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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/page29
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal
antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as
specified
** MEXICO. 700, Jan 2 at 0144, Spanish from SSW, discussing Premio Nobel de la
Paz, probably year-in-review show, 0146 ID as ``Radio Red AM``, which is XEDKR,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, 10000/150 watts, so still on day power? Lucking out that
WLW is inaudible, must be in fade cycle as e.g. Chicagoans are not knocked out
by aurora. Yes, by 0151, WLW is back with silly ballgame, tho still can be
nulled for something Spanish making slow SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, Jan 2 at 0601 UT, tonight`s Fox-hole by local KGWA 960 Enid is
occupied by XEK, as immediately obvious by their proud announcement of founding
in 1937y, and ``estamos en la cuarta generación``.
[Since that was 78 years ago, just how long is a ``generation``? This vague
term is ill-defined in English and Spanish. Should it be the average age over
the entire population at which a woman bears her first child? Or only within a
certain population group? Or should it be the median age at which a woman has
borne all her children? The length of time will certainly have varied greatly
not only geographically but over the ages, so what use is the term, anyway?
How about women who are nulliparous --- do they figure into the equation?
Wikipedia says ``In developed nations the average familial generation length is
in the high 20s and has even reached 30 years in some nations``. Of course,
``millennial`` and other groupings of ``generations`` are completely arbitrary,
as all ``generations`` are totally overlapping each other as procreation
continues apace.
Getting back to XEK`s generations, ``now in the fourth`` after 78 years could
mean they take about 25 years each, as the third would have ended at 75 years =
2012. Unless at the outset 1937 that was somewhere in the middle of a
``generation``. O, this is too confusing.
Furthermore, ``generation`` as it applies to a radio station may have nothing
to do with human beings reproducing, but rather, successive changes in format,
ownership, even studio location, transmission parameters.
Speaking of arousal, XEK goes on to play ``Cuando Calienta el Sol``, altho
Nuevo Laredo is far from a beach, unless they refer to the Rio Bravo or
dammed-up parts of it. That song is really steamy, as monolinguals may not
realize. No NA heard during this window. KGWA carrier is much hummier than
usual, impeding XEK but it remains atop somethings much weaker in English until
KGWA modulation resumes at 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1130, Jan 3 at 0348, weak signal in Spanish, best from the NW/SE,
but that`s influenced by needing to null KMOX IBOC from the NE. Mentions a .mx
website so that narrows it down to four of the seven XEs not in the West.
Nothing from KWKH as I tune in, must be in a fade, then back up a bit, but it`s
always weak at night here on tight westward pattern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1620, Jan 6 at 0243, YL in Spanish here is not // R. Rebelde on 5025
which has OM with SBG during which Matanzas is ahead 7-1. Therefore, I assume
the 1620 R. Rebelde has switched to Rebelde FM relay. At 0249, I find 5025 to
be // echoey 1180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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