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All times and dates strictly UT [5 hours ahead of `ELT` during EST; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-05 UT period
to the previous date by ELT].
Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; IC-R75
with E-W longwire; FRG-7 with NW-SE shortwire
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/page42
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of
USA, unidentified [if any], separated by ======= Within each, they are in
frequency order
** CANADA [and non]. Glenn: -- re: "BTW, Saturday night/UT Sun Dec 13 around
0430 UT, I am hearing old Art Bell show weekly reruns from a decade ago all
over the bigsig MW dial....."
This would be the "Somewhere In Time" weekly show, old Art presentations from
years past as syndicated by iHeartRadio/Premiere Networks. Art Bell lives!! --
GREG HARDISON, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BUT, in case you have not heard, Art quit again circa Dec 11, after threats and
gunfire on his property in Nevada. M[sic]ITD is continuing on Dark Matters with
a new hostess, Heather; still on SW 5085 UT Tue-Sat 0500-0800, but CFRX 6070
and consequently CFRB 1010 have dropped it, replaced by generic `Newstalk 10-10
programming`` (Glenn Hauser, Dec 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** OKLAHOMA. 1390, Dec 23 at 0350 UT past 0414 UT, open carrier/dead air from
local KCRC Enid; by 0414 UT however a bit of a whine has been added. Still
OC/DA at 0527 UT check! Carrier is so strong that I can`t null it and hear
anything else, but it does remove splash from adjacents; see U S A 1380.
Rerecheck at 0647 UT, *still* dead air, and now on the DX-398 nulling as much
as possible I can hear some other 1390 station with music, Xmas? The DA also
reduces the QRM from KCRC spurs almost on 1360 & 1420. Still DA at 0707 UT, so
all-night? No owner or staff of KCRC cares to monitor and/or go in to the
studio to restart it, if that can`t even be done remotely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Dec 19 at 0140 UT, gospel music in the mix with Spanish from
TX/CO, so presumably Sallisaw`s KFSW but not the dominant signal it used to
achieve as KYHN. Not up to snuff? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. In the first few minutes of the Democratic Primary Presidential
Debate on ABC-TV, 0128-0135 UT Dec 20, I scan the MW band to find which if any
radio stations are also carrying it, never in synch with TV via cable:
740-KRMG Tulsa OK, 750-WSB Atlanta GA, 840-WHAS Louisville KY, 1040-WHO Des
Moines IA, 1100-WTAM Cleveland OH, 1110-KFAB Omaha NE. I presume these already
have some affiliation with ABC radio, but a lot of other ABC stations must be
skipping it. Digging no further into the regional and graveyard pileups where
there could be a few more. Then checking the FM band in OK: not a single
station, tho presumably on inaudible 102.3 KRMG-FM Tulsa, of which 740 has been
demoted to a mere 50/25 kW appendage (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1805, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
The common thread I see is with iHeart Radio/Premiere, as I'm certain each
station has an affiliated XDS box in the rack. KRMG takes Rush & Hannity, and
WSB takes Hannity and "Handel On The Law" from Premiere, and the others are
iHeart O&Os. Actually, WSB also takes Rush, come to think of it. I don't think
Disney/ABC could send it without adding in tunes from "Song Of The South", or
plugs for Star Wars (GREG HARDISON, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 550, Dec 20 at 0556-0559 UT, several ``News-talk 550 KTSA and 107-1``
IDs in promos. San Antonio station is not heard much here, night pattern with a
little lobe to the north, three major lobes to WSW, ENE and SSE, also mutually
protecting Midland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Dec 23 at 0406 UT, WCCO is JBA on N-S antenna, and not at all on
the east-west. MW from most of the US seems normal but Minneapolis is beyond
the sub-auroral zone barrier. Instead, better on the E-W antenna is something
with Spanish music, more like 830.04; 0408 UT ID as ``La Favorita 830``.
I am expecting WFNO Norco LA, the usual US station blocking real Latin American
DX, and normally QRMing WCCO if you don`t null it: always suspected of day
facilities at night, when 750 watts is supposed to head SE into the Gulf, while
5000 watts day has a broad pattern favoring the NNW right toward WCCO! WFNO got
to be on this ``clear`` channel by barely exceeding the ``protected`` distance
from Mpls.
But WFNO was last known as ``La Fabulosa``, and still listed as such. Possibly
I misheard the slogan; need to recheck. I don`t find any Mexicans or beyond
called Favorita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 869.985 approx., Dec 19 at 0145 UT, WWL New Orleans is slightly
off-frequency to the lo side; I have been noticing this for a long time as I
bandscan MW in SSB on the NRD-545 at 10-kHz steps: makes a LAH unlike spot-on
stations such as KOA 850.00. Seems unusual that a major clear channel station
like WWL would be that far off. The MW Offset list, as of Oct 2015,
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
as usual has years-old info for these, but at least are included:
870 869.996 USA WWL (New Orleans, LA) 20101103
850 849.9999 USA KOA (Denver (IBOC), CO) [-850.0000] 20130316
KOA has been non-IBOC-noise for a long time now, fortunately. Stations with
IBOC were supposedly more careful about frequency accuracy, the only positive
aspect of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 900, Dec 20 at 2132 UT, I happen to tune across KSGL Wichita KS,
where YL DJ tells us the temperature is ``zero`` and on to some Xmas music. She
sounds live, but must be an automatoness, defaulting to zero without any
accurate current input, since it`s `way above zero Kelvin, Fahrenheit, even
Celsius --- 57 or 58 F according to NWS Wichita 3-day history (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1050, Dec 24 at 0548 UT, KTBL program promo and ad string; on the
east-west ALA-330S, I`m easily hearing this rather than XEG, which is often
inexplicably weak for a 100/100 kW ND station as in WRTH 2015, Cantú and IRCA
Log (however, NRC Pattern Book shows a smaller circle at night, implying
reduced power, but still plenty).
KTBL is only 1/1 kW U3 from Los Ranchos (Albuquerque) NM, and often owns 1050
at night, altho there are about 50 US stations on the frequency, most of them
with minuscule power at night in deference to XEG and CHUM Toronto (which we
have never heard as it also protects XEG). KTBL day and night pattern is broad,
centered slightly east of north, not to the south, but no null toward us (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1100, Dec 19 at 0613 UT, `Red Eye Radio` from NW, quite separable
from WTAM Cleveland by mutual nulling, so KNZZ Grand Junxion CO is once again
on 50 kW ND day power; for a while they had been behaving themselves. In
between, the pair produce a fast SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1220, Dec 24 at 0550 UT, WSLM weather on ``My Country 12-20`` --- the
slogan listed in NRC AM Log, tho I wasn`t sure about the ``My``. Seems this
Salem IN station is still/again cheating, occupying 1220 much more at night
than many others in eastern US, supposedly 82 watts at night, 5000 watts day,
with tight patterns slightly clockwise from east/west, tnx to Cleveland 1220
running a deep null toward the west, presumably to protect XEB to its southwest
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1290, Dec 20 at 0626 UT, classic rock, WIRL singing ID, back to
music. That`s 5/5 kW U4 in Peoria IL, ``Good Time Oldies``. Unlike other
frequencies, the 1290 map in the NRC Pattern Book does not distinguish between
day and night contours: day is supposed to be dotted. That page needs to be
replaced; are there others? I suspect for WIRL, the one tightly to the NNE with
a minor lobe to the SSW is the night pattern, and the circle tangent SSW the
day pattern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1310, Dec 23 at 0357 UT, mentions Owensboro as a health care region.
Therefore, I assume it is WTTL Madisonville KY again, which is about 35 miles
from Owensboro (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1380, Dec 18 at 0614 UT, national adstring, including iHeartRadio.com
promo, manages to squeeze by local 1390 KCRC, maybe peaking ENE/WSW. By 0641
UT, sports talk mixed with Star-Wars talk, not // ESPN. Most likely closest are
KXFN St Louis, but AFAIK that is not an iHeart, while KHEY El Paso TX is, and
is also with Fox Sports Radio, 5000/500 watts U1, so tentatively that (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1380, Dec 23 at 0353 UT, ad for Berner(?) Toyota, across from
Highland Mall(?), facilitated by the dead air from local 1390 KCRC. Later I
search on the Toyota name, and lacking any direct hits on Berner, an engine
(was it Yahoo or Google?) helpfully suggests Bruner Toyota in Brownwood TX, or
suburb Early. Guess what: there is a station there on 1380, KBWD. But the other
clue was probably really ``Highlander``, a Toyota model. KBWD is 1000/500 watts
U1, one of my closer 1380s, and I`m quite sure that`s it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Dec 24 at 2059 UT, outro credits for Sherlock Holmes, with
organ music, as from Mutual Broadcasting System, immediately ID ``The Big
Talker, 14-80, KQAM, Wichita proud`` and into some network news, probably not
Mutual, about tornados in the South. Sherlock must have been holiday substitute
programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510.0, Dec 19 at 1341 UT, discussion of GM corn from NE/SW, 1346 UT
several ads with 913 area codes (Kansas City +KS), so even tho it`s not sports
talk, it must be KCTE Independence MO, and not off-frequency producing a het,
either; mentions `Sportsradio 810`, however, i.e. WHB KC MO, which must be a
relative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Dec 18 at 1315 UT, instead of KUSH OK, I am hearing unfamiliar
choral national anthem, from north/south, no doubt the Republic of Vietnam`s in
tribute from KRVA The Metroplex TX, followed by Vietnamese announcement and
program. Shouldn`t that be KRVN? Tsk2, that call is already taken on 880 in NE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, UT Sat Dec 19 at 0205 UT, Saluki basketball, sponsored by
Marion Toyota, at half-time show. This has got to be KATZ St Louis MO, breaking
format from gospel hits as ``Hallelujah 1600``. Finally found on website a sked
of Saluki football, but nothing about BKB:
http://www.hallelujah1600.com/articles/southern-illinois-university-football-494597/2015-schedule-13912347/
Nor did they say they would really broadcast all those games. There are no
1600s in SIL or anywhere in IL, and KATZ night pattern aims toward us, not at
all toward Carbondale and vicinity; day pattern is almost ND {but games are
surely on local station(s) there --- unless blacked out?? --- and I suppose
there are some Saluki fans in St Louis area} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1650, Dec 18 at 1313 UT, ESPNDeportesradio.com promo, from WSW/ENE,
mentions ``paso a paso``, but this does not refer to El Paso TX, whence KSVE is
certainly the source of this. Still not hearing KFSW Sallisaw OK, which should
be the dominant signal at least after 1315 UT sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNIDENTIFIED. 1690, Dec 24 at 0524 UT, the unmistakable voice of Dick Cavett,
not heard in a long time, apparently current since he is talking about Trump
with a talkhost who is impressed by The Donald. No DF on it so not sure if WVON
Berwyn (Chicago) or reformatted KDMT Arvada (Denver), now meaning ``Money
Talk`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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