** AUSTRALIA. 9580, June 23 at 1245, RA relaying `The World` ABC TV newshour, as
anchorette refers to same-sex marriage being legal in 30 of the 51 states! ---
did I miss something??? But how many Americans know offhand how many states
Australia has? Let`s see, discount ACT and VL8-land; when are they going to
statify that territory? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BRAZIL. 4925.2, June 23 at 0129, poor signal with music, which has to be the
characteristic off-frequency of ZYF282, R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Amazonas. Also
some signal on 4885 presumably Pará (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, June 23 around 0615, RNA/RNB is remarkably weak,
instead of the SSOB, due to major geomagnetic storm, yet another southern signal
from another angle, 11725 RNZI is quite stronger.
11780, June 23 at 1234,
surprised to find RNA audible here with fair signal; usually unmaking it over
full daytime path, but propagation is still quite disturbed. At neither time is
the fundamental strong enough to audiblize the spurs, a blessing! (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9964.58 approx., June 23 at 0124, R.
Cairo, Arabic, first heard at 0106 with good signal but just barely
modulated
9315.2 approx., June 23 at 0124, R. Cairo, Spanish, first heard
at 0106, fair signal, no modulation except for whine, which is what we used to
hear on 9965v, and 9315.0 used to be the one on-frequency, so transmitter
switcheroo?
11935.04 approx., June 23 at 0125, R. Cairo, Spanish, first
noted at 0106 with fair signal, modulation spikes only, much like 12070. This
one slightly on the hi side
12070.04 approx., June 23 at 0125, R. Cairo,
Spanish, first noted at 0106 with good signal, modulation spikes only much like
11935, only slightly on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIN
DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, June 23 at 0612, R. Verdad has just reached
quick sign-off announcements in Spanish and English, starting multi-verse
national anthem; fair signal. Around 0545 I had noticed the preaching was in
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUYANA. 3290-, June 23
at 0611, very poor signal with some modulation, from VOG; noise level low enough
to audiblize it this much even in summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9845, June 23 at 0109, Qur`an, poor with flutter, new
signal tnx to VIRI which has added Turkish service at 0020-0120 for Ramadaners.
Per Aoki, 9845 is 500 kW, 310 degrees from Sirjan until July 16. Fortunately,
it`s over before time for Tirana at +0130 on 9850.
This is to listen to
while gorging before dawn = *0148 UT today in Ankara, e.g. One could hardly call
it breakfast, but pre-fast, while our ordinary morning meal is breaking a fast
only in the sense we weren`t eating while sleeping. The Ramadan break-fast,
literally is after dusk, 1754 UT in Ankara. Allowing Ramadan to occur at
midsummer makes for a very long fast of 16+ hours. Moslems in Australia have it
easy!
This website
had
a pop up ad (courtesy Googleads), ``How to: lift saggy skin`` with a very
revealing image of a scantliy-clad woman`s abdomen; shame! I went there to find
when Ramadan would precess to northern winter, but this goes only until 2020y
when it will be mostly in May. Wiki says it takes 33+ years to traverse the full
12 months, so let`s guess January by circa 2030y Christian.
Speaking of
abdomen, the Enid Eagle recently published a story referring to an ``abdominal
crime``! Ha ha. How we miss Jay Leno (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710.0, June 23 at 0607, ``Soy Soldado``,
super-patriotic, militaristic recitation in progress and clearly audible, to
fortify the equally s-p-m national anthem. From XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc,
Chihuahua; not off-frequency tonight, and dominating channel with its alleged
100-watt night power (7 kW day). A few nights ago this was running before 0600
UT, so sign-off time must vary widely (or is it just amid a 24-hour run?) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, June 23 at 0604 UT, open
FM STL noise dominates channel, loops NE/SW, no doubt the usual XEDT, Ciudad
Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, 5/1.5 kW per Cantú. Are they paying anyone to engineer
this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Don`t you
believe 6m Es maps which show hardly any activity, only in NW and NE USA! Analog
TV DX on NTSC A-system channels, all times UT, June 23:
1439 on 2,
fade-in Foro, Televisa net 4 as evidenced by f bug in LR
1620 on 2,
fade-in Televisa-5 net bug in LR, with animation
1622 on 2, fade-in snow
free sports news show, no bugs visible, but running tweets at bottom; then plug
for Fundación Televisa by YL on screen, with large www.becalos.mx across bottom
1627 on 2,
exercise segment with Televisa-2 star bug LR
1630 on 2, back to net-5 LR
bug with animation.
1638 on 2, comedy with guy in funny cap
1659
on 3, animation, Televisa-5 bug LR, wacky voices
1659 on 5, MUF growing,
CCI here including tentative net-5 as well.
1721 on 5, yes, it`s
Televisa-5 bug LR, animation. At the moment, not much else on the other
channels
To be continued. Hope for another FM opening, but competing with
lunch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, June 23 at
0110, WRMI with African drumming fill music instead of RFI English hour; 0112
another tune sounding American-Indian; 0116 mbira; 0122 the Council of Europe
filler with speech in English and French. Love how eclectic WRMI`s fill music
is.
11920, June 23 at 0110, open carrier, dear air, as something`s wrong
with this WRMI frequency too; by 0125 it`s resumed Fámily Radio in Spanish. I
continue to be amazed at how some other loggers refer to this as ``WYFR`` which
no longer exists! Haven`t they heard?
9955, June 23 at 0615, dead air
from WRMI tho I had heard Overcomer theme a few minutes earlier; 0616 Brazilian
fill music fires; while TOM continues on 7570. Usual lite pulse jamming at this
hour on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA.
7285, June 23 at 0546, Radio Sonder Grense with report about parliament,
including full clips of someone speaking English interspersed with YL anchor in
Afrikaans; fair signal. This will have to suffice as SABC English domestic
service is long gone from SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 1270, June 23 at 0137 UT, talk show in English, what`s this? Phone
800-522-1235, immediately cut to Univisión América ID in Spanish and PSAs in
Spanish for US Army from Ad Council, et al. Good steady signal, loops SSE/NNW,
so obviously 50/5 kW U4 KFLC Fort Worth TX. I didn`t realize UA axually had
shows in English, which resumes at 0141 UT; callers from various states refer to
host as Fernando but he has no accent and opines that racists naturally favor
Republican candidates; calls out Ted Cruz.
At 0144 UT signal suddenly
drops, but still audible sufficiently; 0145 UT drops off completely, ceding 1270
to Spanish music no doubt from KTUZ Tulsa/Claremore OK. Not so much as an adiós.
But I can still hear KFLC at peaks by nulling KTUZ at quite a different angle.
0145 UT is indeed the official sunset for June and July, when KFLC
decimates its power and adds two towers for a total of six to make the rather
tight night pattern, east-west; while day pattern is broader with major lobe
east, minor west (but plenty to the NNW, evidently). Community of license is
Benbrook, which is on the southwest edge of Fort Worth at the junxion of I-20
and Loop 820; why?
Facility 34298 I distinctly remember as originally
KFJZ, but since at least 1986 it`s been other-called, starting with KESS, and
since 2004y it`s been KFLC (but owned by Kess-AM License Corp.). KFJZ calls now
apply to the Vietnamese [Radio-locator thinx it`s S Asian] on 870, different
licensee. KFJZ was also an early independent TV station, channel 11. I used to
see Dr Gene Scott on it after midnite. Radio-locator shows the 1270 transmitter
site is really east of downtown FW, and the address is in Dallas. Truly a
Metroplex station!
As for this show in English, the UAR website
shows
at 18-22 UT weekdays: FERNANDO ESPUELAS SHOW: ``El presentador Fernando
Espuelas, exitosa celebridad de vanguardia en medios de difusión, hace que los
radioescuchas participen en este programa de dos horas con debates que hacen
reflexionar y perspectivas culturales sobre asuntos pertinentes y sucesos de la
actualidad, inspirando a sus oyentes a mejorar activamente su aporte a la
sociedad``
So is this a playback, or does he have a separate show really
in Spanish? Blurb says it`s two hours, but no next show listed until 4 hours
later, `Locura Deportiva` starting at 22 UT! And nothing after that. Quite
incomplete (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, June
23 at 0555 UT, plugging a church event in Pine Bluff, i.e. perpetually cheating
2.5 kW daytimer KVDW, England AR, and dominating rather than BS from WCKY. No
doubt God Told Them To Do It, for His Greater Glory; screw FCC regs (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1723 UT June
23
