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** CUBA. 9700, July 9 at 0651, S8/9+10 of dead air no doubt RHC; at
least it`s a clean signal this time rather than garbage or basura.
Something`s always wrong at RHC.
11670, July 9 at 0654, unusually there is a second overrun, Spanish
talk and Cuban music, S7/S9 still going past 0700. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, July 9 at 0649, VON is on for a change, some
undermodulation next to 7260 Vanuatu (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.1 AM, July 9 at 0648, pirate here amid HSNL for
fourth late-night in a row. More unID reports on HFU:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115785.0.html
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115729.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 104.9, July 8 at 0126 UT as I tune across here on
caradio, fruitless search for Es FM DX, DJ exclaims ``104-9, Yikes``.
Aha, an unusual branding? Very, unfound in search of WTFDA DB, on this
or any frequency, anywhere. Yet a broad search on 104.9 yikes leads to
too many stations, none? nearby. #1 station usually heard here is:
KKWD 104.9 BETHANY OK VARIETY HITS ALICE 104.9 6.0 6.0 100.0 100.0
35-29-53 97-37-10 2CA7 Artist/Title HD is Off But hardly a solid signal at that power and distance. Altho only 100
watts, this one is only about 20 miles west of us in Enid, but I have
*never* heard it, even from west side of Enid, and suspect it be
non-existent:
KEUC 104.9 RINGWOOD OK RELIGIOUS TEACHING EWTN 0.1 0.1 21.0 21.0
36-23-12 98-14-47
Such an outlet is on the Oklahoma Catholic Radio list, minus call
letters. What does FCC say? Correspondence file includes: ``Consummation Notice
Section I - General Information
1. Legal Name of the Applicant
SCREEN DOOR BROADCASTING, LLC
Mailing Address
7107 SOUTH YALE #444
TULSA OK 74136 - Telephone Number (include area code) 9187493639
E-Mail Address (if available) JASON@FMEXPANSION.COM
FCC Registration Number: 0022053334
Call Sign KEUC
Facility ID Number 191538 2. Contact Representative (if other than licensee/permittee)
JASON BENNETT
Firm or Company Name
FM EXPANSION GROUP, LLC
Mailing Address
7107 SOUTH YALE #444
TULSA OK 74136 -
Telephone Number (include area code) 9187493639
Date 10/15/2015`` Note that this goes back almost 8 years! Blowing up a coverage map,
site is just north of deadend intersexion of 6th Street and Short
Street inside Ringwood. 0134 UT recheck, Yikes has faded and now there is a mix of music and
gospel huxter? With Tulsa area signals enhanced, could be one of
these, the only other Okies with more than peanut-power: KREK 104.9 BRISTOW OK RELIGIOUS TEACHING THE SONLIFE RADIO NETWORK 5.0
5.0 107.0 107.0 35-47-11 96-27-35
KRIG-FM 104.9 NOWATA OK HD COUNTRY K-RIG 104.9 8.3 8.3 172.0 172.0
36-43-37 95-46-18 About time for a jaunt into the country anyway, we decide to visit the
KEUC site and see/hear what may be there, on Saturday afternoon, July
8. Ringwood is quite a small town, but with a neat very well-stocked
grocery store, Richard`s, carrying items unfound in big Enid, another
reason for an excuse to visit. From 1850 UT, driving west on US 412/60 tuned to 104.9 starting with
KKWD fringe if anything. By the time we get to Meno at 1911, an open
carrier in mono is starting to capture 104.9, and sure enough it`s
`local` in Ringwood. We easily find the site where Short Street [N/S]
deadends at 6th Street [E/W]: it`s the Ringwood municipal water tower,
one of those slim cylinders -- and it has antennas on it, violating
Separation Of Church And State. Still nothing but dead air, but I
never detected even that from Enid. Of course the coverage area with
100 watts is rather limited, and maybe if there be tropo, bigger
stations are still going to block it. Bewaring a big white poodle which takes it upon itself to protect KEUC
with menacing charges and barx, but apparently blongs to an adjacent
trailer-house, we inspect the facility. There is a vertically
polarized 4- or 5-element yagi about halfway up the tower on the
`wrong` side of it, southwest, and pointed away from Enid. Two cables
run up the tower, past this antenna to the very top where there may be
some other very small antenna.
https://www.w4uvh.net/KEUC_104.9_Ringwood2.jpg Maybe that`s for STL reception from somewhere. None of the other OCR
stations are close or powerful enough to provide a direct off-air
pickup for relay and there is no satellite dish. Or they could be
depending on internet feed with no way or desire to reboot it
remotely. Adjacent is the transmitter shack, with a faded almost illegible
warning on the door that it`s a FEDERAL OFFENSE to disturb it, but no
identity as KEUC, OCR or anything. An OG&E electric meter on the side
is running. There is also a propane tank right next to it - would that
convert to emergency electric power, or just keep the transmitter from
freezing?
https://www.w4uvh.net/KEUC_104.9_Ringwood1.jpg
In any event, it`s all for naught as long as the air be dead. And back
in Enid I won`t be able to tell if and when it come to life. I can`t
help but wonder if the neighbor or any other Ringwoodians be aware
what this thing is for. Altho the WTFDA FM DB as above has correct info for KEUC, as far as it
goes, you would never know it`s part of the Oklahoma Catholic Radio
network, nor some of the others on their station list, just
``religious teaching`` - not always with real city of license.
https://www.okcr.org/stations
One can go thru it and figure out which stations serve which city,
e.g. Walters south of ``Lawton``. We also see that there are *three*
LP stations on 99.3 in the OKC area, one of which must be one of OCR`s
two Spanish outlets. And there are *five* around OKC on 97.7. It`s
really getting crowded (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 11620 // 9550, UT Sun July 9 at 0042, VG direct, after
some music RRI starts `DX Mailbag` - acknowledging reception reports,
not of much use or interest, but no doubt fulfilling for the listeners
cited, such as from India. Exactly as shown for 10 minutes on
DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS, alternating with Listeners Letterbox (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 28234 CW, July 9 at 0007, among a few JBA beacons making it
for very difficult copy, two letters in the call I perceive are #4D#.
Fortunately there is one VG match on the WI5V roster:
28.234 K4DP C COVINGTON, VIRGINIA # 2W, GP VERTICAL. 28279 CW, July 9 at 0018, almost complete JBA beacon call of WA4OT#,
ergo:
28.2788 WA4OTD C CARMEL, INDIANA # 5W, attic dipole New 19 Oct 2010. I had a few other unIDs circa 28209, 28261.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2198 monitoring: NOT confirmed
Saturday July 8 at 2230:30 on WRMI 5850 OR 15770. Instead talk in a
very heavy African? accent, mostly a monolog by one guy, maybe
religious? That leaves us without any airing on the only WRMI
frequency toward Europe, and was also good for much of N America. WOR
still shown on the skedgrid. What in the world is this? See separate
log. Confirmed UT Sunday July 9 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, JBA direct vs HSNL,
and noise QRM blast for first 14 seconds, but then can make out the
WOR theme. NOT confirmed UT Sunday July 9 at 0130 on WRMI 9395. This `new` airing
has already been replaced by something else as on the sked. Confirmed UT Sunday July 9 at 0326 about 9 minutes into so started
circa 0317 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+10/20 including HSNL into nearby
SDR. Also confirmed Sunday July 9 at 1353 the 1330 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10
direct and somewhat undermodulated but sufficient unlike 48 hours ago.
Next: 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. Re: WOR 2198 NOT confirmed Saturday July 8 at 2230:30 on
WRMI 5850 OR 15770. Instead talk in a VERY heavy African? accent,
mostly a monolog by one guy, maybe religious? I do hear some English
words, also French; maybe Kriyol, or pidgin Nigerian??? This was
already running before 2230 with no break so started probably at 2200.
That leaves us without any airing on the only WRMI frequency toward
Europe, and was also good for much of N America. WOR still shown on
the skedgrid. What in the world is this? I struggle to understand anything as must all other possible
listeners. At 2258 just before closing gives contact info including
phone 226-219-6891. 226 is country code for Burkina Faso! But preceded
with a mere 1- so must be North American, i.e. Ontario. And that full
phone number leads directly to::: Soteriah International, Brampton, ON
CYLEX Canada
https://www.cylex-canada.ca › company › soteriah-int...
Apr 29, 2023 — Address: 9 River Heights Drive, Brampton, ON L6P 2M9..
Phone: (226) 219-6901 https://soteriah.org/about-us/ ``What we do --- We provide free Food, Groceries, Toiletries and
Sleeping gears to homeless and vulnerable people in Greater Toronto
Area. Our vision is to reduce vulnerability and hardship faced by the
homeless and poor.`` It does not appear to be overtly religious, rather a local charity, so
why would they be on WRMI SW to Europe? There is no mention of it on
this extensive page:
http://wrmi.net/index.php/programming/ Searching on that name is rather fruitless, but not for Soteria
without the -h: ``SOTERIA - Greek Goddess of Safety & Deliverance ...
Theoi Greek Mythology
https://www.theoi.com › Daimon › Soteria
Soteria was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of safety, and
deliverance and preservation from harm.`` Therefore any religious aspect of this program must be
Greek-Mythological! This has been elsewhen on WRMI sked for quite some
time. The skedgrid still shows only three other times for Soteriah:
0000-0030 Tue-Sat on 5950; 12-13 Mon-Sat on 5850; and 0330-0400
Mon-Sat on 7730, i.e. frequency currently imaginary, so 22-23 on 15770
may compensate for that and likely to be multi-days rather than Sat
only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15770, Sunday July 9 at 1423, WRMI in unrecognizable
language. This hour only is Supreme Master TV. Maybe with video there
are translation captions? A sure way to drive away listeners if not
viewers, multi-lingual mixtures, without discrete portions in reliable
languages (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. Big sporadic E FM DX opening July 9 at 1742-1839
UT; full report next time, but quick summary:
NY: WYYY 94.5 Syracuse; WNED 94.5 Buffalo; WCMF 96.5 Rochester; WBUF
92.9 Buffalo
OH: WXKR 94.5 Port Clinton; WHBC 94.9 Canton
ID: KZBQ 93.9 Pocatello
ON: CKUE 95.1 Chatham; CBL 94.1 Toronto
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1959 UT July 9
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