[HCDX]: AM DX NewsFlash 1-15--98
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WELCOME TO IRCA's AM-DX NEWSFLASH - January 15 1998
Vol 3 No 42
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CPC DX tests summary
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Bill Hale - 6124 Roaring Springs Dr, N Richland Hills TX 76180-5552
phantom2@xxxxxxxx
Bill has volunteered to be the CPC chairman for the NRC. Right now
Bill is looking for target station lists and stamps or money to help
get the lists worked on.
Lynn Hollerman - gmholler@xxxxxxxxxx
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!
Saturday, January 31, 1998 - WVNS-670, Claremont, VA will conduct a
DX test at 20,000 watts daytime power between 12:00 & 2:00 AM EST. The
test will include tones, code, and voice IDs. Reception reports may be
sent to:
Mr. Pat Murphy
WVNS-AM
410 Briar Hill Road
Norfolk, VA 23502
(Note: Prepaid (not collect) phone calls will be taken at
(757)461-6767.) (Arranged by Pat Murphy & Dave Schmidt)
DATE & TIME: Jan. 16th (friday) from 19.00 to Jan. 17th (saturday) at
07.00
FREQUENCY: 1.314 KHz
POWER: who knows?! may be 5 or 10 Kw.
The test will consist in Morse code ID's near the time signals at
minutes .30 and .00 each hour to 23.30. Then, code at minute .30 and
code+voice at .59.
ONLY RECORDED REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
ADDR: RNE-Radio 5
para M. Molano
Plaza de Colon 4
37001 SALAMANCA
SPAIN.
Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via e-mail or the
newsgroup! And, if you send a reception report to a station, please
remember to include return postage with your report...
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HOT STUFF
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Kent Winrich - kwin@xxxxxxxxxx
The two extra towers WLIB-1190 NY needs for nighttime broadcasting are
up...that isn't to say they are ready to go, but you might hear them
testing after midnight.
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Bill Harms - Elkridge, MD - wharms@xxxxxxxxx
WANN 1190 Annapolis is back on the air.
1190 WANN MD, Annapolis. Running a feed from WUST 1120 Washington DC on
1/9 1359-1401. Heard McDonalds ad in Spanish and ID "The
Multi-cultural voice of the nation's capitol. AM 1120 WUST Washington.
AM 1190 WANN Annapolis." This was followed by a separate local ID.
Carrier cut at 1401.
I phoned the station to see what is going on. According to the station
owner, Mr. M. Blum the station is being sold to "New World Radio." Mr.
Blum revealed that the station is currently on the air with "limited
daytime" to keep its license, which in January is 0730-1400. An
application for night-time operation has been applied for. Mr. Blum
welcomes correct reception reports for which he will verify with a QSL
card. The address is WANN, PO Box 631, Annapolis, MD 21404. No
indication of a call letter change, which might come after the station
sale is finalized.
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John Wright - Caringbah, Sydney Australia - dxer@xxxxxxxxx
New Station apparently on air.
1701 kc/s Power is 100 watts at present V/signer Jack Puran. Address is
5 Cheviot Place, Sinnamon Park, QLD 4073. Phone 07 32791701.
Note I have not heard this myself as conditions poor over the 600
miles. lately, and also phone number rings out or clicks itself off.
ID's apparently as "Radio 1701".
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Gilles Michaud - St-Laurent, QC - gmichau@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Due to the big ice storm in the Montreal are the following stations in
Montreal have been disabled.
- 800 CJAD lost it`s towers. They are presently operating from the old
CFMB site on the frequency of 1410 khz. This might last a few
weeks.
- 940 CBM is without power and is temporarely operating on their FM
frequency of 93.5 MHz. They will probably not be back on for a
few days since Hydro-Quebec doesn`t expect to restore power in
that area for a few days. All other Montreal stations are still
operating.
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PPiet Pijpers - Piet.Pypers@xxxxxxxxxx
New stations on 828 & 1224 in the Netherlands
828 Arrow Classic Rock 1800 ''All night long, Arrow Classic Rock''.
Vintage UK rock, among the groups: The Pretty Things and the
Free. Waiting for the Soft Machine;-)
1224 Q Radio 1730 Test transmission till 00.00: Ethnic music, blues.
Rather long newsitem about the Dutch ''Green'' Party.
Transmitting ''under the wings'' of NOZEMA according to OM. ID:
''Q Radio''
All this a bit preliminary, of course.
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Lee J Freshwater 414 SE 3rd St, Ocala, FL 34474
FAX 352-732-7223 E-mail Lfreshwate@xxxxxxx
The F.C.C. has started putting CALL LETTER changes in their computer
data base...We will include them here as time and space permits.
PREPARED ON 1/13/98
SOME CALL SIGN ACTION ON THE NEW EXPANDED BAND THIS WEEK !
CALL SIGN CHANGES
NEW CITY AND STATE FREQUENCY FORMER
CALL * CALL
WEZN BIRMINGHAM, AL 610 WZZK
WOEG HAZELHRUST, MS 1220 WMDC
KZMP FORT WORTH, TX 1540 KPAD
EXPANDED BAND ACTION !!
KAZP BELLEVUE, NE 1620 NEW
KAZW COLLEGE STATION, TX 1620 NEW
WANX AUGUSTA, GA 1630 NEW
KKJY LAKE OSWEGO, OR 1640 KKJC
WAWT PORTSMOUTH, VA 1650 NEW
WAWR SALISBURY, MD 1650 NEW
KAZT REDDING, CA 1650 NEW
KAXW MERCED, CA 1660 NEW
KAXY WACO, TX 1660 NEW
WAWY MADISON, WI 1670 NEW
KAZJ SEATTLE, WA 1680 NEW
WAXD ADEL, GA 1690 NEW
* The F.C.C. does NOT list the frequency in their database.
I have tried to suppliment this with information from my
own database,, so look it over "carefully" before you
change anything in yours.
We have put this information in order of frequency rather
than location. Send any suggestions, changes AND
corrections to the above E-Mail address.
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INDIVIDUAL LOGGINGS
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Martin Elbe - Wolfsburg, Germany - elbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
The DXpedition was to northern Denmark, 50 km NW of Aalborg.
Now this year's DX-pedition to Blokhus in northern Jutland (Denmark) is
history. We arrived on 26.12 in the afternoon and left on 6.1.98 around
noon. We, that were czech DXer Karel Honzik and Joachim Stiller and
Martin Elbe from Germany. Alas, this time Finn Krone could not
participate due to private reasons, but we had phone-contact with him
every day.
Blokhus is a famous danish seaside-resort where we had hired a
summer-cottage right behind the dunes, about 250 meters from the North
Sea. The area was extremely quiet, all surrounding cottages were
uninhabitat. It was the third DX-pedition in a row over the new year,
the first one 95/96 was to Hune, about 3 km from Blokhus, the second
one 96/97 was in Blokhus in the same cottage we used now.
Antennas used were mainly longwires of about 150 to 250 meters in
length, main direction was from 290 to 330 degrees (4 antennas), one to
240 degrees.
And to complete the sortiment there was an active antenna (DX-One
professional) and an endfired inverted V of 8m height, receivers used
were three AOR AR7030.
Conditions? On the 27.12 it was very good, with lots of stations from
the Prairie coming in (of course, this was meant as a mediumwave-
DXpedition!) 28.12. was even better and 29.12 was absolutely
breathtaking. In almost 30 years of DXing I hadn't experienced such
conditions! We heard Northamerica around the clock, on every 10 kHz
channel! Wow! A pity that we could monitor 3 frequencies only at a
time, leaving out more than 100 unmonitored :-(
We thought it would never end, but alas, alas, it all came to a sudden
end on the 30.12. On that day we had a very distinct opening towards
Florida when at 0540 UTC something hit us from the sun. All US stations
were wiped out within a minute, after 10 minutes they slowly recovered.
But not back to the old beauty, in the morning the listening period
ended soon with very early fade-outs. Nothing more from the Prairie
then till the end of our DXpedition! What followed was the period of
the long faces, slowly, slowly conditions recovered, we heard this and
that from the Eastcoast, but the spectacular ones were gone. On the 31.
an 1.1. good openings in the night towards Puerto Rico and Central
America in general. On the 4.1. the big guns from the Westcoast, like
CJVB, CFUN, KGA and KOMO returned, and on the 6.1. it was good towards
Eastcoast.
Some interesting remarks: During the first DXpedition we couldn't log
VOWR on 800 at all. Last year it appeared twotimes. This year VOWR was
audible every evening, always the first to fade-in was CBG Gander on
1400 around 1900 UTC, 10 minutes later VOWR showed up. And every
morning VOWR was audible too. And KBRW Barrow, Alaska! Not heard at all
on the first DXpedition, last year we were really excited to log it
twice. And this year? A daily one, audible in the morning, during
daytime, afternoon, evening and night. Almost regarded as a pest! Sic
transit gloria mundi! Same is valid for KXBT. Oh, how I was fighting
with them last year on 1630! This year they came in roaring on their
new 1640 kHz frequency.
On the other hand we didn't hear CHIN Toronto, 1540, at all. That was a
pest during the previous two years. Off the air?
Some interesting results from the antenna-tests: The end-fired inverted
"V" I used performed very well in comparison with the longwires. During
nighttime reception it was my favourite antenna, giving better results
than the longwires. Only during daytime, after 1000 hrs UTC when
everything in gain was needed the longwires outrivalled the Vertical.
On the 29. we tried to log Hawaii, but with no success. I thought it
could be possible on that day, I was chasing a station on 1500 kHz for
more than an hour (expecting KUMU), but it turned out to be "only" CKAY
Duncan, BC.
So, until now no log from Hawaii in Central Europe. The challenge
continues! (At least for us in Central Europe. In northern Finnland
that's a job for housewives with a kitchen radio :-)
The best log? Difficult to say, most likely the Dallas Airport Station
on 1680 is the best. But a lot of stations logged there could be first
from Central Europe. Enough said, fasten seat belts, and tadaa! tadaaa!
here is our station list. Some more will be added when we are through
with the tapes, but these are identified until now.
NORTH AMERICA
550 CHNL, Trois Rivi?res, PQ
560 CHVO, Carbonear, NF
CKCN, Sept Iles, PQ
570 Nuuk, Greenland
580 CJFX, Antigonish, NF
CFRA, Ottawa, ON
CKY, Winnipeg, MB
590 VOCM, St. John's, NF
600 CIQC, Montreal, PQ
610 CHNC, New Carlisle, PQ
WIOD, Miami, FL
620 CKCK, Regina, SK
650 Nuuk, Greenland
CKGA, Gander, NF
WSM, Nashville, TN
660 WFAN, New York, NY
CFFR, Calgary, AB
670 CKXB, Musgravetown, NF
WMAQ, Chicago, IL
680 KBRW, Barrow, AK
WRKO, Boston, MA
CJOB, Winnipeg, MB
CFTR, Toronto, ON
690 CBF, Montreal, PQ (so they are not switched off yet!)
700 CHSJ, St. John, NB
WLW, Cincinnati, OH
710 KIRO, Seattle, WA
WOR, New York, NY
CKVO, Clarenville, NF
730 CKAC, Montreal, PQ
CKDM, Dauphin, MB
CKLG, Vancouver, BC
740 CHCM, Marystown, NF
750 WSB, Atlanta, GA
CBGY, Bonavista Bay, NF
CJVR, Melfort, SK
CKGB, Timmins, ON
760 WJR, Detroit, MI
770 WABC, New York, NY
CHQR, Calgary, AB
780 WBBM, Chicago, IL
CFDR, Dartmouth, NS
790 CIGM, Sudbury, ON
CFCW, Camrose, AB
WAXY, Miami, FL
WMCA, Providence, RI
800 CKLW, Windsor, ON
CHRC, Quebec, PQ
VOWR, St. John's, NF
820 WBAP, Fort Worth, TX
CHAM, Hamilton, ON
830 WCCO, Minneapolis, MN
840 WHAS, Louisville, KY
850 KOA, Denver, CO
WEEI, Boston, MA
CKVL, Verdun, PQ
860 CJBC, Toronto, ON
870 WWL, New Orleans, LA
880 WCBS, New York, NY
CHQT, Edmonton, AB
890 WLS, Chicago, IL
920 CJCH, Halifax, NS
CFRY, Portage La Prairie, MB
930 CJYQ, St. John's, NF
CFBC, St. John, NB
CJCA, Edmonton, AB
940 CBM, Montreal, PQ
CJGX, Yorktown, SK
950 CKNB, Campbellton, NF
CFAM, Altona, MB (// 1250 CHSM)
960 CHNS, Halifax, NS
CFAC, Calgary, AB
970 WZAN, Portland, CT
UNID, Testtones and anns "CBS Radio Network, Channel 43".
Need Help!
980 CBV, Quebec, PQ
1000 KOMO, Seattle, WA
WMVP, Chicago, IL
CFLP, Rimouski, PQ
CKBW, Bridgewater, NS
1010 WINS, New York, NY
CFRB, Toronto, ON
1020 KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA
1030 WBZ, Boston, MA
1040 WHO, Des Moines, IA
CKST, Langley, BC
1050 CHUM, Toronto, ON
WEVD, New York, NY
1060 CKMX, Calgary, AB
1070 CBA, Moncton, NB
CHOK, Sarnia, ON
1080 WTIC, Hartford, CT
1090 KRPM, Seattle, WA
WBAL, Baltimore, MD
1100 WTAM, Cleveland, OH
1110 WBT, Charlotte, NC
KFAB, Omaha, NE (presumed)
CKTY, Sarnia, ON
1120 KMOX, St. Louis, MO
1130 WBBR, New York, NY
KFAN, Minneapolis, MN
CKWX, Vancouver, BC
1140 CBI, Sydney, NS
CHRB, High River, AB
1150 CKOC, Hamilton, ON
CJRC, Gatineau, PQ
1160 KSL, Salt Lake City, UT
1170 CKGY, Red Deear, AB
WWVA, Wheeling, WV
1180 WHAM, Rochester, NY
1190 WLIB, New York, NY
WOWO, Fort Wayne, IN
CFSL, Weyburn, SK
1200 WOAI, San Antonio, TX
CKXM, Victoria, BC
CJBZ, Ottawa, ON
1250 CHSM, Steinbach, MB
1260 WEZE, Boston, MA (IDing as Radio Disney)
1270 CHAT, Medicine Hat, AB
1290 CHRM, Matane, PQ
1300 CJME, Regina, SK
1320 CKEC, New Glasgow, NS
CHMB, Vancouver, BC
1330 CJYM, Rosetown, SK
WRCA, Waltham, MA
1360 CKBC, Bathurst, NB
CJVL, Ste. Marie de Beauce, PQ
1370 CFOK, Westlock, AB
1390 WEGP, Presque Isle, ME
WDCW, Syracuse, NY
WEED, Rocky Mount, NC (tentative only! Non-stop Gospel music with
rare IDs as "Gospel 13-90". Never a callsign was given! Or
new format of WXTC? Strange we never heard them! WXTC was
unavoidable last year)
CJCY, Medicine Hat, AB
1400 CBG, Gander, NF
WOND, Pleasantville, NJ
1410 WPOP, Hartford, CT
CFUN, Vancouver, BC
CIGO, Port Hawkesbury, NS
1420 CKDY, Digby, NS
KUJ, Walla Walla, WA
1430 KLO, Oden, UT
WNJR, Newark, NJ
WMYS, Indianapolis, IN
WENE, Endicott, NY
WXKS, Everett, MA
CHKT, Toronto, ON
1440 WJAE, Westbrook, ME
1460 WGNA, Albany, NY
CJOY, Guelph, ON
1470 KBSN, Moses Lake, WA
KWSL, Sioux City, IA
WLOL, Brooklyn Park, MN (IDing as KLBB, their sister-station)
WWNN, Pompano Beach, FL
CJBV, Vancouver, BC
1480 WGVU, Kentwood, MI
WHBC, Canton, OH
1500 KSTP, St. Paul, MN
WFIF, Milford, CT
WTOP, Washington, DC
1510 KGA, Spokane, WA
WLAC, Nashville, TN
WNBR, Boston, MA
1520 WWKB, Buffalo, NY
KFXX, Oregon City, OR
1530 KFBK, Sacramento, CA
1540 KXEL, Waterloo, IA
WDCD, Albany, NY
1550 CBE, Windsor, ON
KYCY, San Francisco, CA
1560 WRHC, Coral Gables, FL (partly with own IDs, but heard also
relaying WWFE 670)
WQEW, New York, NY
1570 WFLR, Dundee, NY
WBUG, Amsterdam, NY
WTLK, Taylorsville, NC
1580 CBJ, Chicoutimi, PQ
1590 WAKR, Akron, OH
WARV, Warwick, RI
WSMN, Nashua, NH
1600 KCRG, Cedar Rapids, IA
KYGO, Lakewood, CO
WUNR, Brookline, MA
WWRL, New York, NY
WAAM, Ann Arbir, MI
1640 KXBT, Vallejo, CA
1650 KGXL, Costa Mesa, CA
1660 WJDM, Elizabeth, NJ
1680 WAQ767, Dallas Airport Information, TX
1700 WCMQ, Miami, FL
CENTRAL AMERICA
620 CMGN, R. Rebelde, Cuba
640 CMBC, R. Progreso, Cuba
670 CMQ, R. Rebelde, Cuba
710 CMW, R. Rebelde, Cuba (plus others on same frequency)
830 R. Paradise, Nevis
840 R. Carribbean, St. Lucia
890 CMDZ, R. Progreso, Cuba
930 CMJS, R. Reloj, Cuba (plus others on same frequency)
950 CMHI, R. Reloj, Cuba
960 CMDJ, R. Reloj, Cuba
1010 CMAP, R. Reloj, Cuba
1020 Carribbean Christian Radio, Grand Turk
1060 XEEP, R. Educaci"n, Mexico
1130 HIRL, Cadena Noticias, Santiago, Dom. Rep.
1190 WBMJ, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1350 WEGA, R. Las Vegas, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1400 Harbour Light, Grenada
1480 WMDD, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
1500 PCJ9, R. Hoyer 2, Curacao
1540 ZNS1, Nassau, Bahamas
1570 HIAJ, R. Amanecer, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.
TGVEA R. Voz Evangelica de America, Guatemala
XERF, La Poderosa 15-70, Ciudad Acuna, Mexico
1600 WLUZ, R. Luz, Santurce, Puerto Rico
SOUTH AMERICA
570 HJND, R. Nac. de Colombia, Bogot , Colombia
650 HJKH, RCN 2, Bogot , Colombia
760 HJAJ, RCN Barranquilla, Colombia
770 HJJX, RCN, Bogota, Colombia
970 HJCH, RCN, Colombia
1000 HJAQ, RCN Cartagena, Colombia
1010 HJJR, Caracol Neiva, Colombia
1140 YV??, La Margaritena, Porlamar, Venezuela
1240 YVNV, R. Nacional de Venezuela
1410 YVSP, R. Simpatia, Valera, Venezuela
1420 YVNZ, R. Marabina, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1500 YVRZ, R. Dos Mil, Cumana, Venezuela
1510 YV??, R. Informativa, Venezuela
1620 Esmeralda, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They never IDed as
Radio Esmeralda, only as "Esmeralda"! Using the slogan
Radio Salvador too.
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Robert S. Ross - London ON - radiorob@xxxxxxxxx
Doing a little tuning around on the X-Band tonight...and amoung
other things I found the following Experimental Station.......
1684 KA90078 Experimental Station Jan/11/97 2332 EST FAIR ID
repeated in Medium speed CW as KA90078 followed by a long dash.
Freq only approximate at 1684 due to MER on 1685 making it hard
to zero beat. I know these stations with callsigns such as this
are licensed as experimental stations.....but does anyone know
where this specific station is..and what they're doing?????
Also hearing KXBT 1640, KGXL 1650 and Dallas Airport on 1680 quite well
too!! This TIS from Staunton, Va. on 1620 is booming in...it seems to
be a regular here most evenings!!
Receiver is....Collins 651S-1
Antenna is.....80 Meter Dipole
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BROADCAST BAND LOGS FROM
SHAWN M. AXELROD VE4DX1SMA
30 BECONTREE BAY WINNIPEG MB R2N 2X9 CANADA
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 204-253-8644
E-MAIL: saxelrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DX'ING FROM WINNIPEG MB
RECEIVER: ICOM ICR-70 & DRAKE R8
ANTENNA: 4 FOOT BOX UNAMPLIFIED LOOP / QUANTUM LOOP
145 FOOT LONG WIRE / 100 FOOT INDOOR WIRE
SPECIAL
1650 KGIL CA Costa Mesa 01/03 0807 Fair signals with show tunes and
several KGIL ID's New!!
UNIDs and UNID HELP
1280 MN Minneapolis 10/11 Fair signals in a mess with AC music and an
ID as "Your World. Your Music. 12-80 AM (K???) Minneapolis St
Paul" Is there been a format /call change here???
TIS & OTHER STUFF
1611.7 UNID 10/10 1757 Poor signals on the longwire only for audio with
info on a talking house. This is the 3rd frequency used
around here this month. Puts big HET on 1610. (SA-MB)
1640 WQO767 TX Dallas/Fort Worth 10/11 0722 Poor fading up under KXBT
with airport info. The 1680 station was stronger as it
usually is. (SA-MB)
DX
1280 KRRF CO Denver 01/07 2145 Fair to Good signals with local sports
talk programm and ads for Denver businesses. ID as "12-80
Ralph". (SA-MB)
1370 WCCN WI Neillsville 01/10 1740 Good signals with NOS music
and full ID (SA-MB)
1410 KOOQ NE North Platte 01/11 1720 Fair signals with oldies music.
ID as "Oldies radio North Platte" (SA-MB)
1550 WEVR WI River Falls 01/10 1725 Fair signals under WHIT with AC
music and WEVR ID (SA-MB)
COMMENTS
Conditions continue to be poor. Must have spent all of my DX luck on
those TA's after Christmas. If the weather improves ie not -27 or so
and wind chills of -35 a trip to the DX site should happen next
weekend. Of course we could make it 3 in a row for cancellations
depending on Mother Nature. The good news is I don't live in the ice
storm belt out East. Take care and best of DX to all.
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Glenn Hauser - wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
GLENN HAUSER'S DX REPORT 98-02, Jan 15, 1998
CANADA. Some Montreal stations put off the air by the ice storm which
peaked Jan 9, have been able to return to the air only by changing
frequencies. CJAD, 800, lost all four towers which collapsed due to 6
inches of icing, but came back by using the previously silent 1410
kHz facility abandoned by CFMB when it moved to 1280, with about 8
kW. CBM was knocked off 940, but moved its emergency programming
(mostly instead of CBC Radio One network) to 93.5 FM which is
normally CBC Radio Two; CBM's own new FM frequency 88.5 has been
equipment testing but not ready for usage in the planned permanent
change from AM to FM. CBM programming can be accessed from the home
page of CBC: http://www.radio.cbc.ca (Bill Westenhaver, Montreal, Jan
13, WORLD OF RADIO 924)
MEXICO/COLOMBIA. Someone changed the frequency of the XESHT third
harmonic I reported from 4290 to 4290.3, but it is actually on
4290.0. It should not be confused with the Colombian harmonic on
4290.3 Henrik Klemetz identified as Sincelejo, and which is on the
air at least an hour earlier in the morning from 1100, and which is
also the likely source of the unID harmonic on 5720.4 some have
reported. BTW, I am still hearing the Mexican, best yet on Jan 15
around 1245 with no problem from the utes; whilst in Laredo, TX, Jan
7 around 1730, I was able to detect the 4290 carrier on the YB-400
with nothing but whip antenna in the parking lot of TAMU (Glenn
Hauser, OK)
Klaus Elsebusch, DL3EAY, replies to my remark about not trying to
QSL MW harmonics or informing the station of them: "That is a good
satire, or do you regard this as honest? A good honest DXer HAS to
inform radio stations about harmonics, mixing products, cross
modulation, etc... Harmonics etc. do disturb the services in the range
[where] such things occur..."
I draw this distinction: spurs and harmonics which ACTUALLY
interfere with other stations should be reported, especially if it is
an emergency communications frequency, but this is very seldom the
case, and most MW harmonics appear on relatively clear frequencies, and
allow us to hear stations which would otherwise not be possible. SW
stations' harmonics on much higher frequencies are also usually clear
and of great propagational interest. This is entirely different from a
SW station, for instance, putting spurs at various spots in and around
the SW BC band where it should be restricted to its own single
frequency (Hauser)
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MISC ITEMS
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Mark Hattam - mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1510 One-On-One Sports is the new format on WNRB Boston MA. (ex
religion). Now we hear One-On-One sports on 1520, 1510 and 1440
to name but three channels.
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Glenn Hauser - wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE--as of January 13, 1998 from Glenn Hauser
WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE, SHORT VERSION effective January 13:
NOTE: this is posted only when there have been changes since last
time.
On WWCR Nashville, Thu 2130 9475 [for Dec, Jan, Feb],
Sat 0700 5070 AND 3210, Sat 1230 5070, Sun 0730 5070, [Mon 0400 3215
has been suspended], Tue 1330 15685.
On RFPI Costa Rica: Fri 2000, Sat 0400, 1100, 1800, Sun 0200, 0900,
2300, Mon 0700, Tue 1900, Wed 0300, 1000--on 15050 AM in 1500-2400
period, 7385 2200-1200, 6980-USB 0000-1200, 21465-USB 1200-2400.
On WGTG, Georgia, UT Tue 0500 on 5085-USB. If the tape arrives
before Monday additional unscheduled times may occur, such as UT Mon
0600 on 5085-USB or on 9400 Sat, Sun daytime. If the tape does not
arrive until Tuesday, backup time is UT Wed at 0600 (Hauser, Jan 13)
CONTINENT OF MEDIA: see below, and please add to DX program
listings!
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Klaus Elsebusch - Marienthal,Germany - dl3eay@xxxxxxx
VERONICA FM
Acc. to a tape running on 828 and 1224 kHz VERONICA FM left these
frequencies. It goes
FM 103.8 MHz Zuid Holland (= South Holland Province)
FM 88.1 MHz Midden Nederland (= Middle of the Netherlands)
FM 93.4 MHz Zuid Limburg (= South Limburg Province)
FM 93.0 MHz Midden Zeeland (= Middle Zealand Province)
and via cable all over the Netherlands.
>From Jan. 16, 1998, following stations are fresh 'on-the-air'
1224 kHz Q-Radio
828 kHz Arrow Classic Rock
Dutch TALK RADIO on 1395 kHz:
My report regarding the first seconds/minutes of transmission from TALK
RADIO on Jan 01, 1997, has not been answered untill today. One letter
eMail and snail-mail, each in English, and one letter snail-mail in
Dutch language to their different addresses were sent.
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Wayne Heinen - CO - Nrclog@xxxxxxx
The National Radio Club is proud to announce the release of the Station
Location Map Book 4th edition. This handy BCB DXing reference shows the
location of all US and Canadian Stations (except TIS and Canadian
LPRTs) on indexed maps. The 4th edition edited by Bill Hale also
includes the Latitude and Longitude coordinates of the stations
transmitter location and a section of instructions authored by Dave
Sundius enabling users to calculate distance and bearing to any
station. This edition is 230 pages 8 = X 11 in a three hole punch
format shipped shrink wrapped. Prices to the USA and Canada are:
$12.00 Postpaid to NRC/IRCA Members
$17.95 Postpaid to non-members
For Over seas Airmail Rates: To the Caribbean/Latin America Add 20% To
Europe Add 30%. All other areas Add 40%. (NY Residents Please add
applicable Sales Tax)
Order by specifying SLM to:
National Radio Club
Publications Center
P.O. Box 164
Mannsville, NY 13661-0164
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The National Radio Club now has the 18th edition of their NRC AM Radio
Log for the 1997-1998 DX Season edition.
This annual edition contains 310 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" size, 3-hole
punched, loose leaf format with over 5,400 A.M. Radio station listings
from the United States and Canada. Each station listing consists of
its location, frequency, call, format, network affiliation, station
address, station slogan, day and night transmitter powers. There are
cross references by city and by call letter.
The AM Radio Log is available to NRC/IRCA members for $16.95 post paid.
(Canadian members funds must be US funds)
The Nonmember and Overseas prices of the AM Radio Log are as follows:
U.S. & Canada US$22.95
Latin America US$23.50
Europe US$24.00
All Others US$28.00
All Overseas prices are shipped via AIR and payment must be in US
funds.
Please mail all orders to:
National Radio Club
Publications Center
P.O. Box 164
Mannsville, NY 13661-0164
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phil bytheway - Seattle WA - philip_bytheway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tabulated from WWV at ~0518 GMT nightly
Geomagnetic Summary January 9 1998 through January 15 1998
GEO - Geomagnetic activity pca - polar cap absorption
maf - major flare SA - Solar Activity
mas - major storm spe - satellite proton event
mis - minor storm ss - severe storm
Date FLUX A K SA GEO OTHER
1/ 9 82 5 1 very low quiet-unsettled swa
10 81 5 2 very low quiet-unsettled swa
11 85 7 2 low quiet-unsettled swa
12 96 4 1 low quiet swa
13 90 2 1 low quiet swa
14 90 2 0 low quiet swa
1/15 98 2 1 moderate quiet -
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If you note any AM changes (call, format, slogan, etc), please send
them to the NRC Log coordinator (Wayne Heinen) @ nrclog@xxxxxxx
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END of 1/15/98 IRCA's "AM DX NewsFlash"
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