All times and dates strictly UT [5 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398
with internal antenna only; or Sony SRF-59 as specified; Nissan stock caradio
as specified; FRG-7 with E/W longwire as specified
These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also
VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives
without much delay, such as
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and
publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open
access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page20
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of
USA, unidentified, separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Jan 31 at 2102 UT check, no news, just `True Oldies` music
even at hourtop from KZLS Enid-Hennessey-Oklahoma City. But not for long! Tnx
to Artie Bigley for finding this on the reactivated RadioInsight.com board for
Oklahoma, posted by Lance Venta, yet *another* format change for 1640; call
change coming too? ---
``Reid Mullins And Talk Coming To KZLS Oklahoma City
Last Updated on January 30, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Champlin Broadcasting will begin shifting "True Oldies 1640" KZLS Enid/Oklahoma
City to Talk on Monday, February 3. Reid Mullins, who had hosted mornings at
Clear Channel Talk 1000 KTOK until last August will join the station Monday for
a daily program from 7 to 10 am [13-16 UT, probably meaning M-F only, not
daily].
McCarvilleReport.com states that "The new show on KZLS will bring back the
"information and news" paradigm that former KTOK listeners were accustomed to,
Mullins said. Guests will include local, state, and national political figures,
commentators, and experts in various fields and sectors from agriculture,
energy, healthcare, immigration and more."
Mullins joining KZLS will kick off another format change at the station, which
picked up the Oldies format and KZLS call letters when sister Classic Country
"99.7 Hank-FM" KNAH debuted in late September. KZLS will shift to News/Talk in
all dayparts by the end of February.``
One comment so far: ``It was a real treat to hear the Oldies on 1640 via
skywave at night in the Dallas area. They had a real nice processor setting too
and were not handicapped by the reduced analog bandwidth which so many AM
stations seem to run as a default these days. Nothing like Oldies in marvelous
mono on skywave. I knew it was too good to last :-( Jay Walker``. I guess the
1630 DFW outlet is evitable (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Feb 4 at 1320 UT, as expected, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-Oklahoma
City has started talking, one guy about school closings due to snow storm
around state; 1333 UT still ID as KZLS, PSAs including Oklahoma National Guard.
1336 UT Hank-FM farm news update on the Radio Oklahoma Network; more of same at
1436 UT; 1441 UT name of show is `The Ride with Reid` [Mullins], alluding to
drive-time, not advisable under current conditions. Supposedly, talk blox are
being phased in the rest of February, with part of the airtime on KZLS still
filled with True Oldies: yes, back to music after 1600 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
WORLD OF RADIO 1707, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Feb 5 at 1516, KZLS, Enid-Hennessey-OKC, Reid Mullins,
reactivated talkhost ex-KTOK, is saying that there will still be 21 hours of
True Oldies from 10 am (16 UT), until his next show tomorrow morning at 7
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
============
** U S A. 640, Jan 31 at 2047 UT on the caradio, I find that our local KEPN
Moore OK cuts off the air, back on, and at 2048 UT off again and stays off, and
along with it, daytime IBOC! As I am driving around central Enid, I hasten to
find a place to park with the least line noise, to go after DX on this suddenly
clear frequency! I stop in front of a day care center near Seventh & Randolph,
and hope I don`t look too suspicious.
I`m hoping for WOI Ames IA, and that`s obviously just what I am getting on 640,
weak but clear during ``Science Friday from PRI`` (no longer NPR, since demise
of `Talk of the Nation`), Ira Flatow interviewing Alan Alda. There is also a
slow SAH from much weaker station. Assuming skywave is not in play at
mid-afternoon, most likely the 50 kW non-direxional daytime groundwave signal
from WCRV Collierville TN (Memphis), with the only other possibility KTIB
Thibodaux LA which is 5 kW, direxional N/S-ish. KFI is a bit far.
At 2058 UT, winter weather advisory for Iowa; 2059 UT mentions University of
Northern Iowa (also on KUNI, I assume), and ID for ``Iowa Public Radio News,
WOI, 640, Ames-Des Moines``. This is 5 kW non-direxional at a city-to-city
distance of 726 km = 451 statute miles, over high ground-conductivity central
USA, and not really surprising since 540 KWMT Fort Dodge even further is
constantly audible (tho mixed with The Metroplex), also 5 kW, but lower-end
advantage and also somewhat direxional this way.
BTW, NRC AM Log shows WOI with IBOC too, but too weak to tell here, and I
recall that such has recently been denied by closer monitors. It`s great to be
hearing the *one* public radio station possible here on MW groundwave (and
nothing really on nighttime skywave either, besides CBW, vs XET). {And since
KSU relinquished KKSU 580 Manhattan KS ex-KSAC, to WIBW Topeka becoming
fulltime.}
KEPN`s AM + IBOC offness also opens up 650 for daytime DX (but not 630, still
infested with nothing but IBOC noise from KMIK 620 The Metroplex).
650, Jan 31 at 2052 UT, just as I tune up from 640 WOI, immediately hear
``KGAB.com``; weak but steady. At 2055 UT this has a fast SAH on it. Could it
be: 50 kW WSM? 250-watt KIKK Pasadena (Houston) TX? 10 kW WNMT Nashwauk MN?
Surely one of those. KGAB is 8.5 kW from Orchard Valley (Cheyenne) WY; for WY
on daytime groundwave, it helps to be in the SE corner closest to here. I`ve
heard it before in daytime when KEPN IBOC was off, and it`s not unusual at SRS
or at night on 500 [sic] watts with WSM nulled. Now 660 KSKY Balch Springs
(Irving [Dallas]) TX puts some splatter on it.
670, Jan 31 at 2053 UT, religious ad with phone 1-888-252-5345, the numbers
spelling out BIBLE## something, address in Texas, but this is no doubt 50 kW
KLTT Commerce City (Denver) CO, which always has a marginal daytime groundwave
signal here; to hear it, just a matter of signal/noise, but checked to compare
with KGAB. What else is in?
830, Jan 31 at 2056 UT, weak sports talk, WCCO? Yes, ID at 2058 UT also with an
HD2 FM frequency I don`t copy, must not be the NRC-AM Log-listed 103.5, since
that`s only a translator. 50 kW ND WCCO is also an extreme groundwave catch
from here at 1032 km = 641 statute miles.
Since it`s less than a sesquimonth after Solstice, the question arises whether
any of this is really skywave? Enid sunset is not until 2357 UT, and local mean
noon is always 1832 UT, so halfway between them would be 2114.5 UT [corrected],
just after this session. All these signals are weak but steady, more like
groundwave than skywave.
Since I am getting WCCO, try 1500 for KSTP, which if in, would likely be
skywave at top end of band, but nothing audible other than my nearest, 500-watt
KPGM Pawhuska OK, providing at 2101 UT Jan 31 a ``WWLS Sports Animal`` ID which
KEPN itself cannot.
I should have checked 1540 for KXEL Waterloo IA, which is typically skywaving
early. After some shopping, next check at 2123 UT finds that 640 KEPN has come
back on in the meantime, so the fun is over (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, Feb 3 at 1302 UT, Mexican music interrupted by ``KLTK, Radio
Las Américas`` ID with the letters pronounced in English, right back to music;
briefly mixed with another SS talking; 1305 UT, KLTK with a ``dos frecuencias``
canned ID for ``##80 y 1140 AM``. I still think it`s 1380, i.e. station with
same slogan, KMUS Tulsa that they are saying, but fade/distortion makes it hard
to be certain it`s not 680 which sounds about the same. Quick check of 1380
here finds unID in English, in heavy splash from local 1390 KCRC. Back to 1140:
at 1317 UT, another ``dos frecuencias`` ID this time giving 11-40 first. I keep
listening past 1331 UT sunrise, but KLTK is losing out to KRMP OKC even when
nulled. So no luck today on 1140 Kansas City, whether KCXL Liberty MO is still
English or Spanish. KLTK`s slogan is not named after the Americas, but after a
frequently-advertising Arkansas supermarket named after the Americas; COL tiny
Centerton (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, Feb 6 at 1400 UT, in QRM, partial ID in English mentioning 1140
and 102.9 FM. That matches listing for KCXL Liberty MO (Kansas City). Since
hearing ``Univisión Kansas City`` mentioned in Spanish on 1140, Jan 29 at 1337
UT and also 1140 y 102.9, I have been trying to confirm that it`s really KCXL
in Spanish ex-English.
But apparently not. Possibly that was just a commercial for the Univisión TV
outlet in Kansas City. Dave Hughes in KCMO also checked 1140 for me, at a
totally different daypart after 0600 UT Feb 5 and found it still in English
altho with QRM in Spanish, which at that hour was probably XEMR.
Feb 6 and previous mornings, in the 1330-1400 UT period, I`ve only been getting
a mix of KRMP OK, KLTK AR, and KSOO SD, until the log above (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, Feb 5 at 0645 UT, I am nulling XEMR looking for some US
station, since someone thought he might be hearing WBXR in AL which is supposed
to be a daytimer; don`t hear that, but I find one with C2CAM, sounds like same
subject as on countless other affiliates, mentioning ``mansions`` and confirmed
as such by tuning to WOAI 1200, which is always running way behind most of the
others.
Most likely WRVA in Richmond VA, confirmed on the C2CAM website as an
affiliate, tho I have not searched the whole thing for any other 1140s. I
remember how pleased I was sesquidecades ago when I first picked up WRVA for a
new state in OKC; IIRC, KLPR and XEMR at night were not factors.
I have visually searched the 2014 NRC AM Log and find KNWQ Palm Springs CA is
also a `B` station, but unlikely here and may not be on C2C this early. A TN
station is also shown as a B-affiliate, even tho it`s a daytimer??
Would you believe there is even another 1140 in Virginia? Daytimer in the
western tip, possible because per NRC Pattern Book, WRVA 50 kW has a NW/SE
direxional pattern day & night. Which means it`s still a good catch in OK. Palm
Springs throws what power it has southwestward into San Diego and the Pacific
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, Jan 31 at 1422 UT, after lots of W&M chatter in Spanish, ad for
car dealer in 816 area code, so it`s KCTO Cleveland MO (Kansas City market). I
was also checking 1140 but not started early enough today to sort out the KC
and AR SS stations as heard yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
==============
UNIDENTIFIED. 1140, Feb 3 at 1405 UT, checking out the Spanish stations, some
Mexican music is still audible, vs an ID in English sounding like KCNC. I
wonder if that could have been KNAB Burlington CO with a weather or news report
out of channel ``4``, Denver? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1170, Feb 5 at 0655 UT, still trying to pull an ID from a SS with
KFAQ Tulsa nulled, making 72/minute SAH = 1.2 Hz; seems to be quoting Bible
when KFAQ fades a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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