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! ** OKLAHOMA. 1390 harmonix: for the record, my closest local station KCRC Enid, could always be heard here on second and third harmonix, 2780 and 4170, but in the last few weeks, higher harmonics up to the eleventh have become audible and pervasive, some of them blocking legit SW broadcasts. Modulation is extremely distorted on all of them. I thought it might be some change in my FRG-7 and/or its longwire antenna, but now think KCRC harmonic suppression may have failed: 5560, 6950, 8340, 9730, 11120, 12510, 13900, 15290 --- and I should also look for them on 16680, 18070. The tenth multiple, 13900, has been much more noticeable lately. Fundamental 1390 is also splattering worse than before, as if a power boost beyond 1 kW, making not only 1400 and 1380 unDXable but for the most part also 1370 and 1410 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sunday April 20 at 1252 UT, KZLS Enid with `Cowboy Corner` talk show, again // sibling station KNAH 99.7 Mustang, but 1640 running a few words behind 99.7. Furthermore, I had just been listening to `Cowboy Corner` a few minutes earlier on 960, KGWA Enid! So much for market exclusivity; these are competing companies. On KGWA the subject was Indian, not Cowboy, moving some Kiowa warrior remains from Huntsville TX prison graveyard to a respected spot at Fort Sill OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ================ ** U S A. 1060+, April 21 at 1240 UT, YL in condensed Spanish with details of an attack on Hebron, stuff about Palestina, 1245 UT bit of Israeli music. Further comments make clear it`s from the Israeli POV, and not only that but necessarily Messianic, as mentioned in 1252 UT outro, since KIJN is In Jesus` Name. Program website is algo-paravivir.org. At first I had hoped this was something other than KIJN Farwell TX, the 24-hour cheater altho now legal in daytime, which plays a lot of gospel music in Spanish rather than talk. Another giveaway is that KIJN is always far enough off-frequency to the hi side to make a fast SAH with whatever else; roughly east-west DF, easily separable from 50 kW KRCN Longmont CO with biznews in English. Searched for an own KIJN website, but best I could find was a rudimentary old biz one at Angelfire with little detail, let alone a current schedule. Initially there was some weak Mexmx under it, which might have been KXPL El Paso close to the same WSW direxion (and which qualifies as a border station in the Cantú list), but which is supposed to be news/talk in the NRC AM Log. A more intriguing possibility in that log is KRUZ, Van Buren AR (Fort Smith) 500 watt direxional daytimer, ``Estereo Rumba`` but which had been silent since February 2012. I`ll bet a live SS station would love to have that callsign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1150, Sunday April 20 at 1252 UT, local pubaffs show discussing private animal shelter, how dogs love peanut butter; website a few times but can`t copy it; phone in 915 area code, which means El Paso TX, matching eastish/westish DF, so it`s KHRO, 5 kW ND on day power starting at 1245 UT in April; 1215 UT in May. Prime format is Oldies per NRC AM Log 2013y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, April 19 at 1208 UT, nostalgic music, ``It`s always sunny here, Sunny 12-10`` non-ID, ``Good Night, Irene``. Considerably clockwise from KOKK SD. Nothing by that slogan in NRC AM Log 2013, so a change since last August. Googling leads right to WMPS Memphis TN, which per NRC Log had been Radio Superhero [!], COL Bartlett TN, address in Germantown. Per this, flip occurred circa November 11, initially with Xmas music: http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/86642/sunny-rises-in-memphis/ 10 kW daypower good for SRS this late, Enid sunrise being 1153 UT. Major lobe goes southwest, but evidently enough to the west for us. WMPS official April sunrise is 1130 UT; May 1100; June 1045. KGYN Guymon OK not a factor: its April sunrise is 1215 UT; May 1145 UT, June & July 1130 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, April 19 at 1212 UT, Dakota News Network with lots of news and weather about South Dakota, from KOKK, Huron. It`s a real SD morning on SRS today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1270, April 19 at 1218 UT, discussion about organ, cornea donation in South Dakota and how Native American feelings differ about this (like keeping the body whole after death for a good afterlife). So it`s 5 kW KNWC Sioux Falls. Common KSOO 1140 was in earlier, unrelogged today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1320, April 19 at 1220 UT, sports scores concerning University of Sioux Falls, ``News-talk 13-20, 107.9``, so it`s the erstwhile KELO, (along with KELQ on FM); the fourth SD AM station this sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 1520, April 23 at 1205 UT, KYND Cypress TX is again vying with KOKC OKC here, CRI news mixing with CBS News; outro only as ``the hourly news`` and 1207 UT into `People in the Know` a long-running CRI program. Not expecting to hear it on sibling station 1540, KGBC Galveston, but with KXEL nulled, April 23 at 1210 UT, there`s an interview with someone sporting a very American accent about exporting rare earths, so vital to flat screen TVs and other devices along with magnets, and // 1520. But 1540 fades out abruptly. KGBC is only 2.5 kW in daytime, while 1520 is apparently now 25 kW. No chance of them here at this hour, but KGBC not to confused with CHIN Toronto or WNWR Philadelphia, both 50 kW stations also relaying the ChiCom; why is 1540 such a favorite frequency for them? Is it ``lucky``, numerologically? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, April 18 at 0132 UT, ``Rockin` The Metroplex with a totally Tejano sound, Kick—1700``, and back to music in Spanish. VG dominant signal now, atop the 1700 sportsters, and except for local 1640, stronger than anything else on the X-band, so I believe KKLF Richardson TX is probably still on day power 10 kW (as others have concluded) rather than 1 kW night power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, April 24 at 1044 UT, classic rock, but apparently merely a music break during `Fox Sports Daybreak` from ``Your new home for Fox Sports in The Valley``, i.e. KVNS Brownsville TX. Then plug Fox Sports One – a TV channel? But where is the Tejano music from KKLF The Metropolex at less than half the distance? Off again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) =============== UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, April 22 at 0130 check UT, I can detect a JBA carrier here, suspected the very weak second harmonic of 1330, KGLD Tyler TX with 1 kW day power, which I laboriously IDed last year. Our Enid sunset today was 0111 UT (to attain 0153 UT by Solstice), while Tyler`s was 0055 UT per gaisma.com. KGLD`s official FCC sunset in April is 0045 UT (May: 0115 UT; June & July: 0130 UT). And its FCC sunrises, when DX might also ensue: April: 1200 UT; May: 1130 UT; June: 1115 UT. (I don`t like putting UT after every time, so redundant, but do so with MW to remind people subjected to `ELT`.) BTW, my automatic darkness-sensing streetlight ignited at 0125 UT April 22 with a burst of RF noise and then slowly faded up; so that`s 14 minutes after sunset with a clear sky. Noise level on 2 MHz also ramped up, but am not certain that`s the cause (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]
