk in Spanish! This turned out to be BBCWS which is
now on a Cuba-binge celebrating the Revolution`s L anniversary; or as they put
it, Cuba Season. This being Charlie Gillett`s World of Music, including Ernesto
Lecuona, Pérez Prado and at 1353 BBC had Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaría,
1962 post-revolution.
But whence? It`s the OMAN relay until 1400, putting a better signal
than usual into here far from its target area, but favorable at 310 or 320
degrees. RHC might want to consider abandoning 11760 in the mornings, like it
did 9550 due to interference. Fortunately, RHC was mostly talk, but when they
too played music it was a royal mess. BBC off at 1359:30 leaving RHC almost in
the clear with something weaker under with timesignal, China?
Here`s the BBCWS page for the show, where I went to listen to the
whole thing without CubaRM:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/charlie_gillett.shtml
** CUBA [non]. WRMI, 9955, Sat Dec 27 at 1335 in Spanish with
rambling speaker, long pauses, talking about trabajadores. No jamming audible
for a change, and listening for a couple minutes, I could not decide if it was
political, but probably so. Sked looked up later shows Radio Cuba Libre at
13-15. Weak signal subject to fadeouts
** GUAM [non]. 9665, Dec 27 at 1516 with S Asian music, QRM from
CBCNQ 9625 spur, and also weak het from perpetually off-frequency N Korea. At
1530, giveaway AWR theme and Voice of Hope ID in English, barely audible.
Is PWBR `2009` any help? Of course not! Only thing listed during
this hour is an alleged 24-hour Brazilian. Aoki and EiBi have the answer: AWR
via Wertachtal, 1500-1530 in Punjabi, 1530-1600 in Hindi.
CBC shouldn`t bother way over there, but the P`yongyang het must be
worse in the target area; could it be that AWR picked this frequency unaware
that NK is on it (or rather off it), since that is not in HFCC?
** INDIA. AIR GOS, 9690, Dec 27 at 1337 with news in English, 1340
ID and commentary. Has continuous hum/buzz but not so annoying that one must
tune away
** IRAN. 9660, Dec 27 at 1326 in a language with both Turkic and
Slavic elements, talking about Ukraine and at 1330 about Palestine. It`s VOIRI,
scheduled 13-14 in Kazakh, 30 degrees from Sirjan. With splatter/spur QRM from
CBCNQ 9625; see CANADA
** LAOS [non]. WHRI, 11785, with Hmong Lao Radio Sat Dec 27 until
1459, including rustic music we always enjoy, then off the air for a semiminute,
foregoing any ID or OCS, back on at 1500 for Hmong World Christian Radio, http://www.hwcr.us
Unclear why there would be any break between these two closely related
shows from and for Hminnesota; one of them pays for 250 kW and the other for 100
kW? But 11785 is FCC-authorized only for 100 kW at 315 degrees any time between
1300 and 2300. I could not detect any difference in strength before and after
1500
** RUSSIA. Looking for Guinea on 7125, Dec 26 at 2330, heard music,
but hopes dashed by Russian announcement at 2333. Most references show Russia
starting at 0000. But the B-08 VOR sked from Vadim Alexeyev,
VOR Russian world service DX program editor via Michael Bethge,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via Wolfgang Büschel shows:
Russian-IRR 2300-0000 7125 Grigoriopol MDA 500 EUR from 01 Nov
IRR is International Russian Radio, ex Russian International Radio.
No trace of Guinea underneath tho it has been reported sporadically
active at various times since the coup
**
U S A. Area 51 on WBCQ, 5110, Friday Dec 26 at 2350 had R. Timtron Worldwide
during the first hour; 0001:30 Dec 27 into latest WORLD OF RADIO 1440; axually
on about 5109.8-CUSB
** CANADA. CBCNQ, 9625, back in whack, for the moment, Dec 28 at
1458 in Sunday Edition, break promo in French. Could not hear any spurs around
9640, and 9650 occupied by another Sackville transmitter, KBSWR relay until
1459* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. RNT back on 4905, Dec 28 at 0630 with sorta hilife music,
0636 enthusiastic announcer in French
** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526, was inaudible on Dec 27, but Dec 28 just
caught it until 1501* ending Malay and opening English
**
SUDAN [non]. Sunday Dec 28 at 1506 could only hear VOG in Greek talk on 15650;
usually there is a mix with Miraya FM, via IRRS via Slovakia, which has been
colliding since the beginning of B-08, and yes, scheduled 7 days a week. So has
Miraya moved?
** CANADA. It`s always something awry at Sackville. 9625 remained
in whack with no spurs audible, but at 1419 Dec 29, NHKWNRJ relay on 11705 was
overmodulated somewhat and splattering 11680-11730
** CHAD. No sign of RNT on 4905, Dec 29 at 0600. Perhaps they were
back on 6165, but nothing much there either, poor propagation
** INDONESIA. 9526, VOI, Dec 29 at 1457 poor signal hit by
perpetual het from on-frequency 9525, CRI about to start English via Kashi, but
Jakarta on top, at 1500 opening its own English, mentioning 11785 which they are
not using at this time, 1502:30 into news headlines, but knowing I would shortly
be abandoned, to avoid frustration, I stopped listening but left a receiver with
BFO on 9527, to detect how long the transmitter would stay on by mistake this
time: until 1511* Ron Howard, California was listening at exactly the same time,
reminds us it`s really 9525.90
** MEXICO. XERTA, 4800, Dec 29 at 0601, with Mexican national
anthem at local midnight. If you are not familiar with it, a good chance to hear
it any night, and help locate other stations, especially on MW
** PHILIPPINES. FEBC, 9430, VG signal with unpublicized bilingual
broadcast, Dec 29 at 1453 OM in American English talking about grace, another
tenuous theological concept, alternating with YL in Chinese, presumably
consecutive translation. Bocaue, 100 kW at 345 degrees, but could have been
aimed right at US.
Then at 1504 found weaker but sufficient signal on 9400 saying
Salaam Aleikum, Turkic language and only recognized an occasional foreign word
such as druzhya, Bethlehem, all talk, still at 1518, but 1523 a bit of music;
1525 splatter de Brother Scare/WWRB 9385 worsening as 9400 faded some, wrapping
up, 1528:30 mentioned Almatá, Kazakhstan, I think. 1530 Jesus-Saves IS, so it`s
FEBC, and off at 1530:30*. Then looked up in Aoki to find it`s Uighur from
Bocaue at 323 degrees. No trace of jamming, so the Chicom are not so worried
about the gospel huxters as they are about the few secular or Islamic-influenced
broadcasts on SW in Uighur
** RUSSIA. 6115, Dec 29 at 1443 with brief Russian axualities into
Chinese voice-overs, somewhat distorted. If I were list-logging with PWBR `2009`
I would have to conclude this was YFR in English via Irkutsk, but unseems;
instead per Aoki it`s VOR in Chinese via Khabarovsk
** SEYCHELLES [non]. Just above big signal from Turkey 12035, found
English preaching with British accent on 12045, Dec 29 at 1422, mentioning
believers, femininity. S9 +12 on the meter, but quite undermodulated, and
flutter. 1428 closing with a P O Box 8700 address somewhere in India, and
separate FEBA address. 1429:30 IS and off, but back on a few sex later, much
weaker with tone or het.
I had just happened upon one of the rare English broadcasts from
FEBA, this one via UAE, on Mondays only, and switching from 110 to 70 degrees
for Urdu following, per Aoki. I`d think the UA Emir would be in trouble with his
Islamic brethren for broadcasting all this Infidel stuff; but then compared to
the debauchery going on in Dubai, this is small potatoes and who`s to know where
it is really coming from? Heh, heh
**
VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI, 11680 via Cuba, Dec 29 at 1541-1546 had segment
Contacto con los Diexistas: intro and outro in Spanish but body of program by
the YL with broken English. She read report from Juan Franco Crespo in Spain
(who surely wrote in Spanish), and from someone in Kanagawa, then quick
explanation of SINPO and UTC, formerly ``GTM`` -- Like the hoary schedule
announcements, RNV keeps running these items over and over too
** AUSTRALIA. RA still not making it on 9590, so have to try 7240
instead, UT Dec 31 at 1512, but an SSB ham was using RA as his precisely tuned
BFO, which happens all too often, and would seem to be self-defeating as RA is
also modulating both sidebands! Apparently, RA does not want to operate above
7300 so we`re stuck with these collisions
** AUSTRIA [and non]. Listening to the doomed SW broadcasts from
here, 13730, Dec 31 at 1356 playing song in English ``There Are No Diamonds in
the Mine``, then interview in German to 1400* with ID as O-E-Eins, not O-umlaut;
meanwhile bothered by noises from what should be a silent carrier on 13740 as
CRI relay via Habana was warming up.
Later caught what is presumably the final English SW broadcast from
Austria, via Canada relay 13675, Dec 31 at 1650, all about the late Jörg
Heider, to leave us with a bad taste. Sackville cut it off at 1659* sharp before
the program was over, so no farewells to be heard!
If Moosbrunn SW transmissions really cease at yearend, and there
does not seem to be any certain info about this, people looking for the Vienna
New Year`s Concert will be disappointed. It should be live around 1000 UT Jan 1,
when 6155 and 13730 have normally been on the air.
Countless public radio stations in the US carry it at a more
convenient time for us, 1600 UT, some in the West delay it further, and a few
play it back in the evening. See our holiday calendar at http://www.worldofradio.com/calendar.html#holiday
PBS TV carries a different version in the evening as well
** CANADA. CFRX, 6070, Dec 30 at 0708 talkshow interviewing someone
who had spent more than a year of solitude in Chilean Patagonia. This was a
helluva lot more interesting than CVC Chile itself underneath with its gospel
rock crap, and never anything about Chile. Yes, CFRX signal was way over CVC
this time, tho when CFRX faded a bit, CVC came up by comparison. For a
commercial CFRB show, went quite a while without ad break. Referred to website http://www.bobkull.com and the show was Best of
Holder Tonight --- ``phones are being steam-cleaned while he`s away, so do not
call``, ha ha.
But I copied it wrong, since that website goes to some guy in New
Jersey, nothing about solitude in Patagonia, and he is on a book tour. The show
site does not have any guest details either:
http://www.cfrb.com/shows/576409
– Peter Anthony Holder is normally on live at 1-3 am ET weekdays = 06-08 UT.
Here`s the guest`s correct site I searched out: http://bobkull.org/
The idea of spending a year of solitude in nature rather appeals to
me, altho I might choose a milder climate than Patagonia. From the part I heard,
it sounded like he was completely out of contact, not even a 2-way radio
** CUBA [and non]. RHC English dumped off 6000 early, Dec 31 at
0654, while 6060 continued; but it uncovered Harold Camping on WYFR with a poor
signal. Per FCC B-08, WYFR is scheduled on 6000 with the 50 kW transmitter at
181 degrees, 0500-1000, switching at 1000-1200 to 100 kW, 160 degrees. I must
say I seldom notice QRM to RHC from WYFR on 6000, when they are colliding
0500-0700, but 6000 is not the best signal from RHC, 6060 and 6140 being much
better
** TURKEY. VOT, 12035, Dec 31 at 1404 ending a month-by-month
chronology of 2008y news events, ``The New Year Special Program``; then various
music. The Letterbox normally on Wednesdays never appeared. The Dec 30 broadcast
previewed the first-half-of-2009 program schedule, delaying start of Live from
Turkey. I hope they now have the program schedule somewhere on the website
rather than making us wait weeks for it in the P-mail
** U S A [and non]. More confusion from WRMI, 9955: the last I
knew, AWR Wavescan was scheduled at 0630 UT Tuesday, but Dec 30 at 0655 I was
hearing Spanish, La Rosa de Tokio hour-long DX program, at the moment mentioning
LV de tu Conciencia, then wrapping up with credits; 0658 WRMI English ID, 0659
R. Prague relay in English. Jamming pulses of 3 per second but sounded different
than usual, with modulated tones as well; then at least two transmitters out of
sync. Lucky Czechia: at 0706 I was hearing another R. Prague relay on 6160, CBC
Overnight via CKZN, no jamming.
The
next night, UT Wed Dec 31, Wavescan appeared on 9955 at 0600, instead of 0615
Brigade 2506, and WORLD OF RADIO 1441 got its first airing at 0632 as scheduled;
fair signal, some fading, good modulation, no jamming audible
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana has good strong signals but the modulation, I
am sorry to say, is often awful and this was the case during some checks Dec 31:
7435, new frequency to Eu/NAm in Albanian, Dec 31 at 2130 very
distorted, seemed like a public speech. 2208, 7435 during music also with
degraded modulation.
6110, Albanian to NAm at 0018 Jan 1, terribly distorted audio and
breaking up despite S9+20 signal, both music and talk. Something has to be done
with their studio playback and/or studio-transmitter links, to get a clear
good-fidelity signal on the air
** AUSTRIA. 6155 at 2148 Dec 31 with novelty song in German about
his Weib, ending with `Oy Vey`, thrice! Hmmm, maybe it was Yiddish, and who says
Austria is still anti-Semitic? Seems like a New Year`s Eve special show from a
cabaret. One might have listened for Jahrwechsel at 2300 UT, except 6155 was off
before 2200 in time for BBCWS hour in English.
7325 to NAm was still on at 0015 UT Jan 1, replaying the Jörg
Heider retrospective I had heard earlier via Sackville. So maybe this was the
final English transmission on SW
** CANADA. CHU observations before, during, and after QSY from 7335
to 7850, Dec 31, 2008:
At 1850, 7335 still running as usual. 2138, 7335 is off and 7850 is
not yet on. Keep monitoring the new frequency.
*2227, 7850 carrier comes on. 2235 recheck, has already started
modulating with usual timesignals, and still including the frequency change
announcements at :15 past each minute. Signal is equivalent to 7335, but NO
interference, which around this time had been coming from Vatican. As I outpoint
in DXLD, several other utilities have been reported on or around 7850, from
France, Georgia, Israel, so, fingers crossed.
2359 monitoring for the leap second, also WWV on another receiver:
I had previously synched my watch, so did not need to count the 61 seconds, but
sure enough, the 0000 UT January 1, 2009 pip came one second later than 2359 and
earlier. Not surprisingly, CHU and WWV were exactly synchronized in this.
This meant I had to miss BBCWS at yearchange, full chime of Big
Ben, which used to be a tradition. But they don`t make it easy on SW, and
there`s no point in listening to timesignal events on delayed webcasts. BBCWS
had been coming in OK on 9570 via Thailand, discussing fireworx in Iceland at
2355 but after 0000 CRI relay via Albania was on 9570 as usual instead, so BBCWS
probably was off before 0000 anyway
** CANADA [and non]. 6100, Dec 31 at 2150, RCI in French with a
rippling SAH, so maybe a couple dekaHertz away, but no other modulation audible.
Most likely de SERBIA [non], also in French during this semihour
** CHAD [and non]. 4905 was active Dec 31, first noted at 2153 with
French announcement, and had improved a lot by 2230, its normal sign-off, so
decided to stay with RNT for the 2300 Jahrwechsel in the UT+1 zone. Was playing
hilife music; 2254 announcement in French that 6 minutes were left, mixed with
Arabic; 2257, `trois minutes` until the `nouvel an`, 2259 military band with
lots of drumming right past 2300 with no timesignal; finally at 2300:30 to a
speech in clearly enunciated French, by the leader? Still going at 2307, but
2309 military band again, 2310 announced the forthcoming `traduction en langue
arabe` which lasted about as long; retuned at 2322 to hear the military band
once again, probably the national anthem, and off at 2323*. Much better signal
than grossly undermodulated Mauritania on 4845: big signal but barely audible
with strumming at 2237
** CHINA [non]. 6145, Dec 31 at 2145 good signal with woman
speaking Hungarian. I figured this was one of the few remaining R. Budapest
broadcasts, but upon uplooking it, no, it`s CRI via France! How many other SW
stations still broadcast in Hungarian? More than I had thought, according to the
ADDX Ungarisch page: Vatican, TWR, Turkey, Croatia (R. Osijek relay), Russia,
Serbia
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command, 11930, blows out a
Bronx cheer to the world as it celebrates a semi-century of repression: Dec 31
at 2205 jamming pulses to which tones have now been added, despite being against
nothing after R. Martí sign-off. BTW, Pres. Obama`s online advisors are voting
on turning off Radio Martí permanently
** EGYPT. R. Cairo monitoring NYE produced the usual frustrations:
6255, Dec 31 at 2156 during English to Europe, YL talking undermodulatedly; 2158
several seconds of ute beeps QRMing almost like a timesignal. Modulation got
even lower, but I could tell she kept talking right thru local midnight 2200 as
if nothing were happening.
I quickly retuned to the Arabic frequency 6290, which as if to
overcompensate, was strongly and distortedly modulated with music, soon giving
way to a 10-9-8+ countdown in English! And then a timesignal which was 33.5
seconds late. So R. Cairo misled countless Egyptians [and non] about when 2009y
really began. Another surprise: immediately after the timesignal played a few
bars of the ``Happy Birthday`` tune, but perhaps with different Arabic lyrix.
Back to 6255 at 2239; now playing Arabic music with good
modulation; 2240 undermodulated YL with a heavy accent made a very quick English
announcement so I could barely catch a word except ``49 meters``, right back to
music, which had apparently been put on a mechanical pause button, because it
restarted off-speed rather than cleanly. This continued until 2245, into usual
post-transmission tone test.
6850, brief check of R. Cairo`s English to NAm, Dec 31 at 2350,
S9+20 signal but talk just barely modulated. O, the futility!
** GREECE. Sounds like the Greeks were having a NYE party too: VOG,
7475, Dec 31 at 2207 piano music punxuated by kazoo, sirens, the latter with an
unfortunate connotation these weeks; different program on 7450
** GUINEA [non]. During my NYE monitoring Dec 31, checked 7125
several times. At 2154 nothing there, no carrier audible. 2319 nothing there
either altho Russia was audible this early previous days, and now Romania was
making it on 7105. 2354 still nothing on 7125, but at 0016 Jan 1
Russia/Pridnestrovye had finally come on with rock beat music
** NIGERIA. VON is another station which might have had a NY
celebration at 2300 UT Dec 31; 7255 carrier was still on at 2259, but I had too
much else to monitor at the same time
** OKLAHOMA. My local KCRC 1390 Enid has an intermittent harmonic
problem. Looking for NYE pirates, Dec 31 at 2314 instead heard distorted ad for
Walgreens and ESPN Radio, on 6950, the fifth harmonic of // 1390. But it was
gone at next check a few minutes later, nor heard on x 4 = 5560 where I recently
had it too
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 6175, Dec 31 at 2146 had Brother Scare
mixing with something in French. B.S. is via Wertachtal, 100 kW, 300 degrees to
W Europe at 21-22, while French is RFI, 500 kW, 204 degrees to W Africa at
21-22, but The Overcomer increases to 20-22 from Jan 1. No doubt some frequency
managers rationalize this as a good share to different target areas even tho
transmitted from adjacent countries. We can only hope that Brother Scare is
getting the worst of the collision; the 5:1 power ratio should help
** SPAIN. REE NYE monitoring: 9640, Dec 31 at 2211 talking about
uvas gordas, rock classics in Spanish; also on // 7275 at 2227. For the 2300
Jahrwechsel, I was going to try to monitor this with one ear and Chad with the
other, but 9640 went into sign-off announcement at 2255, saying we could keep
listening on Intelsat (sorry, don`t have one handy), and would resume in 3
minutes on 6125, 9620, 11680 and 9535 to America. This hour from 2200 had also
been to Africa on 5250, it sounded like they said, but must have meant 7270 per
skeds. I then tuned to 6125 and found it already on the air with programming,
but fluttery and much inferior to 9640 while 9535 was running the IS.
At 2300 could hear full strike of some clock on 6125. At 2320 I
noticed that 7275 was still on the air, so maybe it was unimpeded at hourtop
(yeartop) had I been listening to it; also audible on 9620 and better 9535 now
with big band music, playing novelty song in Spanish, then sounded like an
antique record with `boogie` lyrix, which I take not to be pure Castilian. 2327
``Mambo Rock`` with English lyrix, 2336 a cowboy love song. 0005 UT Jan 1, 9535
still going with more novelty songs including mock-Hawaiian, Spike Jones?
Hawaiian War Chant, 0010 Royal Victorian Calypso; 0020 still calypso, 0028 a
cowboy yodel song in English. Mentioned several times that this show was from
Radio 3, also on Radio 5 and REE until 3 am local, or was it 2 am. Some quite
entertaining music, and not what you expect from Madrid
** UKRAINE. Wondering if RUI is still on the air in 2009? Jan 1 at
0014 good on 7440 in Ukrainian, but inaudible on 9785 if extra frequency to SAm
is still airborne; could well be, usually above MUF
** U S A. WBCQ, 15420, Wed Dec 31 at 2220 with new WORLD OF RADIO
1441 in progress; very slightly off-frequency per BFO-stepping but nothing to
het it. The 2000 broadcast on 7415 contained an old show from September; perhaps
1441 will appear this week on Thursday at 2000, as well as 0030 UT Friday on
7415
**
WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6300, R. Nacional de la RASD, good in Spanish shortly
after 2300 Dec 31, and at 2351 recheck during music; intermittent ute pulse QRM.
Another one I wish I could have monitored at imminent Jahrwechsel, but trumped
by a leap second. Where to find this in the WRTH 2009? Not under ALGERIA,
MOROCCO, or WESTERN SAHARA in the domestic or international sexions, but on page
498 of C&OT under W
No weather band DX this month
No TV DX this month
AM radio goes live in
Valley
by Lori Tipton
Friday, December 12, 2008
WASILLA, Alaska -- A new radio station has hit the
airwaves in the Mat-Su Valley, much to the chagrin of neighbors who live near
the radio tower.
The new, 1,000-watt station -- 1430 AM -- has been
up and running since Wednesday afternoon.
Spirit of Alaska broadcasting, which owns KMBQ-FM,
has successfully installed a new AM radio tower near Cottonwood Creek. The
broadcasting company received its FCC license Friday.
It's the first-ever AM radio station based in
Wasilla. But it didn't come easy.
The station's owner, John Klapperich, said he
almost missed the deadline to get the license because of a delay building the
tower caused by his neighbors.
In mid-October, Klapperich hit a road block when
his neighbors built a barricade on the road to his property.
Even though it's a Mat-Su Borough road, the road
wasn't built where it was supposed to be and actually runs across private
property.
The neighbors say they oppose the tower because it
sits on wetlands.
"The bottom line is get your tower up, make
your money, it doesn't matter what you do to the people around you," said
neighbor Bonnye Matthews.
And both Matthews and Barry Wise fear the health
effects of the radio waves.
Matthews says when she expressed that concern to
Klapperich, he didn't seem to care.
"His response to me was, ‘If I can't build
my tower, then I'll sell it to somebody else who will build one with a stronger
signal,'" she said.
But Klapperich said research showed he was not
harming anyone's health. So he went ahead with construction.
Klapperich and six others worked nearly two weeks
to install the tower.
"The entire project was put in by hand,
Flintstone technology, literally," Klapperich said.
The crew manually piled a 750-pound piece of steel
into the ground and used a pulley system to get the tower up.
The neighbors say they will continue to fight
Klapperich by contacting state and federal agencies.
But because the FCC has approved his license,
Klapperich says it's a done deal.
"I'd like to think it was the best for the
community, the neighbors, and Mother Earth, if I may," he said.
Whether Valley residents like it or not, KMBQ-FM
can now also be heard on the AM dial.
"We're simulcasting KMBQ-FM until we design
some new, local-originated programming," Klapperich said.
Contact
Lori Tipton at ltipton@ktuu.com
While my back was turned (within the last month or so) k-love
started a translator on 104.7 from Warwick R.I. . This knocks out WOCN Orleans
Mass which would in with ANY slight enhancement and even on most consumer grade
equipment. a better choice would have been 104.3 although that is a good open
channel for summertime e-skip. Here is the translator ID.
w284ba (WKTL) 104.7 it is repeating K-Love from Dartmouth Mass.
Nothing
for sale this month….
No new equipment this month…
No tests this month
PUBLIC
NOTICE
Federal
Communications Commission
445
12th St., S.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20554
News
media information 202/418-0500
Fax-On-Demand
202/418-2830
Internet:
http://www.fcc.gov
ftp.fcc.gov
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Report
No. 513 Media Bureau Call Sign Actions December 17, 2008
During
the period from Sep 13, 2008 to Dec 10, 2008 the Commission accepted
applications to assign call signs to, or change the call signs of the following
broadcast stations.
New or
Modified Call Signs
Call
Sign City State Former Call
Sign
KXZK FM
LORDSBURG
NM New
WFED AM
WASHINGTON
DC WWWT
WFIZ FM
ODESSA
NY WFLR-FM
WJCF-FM
MORRISTOWN IN WJCF
WJJB-FM
GRAY ME WLOB-FM
WMJQ AM
MIDDLETOWN NY WZCC
WTOP AM
SILVER SPRING MD WFED
WWFD AM
FREDERICK
MD WWWB
WZCC AM
CROSS CITY FL
WMJQ
KMRR FM
REXBURG ID
New
KVSD FM
WASTA SD New
WKRI FM
COKESBURY SC
New
WZCH FM
WARNER ROBINS GA WEBL
KGNY FM
DIXON MO New
WBUD AM
ASBURY PARK NJ
WADB
WENN AM
TUSCALOOSA AL
WACT
WFJS AM
TRENTON
NJ WBUD
WRCI AM
THREE RIVERS
WLKM
WVVB FM
HOOVER
AL WENN
WXYP FM
LUDINGTON
MI New
KMSR AM
MAYVILLE ND
KMAV
KPSS FM
BROKEN BOW
NE New
KUBJ FM
BRENHAM
TX KBEX
WJJZ FM
NORTH SALEM NY WVWA
WRED AM
WESTBROOK
ME WJJB
KAZY FM
CHEYENNE
WY KMJY
KHRO AM
EL
PASO TX
KSVE
KMUZ FM
TURNER OR
New
KSVE AM
EL PASO TX KHRO
KCLU-FM
THOUSAND OAKS CA KCLU
KCNP FM
ADA OK
KTGS
KGCL FM
JORDAN VALLEY OR KIDH
KNCH FM
SOMERVILLE TX New
WDEM-CA
COLUMBUS OH
WDEM-LP
KPHI AM
HONOLULU
HI KRUD
WGRH FM
HINCKLEY MN
New
WIRC FM
ELY MN
New
WXRN FM
WARREN CT New
WZAE FM
WADLEY GA
New
KLEP FM
DUBOIS WY
New
WAVF FM
HANAHAN SC
WKZQ-FM
WKZQ-FM
FORESTBROOK SC WAVF
KKSR FM
WALLA
WALLA WA KNLT
KSLV-FM
DEL NORTE CO KYDN
KYDN FM
MONTE
VISTA CO KSLV-FM
WAYU FM
STEELE
AL New
WOTE AM
CLINTONVILLE
WI WFCL
WPEI FM
SACO
ME WRED-FM
KHDE-LP
LARAMIE WY
K25IE
KMJY FM
CHUGWATER
WY KCUG
KPVE-LP
CARRARA NV
K30IG
KYPO-LP
TACNA AZ
K27IJ
KZAB-LP
ABILENE TX
K46IG
KBIJ FM
GUYMON
OK KRBG
KHZS FM
GEORGETOWN
TX KINV
KXFC FM
COALGATE
OK KKFC
KYRT FM
MASON
TX New
WKKM FM
HARRISON
MI WSFP
WSFP FM
RUST
TOWNSHIP MI WKKM
KDNV FM
WINNEMUCCA
NV New
WBQW FM
KENNEBUNKPORT
ME WHXQ
WHXQ FM
SCARBOROUGH
ME WBQW
KLOJ FM
GLENNALLEN
AK New
WZDC-CA
WASHINGTON DC WZDC-LP
WZXE FM
EAST
NOTTINGHAM PA New
KCLU AM
SANTA
BARBARA CA KIST
KPTZ FM
PORT
TOWNSEND WA New
WFYX FM
WALPOLE
NH WPLY-FM
WRJJ FM
CENTER
KY New
WVYN FM
BLUFORD
IL New
KOFY-TV
SAN
FRANCISCO CA KBWB
KPIO AM
LOVELAND
CO KSXT
KRBG FM
HEREFORD
TX KWDH
WGZS FM
CLOQUET MN
New
WPRZ-FM
FREDONIA KY
WKEN
WSIZ-FM
JACKSONVILLE GA
New
WVAA AM
PALM
SPRINGS FL New
WYBJ FM
NEWTON GROVE NC WPRZ-FM
KVDC FM
DODGE
CITY KS New
WIVX-LP
LOUDONVILLE OH W65AH
WQMB-LP
COLUMBUS GA
W36DQ
WQMK-LP
OPELIKA AL
W18CD
KCKV FM
KIRKSVILLE
MO New
WJTP AM
WALHALLA
SC WWOF
WANH FM
LACONIA
NH New
WNMP FM
MARLINTON
WV New
WVVI-FM
CHRISTIANSTED VI WYAC-FM
WREN AM
CARROLLTON
AL WRAG
KWCB FM
GRAFORD
TX New
KNID FM
NORTH
ENID OK KZLS
KZLS FM
MUSTANG
OK KNID
KQNY FM
QUINCY
CA New
KSRL-LP
SANTA ROSA NM New
KSVU FM
HAMILTON
WA New
WKQK FM
GERMANTOWN
TN WSNA
WLSZ FM
KEY
WEST FL WRTH
WNMQ FM
COLUMBUS
MS WMBC
WRTH FM
ISLAMORADA
FL WLSZ
KWYD FM
PARMA
ID KMXM
KINV FM
ENDERLIN
ND New
KORU FM
GARAPAN-SAIPAN
MP New
WHJL FM
MERRILL
WI New
KORV FM
ASHLAND
OR New
WQXZ FM
HAWKINSVILLE
GA WRPG
WSSY FM
PINEHURST
GA WQXZ
WHYZ FM
PALM
COAST FL WRYZ
WCPQ FM
PARK
FOREST IL WRZA
WCPT-FM
ARLINGTON HTS IL WKIE
WCPY FM
DEKALB
IL WDEK
WJQS AM
JACKSON
MS WKXI
WMHU FM
COLD
BROOK NY New
KBAV-LP
COOS
BAY OR KBAE-LP
KBSG-FM
GLENOMA WA New
KIST AM
SANTA
BARBARA CA KBKO
WDSC-TV
NEW
SMYRNA BCH FL WCEU
WEWH FM
WASHINGTON
C H OH New
WJQM FM
DE
FOREST WI WHLK
WTJM FM
SOUTH
WEBSTER OH New
WWQN FM
MOUNT
HOREB WI WJQM
WGBQ FM
LYNCHBURG
TN New
KRXP FM
PUEBLO
WEST CO KYZX
WWWB-LP
LIVINGSTON TN
W25DP
KGLB AM
ST.
PETER MN KRBI
KTGS FM
TISHOMINGO
OK KAZC
WNNG-FM
UNADILLA GA
WQSA
WEER FM
EASTHAMPTON
VLG NY New
WIVL FM
JASPER
GA WNEE
WJZ AM
BALTIMORE
MD WJFK
WJZ-FM
CATONSVILLE MD WHFS
WNEE FM
PATTERSON
GA WIVL
WRIQ FM
LEXINGTON
VA New
KHIH FM
HUGO
CO New
KLXL FM
WHEELER
TX New
WSBX AM
OCHLOCKNEE
GA WJEP
WAVQ FM
AURORA
NC WSTK
WURN AM
KENDALL FL WRHB
KGCN FM
ROSWELL NM KELT
WWOF FM
LA GRANGE GA WGLG
KPKO FM
PECOS TX New
KUDI FM
CHOTEAU MT New
KZHS AM
HOT SPRINGS AR KPZA
WCSY-FM
SOUTH HAVEN MI WCSY
WHFS AM
MORNINGSIDE MD WPGC
KCBE FM
NAPEAGUE NY New
KCBG FM
BROADUS MT New
KRKP FM
LEAKEY TX New
KXZS FM
WALL SD
New
KXZT FM
NEWELL SD New
KZUW FM
RELIANCE WY New
WSWD FM
FORT THOMAS KY WYGY
WYGY FM
FAIRFIELD OH WSWD
WRFX FM
KANNAPOLIS NC WRFX-FM
WSTK AM
JACKSONVILLE NC WJQQ
KLBW AM
NEW BOSTON TX KNBO
WKTI AM
POWELL TN WQBB
WLWK-FM
MILWAUKEE WI WKTI-FM
WNGY FM
LAYTON FL WKTT
WRWV FM
SAINT MARYS PA New
KAJP FM
CARRIZO SPRINGS TX New
KALN FM
DEXTER NM New
KHAA FM
ORLEANS CA New
KKOO FM
RAYNE LA KBEB-FM
WUPN FM
PARADISE MI New
KLXM FM
CLAYTON NM New
WGRL FM
FREDERIC MI New
KMBV FM
VALENTINE NE New
KMHB FM
SEWARD NE New
KWSR FM
CLE ELUM WA New
WESL FM
PENDLETON SC WTCO-FM
WSIS FM
RIVERSIDE MI New
KPFW-LP
GAINESVILLE TX
K61HP
WXMT FM
SMETHPORT PA WQRM
WZFN AM
FT. WALTON BCH FL WTKE
WRSN FM
LEBANON TN New
WLCL FM
SELLERSBURG IN WQKC
KHJQ FM
POLLOCK PINES CA KJDX
KJDX FM
SUSANVILLE CA KHJQ
KWUP FM
NAVASOTA TX KOBJ
WRQC FM
EAST TAWAS MI WZHN
WCYQ FM
KARNS TN WMYU
WRYS FM
GRAYSON KY New
KGTD-LP
UVALDE TX
KABC-LP
KHEW FM
RoCKY BOYS RES. MT New
KOCK FM
WALSENBURG CO KWCS
KONZ FM
RILEY KS New
WLNF FM
RAPIDS NY New
WXGC FM
MILLEDGEVILLE GA New
KAIS FM
JUNEAU AK KORB
KHWD FM
WIGGINS CO New
KORB FM
HOPLAND CA KAIS
KZWD FM
BENNETT CO New
WJBP FM
RED BANK TN WAWL-FM
WJCI FM
BAPTIST VILLAGE
MA New
WQKC AM
JEFFERSONVILLE IN WAVG
WRFQ-LP
CINCINNATI OH New
KLSN FM
FOUR CORNERS MT New
WTGD FM
BRIDGEWATER VA WBHB-FM
KCWH FM
WEED CA
KNTK
KZCU FM
WOODWARD OK KOPA
WBTB FM
YOUNG HARRIS GA New
WMIN AM
SAUK RAPIDS MN WPPI
WPPI AM
SAUK RAPIDS MN WMIN
KYRN FM
SOCORRO NM New
KJHL FM
BOISE CITY OK New
KRGX FM
RIO GRANDE CITY TX New
WGCP FM
CADILLAC MI New
WLRI-LP
GAP PA
WRLY-LP
WRKP-LP
KEY WEST FL W42DQ
WUUQ FM
PITTSBURG
TN WUUS-FM
WBZL FM
GREENWOOD MS WBLZ
WMYU-LP
OOLTEWAH TN WYTY-LP
KHEV FM
SCOTT CITY KS New
KLXD FM
SPRINGFIELD CO KYLX
KLXO FM BEAVER OK KOLX