** MEXICO. XEXQ is back! I`ve been keeping a close watch on 6045 since R. Universidad de San Luís Potosí disappeared almost 4 months ago. My last log of it was Aug 3, in DXLD 7-092.
Finally, Nov 23 at 0625 I detected the tell-tale subaudible het mixing with KBS World Radio in Spanish via Sackville on 6045. After that went off at 0629, a hefty carrier of S9 +10 remained on frequency, and I kept listening until 0643, but absolutely no modulation heard. Retuned at 1352 and now there was classical music, good signal on 6045, Gaîté Parisienne. The can-can girls were celebrating with high kicks! Segués to more pop classics with no announcements, XEXQ`s usual style, until 1359, timecheck for 7:59, ID as R. Universidad, 25,000 watts on 1190 AM, no mention of SW. Then a string of government PSAs including one for transplants from the Secretaría de Salud, and another full ID for XEXQ including their phone number 826-1345, 8:02 TC and 1403 back to music. Still coming in well past 1452 at S9+10. It will be interesting to see in solstitial conditions how far it can penetrate north of the border during daytime, perhaps even at low noon. There is more news here, as their MW frequency used to be 1460 with 250 watts. Seems there has been a major upgrade to 1190 with 25 kW, along with a change in transmitter site. Note the night power is only 300 watts. John Callarman`s Mexican list of early 2007 has this entry: 1460 SAN LUIS POTOSÍ XEXQ "Radio Universidad*" San Luis Potosí. (250/250*) Universidad de San Luis Potosí, General Mariano Aristo 245, Colonia Histórico 78001 T: (444) 98-26-13-84 uaslp.mx/rtu http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1912 N 22-09-08 W 100-58-39 (1,000/500)(+ N 22-10-19 W 100-57-48 25,000/300 on 1190) In this originally color-coded listing, the first part was from WRTH 2007, the long URL from SCT, and the last part about 1190 from Fred Cantú`s website. I haven`t found exactly what the plus symbol means in the lengthy introduxion to John`s list, but maybe it`s construction permit. Craig Healy`s Westlist, allegedly offline, came up in a Google search, the SLP state page as of Nov 2006, already showing XEXQ on 1190 with 25/0.3 kW. http://www.am-dx.com/lists/104stat.htm There is precious little on the UASLP website about the radio station. Searching on XEXQ, we got this item about a radio marathon when they were on 1460, date Thursday Sept 30, no year given, but has to be several years old since in 2007 that was a Sunday: http://www.uaslp.mx/Avisos.aspx?na=128 Oh, here are pages about this year`s Radio Marathon, which was on Sept 28, and as of then they were already on 1190, with 6045 also displayed. http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1944 http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1948 The page I had previously bookmarked showing their FM 88.5 program schedule, at least, is now blank: http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1915 Both http://www.uaslp.mx/rtu and http://uaslp.mx/rtu no longer work. Digging further into the UASLP website, found this about the station: http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=3516 which says they are on the ``sixth shortwave band`` and also webcasting, but any further details? Of course not! Are there any further links from this page, such as to a webcast or a program schedule? No. It does show the person in charge, LCC. Leticia Zavala Pérez. Despite the abysmally poorly-designed website, we are delighted that XEXQ is reactivated on SW and hope it is back to stay this time. The signal seems better than before, and the frequency is relatively clear much of the time. Aoki shows hardly anything else on 6045 between 0630 and 1430 UT when India starts. It`s also of note that all three currently active Mexican SW stations are cultural ones, playing lots of classical music. (Excluding XERTA 4810, reported once recently but still not heard again here.), while zero US SW stations are cultural, let alone non-commercial and would not be caught dead playing classical. (One could hardly classify VOA as cultural these days.) Clear evidence that the United Mexican States are way ahead of the United American States. Rechecked at 1656 Nov 23, 6045 still with traces, but noise level too much for it. Next recheck not until 2002, when a very weak carrier could be detected, and could have been something else. At this hour not much else was evident on 49m, but stronger carriers from Cairo were in on 6250, 6290. 6045 was not audible around 0715 and 1445 checks Nov 24. Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla has been in contact with the station, and found out the following: they have a new SW transmitter made in Chile capable of 1 kW, but initial tests were only 250 watts like the old one, and with the old antenna which is an inverted V, 12 meters on a side, oriented N/S. They planned to carry out more tests this weekend and hope to be on the air regularly next week. Schedule is 1300-0500 (tho I first heard their carrier at 0630) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, 5950, Nov 23 at 1406-1414, YL reading Met Service Coastal Forecasts, lots of rough seas, I guess covering every part of NZ`s formidable coastline, identified with unfamiliar names à la Britain, concluding at 1413 with Chatham Islands, 1414 to a short story reading. Very specialised programming, hardly of any interest to the other Pacific Islands, or indeed anybody not directly involved with each coastal area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. 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