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All times and dates strictly UT [5 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/page28
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
** CANADA. 800, Nov 26 at 0654 UT, Jesse Ventura-like voice and probably JV
himself on `Coast to Coast AM` // countless other frequencies like 840, 850 but
never synchronized; with KQCV OKC nulled. Presumed CKLW Windsor, Ont., tho also
listed as on CJAD Montreal, and low-night-power stations in AL, MO, WV. CKLW
does have a minor lobe toward us out of 50000/50000 U4, while KREI Farmington
MO in between is 1000/150 U1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, Nov 21 at 0050 UT on caradio, KOKC is absent!
Nothing else except enough weak carriers to audiblize the 1521 het from Sa`udi
Arabia. Tsk2, a golden opportunity for WHOW or KOLM, but neither audibly
cheating tonight.
Would have been nice to hear WWKB Buffalo NY, which is 50/50 kW U3, but with
deep null to the west day and night. (Only as a DX catch since it`s just
another ESPN nonentity.) WWKB has been erratically off due to the snowstorm,
allowing Rob Ross in London, Ontario at one point to hear nothing but KOKC on
1520 --- but KOKC is supposed to be westward only at night, altho granted an
STA of 12.5 kW due to antenna problems, so maybe also non-direxional? If WWKB
has been damaged, or due to emergency, it might also be non-direxional
temporarily.
At 0054 UT KOKC pops back on, amid anti-American diatribe by Michael Savage
who`s on until 0100 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The FCC granted this to KOKC AM ten days ago:
Exhibit 13
Description: OPERATIONS AT VARIANCE
THE STATION PROPOSES TO OPERATE AT REDUCED POWER AND IN NON DIRECTIONAL MODE
WHILE WORK IS COMPLETED ON THE STATION. PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT 16 BELOW.
Attachment 13
Exhibit 16
Description: NARRATIVE
THIS STA IS A MODIFICATION OF AN EXISTING STA BSTA-20140514AAH. AS PREVIOUSLY
ADVISED THEREIN, THE LICENSEE HAS HIRED CONSULTING ENGINEER, JACK SELLMEYER, TO
REPAIR, REDESIGN AND UPGRADE THE EXISTING ATUS AND CONVERT THE NIGHT PATTERN TO
MOM. AN STA MODIFICATION / EXTENSION FOR KOKC IS NEEDED FOR A PERIOD OF 180
DAYS TO OPERATE THE FACILITY WITH PARAMETERS AT VARIANCE WITH THE LICENSED
PARAMETERS AND/OR NON-DIRECTIONAL AT 12.5 KILOWATTS TO MAINTAIN SERVICE TO
OKLAHOMA CITY PENDING COMPLETION OF THE REFURBISHMENT JOB. UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES, THE LICENSEE RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS THE GRANT OF THIS STA REQUEST
FOR A PERIOD OF 180 DAYS. PLEASE FIND ATTACHED HERETO MR. SELLMEYER'S
ENGINEERING STATEMENT.
Attachment 16 Description Engineering Statement . . .
(via Artie Bigley, Columbus OH, Nov 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 680, Nov 27 at 0638 UT, Bay Area ads, 0641 UT KNBR ID, into
basketball scores. Best with IBOC from 670 WSCR nulled, i.e. aimed NW instead
of W. Fast SAH of about 10 Hz from something, maybe San Antonio? Despite the
silly sports format, I`m always pleased to hear KNBR which is the most distant
domestic MW `regular` here, over 1300 miles from San Francisco, slightly
further than NYC, whose `clears` hardly ever make it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 930, Nov 27 at 1259 UT, with WKY OKC Spanish music nulled, I am
getting Spanish talk from another, soon ID in Spanish for KAPR, 930 en Arizona,
``Ésta es Qué Vale`` (? Not certain of that slogan). Makes SAH of about 5 Hz.
KAPR is nowhere listed as Spanish! It had been Christian and/or talk in
English, and apparently duplicating 1030 KVOI Cortaro (Tucson).
A recent format flip. How recent may account for the Spanish I had been hearing
several months previously around sunrise in WKY null, not with definite ID but
hoped to be KHJ Los Ángeles (which is no longer Spanish ranchera, but
Immaculate Heart! in English since Nov 17).
I had not considered KAPR since was supposedly English. It`s in Douglas AZ,
right on the border, appropriately owned by Sonora Broadcasting, U1 =
non-direxional, 2500 watts day, 71 watts night, and ``day`` doesn`t officially
start there until 1345 UT in Nov, 1415 UT in Dec. However KAPR does have a PSRA
of 500 watts starting at 6 am local = 1300 UT, all year except unneeded when
sunrise is even earlier, so maybe it just powered up, tho soon fading (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 1000, Nov 26 at 0642 UT, with KTOK OKC nulled, hearing not
only the usual Mexican music from XEFV Juárez, but also some sports talk in
English: don`t see how this could be anything but WMVP Chicago despite
unfavorable nite pattern. Also ~1 Hz SAH but not clear between which pair of
the trio. 0659 UT try to get an ID of sports station, but mainly Mexican
dominating with Juárez mention again at 0702 UT. Now I measure the SAH at
42/minute = 0.7 Hz. Anyhow, no KKIM NM which would be preaching, evidently no
longer cheating with 10 kW ND day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1070, Nov 27 at 1400 UT, ID for KFTI-FM Newton-Wichita, 1070 KFTI
Wichita, news but IDs in passing sure sound like KFDI, which was the longtime
call on 1070 years ago. KFDI is very hard to distinguish from KFTI even with
clear reception.
1402 UT back to Classic Country 92.3 with ``Battle of New Orleens``. Still a
fast SAH against some other 1070, maybe still KNX shortly after sunrise here,
as 1070 Wichita is always off-frequency, whatever its calls.
FCC Queries confirm that 1070 is KFTI, --- but the same Journal Broadcasting
Company also owns 101.3 in Wichita which *is* KFDI-FM. So it should be easy to
mix up the calls, accidentally or deliberately (like KFDI provides the news on
the KFTIs? The only real call letters on the website
http://www.classiccountry923.com/ are KFDI, for News).
And whatever became of the sale of 92.3 as in this report from Oct 13?
Envision, headquartered in Wichita, is a nonprofit dedicated to making the
blind and visually impaired independent and self-supporting when possible. It
is acquiring the station to use as a training ground, a revenue source and a
messaging platform. . .
http://www.radioworld.com/article/journal-sells-station-to-envision/272804
There doesn`t seem to be any other press about this since mid-October, so I
suppose still pending. Should be quite a change once implemented,
non-commercial? 92.3 is a plenty big 100 kW signal, altho out-of-town from
Metropolis Wichita, in Amtrak railhead Newton to the north.
Meanwhile, Journal is making the best of the AM/FM duplication, with 1070 alone
presumably to inherit the Classic Country format. Wasn`t it once AM $tereo?
Yes, NRC AM Log still had that marker even during the ESPN Deportes yeara [=
era lasting one year]. How many times have I said I must dust off my Radio
Shack C-Quam tuner and try it?
I was checking 1070 in the first place, since as I mention on WORLD OF RADIO
1749, NRC AM Switch reported that its call changed Nov 14 from KLIO to KFTI,
resuming the letters it had from 2001y to 2010y. KLIO applied to the previous
year of ESPN Deportes, and before that to classic rock format on 1070 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, Nov 21 at 1835 UT on caradio, tell-tale het caused by KCTE
Independence MO being perpetually off-frequency, audible at local mean noon
(1832 UT), with the solar insolation angle approaching its wintry nadir
allowing skywave. The hetee is presumably on-frequency KNNS Larned KS barely by
grouondwave. At least we haven`t heard daytimer KCTE`s het at night lately.
1931 UT recheck, IDs as ESPN 1510 (and 1660 Kansas City, Bloomberg Radio is
also audible); 1943 UT ad for Hendrix Buick-GMC on Stateline Road, which is a
dead giveaway for Kansas City MO/KS market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Nov 21 at 0233 UT, Mexican music, roughly N/S with WLAC nulled,
also rumbling lo het with something; 0235 UT fades up between songs for non-ID
in English! ``Dial us up on your FM radio, 94.3 FM, K-rock`` (not sure of the
K-Rock part but positive of the FM frequency), back to music in Spanish. I was
checking an hour later than usual for the Mexican I`ve been tracking, thought
to be XEQI Monterrey. But if it`s really a daytimer, it may have gone off at
0200 UT – not sundown but a typical time for Mexicans. So which of the US 1510
stations have an FM on 94.3? The only one in the NRC AM Log 2014 is:
KROB Robstown TX, D1, 500 watts, PSRA 500 but no PSSA. It`s really in Corpus
Christi, SS-OLD format which fits, and // K232DE 94.3, ``Classic Konjunto`` a
slogan I certainly did not hear.
The WTFDA FM database for all 94.3 stations agrees on this matchup and slogan,
but does not show AM frequencies of stations translated, in case there is
another on 1510. These Tejano stations play music in Spanish but don`t hesitate
to talk, ID in English, like KKLF 1700 and KEDA 1540. Wikipedia says it`s
branded as the Conjunto Station, and the 94.3 translator is in Corpus Christi
itself.
Of course, on 1510 there is also KCKK Littleton CO which I have also heard
recently, ``The Rock`` but its FM is 93.7, and I`d be surprised if it`s partly
Spanish. Furthermore there is no 94.3 around Denver in case it`s a sibling
station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Nov 25 at 0059 UT, CBS Sports Radio ID after ads, dead-air
during legal ID time, 0100 UT back to CBS Sports Radio; no Spanish now, and
WLAC nulled. Network website and NRC AM Log agree there are three affiliates on
1510. On
http://radio.cbssports.com/stations/
there are 483 entries, 50 to a page, but many of them duplicates! And you can
sort by frequency! But only on each of 10 pages, confusingly mixing in FM and
AM, and some with commas, some without.
KGA Spokane WA, daytimer WPUT in Brewster NY; and --- 5 kW daytimer KBED in
Nederland TX. While KGA would be nice, it`s surely KBED, too ashamed to utter
its call letters after sunset which in November is officially 2315 UT (sunrise
1245 UT; December, 2315-1300 UT). Furthermore its ``daytime`` direxional
pattern is NNW/SSE, just right for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, Nov 24 at 0705 UT, KRJO Monroe LA is playing Xmas music
already, country-accented; and another one later. Not sure if it`s all-Xmas
music. It`s before Thanksgiving yet, but in some other markets the radioed Xmas
music started after Hallowe`en. Enough! Already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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