BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

PDF page of Jacob O. Meyer
Elder Jacob O. Meyer Obituary.
WMLK was one of those strange US-based SW stations - along the lines of
KJES and perhaps WJCR. It was Elder Jacob O. Meyer's personal project.
WMLK didn't really have a the serious support base among the traditional
Christian churches. Assemblies of Yahweh being a minor splinter group.
I don't want to sound negative but I cannot imagine the station ever
returning on the air without Meyer's involvement ... I wonder what is
going to happen to that "BBC 250 kW [transmitting] unit".
The watered-down history of the station is found here:
(Sergei, dxld April 13)
The obituary, with a nice portrait, mentions WMLK shortwave only in
passing among his greater accomplishments. The website
does not yet have the obit, with Elder still greeting us on the home page.
We suspect this may further set back the reconstruxion of WMLK which has
been off the air for years. But perhaps he will eventually become another
active post-mortem shortwave broadcaster? The website has a lot of photos
and info about the antenna damage, and also of the 2009 Winter SWL Fest
among other things.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld April 12)
While shortly after sign-on April 8 at 1510 UT, KVOH 17775 kHz spurs were
audible as noise blobs, plus and minus 145 kHz, at next check 2031 UT they
were much stronger and tho extremely distorted on 17920 and 17630 kHz,
music modulation and the beat matched fundamental. 17775 kHz hit at least
S9+25, tho at the high end of the scale it's not accurately calibrated on
the FRG-7.
15550-USB, WJHR very weakly audible with you know what, April 9 at 1404
UT, shortly faded out. Was benefiting from sporadic E opening, which did
WWCR 15825 kHz a lot more good.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld April 9)
VATICAN STATE 7140 Vatican Radio spurious intermodulation of 7250 /
7360, April 13, 1800 UTC ... ... ID in Romanian. SIO 253.
(Thorsten Hallmann-D, A-DX April 13)
Only observed on days of better propagation.
That's discussed already on March 13 in German Bandwatch mail, before A-10
season started.
Problem 7250 / 7365 in B-09
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