** ARGENTINA [non]. 7780, Oct 1 at 2227 WRMI with music, sounds like
Oldies, or rather scheduled APS Radio; and 9395 with different music,
gospel? Thus RAE`s German hour, which they are still sending to WRMI,
has got lost, supposed to be M-F 22-23 on 9395 per both WRMI and RAE
skeds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9155, Oct 2 at 1256, VP Chinese, and weaker 9180, both CNR1
jammed SOH frequencies. Altho did not do an exhaustive continuous
bandscan, no more WOOB noticed in the 11s, 13s but a JBA carrier at
1320 on 14980, which also qualifies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15370, Oct 1 at 1931, RHC is S8 of dead air, and so is 15140
at S9+20. 15140 is supposed to be amid first airing of English hour
while 15370 is supposed to be starting French. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 7380, Oct 1 at 2226, RHC is in choking Arabic instead of
scheduled French to Africa! Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Oct 2 at 1248, RHC is on but undermixed with FE, CRI
Beijing in Russian and/or KCBS Pyongyang, in any event Commies vs
Commies vs Commies! RHC also in clear on stronger 6000 which also
produces a good harmonic on 12000, while there is nothing on 12200.
Such a signal on 12000 makes me wonder if RHC deliberately allow 6000
to harmonicize, since in past 12000 has been a legit RHC fundamental,
but not so scheduled now, any more than the 11980 harmonic of the 5990
CRI relay. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9620-9670 approx., Oct 2 at 1301, lopsided buzz field out of
9640 RHC which itself is crackly and hummy. Worst peaks about 9627 and
9653. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13700, Oct 2 at 1303, this RHC has just come on joining 13740
on band which started earlier. 13700 is notably weaker at S9/+10 than
13740 S9+20/30, and also less modulated. And also fails to provide any
FM spur constellation. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15140, Oct 2 at 1308, this RHC is dead air and weaker than
modulated stronger S9+20 15230. 1423 recheck 75 minutes later, 15140
*still* dead air and 15230 VG. Is no one paying attention at Titán,
site Aoki-listed for both in the morning, whether a transmitter be
modulating at all? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 9455, Oct 2 at 1258 music, 1259 AWR Guam sign-off with
details such as 100,000 watts, but never mentions KSDA callsign! Is
that a violation? At end of daily Korean hour and off (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1000, Oct 2 at 0611 UT Mexican music with slow SAH against
KTOK OKC nulled, 0614 ``La Rancherita`` ID over music. IRCA log says:

``1000 XEFV Chih Ciudad Juarez 1000 ---- La Rancherita Mil AM 24h
RAN/NOR MEGA No FM. License expired but AM is still active 7/19``

The SAH is about the same as I get from KKIM Albuquerque but no sign
of it now, and there was no sign of XEFV when I last heard KKIM. So I
wonder if XEFV be erratic? Altho 24h, IRCA leaves blank its night
power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1020, KOKP: See USA, starting with 1020 KDKA

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Oct 2 at 1238 UT, KGYN with ``The Five States` Big
Talker`` slogan. They`ve had a CP longtime for 50/10/CH39 kW instead
of U2 10/10, but will it ever eventuate? There was once talk of moving
the whole thing to the OKC market, getting rid of 1220 KTLV, but FCC
now shows almost exactly the same east-of-Guymon coordinates both for
the current LIC and CP; the CP only one second of longitude further
east or about 82 feet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 17, Oct 2 and always, the latest reboot a few weeks
ago of K17JN-D Enid has kept it on the air with no further tech
problems, except it is permanently IDing falsely: ``DTV 41-1
KCYH-LD``! As explained before, that is its parent station in Ardmore,
on the other side of OK, whose software must have been imported here,
overwriting any reference to its true call K17JN-D which always
appeared before on the PSIP. Still 3ABN with a bunch of extra video
channels as 41-3 silent: (unsupported audio codec``), 41-5, 41-6, and
``audio only`` as 41-7, 41-8 and 41-9.

Are such false IDs a fineable offense? Has anyone seen anything like
this anywhere else? If any DXer picked this up she would surely assume
it was transmitted from Ardmore, not Enid, depriving this city of its
only local TV signal, despite some others licensed here such as RF9,
but really in OKC if on the air at all. There were/are others really
in Tulsa or even Kansas (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 28. KFOR-TV OKC has been plugging Nexstar as if it is
now part of that. It is; I found this notice at
https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar_tribune_closing_webcast_2019/

``Nexstar Media Group and Tribune Media Closing Webcast
September 20, 2019

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) (“Nexstar”) completed its
previously announced acquisition of Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO)
(“Tribune Media”) in an accretive transaction, creating the nation’s
largest local broadcaster. Nexstar is hosting conference call and
webcast at 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday, September 20 to review the
transaction and host a question and answer session.

To access the conference call, interested parties may dial
334/777-6978 (domestic and international callers). The Conference ID
Number is 2037601. Please call five minutes in advance to ensure that
you are connected. Questions and answers will be taken only from
participants on the conference call.

Participants may also listen to a live webcast of the call (link
below). For the webcast, please allow 15 minutes to register, download
and install any necessary software. A webcast replay will be available
for 90 days following the live event at www.nexstar.tv.
Click here for the webcast
Nexstar Tribune Closing Investor Presentation``

Isn`t this entirely too much media ownership concentration? I hope
Nexstar politix are not as anti-American as Sinclair`s.

``Nexstar owns, operates, programs or provides sales and other
services to 197 television stations (including partner stations) in
115 markets or approximately 63% of all U.S. television households
including 142 local web sites and 316 local news and weather mobile
apps.``

Here`s their station roster and a map including KFOR in OKC as market
rank 45 (rabbitears.info has had it at only 50).
https://www.nexstar.tv/stations/
How can such smaller cities as Harrisburg PA, Spartanburg SC, outrank
OKC??? Hagerstown MD is #6??? One of the largest cities, San Diego CA
is #29??

``(1) Market rank refers to ranking the size of the Designated Market
Area (“DMA”) in which the station is located in relation to other
DMA’s. Source: Investing in Television Market Report 2008 4th Edition,
as published by BIA Financial Network, Inc.``

It shows all the subchannels with each station --- not quite, not yet
CBS` Dabl on KFOR`s #4. At least KFOR is Nexstar`s only property in OK
so far, along with sibling RF-19 KAUT ``43``. This ensures that RF 25,
KWTV ``9`` may still continue its self-promotion as OKC`s only
locally-owned station (Glenn Hauser, OK, October 1, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. 15660, Oct 1 at 1928, HOA music, VP S2-S3,
gone at 1930. Aoki/NDXC shows it`s VOA Pinheira at 1900-1930 M-F in
Tigrinya. Other VOA usage of 15660: 1800-1900 daily Amharic via
Woofferton; 1730-1800 M-F Oromo via STP; 1400-1500 Sat/Sun Kirundi via
STP. Propagation is so poor that any extra-continental signal like
this on 19m is notable. Except as an unaccented country header, STP
should be spelt São Tomé e Príncipe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 9870, Oct 1 at 1938, S5-S7 of dead air. Scheduled
18-23 is SA in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 1 at 2224, VOT is JBA in absence of RTTY,
undermodulated S6-S9 so English to North America is still a loss
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 8992-USB, Oct 2 at 1255, test count and ``Andrews, out``.
Believe this is same frequency with echoey encrypted broadcasts, also
from Andrews AFB, MD? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Oct 1 at 1929, WJHR gospel huxter is S1, back
here after an inexplicable spell on 15550-USB, but mostly inaudible,
unpropagable, or off? Now there must be a sporadic E boost over this
1190 km/740 mile path from Milton FL, as 15610 WEWN AL is also way
above normal, S9+20, but not 15825 WWCR TN, still JBA. At 1955 I check
the Es DX-map, seeing one 25 MHz MUF blob over Atlanta (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, Oct 2 at 1230 UT, finally a non-ID from KFJZ Fort
Worth: ``Radio Libertad 8-70 A-M`` twice, 7:30 TC and into talk about
Biblia, Jeová. Radio-locator.com still hasn`t caught up with this
instead of business news in English.

Searching on slogan quoted leads to this convoluted listing showing
additional slogan ``LA QUE LLEGO PARA QUEDARSE`` which means, whew,
there will never be any more changes!

https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Libertad-870-AM-s32636/
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Genres: Vietnamese Talk
Description: Estación de radio con formato cristiano
Language: Spanish
Contact: 817-649-1870
Website: http://www.870am.net
[but that website goes nowhere]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1020, Oct 2 at 0557 UT, KOKP Perry OK has a slow SAH of
118/minute = almost 2 Hz, and nulling my semi-local 250-watter as much
as possible, `Red Eye Radio`, which is on KDKA Pittsburgh, doing
better than usual here. Long gone are the nights when KDKA was primary
on 1020 from a kilomile away; slightly closer 1100 WTAM Cleveland does
much better. CBS cannot be accused of being left-wing or even
mainstream as long as it voluntarily airs far-right talkshows like
RER.

CBS owns KDKA? Licensee is Entercom. Well, Wikipedia explains:
``Entercom Communications Corporation is a publicly traded American
broadcasting company and radio network based in Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968, it is the second largest radio company
in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media
markets. In November 2017, Entercom merged with CBS Radio; as a
result, CBS's shareholders held a 72% stake of the company's stock.``

How long has KOKP existed? License-to-cover granted 1/1/1978, but
unlike for some stations, FCC AM Query does not show its initial
airdate. Strangely, NRC AM Log lists address for KOKP and sibling 1580
KOKB Blackwell as in Ponca City, which is next to Blackwell; but I
thought that Triple Play Sports HQ is in Stillwater with their FM
station 105.1; altho they can split as needed for more than one local
silly ballgame at once. FCC also shows a P O Box in PC, with KOKP call
effective 10/26/98. Previous callsign changes:
KVCS 12/15/1995, KASR 03/03/1993, KRAD 09/05/1985
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1520, Oct 2 at 1243 UT, a quarter-hour after LSR here, KOKC
has no SAH and no QRM from Vietnamese, so it seems KYND Cypress TX is
OFF again, especially since Viet from 1560 KGOW Bellaire TX, both
Houston market, is still audible but soon to fade; last time they were
simulaudible and //. 1480, KNGO, The Metroplex, however, is still
audible with Vietnamese sounding same as on 1560 altho not matched.
KYND official October sunrise is 1230 UT, but until 1430 should be on
reduced critical hours power of 18 instead of 25 kW. November: 1245
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 2 at 1224-1228
around local sunrise 1227: With K-index of 2, nothing looping NW from
E Asia, Japan/Korea, but from WSW, Australia/New Zealand, u.o.s.:
1548, 882, 702, 612; 1098-west. Steve McGreevy, California, says ``I
REALLY enjoy and am fascinated by your TA/TP MW scans/observations
from mid-continent -- SpM`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13950, Oct 1 at 1933, very distorted 2-way and off, not
even sure if SSB; nothing further in few minutes but to be checked
again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14775.6-USB, Oct 2 at 1321, another 2-way in Spanish,
less colloquial than 14982 but still some putas referenced (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14982-USB, Oct 2 at 1311-1320 tune-out, 2-way in
colloquial Spanish. I think I am rather fluent in comprehending proper
broadcast Spanish, but colloquial conversations, especially among
uneducated speakers, are quite another matter. Usually I have little
patience with them as there are never going to be any sort of IDs, but
this time I struggle to copy some verbiage, including: ``caracol``
snail; ``toneladas`` tons, ``25 a 26 del norte`` referring to
latitude; ``tiburón`` shark; ``puta`` whore sprinkled here and there
as a pause or interjexion rather than the full ``puta madre``.

So anyhow this smax of maritime, fishermen or poachers, smugglers? One
is quite stronger than the other, and such a high frequency suggests a
considerable skip distance apart, like 1000+ miles, OR they are so
close that they reach each other by direct radio waves across the
ocean waves; yet would be less overhearable on VHF (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15758.8-USB, Oct 2 at 1305, VP 2-way in Spanish in an
almost vacant expanded broadcast band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1907 UT October 2
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JRX Logs_ September 29-30, 2019
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ASCENSION ISLAND
** 17880. Sep 30, 2019. 1416-1425, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Hausa. Man announcer presents news; Says Nigeria sometimes; Woman announcer talks news too. ID. Good reception, 45544.

BRAZIL
** 6135. Sep 29, 2019. 2337-2345, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida-SP, in Portuguese. Program "Com a Mãe Aparecida" by man announcer; A space dedicated to Padre Zezinho: A religious words and a song by himself; ID. Fair reception, 35433.

CHINA
** 6120. Sep 29, 2019. 2352-2400, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Uyghur. Man voice and a song; Woman talks and next a song. Poor reception, 35422.
** 6130. Sep 29, 2019. 2345-2352, PBS Xizang, Tibet-CHN, in Tibetan. Man announcer talks with backgrounds during this log. Poor reception, 35422.
** 6145. Sep 29, 2019. 2330-2337, PBS Qinghai, Xining-CHN, in Chinese. Man and woman voices during all log. Fair reception, 35433.
** 7250. Sep 29, 2019. 2300-2314, China Radio International, Urumqi-CHN, in Spanish. IS and ID; Man voice presents news; Programming announcements; "Al Rítmo de China": news, actuality and more. Good reception, 45544.Parallel log on 7210kHz via Cerrik-ALB, 35533.
** 7350. Sep 29, 2019. 0023-0033, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in English. A instrumental song; Man and woman talking about China; ID. Fair reception, 45433.
** 7385. Sep 29, 2019. 0033-0043, PBS Xizang, Tibet-CHN, in Tibetan. Man and woman announcers talk with backgrounds during this log. Fair reception, 35433.
** 9410. Sep 29, 2019. 2246-2256, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Portuguese. A program with chinese instrumental songs; 2254 Woman voice says the CRI sked in portuguese, all with IS backgrounds. Good reception, 45544.Parallel logs on 9685 via Kashgar, 45544; 7260 via Urumqi, 35533; 6175 via Cerrik, 35433.
** 11845. Sep 30, 2019. 0001-0010, China National Radio 2-China Business Radio, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Chinese. Man and woman announcers talk and recorded backgrounds-commercial announcements, presumably. Very good reception, 55544.
** 11875. Sep 30, 2019. 0034-0045, China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in Mongolian. A song; A musical program presented by man announcer. Good reception, 45544.
** 12055. Sep 30, 2019. 0045-0059, China National Radio 17, Lingshi-CHN, in Kazakh. Woman announcer talks and songs. Very good reception, 55544.

CUBA
** 11760. Sep 30, 2019. 0020-0030, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Man announcer presents a sport program "Momento para el Beisebol": news and comments about cuban beisebol; 0027 Woman presents news; ID. Fair reception, 35433.

GREAT BRITAIN
** 12005. Sep 30, 2019. 1331-1340, Radio Farda, Woofferton-G, in Farsi. Man talks. Barely audible reception with moderate fades, 25311.

ROMANIA
** 7420. Sep 29, 2019. 0044-0056, Radio Romania International, Galbeni-ROU, in Romanian. Woman announcer presents a musical program, hit songs. Fair reception, 35433.

SAUDI ARABIA
** 17895. Sep 30, 2019. 1438-1448, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. The Koran chant and recitation; 1442,Returns Koran chant. Good reception, 45544.

THAILAND
** 17880. Sep 30, 2019. 1313-1324, Radio Liberty, Udon-Thani-THA, in Dari. Man and woman talk news, presumably; Converation between them. Good reception, 45444.

TURKEY
** 17770. Sep 30, 2019. 1426-1436, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Arabic. A turkish song; Woman talks; 1433 Woman voice and a song. Fair reception, 35433.

USA
** 15770. Sep 30, 2019. 1347-1357, Alameda Bible Fellowship, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Pastor makes a religious preaching. Fair reception with slight fades, 35433.

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SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)

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** KOREA SOUTH. 5990, Oct 1 at 1311, VP talk unknown language, but
something new. Soon IDed by Ron Howard heard a few hours earlier as
Echo of Hope - VOH, ex-5995 among a bunch of other frequency shifts by
such clandestines, also 3980 ex-3985, 6348 ex-6350. Voice of the
People 3905 ex-3910, 3475 ex-3480, 6595 ex-6600. Their other
frequencies unchanged. ``Thanks very much to the timely alerts from
both Hiroshi and Hiroyuki Komatsubara, as to these changes.`` Ron`s
full report in the WOR iog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Sept 30 at 1852 UT, KOKB Blackwell is back on air
after silence a few days, during which ``Triple Play Sports`` was
changed to ``Double Play`` --- just kidding (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 27454.8-LSB & 27454.9-LSB, Sept 30 at 2130-2137+, strong
local QSO between two good ole boys about weather etc., not on exactly
same frequency, no IDs. Absolutely no skip or local signals on any
official CB channels, not even major CB calling/traffic frequencies,
so I kept tuning into freeband for anything at all. Maybe this is a
regular Enid hangout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11670, Sept 30 at 2123, no signal from REE`s African
frequency, nor has there been for at least several days whenever
checked; other ones are better but not totally reliable: 12030, 11940,
9690. Apparently one transmitter stays down, altho HFCC
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=REE
shows these imaginary/alternate frequencies on the 161-degree beam:
11530, 15350, 15360, 21620 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2001 monitoring: confirmed via
UTwente SDR, Monday Sept 30 at 1816.5 on 7290 from IRRS; big open
carrier came on at *1812.6; music at 1814.4 instead of talk fragment,
Aïda march at 1815.0. VG signal but some fading/distortion, better on
ECSS tuning. HFCC registers this as 0 degrees/ND from ``Milano`` so
it`s no help about true spex. Observer, Bulgaria says it`s 100 kW, 300
degrees from Saftica, the third site in ROMANIA. Like Tsiganeshti,
it`s slightly north of Bucharest. Guess what, 300 degrees from there
aims right at London and Miami, and not far off UTwente. Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 650, October 1 at 0611 UT, surprised to hear news instead of
music, not WSM? No, soon finishing ``CBS News Update``, back to WSM
singing ID; odd time to drop it in. Seems to me WSM was originally NBC
for many years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 820, October 1 at 0609 UT, country music under WBAP but soon
fading up and overtaking it by 0613 on E-W longwire. Like last night,
WWBA Largo FL is on 50 kW day power instead of 1 kW night. Meanwhile,
I see that WWBA has been heard as far away as BC, where FL is quite
rare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, October 1 at 1228 UT, Spanish ads with Dallas
addresses, including a church, so definitely KFJZ Fort Worth in new
REL:SS format; squeezed between WWL and XETAR, about to fade out
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880-DSB, October 1 at 1232 UT, Western Indian Network
tri-station ID for KTBA 760, KHAC 880 and KWIM 104.9; 1233 `Ask Pastor
Mike` about suicide; all in English. KHAC officially Tse Bonito NM.
Easily separable from KRVN close to right angles; and KHAC obviously
still a major cheater, U1 10000/430 long before October sunrise 1315
UT (November: 1345) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1010, October 1 at 1235 UT, RCC chanting, in morning mass as
on Radio Católica Mundial, from the direxion of and no doubt out of
KTNZ Amarillo TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1090, October 1 at 0619 UT, two strong stations at about
equal level thus making a very heavy SAH of 256/minute = 4.27 Hz. One
is RCC talk in English, sounds like M. Angelica, obviously EWTN`s KEXS
Excelsior Springs (Kansas City market) MO, supposedly a 10 KW
daytimer; the other, as soon it IDs, KAAY Little Rock. Catholix vs
Protestants! BTW, I remarked that the NRC AM Log does not deal with
STAs, which is true in the case of 1520 KOKC, but for KAAY it shows
STA U1 5000/5000 instead of U2 50000/50000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

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Log of Sept 30 at 03.57 UT to 05.00 UT of remote SDR unit at
Massachusetts, US state on far northeast coast close to Canadian border.
Surprise, surprise noted US stn likely scheduled WRNO 'Grace for Today'
from New Orleans LA, - after a month or so ...
7505.003 USA  WRNO, 3 person talk, " .... hope in your situation... your
        ministry partner ... Boston ministry up .. Lousiana site ...
        the truth ..." some rap mx, at 03.59 UT, 11 kHz wideband signal,
        then 04.00:03 UT, TX switch OFF.
7334.995 USA  IBB BBG 'Radio Marti' Spanish sce to Cuba island, S=9+25dB
        signal from Greenville NC state, at 04.03 UT on Sept 30.
and hit next channel
7340even CVA  Sudan Arabic program 'Eye Radio' backlobe signal on Sept 30
        via Vatican Radio at Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican State,
        S=9 at 04.05 UT. 
and 

7435even USA  IBB BBG 'Radio Marti' Spanish sce to Cuba island, S=8 only
        signal from Greenville NC state, at 04.07 UT on Sept 30.
6185even MEX  Radio XEPPM Educacion from Mexico D.F., noted at S=7-8 level
        or -84dBm in Massachusetts, but S=9+5dB in Cape Canaveral Florida
        remote SDR unit. Low modulated at 04.11 UT, Mexico stn hit by
        adjacent RRI Galbeni from ROU in Romanian on 6180 kHz.
        XEPPM Educacion Mexico D.F. switch off at 05.03:25 UT on Sept 30.
6195.003 USA  NHK Radio Japan in Spanish language, via relay WHRI2 from
        Furman SC Cypress Creek. S=8-9 in MA US state at 04.12 UT.
        Sports news report, football news at 04.13 UT on Sept 30.
6135.105 BRA  probably R Aparecida Bras Port, poor S=5-6 at 04.16 UT.
6120even AUT  AWR Turkish language service via ORS Moosbrunn site,
        two presenter talk, S=8-9 signal across atlantic at 04.17 UT.
6110.002 ETH  Radio Fana in Amharic scheduled at this 04.18 UT time,
        S=7-8 or -83dBm signal noted.
6090.003 ETH  probably R Amhara program sce, tiny S=6 or -89dBm, 04.20 UT
6080.027 STP  VoA English sce from Sao Tome, S=6 or -93dBm at 04.21 UT.
6069.981 CAN  CFRX Toronto English sce, S=9+15dB in Massachusetts remote
        SDR unit, talk on CAMERA systems, upload digital on police net, 
        digital camera systems around 'my house', private property basics

        freedom kind of network ... at 04.23 UT.
6040.003 TUR  TRT Emirler in Turkish, scheduled 04.00-05.55 UT,
        S=7 or -87dBm at 04.24 UT on Sept 30.
6000, 6100 kHz empty channels, nothing of RHC on air at 04.26 UT.
5990even CUB  Bad frequency selection this Sept 30 morning at Cuban
        transmission center Quivican San Felipe TITAN 250 kW bcast
        site, selected 10 kHz fq down - ex deep night frequency of 
        CRI Cuban relay site Quivican 23-01 UT instead of scheduled

        6000 kHz.
        RHC English sce settled here  6165even kHz S=6-7 from Bauta,
        S=9+25dB in Massachusetts remote SDR rx, Arnaldo Coro back on air
        at 04.29 UT, talk of Latin AM music program R Progreso, talk of
        mailbox weekend edition, read letters from India and many
        US state listeners too.
5985even USA  WRMI Spanish language sce, "Antena DX" program, S=9+10dB,
        guitar mx, then Henrik Klemetz Sweden item at 04.31 UT.
5970even USA  EWTN Birmingham, nice Spanish language singer group,
        S=9+10dB at 04.32 UT.
5959.883 KWT  Odd fq and fade-out signal at 04.34 UT, Radio Kuwait, 
        Arabic sce, S=7 or -84dBm strength in Massachusetts remote 
        SDR rx.

5935even USA  WWCR powerful signal, S=9+45dB power, at 04.36 UT,
        talk on ancient Greece and Macedonia people theme.
5925even BOT  VoA English S=8-9 at 04.36 UT on Sept 30.
5829.986 USA  WTWW English singer group, nice audio sound, S=9+25dB,
        11 kHz wideband signal at 04.37 UT.
5800.017 USA  Likely WRMI endless bell/carillon play, noisy poor signal
        of low power tx unit, S=6 or -88dBm poor and tiny.
4774.996 kHz poor signal likely TWR Africa, Manzini SWZ, 04.42 UT but
        hit heavily covered by broadband CODAR system on 4735-4794 kHz.
4812 kHz digital data block STANAG type S=9+10dB at 04.34 UT.
4839.996 USA  WWCR talk on 'God Bless You'. TOM BS at S=9+30dB powerhouse
        at 04.45 UT on Sept 30.
4885.024 BRA  Radio Clube do Para, music program  online radio AM 690
        <https:www.radioclubedopara.com.br/>
        S=7 at 04.50 UT.
4930even BOT  VoA Botswana, S=7 at 04.51 UT  4959.996 VoA STP at 04.52UT
5025even CUB  Radio Rebelde from Bauta, nice mx program, S=9+25dB signal
        at Massachusetts remote rx unit at 04.53 UT.
5040even CUB  RHC Bauta, Spanish report from Peking, China and Cuban
        communist party meet, S=9+35dB powerhouse at 04.54 UT Sept 30.
5085even USA  WTWW singer pop group, 13 kHz wideband music block visible,
        S=9+30dB at 04.58 UT on Sept 30.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 30)
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** ARMENIA. 9300, Monday Sept 30 at 1313, TWR IS at S3-S5, 1315
opening announcement unknown language; again at 1359 TWR IS is JBA.
Per Aoki/NDXC, convoluted schedule of TWR India via Yerevan-Gavar for
day 2 shows starting 1315 in Mun language; 1400 going from Hin-di to
Kum. So what are these obscure minolitylangs? Per EiBi`s readme.txt
MUN Mundari: India-Jharkhand, Odisha (1.1m) [unr]
KUM Kumaoni/Kumauni: India-Uttarakhand (2m) [kfy]
At least the gospel huxters are countering Modi`s Hindi-above-all
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 990, UT Monday Sept 30 at 0604 UT, CBW Winnipeg is the only
CBC station we get dependably, now opening its overnight relays of
foreign stations, 1-5v am local, with `DW WorldLink`, first about
illegal migration from Bangladesh to India. Been a long time since
I`ve checked the schedule, so here it is for this week:

https://www.cbc.ca/programguide/weekly/2019/09/30/cbc_radio_one/?t=1569858526733

Tue-Sat however the first hour is `The World` from USA which we can
hear the previous afternoon on KOSU. Display does not give the country
source for the other programs, some of them familiar from Monocle, BBC
or ABC, NPR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5990, Sept 29 at 0537, RHC is here on wrong frequency,
supposed to be only for CRI relays at 23-01! S9+20 song in Spanish, so
it is English or Spanish service? Soon announcement in English, and //
much weaker 5040, 6100 S9+30, much stronger than 6165 S9/+10 and JBM.
Nothing on 6000 which is where it`s supposed to be, and now 5990
splashes upon 5985 WRMI which is on this late Mondays only with gospel
huxter. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 11860, Sunday Sept 29 at 2145, Radio Martí, Grimesland,
with silly baseball game coverage, two guys with crowd noise, etc.,
apparently live involving the Cardenales and speculating about the
Serie Mundial. I don`t see how béisbol-crazy dentroCubans could not be
listening to this. Not much jamming audible here. Also on 11930 and
presumably 9565 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Quick check Sunday Sept 29 at 2130 UT: 1580
KOKB Blackwell OK is still OFF; so is 1130 KLEY Wellington KS; but
1280 KSOK Arkansas City KS is still on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Re my lament that KM6 calls are no longer Midway,
Jim K5JG, replies on the ptsw group:

``Glen[n] et all, Changing the prefixes for overseas entities was done
around 1979-1980 when the entire Amateur Radio callsign structure was
changed. I remember reading at the time that the FCC was forecasting
that they were just a few years away from running out of callsigns
under the old structure and came up with the present scheme to
mitigate that possibility.

It always seemed exotic and exciting to hear KM6 (Midway), KX6
(Kwajalein Island), KC6 (Eastern Caroline Islands), KG6 (Guam /
Marianas Islands), KW6 (Wake Island), or KV4 (Virgin Islands) coming
back to your call. Note that some Pacific island entities that were US
possessions are now independent countries and have non-US prefixes.

Nowadays, KH-something and KP-something is just boring.

When the restructuring occurred, no one was forced to change their
existing callsign as it only applied to new callsigns. So, not only is
it theoretically possible for a Guam Islander with an old KG6xx call
to fall right between two California KG6xx callsigns in the FCC
database, but one could contact two Guam stations in a row, one a KG6
and the other a KH2! Makes things even more confusing.

Another good source for info on deleted US prefixes is:
http://www.ac6v.com/oldprefix.php#OLD
and scroll down a little. 73, Jim K5JG``
(via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2001 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
September 29 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, VP with ECSS at S5-S7.

Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 30 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair S8-S9; but
// 9395 is JBA, as the MUF is degraded leaving lower but sidebeam 7780
better here.

Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 30 at 0230, JBA on WRMI 7780.

Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 30 starting at 0258.5 on Area 51
webcast; WBCQ 5130.0 is VP.

Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 30 at 0330 on WRMI 9955 JBA? But OK on
webcast. Next:

1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 820, Sept 30 at 0610 UT, unusual music way over talker WBAP
which normally owns 820 here at night --- 0611 UT singing ID as WWBA
and gospel country song. U4 50/1 kW WWBA in Largo FL (TSP market, not
Key Largo!) has got to be on day power and pattern, but major lobes
NNW/SSE, not so good for us, so possibly ND now? If they do this
again, should make it very DXable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 990, Sept 30 at 1222 UT, turning back on still tuned here
after CBW, obits concerning Cassville and Monett, i.e. KRMO Cassville
MO, U1 2500/47 watts. OK since Sept sunrise is officially 1200 UT, but
not tomorrow, October 1230. These towns are in the SW corner of MO,
and KWAM Memphis no problem by now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1060, Sept 30 at 1226 UT, M&W chat in Spanish from
NW/SE, which rules out KXPL and KIJN in far west TX, and all of
Mexico. So what SS are on that axis in new NRC AM Log? KDYL South Salt
Lake UT, U1 10000/149 but this is far before sunrise there. Aside from
language, I would expect primary hearance from KRCN Longmont CO, U1
50000/111/psra 500, but it`s also not sunrise there until 1245 UT
(Oct: 1315 UT), and listed as EWTN in English. Furthermore, by 1229 UT
I am getting CCI from another SS also NW/SE with a song. There are no
other possibilities unless something has flipped, and even then hardly
anything on that axis. Furthermore the first station is also producing
a LAH, significantly off-frequency I think to the plus. But mwoffsets
http://mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=1060
does not show any US station far enough off either side to produce a
low audible het, including the ones I have mentioned. Max would be +13
from MN (but XERDO Matamoros was plus 77 Hz in 2015; but that would be
almost due south). At 1240 UT I have switched to the R75 so no DFing,
now hearing a ``gloria`` song that seems about 30 Hz minus.
Ideas? KIJN is shown as spot-on .000 altho I recall it used to be
significantly off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIEID. 4949.55-USB approx., Sept 30 at 1257, very weak 2-way
in Spanish *not* referring to putas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6950-USB, Sept 29 at 2134, 2-way Spanish ``puta madre``
INTRUDERS into our pirate band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9845, Sept 29 at 2142, YL in tonal Asian language, but
cuts off the air in less than a minute! Only thing Aoki listed is CNR1
from Beijing 572 site, not a jammer, at 2025-2400. But from what
little I heard, did not think it was Mandarin. Maybe something else
realized it had punched wrong frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1800 UT Sept 30
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