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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 or
PL-880 with internal antenna only; 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/page27
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, UT Sat Oct 25 at 0109, local KZLS Enid-Hennessey-Oklahoma
City is obviously another Friday-night ``STA`` cheater running day power to
enhance its coverage during a silly ballgame, breaking its mostly talk-radio
format, which judging from a mention during an adstring is ``Yukon-Miller
football`` (Yukon is a western suburb of OKC, not a territory, but Miller?).
The big sig of 10 kW direxional is splattering upon adjacents 1630 & 1650 just
like in the daytime! No chance of nulling it now for WTNI like really with 1 kW
last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 750, Oct 30 at 1256 UT, Univisión América mentioned, i.e. KAMA El
Paso TX. It`s still obviously running 10 kW ND instead of licensed 1 kW and
direxional westward day and night; it QRMs WSB any time of night, often
dominating frequency, and has done so for months, tho I quit bothering to log
it. No one cares, least of all WSB and FCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1000, Oct 30 at 1259 UT, KKIM AM 1000 weather, ``New Mexico`s
Christian Heritage Station`` making usual very slow SAH, almost zero-beat with
KTOK OKC. Another one which appears to be cheating most or all of the time, 10
kW day power ND instead of 38 watts at night. In fact, it overrides KTOK here
unless carefully nulled. Official Albuquerque sunrise in Oct is 1315 UT;
November, 1345 UT. It also has a 42-watt PSRA from Sept thru March, limited by
KOMO; yeah, right. Also commonly heard any time of night; sometimes hear
Spanish on 1000 instead also making slow SAH with KTOK, which is XEFV in
Juárez, per IRCA Log a 24-hour daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, Oct 30 at 0631 UT, ad for something on I-470, which I soon find
in the southeast corner of Kansas City MO --- but there is no 1440 station
there, nearest being Topeka, which is too far for 1 kW at night.
Googling quickly reveals that there is *another* I-470 loop around Topeka KS
(and yet another around Wheeling WV; these loops get duplicated without enough
different numbers in the inadequate decimal system, but surprisingly so close
as KC and Topeka). So anyhow, this is KMAJ in Topeka KS, the Big Talker. Soon
displaced by an ESPN station, likely common WGEM Quincy IL (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 30 at 0627 UT, R. Jalapeño (i.e. KEDA San Antonio TX)
announces in Spanglish a new FM frequency, 87.7, back to tejana music. Similar
but unseems // sibling 1700 KKLF Metroplex. Confirmed as 87.7 with top billing
on https://www.kedaradio.com/ updating NRC AM Log 2014 listing as // K272EK on
102.3. Logo has call letters inside, what else, a green pepper. KEDA BTW may
allude to ``quedarse`` = stay tuned.
87.7 of course has to be a Franken-FM, licensed as low-power TV. FCC TV Query
shows
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=40782
as KFLZ-LP on channel 6, 0.5 kW licensed, 3 kW application, owned by B
COMMUNICATIONS JOINT VENTURE, Corpus Christi, and you`d never know it`s really
to operate as an FM station of an AM station (and is it really on 87.70, 87.74,
87.75 or 87.76?).
Correspondence Folder shows original application (for the power increase?) as
of Aug 21, 2014, was mutually exclusive with KCWX DTV on ch 5 in
Fredericksburg, to which KFLZ would cause interference. Nothing mentioned about
Franken-FMing. I wonder what they are using for video? Pat Dyer could tell us
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Oct 24 at 0542 UT I find that local KZLS (site really east of
Hennessey OK with 1 kW, but direxional SSE/NNW toward OKC/Enid) is totally
nullable except for a fast SAH, audiblizing ESPN Radio, obviously the only one
on 1640 and at somewhat CCW angle from KZLS, WTNI Biloxi MS. I wonder if they
are also on 10 kW day power giving them an additional edge (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, UT Sat Oct 25 at 0108 UT, silly ballgame instead of country
music, Panthers football, a Friday-night aberration from KRJO Monroe LA; also
some CCI talk underneath as seldom the case audible during music. Normal good
signal level, probably really 1 kW. Some months ago when it first reactivated
in August? I suspected it was underpowered, but that recovered quite a while
ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1690, Oct 25 at 0109 UT, KDDZ Arvada (Denver market) CO must still be
going as Disneyc music is heard, stronger than further WVON Berwyn (Chicago
market) IL with ID and talk; and the two are mutually nullable on the rotatable
DX-398 with no trace of the other. Eyeballing a US map, they look to be 100-105
degrees apart from the angle of Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNIDENTIFIED. 1600-1602+, Oct 24 at 1401-1403+ UT, noise blob moving slowly
upward across 1600 station, as previously heard in the 1610-1620+ range in the
night; so maybe it`s something nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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