Interesting development ... based upon monitoring by Glenn, with the announcement for 1190 with 25,000 watts, XEXQ's AM facility has been substantially updated. When I folded the FCC data into the list I put together, when I found material in the FCC list was not duplicated in any other source, and that was clearly not an OLD listing, I added it with a + sign, basically to tell us that this was merely a listing. Obviously, it has now become more than that.
The problem that we have with Mexican information is that there is no single, official, authoritative source of information. Some sources are relatively up to date regarding some estados; other sources are relatively up to date on other states or stations; some networks keep their Internet listings up to date; others are woefully behind ... so I chose to integrate all the listings into what I produced, as a working guide to show what needs to be checked. The FCC material does get updated from time to time with notifications from official sources in Mexico, but there is no real way to tell, in the FCC listings, what is current, what is proposed, what is actually operational, and what is merely some kind of future plan similar to the FCC's FM potential assignment list. All the XENVAs, for example, in the FCC's listing for Mexico have some possible order to them, but I don't know what it is! Maybe one out of 100 will materialize into an actual station. Even the official SCT list, which is updated once a year, contains outdated material, possibly tied in to the license renewal date. Though changes in frequency, power and (rarely) call letters occur, they may not show up in the SCT list until the list following the date the license is renewed. I've kept the FCC transmitter site notifications in the master list I've put together primarily because I like to measure distance and azimuth from my site to the station's site. I have no way of vouching for the accuracy of the transmitter coordinates without plugging each coordinate onto a Mapquest (or other provider) map, then traveling to the transmitter site itself and seeing which site is actually on the ground. Cantu is good for the heavily populated metropolitan areas, but he is behind in some of the rural northwestern Mexican estados, sometimes several years behind, based upon what monitoring we DX'ers have been able to do. Power listings leave much to be desired as well, with many Mexican stations apparently using their daytime powers at night. I've not been as active listening and taping in the last year or so as I had been earlier, but I am finding two Mexico City stations that are now heard consistently when one XEVOZ on 1590, had been heard only occasionally, and the other, XEL on 1260, which hadn't been heard at all until this fall. John Callarman, Krum TX _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
