** CANADA. 7555-7585 approx., wideband DRM-like noise field, July 7 at 0622, presumed CGA984, HF trading station licenced to 7570 from Essex County, Ontario. Lucky for them, WRMI is no longer on 7570 overnight. See my previous reports of April 19 & 29 for much more about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.9 AM, S9/+10, July 7 at 0624, pirate from last night is on again late, bells and chirps right now, quite diverse music/SFX noises. Never heard any announcements past 0701 but I may have dozed. A few more reports as unID on July 6; and 7 when it was on 6869.93 until 0726*: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115692.0.html https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115709.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Noticed this mixup in the WTFDA FM DB. The listing for 90.1 KUCO says it is a relay OF: KCSC-FM 95.9! KUCO relay of:KCSC-FM 95.9 90.1 EDMOND OK USA HD CLASSICAL CLASSICAL RADIO 90.1/91.9 100.0 100.0 256.0 256.0 35-34-24 97-29-08 4512 LISTENER SUPPORTED CLASSICAL MUSIC FROM UNIV OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA // KBCW-FM 91.9 & KCSC 95.9 On the contrary, all programming originates at KUCO, fed to its two satellites KCSC 95.9 in Woodward and KBCW 91.9 in McAlester. Perhaps confused because the original call of 90.1 was KCSC - for Central State College, not to be confused with something in Chico, California. Some years after the school was renamed University of Central Oklahoma, the 90.1 calls were changed in accordance. By then had also acquired the relay facility on 95.9 in Woodward from KCCU Lawton, so as a legacy, KUCO applied the KCSC calls to that. Standard legal IDs used to add HD1 to 90.1 and 91.9 but not to 95.9; now dispensed with that. IIRC, HDs of 90.1 include some totally unrelated gospel huxter renter and/or a student station? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. July 7 at 1733 UT, tropo up away from Enid toward Tulsa, OKC, providing BAD RF DTV signals on: 11, 14, 17, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36. 17 is notable since a DX signal must be baddenizing Enid`s only local TV signal, K17JN-D, no loss since it spews 7 subchannels of gospelhuxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Friday July 7 at 2200, token English from SNR: news about the bull-run at Pamplona festival until July 15: so far only three Americans have been trampled, not by bulls but humans. 2207 feature which is a repeat about exhibition of art by Lucian Freud; so, never mind. VG direct and the other three frequencies audible to detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.008 into Maryland SDR S9+5/20, July 7 at 2157, VOT already on with IS: seemed some QRM but nothing else scheduled just before 2200 here unlike on ex-5960 in B22 an hour later. Recheck at 2251, multi-lingual ID filler reel, 2252 canned jumbled s/off and briefly IS to 2255.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2198 monitoring: confirmed Friday July 7 at 1430 the first SWBC on WRMI 9955 --- but it`s just barely modulated! both direct and via Maryland remote. This transmitter has had reduced modulation before but now it`s almost gone. Webcast level seems OK. Emailed WRMI ASAP at 1445 but nothing was or could be done about this before 1459. Following music fill also JBM. Webcast continued with DW via WRN. Something`s odd at Okeechobee. See if it be fixed when System B WRMI-3, 9955 resume at 2100? Not checked until 2330 when it also seems u/mod but also facing jamming and some other noise, local? into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed Friday July 7 at 2053 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, no 918 or 207 into nearby Noale SDR, S9+10/15 above the understation presumably Smooth Radio, Brighton. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [& 7730? Has been off air again] 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457] 1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 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 to John, N9JL: ``Hello Glenn, I routinely listen to your weekly podcasts, and really enjoy them. You consistently provide your listeners with a broad cross-section of SW and BC band related information. In only 30 minutes I know the stations I should be tuning for over the following several days. Please accept this small contribution in support of your on-going efforts. 73, John, N9JL, Lutz, EN51vm, Shorewood IL`` -- with a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490-), UT Sat July 8 at 0000, WBCQ stream of `AAAWWW`: first half hour musing about cosmology; finally 0028 datestamp at 7 July YOOLF 2023, so it is live. Angela on remote phoneline so lofi it`s hard to understand her. 0035 he starts referring to some stuff in trade press, like ranking of markets with greatest proportion of listeners to AM radio. #1 is Buffalo NY; but Florida nowhere on the list. About 0030 I check the quadricast frequencies into Maryland SDR: 7490 - 70 Hz = 7489.930; 6160 -67 = 6159.933; 5130 -25 = 5129.975; 3265 + 106 = 3265.106. 0057 reading email. Wraps up about a minute over, why always? So JIP Hal Turner late, not that I care. Starts by siding with Russia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Possibility of Es so caradio bandscan July 7 at 2024 UT: finds none, but notice that semi-local 91.5 is in deadair, still so past 2044. Standard remark: if a station be so out of it that it does not even have one staff member or another constantly monitoring for dead air or any other problem, even if automated, and/or a silence-sensor alarm, how can they expect any listeners to stick with them, and more importantly, why should they deserve continued licensing, especially if there be any other/better demand for the frequency? WTFDA FMDB shows: KSNS 91.5 MEDICINE LODGE KS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN KEEP SINGING NEW SONGS" 0.0 96.0 0.0 141.0 37-14-02 98-39-55 A4EC KSNS --- or ``Keep Sending No Sound``! Anyhow there is a lot of spoken gospel-huxtering, not just music when they manage to modulate. It`s just over the OK/KS frontier. This one is also unusual in that it`s full power and vertically polarized only, as the 0.0 means kW ERP-H and the 96.0 means kW ERP-V. Maybe that`s why I hear it better on the caradio. However there is another 91.5 in KS likewise, KARF Independence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0111 UT July 8
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