soomre@mred.DEC (01/17/86)
In reference to Will Martin's comments, I have missed Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio" too. It is not as interesting as it used to be and he does not give that many DX tips, but there are tid-bits of information. I heard it the other night, Friday night (EST) Sat morning (UTC) at 0400 on 6185 khz. Aparently WRNO did have transmitter problems and did not broadcast the program on the weekend on 1/4. WRNO seems to be very sporatic as they are on and off the air. I did not get a chance to listen Saturday night or Sunday morning, so I don't know if the program was broadcast or not. ....... Ed Soomre N1BFF
wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) (01/21/86)
I can add a bit more on this; since WRNO was off the air due to continuing transmitter-tube problems on at least part of two weekends, on the weekend of 11-12 Jan, they broadcast three different World of Radio programs, one in each regularily-scheduled time slot, in order to catch up. Unfortunately, the local-Saturday-evening (6:30 PM CST; 0030 GMT Sunday) broadcast on 7355 kHz is often unreadable here in St. Louis; either due to them transmitting on lower power at that time, or atmospherics and skip zones being bad for that frequency at that time on the path between New Orleans and St. Louis. [Other times, WRNO has boomed in on 7355; not so lately.] The local-Friday-evening (10:30 PM CST; 0430 GMT Saturday) on 6185 kHz is not bad, but has been subject to much variation recently. The best is usually the Sunday-morning airing (8:00 AM CST; 1400 GMT Sunday) on 9715 kHz. However, there is now another outlet -- World of Radio is also broadcast on KCBI Dallas; Fridays at 3:00 PM CST (2100 GMT), on 11790 kHz, when most working people would have to use a timer to tape it in their absence, and repeated on Sundays at 12:30 PM CST (1830 GMT) on 11925. [I may be wrong about this frequency, as I'm doing this from memory -- maybe 11905? It's whatever the regular frequency KCBI has been using before they switch to 11790 at 1900 GMT.] This last just began this week. I've listened once to each KCBI broadcast -- the first Friday afternoon one on 27 Dec., when it came in great, and the first Sunday afternoon one on 19 Jan., when it was fairly poor, and only marginally readable. (By the way, any propagation experts out there care to offer their opinions as to whether I have reasonable expectations or am expecting too much about these local US shortwave broadcasters? Being here in the heartland [St. Louis, MO], I have been expecting that I should get a good signal from any of them [WRNO, KCBI, and WHRI in Indiana, which is carrying Radio Earth now every evening at 0300 GMT on 7400 kHz] at any time of the day or night. This is not the case. Reception is often marginal, and I sometimes cannot tell if the station is off the air [like WRNO has been a lot recently] or if reception is just so poor that I can't make out any recognizable modulation. Am I just too close to most of them, so that I am in their skip zone much of the time? Or are their antenna orientations putting nulls toward me? [That last might be quite likely for WHRI, which has a south-aimed antenna, while I am to their west.] Or is it just the wretched propagation we have been enduring lately?) Will Martin ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin