** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Daytime LW beacon bandscan Sept 28 at 2050 UT includes: 356 PTT, 350 RG, and 341 EI. Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm 356 PTT is Pratt KS, 341 EI is Enid OK of course, but no listing for 350 RG! (NOT to be confused with RG on 352 from Rarotonga!) MARE Log Summary Aug 2017 reminds us that our RG is still on the air: 350 RG +1.0 -1.0 Oklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World A/P; 03 Apr (HF), 10 Sep (DT) (Glenn Hauser, Great Salt Plains OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1040, Sept 28 driving by the transmitter site of KGWA 960, twice, just west of it on north-south Oakwood Road, I am tuned to one of its spur frequencies, and observe that only at quite close range, it is strongest and clearly audible in noise, just to the north, but a null to the west despite being closest to the 4-tower parallelogram there, thus matching roughly the daytime direxional pattern on 960 itself, NNW/SSE to favor the rest of Enid and incidentally OKC beyond, where it can hardly be missed tuning between WKY and KTOK (if anyone ever does that any more). KGWA spur also on 880 making a SAH with KRVN Lexington NE, plus and minus almost exactly 80 kHz; why? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1360 & 1420, Sept 28 at 1858 UT, the KCRC 1390 Enid spurs are still audible out of town at Helena, making slightly different hets against real 1360 and 1420 stations; but not the second-order ones on 1330 and 1450 I can hear in town (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1090, Sept 28 at 1854 UT, Catholic Radio discussing whether this one or 1190 has a better signal in certain areas, during apparent fundraiser. 1090 is KEXS Excelsior Springs MO, the highest-frequency KC-market station to make it here on midday groundwave, 472 km = 293 miles. Has a CP (no longer merely an APP) for increase from 8 to 10 kW daytime, same pattern with major lobe WSW but broad enough for some of that to the SW (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Sept 28 at 1857 UT, from this angle too still no audible daytime signal from KLEY Wellington KS. Its 250 watts are either off, or extremely direxional away from OK (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1150, Sept 28 at 1856 UT, I am bandscanning on caradio near Helena OK, NW of Enid. This frequency mainly bears KSAL Salina KS, but underneath is C&W music making a fast SAH. The latter could either be 1000-watt KNED McAlester OK, 289 km = 179 miles, or 530-watt KOLJ Quanah TX (across the SW corner of OK), virtually equidistant at 284 km = 176 miles; both with C&W formats and all three of them non-direxional daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, Sept 28 at 1859 UT, still no signal audible from KGNO Dodge City KS. Can`t believe it`s funxioning at 5 kW ND which should be making it on daytime groundwave across the Ogallala Aquifer, only 205 km = 127 miles. Is it gone, QRP, or really out of whack direxional away? (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Sept 28 at 1859 UT, promo Rockin` M Theater, car ad for Hays KS, ID for KNNS Larned and KRMR-FM Hays [105.7], 1900 UT Fox ``news`` (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 92.9, Sept 28 at 1920 UT, only thing of interest on an FM bandscan is weak signal in Spanish mixing with weak signal in English. Per WTFDA FM Database, no OKies on 92.9 are SS, but one Kansan: KMML, (// KSMM 101.5), 92.9, CIMARRON KS, 32.0 kW H&V, 186.0 m HAAT, 37-56-30, 100-18-44, Spanish, REGIONAL MEXICAN, LA MEXICANA. Cimarrón is between Dodge and Garden Cities, 232 km = 144 miles (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 659, Sept 28 at 1900 UT, The Answer 660 in The Metroplex has QRM from a carrier 1 kHz below it which cuts on for 5 seconds, off for 1 second, repeats. Loops east/west. Not coming from my car or anything in it, and not noted anywhere else. Not a harmonic from LW as nothing like it circa 330, 220 or 165 kHz. I`m parked at the military monument just south of Helena OK with three antique tanx, not looping toward them either. Possibly connected with security system at the Helena prison, a few miles away to the NW? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0433 UT September 29 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
