** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 5 at 2158, S9+50 into UTwente and OK
modulation, VOT not off the air today in IS; 2200 timesignal 10-15
seconds fast, so what`s the point? Something`s always erroneous at
Emirler, awry at Ankara. Usual sign-on with incomplete English sked
never mentioning this very broadcast. 2201 news giving date today
fifth or was it sixth of September. Caster gives his name but I can
never understand/copy it. Niger coup, sanxions. Azerbaijan vs Armenia.
NK leader expected to meet Putin, in Vladivostok, how convenient.
Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh. Macron to visit Bang. Etc. 2210
`Review of Turkish Press` about maintaining grain corridor, TRNC about
attax in Greek portion, Car exports. 2211 multi-lingual ID filler
reel. 2213 SFX of noise, footsteps? leading in to song. 2217 `Weekly
Commentary` penned by someone in Washington DC, about making computers
safe, quantum computing; read by the badax. 2232 ``Always by your
side`` promo. 2235 recipe for some chicken dish from central Anatolia
: `Turkey`s Geomarked [sic] Products`. 2238 ``with you every hour of
the day`` promo; song. 2252 s/off as if this were some other
broadcast. 2253.7 IS. 2254.5* cut off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2206 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday September 5 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+26/38 direct.
Still not confirmed Tue Sept 5 at 1315 the 1300 on WRMI 9955,
allegedly planned for later in Sept. Next:
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2205]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
Thanks this week for financial support from Donald Pearce, N0WMD,
Potomac MD, for a contribution via PayPal in US funds but not
necessarily, to woradio at yahoo.com and says, ``Hi Glenn, After a
long hiatus, I’m back to SWLing; Thanks for all you do for the SWL
hobby!``
One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1290 kHz, Sept 5 at 0020 UT, I`m trying to monitor KMMM
Pratt KS, my closest on frequency, to determine its current slogan and
format which allegedly have changed. But dominant signal is pukeworthy
Mark Levin far-right talkshow, must be KWFS Wichita Falls TX, roughly
colinear from south, not north.
Looking at direxional patterns via radio-locator, KMMM favors west,
not south with some nulls/notches more or less in our direxion. By
0037, KWFS gets a medium SAH from something else. KWFS vanishes at
0045 which is its official sunset, cutting from 5000 to 73 watts
night. 0045 is also SS for KMMM, cutting from 5000 to 500 watts and
even more notched toward me.
However, in first few minutes of monitoring before 0030 I heard
slogans both ``Mighty 12-90`` and ``News-Talk 1290`` which I thought
were both KWFS. But NRC AM Log of last year shows KWFS is the
`News-Talk` and KMMM `The Mighty 1290` with country format. But no
such music being heard.
Now at 0048 I am hearing a music station, KMMM? No, it`s KIVY
``Austin`` TX really Crockett. Can`t get FCC AMQuery to reach it, but
Sept SS for another Austinite, KLBJ 590, was 0030 UT. KIVY IDs heard a
few times plugging its two puny translator frequencies, 102.9 and
105.5, not 1290. Format is supposed to be NOStalgic music per
radio-locator, yet its slogan ``Your News Talk Central`` -- slightly
self-contradictory! Per NRC AM Log of last year, KIVY goes from 2500
watts day to 175 night, and NOS slogan is ``America`s Best Music`` --
indeed that`s what I hear at a much later 0648 UT check when it`s
still dominant on 1290 into DX-398 oriented N/S. On my E/W longwire
there is some talk station at 0650, // 1110 KFAB so that would be
C2CAM. Anyhow we still don`t know about KMMM for sure. Official Sept
sunrise for all three 1290s is 1215 UT, if someone can check around
then.
At 1832 UT, precisely local mean noon at this longitude I check 1290
again when the only possible signals would be groundwave, not KIVY.
Two weak signals, the stronger talk, the weaker music, presumably KWFS
and KMMM.
Difficultized by huge line noise level, but at least with DX-398 it`s
somewhat nullable E/W vs the stations N/S. Later I have to spend an
hour on the phone until OG&E agent pixup, and I can file a complaint
about the line noise, which is not only around my place, but all the
way many blox to downtown Enid as I just drove my caradio (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Listening to KUNM Albuquerque webcast, UT Tue Sept 5 from
0400 in `Global Music` show, most of hour has very strange sounds from
Zimbabwe --- vocals are half-speed amd half-pitch, but instrumental
accompaniment sounds normal. How can this happen on a live stream
unless it`s been processed that way at the source? Finally DJ
announcement block before 0500 is *also* half-speed/pitch! But music
after 0500 is back to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Listening to KSFR Santa Fé webcast, UT Tue Sept 5 at 0602
UT, expecting to hear `Oil of Dog` with its quirky themesong about
love and hate, and quirky DJ who seems to speak from a script but with
aplomb -- I wish I knew where that guirky title come from, but altho
still on the websked, it`s some other rock music show, with frequent
refs to marijuana, `The Flower Power Hower` -- er, `Hour`. Searching
on that, it`s podcast via iHeart but sounds non-commercial:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-flower-power-hour-with-92782494/
Probably a holiday substitute for `Oil of Dog`. KSFR has also been
disrupted by water issues on SFCC campus, and the webcast was down
last Thursday for `Beyond Borders` at 15-18 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2304 UT September 5
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20230905231502299