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WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST by Alan Roe, Updated:
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Feb 7 at 1858, CB/TUN/DGS/PMS is off again, having
been on at previous check 1455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6060, Feb 8 at 0658* RHC English cuts off air just as I tune
in; 6100, 6165 and 5040 are already off. But outlier 6000 is still on,
starting to re-open English hour at 0659. By 0701 its air is dead.
Presumably it too will be offcut when the sloppyrators at the other
site get around to it. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12300, Feb 8 at 1352, RHC is S8-S3 but surging up a bit, 2 x
6150 which is S9 to S9+10, both slightly distorted. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9965, Feb 8 at 1357 pulse jamming against nothing but a JBA
carrier probably FE, rather than Radio RepÃblica which left this
frequency many years ago. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban
Jamming Command. At least the J is here rather than upon 9955 WRMI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15140, Feb 8 at 1412, RHC is S9 of dead air with SAH of about
2 Hz, no doubt OMAN. With no modulation, no spurs audible, while 15230
is nominal at S9-S7. At 1457 still S9+10 of dead air on 15140.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Feb 8 8at 0653, VON is still gone, no bigsig but a
JBA carrier maybe local device about 7255.75 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5130.461, UT Fri Feb 8 at 0240, this WBCQ is obviously on,
signature off-frequency, weak and just barely modulated, with what?
Never-up-to-date websked shows it totally off the air between 0330 UT
Wed and 0100 UT Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475- & 5830, Feb 7 at 1855, both WTWW-1 frequencies are off
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Feb 8 at 0657, WEWN is S9+10 of dead air; Spanish
night frequency has been re-active last night or two, even with
modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825 & 13845, Feb 8 at 1458 & 1535, WWCRs are S9+20, way
more than usual JBA signals, so rare February sporadic E opening in
play, as confirmed on 6m map with MUF up to 93 MHz over eastern USA.
I`ve had so little luck hearing any FM DX under such circumstances
that I don`t even try. By 1714 still Es, estimated MUF 81 MHz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, Feb 7 at 2259 UT, I`m seeking KGNO Dodge City KS,
which at 5 kW ND ought to be audible on daytime groundwave here, but
never is; surely with skywave starting up? It`s 243 km = 151 miles
away. No sign of it; instead: 1370, Feb 7 at 2259 UT, ``Talk 13-70, one minute from CBS News``, But
Austin ID, 2300 CBS News and signal drops, i.e. KJCE Rollingwood TX.
But LSS there is not until 0015. I have been unable to hear any trace of KGNO for more than a
sesquiyear, but can find NO information at FCC AM Query about it being
anything other than active: nothing in correspondence file about STA
for silence or reduced power, etc. Continues to be listed in NRC AM
Log with no notation about it being silent. Likewise at radio-
locator.com with link to website:
http://www.swksradio.com/kgno-am-1370/
and Listen Live link, so I do so at 1659 UT Feb 8: Yes, IDs as KGNO
1370, DC`s first radio station, just like on website: ``1370 KGNO is
Dodge Cityâs FIRST radio station! It was signed on in June of 1930``.
And into Fox ``news``. What is going on here? See my previous report: ``1370, Sept 28 [2017] at 1859 UT, still no signal audible from KGNO
Dodge City KS. Can`t believe it`s funxioning at 5 kW ND which should
be making it on daytime groundwave across the Ogallala Aquifer, only
205 km = 127 miles. Is it gone, QRP, or really out of whack direxional
away? (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` This was a few days after Wayne Heinen, Denver, did report hearing it:
``1370, KGNO, KS, Dodge City â 9/24 2300 [EDT = 0300 UT 9/25] â Faded
up, âAM 1370 KGNO Dodge City,â to Fox News. Havenât heard this in
quite a while (Wayne Heinen, CO, NRC DX News Nov 13 [2017], published
Nov 5, via DXLD) Nor here yet; must be out of spex or out of air (gh,
OK)`` Is anyone currently hearing KGNO by DX or close to DC? (Glenn Hauser,
Enid OK, Feb 8, 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1430, Feb 7 at 1923, rock music is fading in and out,
overcoming KTBZ Tulsa; suspect 50 kW KZQZ St Louis MO/IL, already
skywaving. Day pattern is ENE/WSW, our way, while 5 kW night pattern
is NNW/SSE with a null toward us. We are in the null of our nearest,
KALV Alva, hard to hear here protecting KTBZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Feb 7 at 2230, KBXD Dallas is still in Vietnamese like
in the morning, apparent infomercial for ``Forever Beaumore
Cosmetix``. At least two other Metroplex Vietnamese are on 1460 and
1600; also Houston 1560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Feb 8 at 1328-1333:
774-NW, 828-NW, 837-WSW, 882-?, 1098-W, 1188-?, 1422-NW, 1566-NW. Just
after LSR at 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9835.006, Feb 8 at 1401, S3-S6 JBA talk and music, first
suspected Malaysia which has been reported active on reduced schedule,
but more likely IRAN in Russian as also scheduled this hour only,
1320-1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1805 UT February 8
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