All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 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/page22 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 Last week my single post showed up more than once on some lists. I don`t know why, and I am not doing it! ** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 12 at 0146, I am enjoying an unusually low local noise level for some reason except for occasional storm crashes, audiblizing marine weather around Nova Scotia by YL who sounds human; if not, well-disguised. Hard to catch locations cited, but winds are in knots, seas are in feet and visibilities are in miles (who cares about ceilings?). 0147 goes into forecasts from Saturday into Monday, back to conditions as of 1930 local time; partial ID mentions ``Coast Guard Radio Station, Bay of Fundy``. Then navigational warnings with coordinates of obstruxions, etc., in southwest Nova Scotia, then SE coast of NS; 0151 into French by same announceress. This source: http://dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm shows it`s VAR-3, ``Fundy``, but where is it really? There are lots of towns along the Fundy Bay coast, but I don`t see any named Fundy. VAR-3 broadcasts start at :40 or sometimes :10 past certain hours including 0140; alternates with three other stations on 2749-USB, VCO in Sydney, VCS-2 in Halifax also at :40 or :10 past, and VCN, Rivière-au-Renard QC at odder times, :37, :47, :07, or :17 past hours not occupied by the first three. VCN also is bilingual but not VCO or VCS-2. Nothing heard now on 2598-USB, the NL/QC frequency for more of this, altho VOK from Labrador, or VOK-4 from Hopedale, should have started at 0137 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ============ ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sunday April 13 at 1216 UT, KZLS Enid with talk show about branding cattle and horses, and this time I check sibling station 99.7 KNAH Mustang (of course!), and by golly they are // now, except 1640 is about one second behind 99.7. I think they are also // during some music segments (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) =========== ** U S A. 640, April 13 at 1208 UT, `NPR Weekend Edition Sunday` themesong, so has to be WOI Ames IA. (Since OU was stupid enough to sell off WNAD sesquidecades ago.) Stronger CCI from a preacher apparently originating in Singapore about how a huge percentage of world`s young people are within a radius from it (well, yeah, China and India). Would guess KFI, but its `Jesus Christ Show` is not on schedule until 6-9 am PDT Sundays = 13-16 UT, with `Coast to Coast AM` running until 1300 UT. So maybe it`s really WCRV Collierville TN (Memphis mkt), gospel huxter certainly on 50 kW day power now. KWPN Moore OK is a poor third for time being (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, April 13 at 1206 UT, Navajo chants unmistakably, so KTNN Window Rock AZ, but well before sunrise when supposed to be direxional away from us; official April SR is 1245 UT, May 1215 UT, and not until June can it legally be non-direxional from 1200 UT. And there is no PSRA in its Correspondence file at FCC AM Query (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, April 14 at 0503 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing the ``Battle Hymn of the Republic``, then into Taps at sign-off. Always Taps, and a few other patriotic songs alternate before it --- but I`ve never heard them play `Dixie`, so we know which side of the Missouri Compromise KGGF is on! 36-30 North is marked on US 81 a few miles north of Enid = the AR/MO boundary extended while the KS/OK boundary is 37-00. Some traitorous Confederate stations still proudly play `Dixie` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1000, April 11 at 1220-1223 UT, `Mike & Mike` on ESPN Radio, quite audible with KTOK OKC nulled, and slow SAH. Usually this points to KKIM gospel huxter in Albuquerque, but not today (yet), instead WMVP in Chicago; others thence still propagating such as the 1200 Spanish. WMVP day pattern goes mostly east, but with lesser lobe to the west unlike at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1000, April 14 at 1208 UT, ESPN`s `Mike & Mike` heatedly discussing the NCAA-pay-your-athletes issue, making slow SAH of 28/minute = 0.47 Hz with KTOK OKC mostly nulled. So again suspect it`s WMVP Chicago (ex-WLUP, ex-WCFL), which with its direxional pattern mostly eastward is not usually audible here. After my previous log, I found a thread on IRCA March 30 discussing WMVP also being heard westward into Nigel Pimblett`s Alberta, extremely rare; Dennis Gibson points out they have a CP for a 12 kW ND auxiliary at the WLS site which they could be testing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1050, April 11 at 1223 UT, YL with calendar of events in Sedalia, atop the QRM, i.e. KSIS in MO, non-direxional with 1 kW day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1140, April 11 at 1226 UT, `La Que Buena`` slogan by SHVA, Mexican music. Is this KCXL Liberty MO during its sunrise Spanish service? Or is it KLTK Centerton AR, previously heard in Spanish with slogans ``La Más Mexicana`` and ``Radio Las Américas``? Suspect the former, based on following: Searching on ke buena ktlk leads to a yellowpages.com listing for 105.5 in Rogers AR, but the WTFDA FM Database has no 105.5 in Rogers itself, nor any Arkansawyer with such a slogan; and none of the 11 AR stations (including 5 translators) are in the NW corner near Rogers. Of course, it could really be across a border in MO or OK. KLTK`s website, not easily found, but locatored as http://www.lasamericas1140am.com/ does not include Ke Buena or Que Buena among its slogans. Autolaunches audio so I let it run a while, and at 1740 UT hear an ID for ``1380-AM, Radio Las Américas, para todo Tulsa``, also something about perros. 1747 UT alternate ID as ``Radio Las Américas, 11-40``. The website has nothing visible about 1380 or Oklahoma, but months ago we were also hearing 1380 mentioned on 1140, so must be simulcast on KMUS as suspected. Yes, found website of the same design for that also with a doggy subtext: http://www.lasamericas1380am.com/ which also autolaunches audio, and where there must be such supermarkets too. Yes: four of them in Tulsa, and one in Rogers: tail wagging the dog? (Is there a 105.5 around Tulsa or Muskogee? NO.) At 1801 legal ID in accented English for ``KMUS, Sperry-Tulsa, Oklahoma``. Then local news headlines for Tulsa, and for Arkansas by same announcer, Carlos Raúl Paredes. But I digress. Back to regional-Mexican-music at 1804. YP info could well be outdated too. Wikipedia is way outdated for KLTK 1140, indicating it`s newstalk in English. Radiolocator.com shows studio address not in Rogers or COL Centerville, but on Walton Blvd in Bentonville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1140, April 14 at 0524 UT, with XEMR nulled, ID for ``Radio Las Américas 11-40``, which we know from easier listening after sunrise is KLTK Centerton/Rogers/Bentonville AR, the station named for a supermarket, but not Walmart. Trouble is, KLTK is licensed as a 5 kW ND DAYTIMER ONLY, and this is about as far from daytime as possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, April 12 at 1257 UT, Chinese lesson in English, typical CRI filler in last 5 minutes of hours, roughly equal level to KOKC and cannot separate them, also virtually zero-beat with an occasional fade. ID should come shortly! At 1300 UT three similar announcements including ``programming provided by G&E [GNE?] Studios``, comments to 1-877-913-xx89, or a gmail address. 1301 ID for KGBC, and into non-Chinese news, but 1309 recheck, now it`s the well-known voice of the CRI native announcer talking about missing plane. This is not // CRI English on 9570 via Cuba. 1520 is not KGBC, which is 1540 Galveston, but its sister station KYND Cypress TX, both of which relay CRI as both are considered necessary to cover most of the Houston metro area --- and conveniently second-adjacent. NRC AM Log 2013 shows KYND has a CP to increase day power from 3 to 25 kW and it sure sounds like this in now accomplished. Yes: FCC AM Query now shows licensed for 25 kW day, 18 kW critical hours, nothing about a CP any more. Oh oh, look at this now licensed day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1568756-122038.pdf big circular lobe to the ESE, tiny lobe and/or nulls toward the NNW, i.e. OK-ward. The 3-tower CH pattern is the same but filed separately: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1568756-122040.pdf What I am hearing does NOT correspond to these; non-direxional now? And/or KOKC is again on reduced power, as overcoming it here should be quite a feat. Both are in almost the same direxion from Enid, so no nulling one or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 1520, April 13 at 1201 UT, I catch partial ID again for wrong station ``KGBC, Galveston-Houston`` which is 1540 also relaying China Radio International (1540 here is likely to be blocked by The Metroplex station, but this 1520 one manages to overcome KOKC at least briefly, which is in CBS News); then ``The Hourly News``, but by the CRI native announcer. On 1520 it`s really KYND, Cypress TX. Shawn Fahrer found the corporate source for all this following my yesterday`s log, obviously a ChiCom subsidiary allowed in the US; can you imagine such a reciprocal arrangement for USG broadcasts within China? Why don`t we insist on it? http://gestudio.us/ : "G&E Studio develops more than ten radio stations across the United States, Canada and Mexico, producing more than 100 hours of Chinese and English local radio programs per week." See this page: http://gestudio.us/index.php/en/houston (which lists 1540, 1520, and 1320 AM)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1717, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, April 12 at 1305 UT, two sports talk stations in English, i.e. KBGG Des Moines IA and KVNS Brownsville TX, but *no* Tejano music, so much closer KKLF Richardson TX whose format recently flipped to that, must be off the air. In fact, I think I was not hearing it for a day or two (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, April 14 at 0529 UT, Tejano music, so KKLF Richardson TX is back on the air after a few days off; also heard around 1200 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) =========== UNIDENTIFIED. 730, April 14 at 0511 UT, station in English, seems news discussion, rough bearing ENE/WSW. Too many US stations are allowed here with reduced power at night despite XEX and CKAC. Soon losing to romantic music from south, and then Korean talk, KKDA The Metroplex which gets to run 500 watts. Might have been 50 kW CHMJ Vancouver but for the bearing, and was not ``all-traffic`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _______________________________________________ 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]
