** CUBA. 11840, Dec 30 at 0143 check, RHC Spanish is back on here unlike last night, and not on 11750 which is supposed to be mornings only. Not on 9810 either.
Sunday Dec 30 at 1446, tail of `En Contacto` finishing enumerating the names of the ``129 most active E.C. listeners in 2012``. The only known SW program to do this! WTFK? Well, 17580 is off, 15340 is open carrier, so that leaves poor 17730 and 15230, VG 13780. 1518 recheck, 17580 is now on with open carrier, like 15340, and 13780 is off, but all four 25m channels are on: 11690, 11750, 11760, 11860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, Dec 30 at 0607, R. Philia phrequency of VOG is off the air; 9420 is on with usual Sunday Greek Orthodox chanting, which goes on and on and on, still past 0705, nice to doze off to. Next Sunday Jan 6 should be really special (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Dec 30 at 0704 UT, for the fourth time recently, immediately upon random tune-in, here comes an ID for ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Not so dominant at the moment, but still nothing recognizable from XEWA further east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1090, Dec 30 at 0610 UT, música romántica en inglés, loops N/S, full ID in Spanish I wasn`t expecting, including Milenio Radio, 103.7, CST TC and temp. Therefore it is XEAU in Monterrey NL, 5/0.25 kW per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. More winter sporadic E analog TV DX, UT Dec 30, all in UT:
0127, ch A2, weak in and out, net-7 with big 7 bug in UR
0147, ch A2 another fade-in with algo; 0148 Bengue and other ads; also ch A4 with algo
0151, ch A2 drama featuring an uppity Indian woman with braids as a servant who smax her mistress, à la India María; vivan racial stereotypes on Mexican TV. No 7 bug so another net
0159, ch A2 UR bug is not 7 but something else, mostly off the corner of my overscanned screen I cannot shrink
0200, ch A2, Nikzon ad, hemorrhoid remedy, and other medicals; very good peak video; algo on A5 too briefly
0202, ch A2, Canal de las Estrellas promo, so it`s net-2, possibly even XEW itself. Also algos on 4, 5, fitting the DF lineup in the waning months of analog
0218, ch A2, net-7 with animation; 0246 is dominating among the CCI; 0320 the anim features dinosaurs; 0340 just about gone
0343, ch A2, Chihuahua mentioned, in ad? skip may have moved west
0352, ch A2, different bug in UR, Azteca 13? 0400 still in, 0405 quiz show; has CCI of about 5 kHz, heavy wide bars; at fade-up the bug is net-13 with tiny words AZTECA TRECE below it; all gone around 0415. Per W9WI.com of the several A-13s on 2, the only one with full 100 kW power is XHFA in Nogales, Sonora, but unseemed that far west
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Dec 30 at 0625 UT, US Country has VG nite signal, i.e. KGYN Guymon is NOT protecting Philadelphia. It`s been like this for a long time, tho had not bothered to log (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 9625-9630-9635, Dec 30 at 0140 check, REE DRM noise via COSTA RICA is definitely on tonite unlike last nite.
17595, Sunday Dec 30 at 1446, REE is again on air with good signal in NAm, presumed USward, with own Spanish programming instead of mistakenly relaying China in French as 24 hours earlier, and still at 1518. This frequency is absent weekdays.
BTW, David Williams, California, reported to the dxldyg finding times for the co-official language broadcast, Saturday Dec 29 going from Galician to Basque at 1621 on 17595, 21610 and (Costa Rica) 15125. Lacking an updated program schedule we had no info on their new timings, and are there others? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1649 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Dec 30 at 0500 VG on WTWW-1, 5830. Again opening is interrupted for ID. Remaining chances on WRMI 9955: UT Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200, probably Thursday 0430 unless new 1650 is ready. On HLR 7265: Wednesday 0630 & 1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Dec 30 at 0140, WTWW-3 Saturday night show with Ted Randall is now in a ``QSO`` interview asserting that traffic axually flows faster in CW than in speech (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Dec 30 at 0630 UT, refers to ``New Country``, seemingly from WMT Cedar Rapids IA direxion, in null of currently dominant KTBB Tyler TX (see separate log). Has WMT a new format, ex-news/talk?? 0633 refers to wmtradio.com, then Fox ``News`` minute. Later trying the website, with rising-sun rays, first much choose whether I listen to 600 or 95.7. Very slow-loading 600 subsitehttp://600.wmtradio.com/main.html
appears to be the same-old news/talk. Maybe the ``New Country`` bit came from KSJB in ND, ``Classic Country`` per NRC AM Log? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Dec 30 at 0631 UT, ad for a Tyler TX law firm, 0632 back to `Texas Overnight` on the Texas State Network, so it`s KTBB, whose nite pattern has a lobe NW, close to us. Dominant over WMT. Show originates at KRLD 1080, which I eventually find is running 23 seconds behind its affiliate KTBB! So the big one has a better chance of hitting the censor button before a naughty word go out on 1080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 640, Dec 30 at 1351 UT, that deep-voiced weekend host of Coast to Coast, John B. Wells, surprised to hear him in broad daylight after sunrise here, but in null of KWPN Moore OK (né WNAD Norman, then WWLS), must be KFI Los Ángeles. C2C website claims KFI affiliate has it until 5 am PT 7 days, but link to KFI website shows Sundays only until 6 am, starting 10 pm Saturday. Would that be a second or third play of a previous hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 760, Dec 30 at 0640 UT I axually listen for a few minutes to a stupid ballgame, since it`s really late for one to be on live from WJR Detroit, coming up on 2 am ET! We are at fourth down, 28 sex to go from the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in Tempe AZ (ex-Sun Devils stadium? Not that I care). And the MSU Spartans beat the TCU Horned Frogs 17-16! Whoopee. And it`s almost midnite even in AZ; why so late? Is it still too hot to play earlier in the evening in The Valley? Then at 0651 I notice that 820 WBAP in Horned-Frogs-land had also been carrying the game from a different perspective, post-game show. How many brain injuries tonite? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 980, Dec 30 at 0603 UT, Spanish gospel music and phone 832-830-6563, looping N/S, which pins it on Houston TX, i.e. KRTZ, COL Rosenberg-Richmond, address in Pasadena. Do they pronounce that as in Spanish, or English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Dec 30 at 0617 UT, Shreveport ad with distorted modulation, not selective fade, so KWKH has problems. Then QRM with a website as news1130.com --- guess what, that leads to CKWX, so logged under CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Dec 30 at 0647 UT, extremely distorted modulation, which we usually hear only around sunrise. Got a good DF on it, about 195 degrees, separable from Bott gospel huxter OKC. Not much from XEROK which normally occupies the KQCV null; problems there? So the distortion again points to one of the northeast Mexicans, XEDD in Montemorelos NL, supposedly a daytimer, or more likely XEZR in Zaragoza, Coahuila, somewhat further west. I renew my call for DXers in the groundwave area of these to confirm which it is. It`s a recurrent if not constant problem. Where are you, Steve Wiseblood, when we need you? In the Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Dec 30 at 0600 UT, ``In the Middle of the Night`` is appropriately playing, and seems to DF ESE/WNW or so, which points to WABG in Greenwood, Mississippi and its blues format, but never definitely IDed. During Fox-hole of dead air from local KGWA, which just before 0600 played a local intro to the non-existent Fox `News` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2910, Dec 30 at 0141 UT, JBA carrier here from the presumed third harmonic of 970. Needed to oversleep past the 12 UT window today. Still waiting for anyone else to try IDing this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4417, Dec 30 at 0140, fair carrier, maybe just barely modulated? Another one which has needed identification for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 4900 --- Re my log Dec 29 at 1255 of Korean numbers, tnx to Ron Howard for this:
``Hi Glenn, Have heard this several times this year, but my last
reported log was: KOREA SOUTH. 4900, Spy? 1206, April 28, 2011. Woman
announcer reading assume numbers, in Korean; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In past years the same was also heard on 5715 or 6215. Ron, San Francisco``
And also to Alokesh Gupta who found numerous references including from shortwave-listener-qsl-reports googlegroup:
'Tanshim' Korean Numbers Station "V24" on 4900 kHz @ 1136 UTC 28 July 2011. S-Meter: Solid S9 with SIO 555 and Good Audio. Heard Female Voice in Korean giving Sets of Words {Numbers?} gone by 1339 UTC``
And: Korean Language Numbers Station "V24" --- search on 4900 athttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sunday Dec 30 at 1446, tail of `En Contacto` finishing enumerating the names of the ``129 most active E.C. listeners in 2012``. The only known SW program to do this! WTFK? Well, 17580 is off, 15340 is open carrier, so that leaves poor 17730 and 15230, VG 13780. 1518 recheck, 17580 is now on with open carrier, like 15340, and 13780 is off, but all four 25m channels are on: 11690, 11750, 11760, 11860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, Dec 30 at 0607, R. Philia phrequency of VOG is off the air; 9420 is on with usual Sunday Greek Orthodox chanting, which goes on and on and on, still past 0705, nice to doze off to. Next Sunday Jan 6 should be really special (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Dec 30 at 0704 UT, for the fourth time recently, immediately upon random tune-in, here comes an ID for ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Not so dominant at the moment, but still nothing recognizable from XEWA further east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1090, Dec 30 at 0610 UT, música romántica en inglés, loops N/S, full ID in Spanish I wasn`t expecting, including Milenio Radio, 103.7, CST TC and temp. Therefore it is XEAU in Monterrey NL, 5/0.25 kW per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. More winter sporadic E analog TV DX, UT Dec 30, all in UT:
0127, ch A2, weak in and out, net-7 with big 7 bug in UR
0147, ch A2 another fade-in with algo; 0148 Bengue and other ads; also ch A4 with algo
0151, ch A2 drama featuring an uppity Indian woman with braids as a servant who smax her mistress, à la India María; vivan racial stereotypes on Mexican TV. No 7 bug so another net
0159, ch A2 UR bug is not 7 but something else, mostly off the corner of my overscanned screen I cannot shrink
0200, ch A2, Nikzon ad, hemorrhoid remedy, and other medicals; very good peak video; algo on A5 too briefly
0202, ch A2, Canal de las Estrellas promo, so it`s net-2, possibly even XEW itself. Also algos on 4, 5, fitting the DF lineup in the waning months of analog
0218, ch A2, net-7 with animation; 0246 is dominating among the CCI; 0320 the anim features dinosaurs; 0340 just about gone
0343, ch A2, Chihuahua mentioned, in ad? skip may have moved west
0352, ch A2, different bug in UR, Azteca 13? 0400 still in, 0405 quiz show; has CCI of about 5 kHz, heavy wide bars; at fade-up the bug is net-13 with tiny words AZTECA TRECE below it; all gone around 0415. Per W9WI.com of the several A-13s on 2, the only one with full 100 kW power is XHFA in Nogales, Sonora, but unseemed that far west
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Dec 30 at 0625 UT, US Country has VG nite signal, i.e. KGYN Guymon is NOT protecting Philadelphia. It`s been like this for a long time, tho had not bothered to log (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 9625-9630-9635, Dec 30 at 0140 check, REE DRM noise via COSTA RICA is definitely on tonite unlike last nite.
17595, Sunday Dec 30 at 1446, REE is again on air with good signal in NAm, presumed USward, with own Spanish programming instead of mistakenly relaying China in French as 24 hours earlier, and still at 1518. This frequency is absent weekdays.
BTW, David Williams, California, reported to the dxldyg finding times for the co-official language broadcast, Saturday Dec 29 going from Galician to Basque at 1621 on 17595, 21610 and (Costa Rica) 15125. Lacking an updated program schedule we had no info on their new timings, and are there others? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1649 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Dec 30 at 0500 VG on WTWW-1, 5830. Again opening is interrupted for ID. Remaining chances on WRMI 9955: UT Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200, probably Thursday 0430 unless new 1650 is ready. On HLR 7265: Wednesday 0630 & 1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Dec 30 at 0140, WTWW-3 Saturday night show with Ted Randall is now in a ``QSO`` interview asserting that traffic axually flows faster in CW than in speech (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Dec 30 at 0630 UT, refers to ``New Country``, seemingly from WMT Cedar Rapids IA direxion, in null of currently dominant KTBB Tyler TX (see separate log). Has WMT a new format, ex-news/talk?? 0633 refers to wmtradio.com, then Fox ``News`` minute. Later trying the website, with rising-sun rays, first much choose whether I listen to 600 or 95.7. Very slow-loading 600 subsitehttp://600.wmtradio.com/main.html
appears to be the same-old news/talk. Maybe the ``New Country`` bit came from KSJB in ND, ``Classic Country`` per NRC AM Log? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Dec 30 at 0631 UT, ad for a Tyler TX law firm, 0632 back to `Texas Overnight` on the Texas State Network, so it`s KTBB, whose nite pattern has a lobe NW, close to us. Dominant over WMT. Show originates at KRLD 1080, which I eventually find is running 23 seconds behind its affiliate KTBB! So the big one has a better chance of hitting the censor button before a naughty word go out on 1080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 640, Dec 30 at 1351 UT, that deep-voiced weekend host of Coast to Coast, John B. Wells, surprised to hear him in broad daylight after sunrise here, but in null of KWPN Moore OK (né WNAD Norman, then WWLS), must be KFI Los Ángeles. C2C website claims KFI affiliate has it until 5 am PT 7 days, but link to KFI website shows Sundays only until 6 am, starting 10 pm Saturday. Would that be a second or third play of a previous hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 760, Dec 30 at 0640 UT I axually listen for a few minutes to a stupid ballgame, since it`s really late for one to be on live from WJR Detroit, coming up on 2 am ET! We are at fourth down, 28 sex to go from the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in Tempe AZ (ex-Sun Devils stadium? Not that I care). And the MSU Spartans beat the TCU Horned Frogs 17-16! Whoopee. And it`s almost midnite even in AZ; why so late? Is it still too hot to play earlier in the evening in The Valley? Then at 0651 I notice that 820 WBAP in Horned-Frogs-land had also been carrying the game from a different perspective, post-game show. How many brain injuries tonite? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 980, Dec 30 at 0603 UT, Spanish gospel music and phone 832-830-6563, looping N/S, which pins it on Houston TX, i.e. KRTZ, COL Rosenberg-Richmond, address in Pasadena. Do they pronounce that as in Spanish, or English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Dec 30 at 0617 UT, Shreveport ad with distorted modulation, not selective fade, so KWKH has problems. Then QRM with a website as news1130.com --- guess what, that leads to CKWX, so logged under CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Dec 30 at 0647 UT, extremely distorted modulation, which we usually hear only around sunrise. Got a good DF on it, about 195 degrees, separable from Bott gospel huxter OKC. Not much from XEROK which normally occupies the KQCV null; problems there? So the distortion again points to one of the northeast Mexicans, XEDD in Montemorelos NL, supposedly a daytimer, or more likely XEZR in Zaragoza, Coahuila, somewhat further west. I renew my call for DXers in the groundwave area of these to confirm which it is. It`s a recurrent if not constant problem. Where are you, Steve Wiseblood, when we need you? In the Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Dec 30 at 0600 UT, ``In the Middle of the Night`` is appropriately playing, and seems to DF ESE/WNW or so, which points to WABG in Greenwood, Mississippi and its blues format, but never definitely IDed. During Fox-hole of dead air from local KGWA, which just before 0600 played a local intro to the non-existent Fox `News` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2910, Dec 30 at 0141 UT, JBA carrier here from the presumed third harmonic of 970. Needed to oversleep past the 12 UT window today. Still waiting for anyone else to try IDing this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4417, Dec 30 at 0140, fair carrier, maybe just barely modulated? Another one which has needed identification for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 4900 --- Re my log Dec 29 at 1255 of Korean numbers, tnx to Ron Howard for this:
``Hi Glenn, Have heard this several times this year, but my last
reported log was: KOREA SOUTH. 4900, Spy? 1206, April 28, 2011. Woman
announcer reading assume numbers, in Korean; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In past years the same was also heard on 5715 or 6215. Ron, San Francisco``
And also to Alokesh Gupta who found numerous references including from shortwave-listener-qsl-reports googlegroup:
'Tanshim' Korean Numbers Station "V24" on 4900 kHz @ 1136 UTC 28 July 2011. S-Meter: Solid S9 with SIO 555 and Good Audio. Heard Female Voice in Korean giving Sets of Words {Numbers?} gone by 1339 UTC``
And: Korean Language Numbers Station "V24" --- search on 4900 athttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
