I checked my slightly-out-of-date database last night and didn't find any matches. It's a good point, though - there have been several US stations running a format with this name. These stations often seem to be "night power challenged" and not ID often.
On the other hand, judging by the DX test results and other catches to date, you guys in the north are having a huge DX season compared to my neck of the woods so it could well be the XE after all.... 73 Tim Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:46:04 To:Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America<[email protected]> Subject: [IRCA] Imaginery Mexican 0n 1440 Khz last night...... At 01:52 PM 1/25/2008 -0500, you wrote: > > 1440 XECCC Fiesta Mexicana Guadalajara, > > MEXICO Jan/24/08 2002-2130 EST SS FR-GD > > Male DJ Spoke Spanish @2002. ID given as "Fiesta Mexicana". Lively > > Trumpet Music and SS Vocals. Mentioned the "Super Bowl" @ 2007. > > Spanish Ballads. AD for a "Pharmacy Latina". Accordion Music and > > Many Mentions of "Mexico" @ 2018. Still in @ 2120 EST. > > Lively Mexican Music. Trumpets and SS Vocals. OM spoke SS, ments of > > "Mexicana". > > > > NEW STN. 10KW / 1 KW Nights 2000 MILES!!!!! > >Pardon my skepticism, but this one seems very iffy. Catching a >Mexican on a regional channel like 1440 from the Northeast is >unlikely, to say the least. Also, the Guadalajara station is not >XECCC, it's XEABCJ, and they are a relay of XEABC-760 ("ABC Radio", >with a news/talk/sports format). I'd look for US stations on 1440 >that might carry a Mexican programming format... WCDL, perhaps? > >Barry Barry.......No problem on the Skepticism.....I'm a skeptic too.....and try not to believe everything people tell me!! Regarding your comments above...here's my reply...... >Catching a Mexican on a regional channel like 1440 from the Northeast is >unlikely, to say the least. I agree...but not impossible. To back this up......I must say that in the last 25 Days.....I have heard a PILE of Stations on the Sony SRF-59....and now the Sony SRF-T615 Ultralites....that I too would not have believed until I heard them with my own ears. I have heard over 25 New Stations since I began using these 2 handhelds.....these are stations I have never heard on My Drake R8B, NRD-535D, Collins 651S1, Collins HF-2050, Collins R-390A, and Hammarlund SP-600 in over 30 years of AM BCB DX'ing. I don't understand it...and I too am scratching my head trying to figure out how a Single AA Battery can pull this stuff in???? It don't make any sense....and I can't explain it....It just is!!! "Also, the Guadalajara station is not XECCC, it's XEABCJ, and they are a relay of XEABC-760 ("ABC Radio", with a news/talk/sports format)." Well.....I didn't have any up to date Printed References available at the time...so I checked on the Internet for "Fiesta Mexicana on 1440 KHZ". Everything that came up for that was "XECCC Fiesta Mexicana" in Guadalajara.....so that is all I had to work with. The Station ID's heard....and several of them were quite Clear...were "Fiesta Mexicana" At the same time I was hearing this station..........I was also hearing the Mexican on 730 XEX....and the Mexican on 540 XEWA. There were a few other frequencies which I suspected were Mexicans as well....but couldn't dig the stations out from the QRM well enough to Identify. So....with that said......It wasn't just the 1440 Station I heard...but several others from Mexico as well.....what that proves is Nothing I guess....but it does support the 1440 reception if nothing else??? >I'd look for US stations on 1440 that might carry a Mexican programming >format... WCDL, perhaps? Welll...everything I can find on the net shows WCDL as a 5000 Watt DAYTIME ONLY STN....are they on ALL NIGHT now??? Being a skeptic like you Barry.......I listened to this station for OVER 1 & 1/2 Hours....because I figured eventually I was gonna hear an ENGLISH ID for an AMERICAN STN.....or I was gonna hear an AD for an AMERICAN BUSINESS....or mention of a USA CITY........or something that would confirm that this was not MEXICO I was hearing.....I truly believed for most of this reception...that It couldn't be Mexico!! But after listening for all that time......the ONLY thing I could confirm was that the station was ID'ing as "Fiesta Mexicana"........and didn't give ANY CLUE as to being located anywhere but Mexico. So with that Ammo.....I tried to find out on the net what I had heard...and the only reference for "Fiesta Mexicana on 1440 Khz" was XECCC in Guadalajara. So in closing....."Can I prove it was Guadalajara Mexico ID'ing as "Fiesta Mexicana".....I guess not. But I sure as heck haven't got anything else to put it anywhere else at this point. If there is anyone out there that knows of a USA Station on 1440 Khz....that ID's as "Fiesta Mexicana"......and "Never mentions" anything about the City they are located in the USA......Never Gives an English ID...even on the Hour....or even a Spanish one that puts it in the USA.....and never runs any USA ads.....and Only makes references to Mexico when they are talking.....by all means....please Pass the info on to me so I can "Correct" this reception so the Guys using all the Multi $$$ Radios are not offended by a Pocket Weasel hearing something that seems to good to be true. I'm reporting what I'm hearing guys....and if you have been following the loggings over the past 3 weeks.....I can understand that you "May not believe"...... The guys using the Sony Pocket Weasels may be the only ones "Able to believe" some of this stuff!! Up until 3 weeks ago....I was a Non Believer too. Not trying to be snotty about any of this....but it seems like a "few" People really don't like the idea of people hearing wicked DX on a Handheld Radio...and I agree...it is almost sacrilege......but it is ....what it is. With that........I sit here on Pins and Needles...and await the Barrage of Emails ..........which will hopefully ID this station for me......'cause barring that.....I guess I have an UNID!! .....or maybe a Mexican...that no one Believes!! Surely someone out there in the USA can support what Barry is saying.......or maybe not?? Salute........ROB. Robert S. Ross VA3SW Box 1003, Stn. B. London, Ontario CANADA N6A5K1 Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! 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