28 April 2007

29 April 2007

WBOH is on freq! 5920 exactly at 0235. Only a trace on //9370, but not enough to tell if on freq.

Radio Tirana 6114.99 at 0255 w/pop mx. Warbly s/off tune. (But not warbly freq.)

Radio Thailand Relay via USA is scheduled heard moderately well on 5890 at 0313+. Guess they don't play the eerie chime ID anymore.

28 April 2007

The station with the mysterious name, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo on 11650 wasn't heard today. I haven't checked on other days.

The talking house, like most, is off freq on 1650.10. It causes a rumble two miles away.

27 April 2007

27 April 2007

A bit late but Sir graves Ghastly (Lawson J. Deming) died on 24 April at 94. He was a Detroit cult phenomenon on WJBK Ch. 2 but he worked in Cleveland and Washington DC. He also worked with the late great movie review Bill Kennedy while in Cleveland. Kennedy later worked for WKBD Ch.50 in Detroit.

Sir Graves Ghastly


26 April 2007

26 April 2007

Pirate on 6975.08 at 0058 playing rock mx. Probably MAC but faint and QRN. USB.

WINB presumed on 9265 at 0109. Very faint something there. I get the same reception with WMLK. They are just too close. Nothing but presumeds today.

25 April 2007

And on the fourth day, Liz crashed the Taurus.

But I can pick up the Talking House on 1650 about 1.75 miles away.

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Got a tentative logging from RTB Belgium on 9770 at 2131 in French. The HFCC list says off at 2200 but heard nothing after 2240. Had to tune out at that time so this is a presumed ID. (I'm so honest.) This is the only station listed on 9770 this summer.

24 April 2007

Yes!!! Nabbed Dearborn 1690 and Riverview 1650 in Ann Arbor. Very good indeed.

24 April 2007

23 April 2007

My new Ford gets FM very well, too. WKSU 89.7 was an easy catch from the western suburbs. Usually I could only hear that from I-75 south of Detroit.

Also WCMU 89.5 sounded local. It should sound that way but the old Chrysler couldn't pull in the signal all that well.

22 April 2007

Got a Ford Taurus today. A real one, not a 500 or whatever they renamed. The radio works much better than my old Chrysler Concorde. But I still can't get the Ambassador Bridge from the western suburbs. The x-band usually overloaded on my Chrysler.

Here are three DX catches, however.
-1650 at 1:03 pm EST from 1.1 miles away.
-1650 WPWK899 Riverview TIS w/NOAA wx at 1:05pm EST
-1670 WPZV580 Wyandotte TIS w/NOAA wx at 1:07pm EST
-1690 WQEW301 Dearborn Heights TIS w/city info at 1:09 EST (yes! finally!)

21 April 2007

VATICAN: VOR 9860 at 0321 only VOR freq to NA on now. Don't know where the others are.

20 April 2007

20 April 2007

Heard TWR Monaco (via Shijak Albania) in Polish on 6235 at 0515 s/on. Barely audible on //7380. TWR Europe is not common here.

NHK via England loud and clear at 0509 with the end of the news. Very clear transmission. A nice change from the BBC which used to be on this frequency.

And 750 WSB S9 at 0530+ with minimal QRM yet louder than adjacent WJR at S9+20. The transmitters at WJR have been screwy for years and often reported to be running lower than 50kw.

19 April 2007

Pacific Missionary Aviation has the neatest looking radio station. I would like to work at such a place.


PMA station picture

18 April 2007

Melissa Scott on 11870 via Costa Rica (actually 11869.xx but I forgot to write it down). This freq not often heard. 11775 best during the day via Anguilla, if you have to listen.

Also Croatia very difficult to hear on 6165 at local sunset. Something's there, but I can't tell what. This used to be at least a fair catch. I have yet to check the entire sked.

18 April 2007

17 April 2007

Again, nothing from Blacksburg. The killer originally moved to Detroit but this has only been mentioned in incredibly sensational ways. Ugh.

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Radio Korea lists an 0230-0300 broadcast in English via Sackville but I didn't hear it.

16 April 2007

Nothing from Blacksburg, VA on 710 WFNR or 1430 WKEX. The first is blocked by WOR New York and the latter by CKHT Toronto.

16 April 2007

15 April 2007

I got to hear Cardinal Maida say Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday in Massachussetts. Heard on WEWN 9490 at 1910+. He has a distinctive voice.

The official frequency is supposed to be 9450. I may have written it down wrong or it may be x9450. I will check tomorrow.

14 April 2007

14 April 2007

My website is finally thoroughly updated.

http://www.geocities.com/alera1/

Finally got my antenna untangled from the bushes so maybe I can list some real loggings here for once.

13 April 2007

730: WJYM at 2158 with real local ID, as opposed to the entire list of Jimmy Swaggart stations at the top of the hour. Bowling Green, OH. Not DX but the last station heard in my now defunct car, and it had to be him. I'll sneak out and see if I can hear KSL-at least the radio works, although it overloads on the x-band.

USA: KTBN 15590 at 1838 w/some preacher bragging about TV saving people. Says TBN has 15,000 stations and 66 satellite transmissions. The TBN website itself says 500 stations and 33 sat transmissions. Most entertaining.

13 April 2007

12 April 2007

INDIA: AIR 15050 at 1150+ in Tamil. Poor and fluttery signal but quite common.

USA: WYFR 9625 at 1140+ w/religion. No sign of CBC NQ.

11 April 2007

11 April 2007

Local IBOC Stations:

560 WMUZ (but not their sister station on 1340)
760 WJR
910 WFDF
950 WWJ
1130 WDFN
1200 WCHB
1270 WXYT

AUSTRIA: Possibly heard AWR 11955 at 2125 in English to Africa. Extremely faint.

10 April 2007

I was looking at the lower FM frequencies on Michiguide. There are quite a few errors. Here's the list:

88.1 CBEE Chatham ON CBC1 //CBE 1500 89.3
88.1 WBFH Blfd Hills MI Alternative; Bloomfield Hills HS
88.1 WDTR Monroe MI Con Chr //88.1 WLGH
88.1 WHPR Highld Pk MI African American
88.1 WSDP Plymouth MI Plymouth School District
88.3 WAQQ Onsted MI Con Chr
88.3 WCBN Ann Arbor MI Alternative; University of Michigan
88.3 WNFA Port Huron MI Con Chr
88.3 WSHJ Southfield MI Hip Hop; Southfield High School
88.3 WXOU Auburn Hls MI Alternative; Oakland Univ (Rochester Hills)
88.3 WXTS Toledo OH Alternative; Toledo School District
88.3 WXUT Toledo OH Alternative; University of Toledo
88.3 W202CA Detroit MI Con Chr translator for WAKL Flint
88.5 WYSA Wauseon OH Con Chr //WYSZ Toledo OH
88.7 CIMX Windsor ON Modern Rock
88.9 W205BH Port Huron MI Religious
88.9 W205BZ Adrian MI Christian
89.1 WEMU Ypsilanti MI Public: Jazz/Talk HD info
89.1 WPHS Warren MI Warren HS
89.1 W206BI Hamtramck MI Ethnic
89.3 WBLD Orchard Lk MI Orchard Lake HS
89.3 WHFR Dearborn MI Henry Ford Community College
89.3 WYSZ Toledo OH Con Chr //88.5 Wausseon
89.5 WAHS Auburn Hills Alternative/Classical Avondale HS
89.5 WBCY Archbold OH Con Chr //WBCL
89.5 WOVI Novi MI Alternative; Novi High School
89.5 W208BB Royal Oak MI Calvary Chapel
89.9 CBE Windsor ON Classical CBC2
90.1 W211BI Ann Arbor MI Oldies
90.1 W211BQ Adrian MI Oldies
90.3 CBEG Sarnia, ON CBC1; //1500 88.1
90.3 WOTL Toledo OH Religious
90.7 WNFR Sandusky MI Religious
90.9 WRCJ Detroit MI Public
91.3 WGTE Toledo OH Public
91.3 WSGR Pt Huron MI St. Clair Community College
91.5 CJAM Windsor ON University of Windsor
91.7 WUOM Ann Arbor MI Public University of Michigan
91.9 WORW Pt Huron MI High School

10 April 2007

9 April 2007

1690: Dearborn Heights TIS heard in Westland at about 2000.

1690 WVON Berwyn booming in at 2338 w/ads and wx.

CROATIA: Where is it? No sign of Croatia on 6165 at 2200+

EGYPT: R Cairo 9990.09 at 2230 in English. Some talk, mostly music. Barely readable.

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The religion pages on my website are getting a complete overhaul. The only one finished at this point is the evangelical page. I am in the process of creating a new page and editing another.

08 April 2007

8 April 2007


I love this cartoon. I will post logs later today on this very post.

* * *Pirate* * *
MAC at 2319 on 6941.62 w/60s tune. Very faint.

7 April 2007

My website is finally updated. Many language skeds.
http://www.geocities.com/alera1/

* * *

Nothing but noise today. Might go back to an inverted-v antenna but it's very cold here.

* * *

For Michiganders with scanners, MDOT has a list of AWOS stations.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/infocard2002_18160_7.pdf

A good national website is http://www.airnav.com

YIP from Willow Run Airport is kaput on 359. Carleton used to have AWOS on 115.700 but the MDOT info says that it's only a navigation frequency I recall weather and code at the same time but I hardly ever get out that way to check. Maybe when the weather warms up.

Also, Houghton Lake was a no go the past fall. I heard nothing while right in front of the airport.


Hopefully I will get plenty of sleep tonight and DX all day tomorrow.

6 April 2007

My website is updated. http://www.geocities.com/alera1/

Here's the latest 9290:

April 6th
WCS/RWI 23.00-00.00 UTC


April 7th
German Caroline 6.00 - 8.00 UTC
Latvia Today 8.00 - 9.00 UTC
Radio Joystick 9.00 - 10.00 UTC
WCS/RWI 23.00 - 00.00 UTC

April 8th
Radio Joystick 9.00 - 10.00 UTC
WCS/RWI 10.00 - 11.00 UTC
Radio City 11.00 - 13.00 UTC
Latvia Today 13.00 - 14.00 UTC

April 9th
WCS/RWI 9.00 - 10.00 UTC
Radio Marabu 10.00 - 13.00 UTC

Good listening (Tom Taylor) via Mike Terry

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RASD comes in well here daily from 2300-2400 in Spanish. Arabic earlier. This is the clandestine from Western Sahara. Loud and clear on 5 April.

5 April 2007

My friend Niel loves TIS stations, so I copied these from http://www.michiguide.com.

Freq Call City
530 CIRS Sault Ste Marie Travel Info info
530 WNHC787 St. Ignace Mackinac Bridge info
530 WNMQ279 Holland Community info
530 WPAM594 Oshtemo Community info
530 WPHH450 Big Rapids Ferris St. U info
530 WPMN714 Marysville Community info
530 WQCJ503 Lansing not known info
920 WPDE847 Romulus Metro Airport info
1610 KNNV404 Madison Heights MDOT info
1610 WNHC787 Mackinaw City Mackinac Bridge info
1610 WPKI666 Grand Rapids Ford Airport info
1610 WPLS727 Port Huron Blue Water Bridge info
1610 WPQB866 Mt. Pleasant Community info
1610 WPYD802 Clinton Township Community info
1610 WPYF269 Detroit Ambassador Bridge info
1610 WQCB655 Battle Creek not known info
1610 WQEE251 Rochester Hills Community info
1620 WPXI292 St. Clair County Community info
1620 WQBQ687 Wayne Community info
1630 WPJR341 Detroit area MDOT info
1630 WPJR342 Detroit area MDOT info
1650 WPWK899 Riverview Community info
1650 WQEP901 Farmington Hills Community info
1660 WQDH757 Mt. Clemens Community info
1670 WPZV580 Wyandotte Community info
1670 WPZY431 Livonia Community info
1690 WPZC633 Warren Community info
1690 WQEQ301 Dearborn Heights Community info
1700 WPPZ755 Westland Community info
1700 WPTC520 Sterling Heights Community info
1700 WPUA590 Trenton Community info
1700 WPWI622 Southfield Community info

As mentioned earlier, I have not heard 1630 Detroit or 1690 Dearborn Hts for awhile.

920 is blocked by Radio Disney even if you're at Metro Airport. Thanks Flint for sending that crap down here.

4 April 2007

I caught WNZK 690 at 2100+ (5pm EST) in Chaldean. It's really Aramaic. This sounds almost like Arabic except the final syllables are shorter. The program is called Radio Orient as per sked. There are tons of commercials for businesses in the northern suburbs where there are many Chaldeans.

The WNZK sked can be found at http://www.birach.com/wnzkpgm.html


WNZK broadcasts on 680 at night. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings every Sunday at 6am EST (1100 UTC winter/1000 UTC summer). The program is called Music and the Spoken Word. http://www.musicandthespokenword.com. The choir's website is http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org. I explain a lot of LDS things on my website at http://www.geocities.com/alera1/

* * *

Also, 1270 WXYT noted at 4:57pm (2057 UTC) without IBOC. This is unusual, which means of course that I couldn't ID the adjacent channels because of reception.

* * *

And 1290 WLBY Ann Arbor is still alive and well. Solid S7 signal at 4:50pm (2050) with usual talk format-obnoxious rock tune followed by complaints, just like conservative talk formats.

Years ago the station was WNRS, which played oldies. I hate oldies but I had a t-shirt from these folks which I wished I had kept.

* * *

I heard Turkey faint on 9785 at 1826 w/IS. Listed in English as per DX Mix #462 dated 3 April via Wolfgang Bueschel but too faint to ID. Propagation deplorable today.

3 April 2007

AHHH!!! According to Glenn Hauser (DXLD 7-042 3 April) the FCC approved IBOC to run all night. This will ruin any chance of catching a talking house underneath Warner Robbins which is difficult enough, even in front of the house itself.

2 April 2007

730:WJYM is the Jimmy Swaggart outlet from Bowling Green, OH. It is a groundwave transmission (obviously) overtaken by WMTC Vancleve, KY at sunset. WMTC signs off every night just after 0000. They have brief nx and wx and then mention 1000 watts daytime. After 30-60m I hear WLIL from Lenoir, TN playing country western all night.

73/Liz
http://www.geocities.com/alera1/

1 April 2007

The best radio club on earth is the Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts at http://mare.radio.tripod.com.

Some MAREs (I won't say who) are behind the completely outrageous BLANDX at http://www.blandx.com. This site describes the DX hobby more than any other site.

There was a complimentary review in the Radio Netherlands Blog at http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/index.php?paged=2 dated 1 April 2007.

I am in the process of updating my website with A-07 frequencies. Be patient-I will yet get into this hobby again.

And two non-DX items: I went to Detroit (which doesn't seem to have light bulbs in their traffic signals) on Sunday and did not hear any MDOT station on 1630. I haven't heard those for years but I keep checking. Also, the Dearborn Heights Municipal Station also seems to be kaput. I have a log for them on 18 February. I only heard them two or three times.

73/Liz
http://www.geocities.com