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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. 2749-USB, Dec 29 at 0246 UT, robo-YL in English with marine weather,
S9 but about equal to noise level; includes wind forecasts in knots, gale
warning. CCG website shows starting at 0240 UT is VCS Halifax via site in
suburb Sambro: ``Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts
for marine areas 201 to 214. Notices to Shipping in South Coast Nova Scotia
area. Notices to Shipping revising the position of every reported offshore
exploration and exploitation vessel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 530, Dec 29 at 0253 UT, R. Enciclopedia, CUBA has some
distorted QRM, so is K530AM, Vance AFB out of order? By 1900 UT it`s normal and
alone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 800, Dec 28 at 1340 UT, KQCV OKC is OFF! As of 1625 UT
check, OG&E System Watch has more than 57K outages across central OK; more than
8000 in OKC proper, many more in suburbs, including almost 4000 in Mustang,
close to the KQCV site (and 1254 in Enid, but so far only a few power glitches
here). 800 still off 5 hours later.
Even when KQCV is actively gospel-huxtering English in the evenings,
gospel-huxtering in Spanish can be heard along with it, no doubt the
super-powering TWR 800 BONAIRE.
XEROK 800 is still negligible but supposedly on the air at very low power. The
new 2015 IRCA Mexican Log still has it as 50/50 kW, no mention of any
degradation; likewise the new 2016 WRTH: despite numerous non-logs from myself
and others the last several months (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 800, Dec 29 at 1325 UT, KQCV OKC is back on, and probably
considerably earlier, having been off at midday yesterday. Didn`t get anything
useful in its absence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Dec 29 circa 1900 UT, KETU Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is OFF;
weather-related? Maybe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Dec 30 at 1925 UT, Spanish, with OSU PSA and 918 area code,
so KETU, Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa, La Ketú is back on following yesterday`s outage
(more reliable now that it`s not just music fill, but still subject to absences
for no particular obvious reason like power failure) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Dec 26 at 0145 UT, ``Today`s Best Country, 12-10 KGYN``,
into Xmas music. Guymon 10 kW station is back to old trix, failing to protect
Philadelphia at night as has been the case for a few nights now. They still
have a CP for 50/39/10 kW, which if it ever happen, will give them the option
of cheating with 50 kW non-direxional night as well as day. Why not? Other
stations get away with it, like KNZZ 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Dec 29 at 1354 UT, nothing but fill music on this now-talk
station until 1400 UT sharp, no ID and into CBS News; steady groundwave already
over the graveyard, certainly our nearest, WBBZ Ponca City. Talk after the news
probably Beck (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1460, Dec 29 at 1531 UT, I`m still not hearing KZUE El
Reno, and may have overlooked its absence since the latest ice storm. As of
1815 UT Dec 29, OG&E Systemwatch shows 3168 customers in El Reno powerless (and
875 in Enid, but never us, whew! Circa noon ice is crashing off tree branches,
temp barely reaching unfreezing).
Instead on 1460, still skywave at 1539 UT Dec 29 from KCLE, mentioning Burleson
during buy-and-sell call-in, 817 area codes, Old Texas Brewing Co., et al. Same
show still going at 1620 UT, mixed with another English station with sports
talk, perhaps nearest KKOY Chanute KS, but could even be skywave still from
KXNO Des Moines IA.
Closer to local mean noon I seek KZUE again at 1900 UT: just a mixture of weak
low-noon skywave, so KZUE is definitely off (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1460, KZUE El Reno is still AWOL, Dec 30 at 1919 UT on
caradio: power still out following Dec 26-27 icestorm. Instead weak mix of
skywave signals, one with football talk.
1460, Dec 30 at 1929 UT, ESPN Radio and at 1930 UT CCI from station mentioning
Burleson, missed ID for an FM; 1953 UT C&W music.
Burleson and C&W is certainly KCLE a.k.a. Cleburne TX; nearest ESPN on 1460 is
KXPN, 5 kW ND in Kearney NE. (KCLE used to be ESPN till it flipped to The
Outlaw last May; KBZO Lubbock TX is ESPN, but Deportes, i.e. Spanish).
KZUE is still missing Dec 30 at 1812 UT check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) And Dec 31 circa 1900 UT
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1640, Dec 28 at 0316 UT, KZLS Enid-OKC is open
carrier/dead air yet again; some weak talk underneath and at 0357 UT, probably
WTNI Biloxi MS. KZLS still dead air at 0630 UT and still at 1350 UT. We have an
ice storm around here with considerable power outages, but the site east of
Hennessey obviously has power; just can`t get any programming, a very frequent
situation when there is nothing untoward to explain it (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. ANOTHER ice storm has hit us. In Enid, anyway, it`s not
as bad as the Thanksgiving one. Icy limbs but all the leaves are gone now, and
the weakest were already broken. But there are still a lot of power lines down
elsewhere
After 1811 UT Dec 28, on caradio, AM:
800, KQCV OKC is still off
1280, KSOK Arkansas City KS, just across the border, is the only other notable
absence on midday groundwave
1640, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is dead air again
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Dec 29 at 0255 UT, KZLS is again/still in dead air with hum.
See USA for KBJA, WJSP logs. Still open carrier/DA at 0720 UT, 1407 UT, and
1900 UT chex. It`s really amazing how many hours are wasted this way. How does
KZLS make any money, retain any listeners? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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** U S A. 700, Dec 30 at 1923 UT on groundwave, Spanish religion, so KHSE Wylie
TX. so far heard only in Spanish despite broadening format to ETHnic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Dec 26 at 0158 UT, ``La Fabulosa 8-30`` ID goes by, so WFNO
Norco LA retains such a monicker. I am also trying to split off the het I`m
getting on 830.5 or so without success (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1100, Dec 25 at 0252 UT, Colorado ads way over WTAM, making fast SAH,
Xmas music; KNZZ ID for sure at 0334 UT, Grand Junxion obviously cheating again
with 50 kW ND at night. It does fade from time to time on caradio, but not
enough to clear the channel for Cleveland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1110, Dec 25 around 0230 UT, Mannheim Steamroller`s `American
Christmas`, annual special carried on many US MW stations, this one being KFAB
Omaha, at times overridden on caradio by IBOC from 1120 KMOX peaking at 1107
kHz. Maybe there will be more airings Xmas day/night? Pushing their new
recordings, of course. I enjoy their music and almost went to one of the two MS
roadtour groups` appearance recently at the new Enid Event Center, but decided
the price was too high, and I`d have to bring my enclosing-the-ears headphones
to deaden the dBs, thus also killing the hi frequencies, like I had to for
``Tops in Blue`` by the USAF (free). No other audio control by audience in an
arena! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1110, Dec 31 at 1350 UT, Qur`an bits alternating with talk
(translation?) in non-Arabic language, maybe Punjabi or Urdu, from 50 kW KVTT
Mineral Wells (Metroplex) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Dec 26 at 1354 UT, open carrier/dead air from KLEY Wellington
KS on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Dec 28 at 0323 UT, open carrier/dead air from NE/SW, surely my
semi-local KLEY Wellington KS, supposed to be 250 watts daytime and PSRA, ONE
WATT at night. Ditto at 0634 UT, but by 1343 UT it`s recovered (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Dec 29 circa 1900 UT, KSOK, Arkansas City KS is back on, having
been missing 25 hours earlier. I don`t think the Arkansas River is flooding
this far up, but it certainly is by the time it gets to Arkansas State.
Pronunciation guide for non-natives:
Kansas the state: KAN-zuss
Arkansas the state: AR-kun-saw
Arkansas City, Kansas: ar-KAN-zuss SIT-ee (or just ark-SIT-ee)
Arkansas River, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas: AR-kun-saw
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Dec 26 at 0143 UT, ads for something in Vegas(?), so I perk up
in case this is all the way from Nevada --- no, next ad is for Monahans, so
KCKM must have been referring to Pecos (pay-kuss), next town down I-20 (and not
Vega TX either, which is too far away, west of Amarillo) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1360, Dec 30 at 1926 UT, plugging AM-820, covering the state of Ohio,
Catholic call-in from EWTN. I.e. the former WOSU disposed of by Ohio State, now
WVSG with 6.5 kW in the daytime. But this 1360 is KPHN El Dorado KS, close
enough for marginal groundwave but stronger than usual so some boost from
skywave? Holding its own against the local KCRC spur/het from 1390 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1390, Dec 27 at 1354 UT I find that local KCRC Enid is off! No severe
winter storm has hit us yet. An improvement over mere dead air they were
broadcasting for hours a few nights ago, so what else can I get? Just after
sunrise (if we could see it!), so some skywave still. NW/SE gets some C&W
music, later at 1350 UT blues with YL singer and piano; NE/SW gets something
talking. I have to turn on a VCR by 1355 UT in preparation for CBS Sunday
Morning (which KWTV has shifted to KSBI due to continuous winter storm coverage
on main channel), and the VCR radiates blocking noise on the NW/SE angle.
So I keep on the NE/SW station, can`t pull any IDs but 1400 UT Fox ``News``,
1405 UT national ad with 800 number, 1406 UT into `Smart Living with Larry
Ahrens` from BizTalk Radio. Says the show originates in Albuquerque. I do find
that on the BizTalk pdf schedule grid (due for changes in January), for this
hour on Sundays, via
http://affiliate.biztalkradio.com/Programming-Schedule
but the ``affiliate resources`` do not include any list of them! Proprietary
info, I suppose. Unfortunately, neither BizTalk network, nor Ahrens show are
among those referenced in the 2016 NRC AM Log. Nothing specific about
affiliates searching on his name; he`s an alumnus of KKOB 770.
1390, KJPW, Waynesville MO, looks to be the very likely source, in fact called
`The Source` in NRC AM Log, affiliated with Fox news, but can`t find an own
website as it`s insignificant among a sextet of co-stations at
http://www.myozarksonline.com/2015/03/27/select-your-station-here/
It`s our `next` 1390 station to the northeast. Unlike very direxional KCRC,
KJPW is ND day and night, 5000/111 watts, PSRA 500, but now it`s definitely
Day. The two 1390s in Arkansas are both Spanish.
As for the music station on 1390, these two are most likely by proximity and
listed format: KNCK, Concordia KS, OLD; KBEC, Waxahachie TX, C&W - Texas
Classic Music. By 1625 UT check, KCRC is back on, shux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn, I think KNCK 1390 is oldies or something similar, but not country. They
don't stream so I can't confirm. Could you have had KBEC Waxahachie, TX? Both
radio-locator and wikipedia list KNCK-AM as oldies, with wikipedia even listing
a slogan "1390 Memories"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNCK_(AM)
(Paul B Walker, Jr, AR, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520, Dec 28 at 1346 UT, KOKC OKC talk with severe interference,
often atop it, and almost zero-beat, from C&W music: must be KYND Cypress TX,
and 1349 UT conveniently breaks for ID in American English, ``1520 KYND``.
This is one of the stations which had been relaying China Radio International,
but no more, as discussed on WOR and DXLD (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1806, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
** U S A. 1520, Dec 31 at 1336 UT, C&W music making slow SAH atop KOKC OKC,
then ID ``1520 AM KYND`` from Cypress TX, ``now living in Londale`` (?? I don`t
find any similar place in greater Houston) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
G&E STUDIO/CRI PROGRAMMING GONE FROM DOMESTIC U.S. STATIONS?
It appears that G&E Studio, which was affiliated with China Radio
International, might have lost funding from its arrangement with CRI and has
discontinued its leased broadcasts on stations in the U.S., including KYND 1520
and KGBC 1540 here in the Houston area. Much discussion of this on the
RadioDiscussions.com Houston board.
KGBC is now running Hum Tum Radio, a South Asian targeted format produced in
Houston (and also heard on 106.1 FM here) while KYND is running music fill
while it searches for another programmer to lease time on the station.
This new development might have something to do with the Chinese government's
reevaluation of its international media efforts as mentioned by Keith Perron on
this forum a few months back.
The G&E Studio website is still there:
http://gestudio.us/
Glenn, you have frequently reported hearing KYND during critical hours (daytime
only station) so look for something different underneath KOKC (Stephen Luce,
Houston, Texas, Dec 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1805, DXLD)
This CRI relay deal thru a ChiCom front organization in the US got a lot of
negative publicity a few months ago, after the FCC had turned a blind eye to
it. So now the question is whether CRI has also disappeared from several other
cities, e.g. 1120 in Washington DC, 1540 in Philadelphia, etc. Even 1540,
Toronto?
As for KYND, its pattern is supposed to be a circle tangent eastward,
groundwave to interfere with the Lafayette LA station, not KOKC, which remains
self-degraded at only 10 instead of 50 kW, since a tornado broke one of its
towers last May; well, how long to replace it if they are ever going to?
Here`s a LOT more about the CRI situation from Radio Discussions Houston board.
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?691609-KYND-Cypress-Off-the-Air
b-turner is obviously someone in charge of KYND: (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Our programmer cancelled their programming. While we could have gone live at
the studio, we wanted a more 21st century option. And certainly getting stuck
in the mud at the tower site was a given but maybe not after a couple of dry
days. We needed a couple of days and a piece of equipment to pull that off, so
in lieu of airing silence or being stuck in the studio the whole time, we shut
down until we got our ducks in a row. In fact, I met with our engineer
yesterday (both of us visiting family and it just happened to be the same city,
minutes away from each other), and I was able to pass of what he needed from
me. I see the piece we needed came in and we're up.
>From my understanding G&E Studios created most of the programming heard on the
>English version with a few from China Radio. When China decided to stop
>things, G&E had to cancel us and I understand all of the English language
>stations they were on throughout North America. Like usual, no matter the
>terms of a contract, when cancellation comes, it is always without warning,
>unexpected and not a win-win for any involved parties. In fact your client
>might not know until the final moment as well. That is simply the nature of
>the business.
Finding a new qualified programmer sometimes feels like trying to win the
lottery. You don't know them, how to find them and they don't know you, but whn
everything aligns, somehow you connect. Meanwhile you are painfully aware of
the revenue loss (b-turner, Dec 21, radiodiscussions.com Houston via DXLD)
Yep, everything is changing. And I can see why. Cost for one thing, younger
audience more adept to listening via network services rather than over the air,
also. Portable devices these days aren't a traditional radio of course, they
almost all have internet connectivity now. I wonder if the openings on SW will
attract some new blood? I don't see the bands going to complete waste, nor do I
ever see them being what they once were, just impossible with today's world,
and I don't see the ham bands getting extended either, just not that crowded.
So is this re-evaluation of China's radio efforts due to the same thing that's
going on everywhere, or does this have something to do with the news stories
recently about Chinese Radio and their government propaganda machine? Bill have
you heard anything about why the cancel of the programming? (Chris, KF5JMD, Dec
22, ibid.)
Allow me to try to explain a bit about the CRI deal: G&E Studios is an American
company that had a client, China Radio International. G&E leased stations and
placed programming on them. Some programming came from CRI but much originated
from American hosts (using Los Angeles Air Talent) who did shows on subjects
like technology, sports, financial and other subjects. G&E was hired to do this
by CRI.
After 5 years, the funding for this was stopped resulting in G&E no longer
having a client and a bunch of stations they leased mow needing programming and
a new paying client. I suppose the Chinese 'reevaluated' and dropped the ax. It
is my understanding the English language version was stopped everywhere in
every city G&E leased a station to carry the programming. This would not be a
just Houston thing. I really enjoyed having G&E as a client, really nice
people, understanding and very reasonable in their dealings, a truly rare find
(b-turner, Dec 22, ibid.)
Possibly anything to do with this, I wonder? BTW: As I said before I liked the
programming.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6752877/feds-radio-chinese-ownership
``FEDS INVESTIGATE RADIO BROADCASTER OVER ALLEGED CHINESE OWNERSHIP
11/3/2015 by Associated Press
This site`s story about it makes it out to be a "Covert" Radio Network, LOL..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3302100/Investigation-launched-emerges-California-firm-s-radio-broadcasts-backed-Chinese-government.html
``INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED INTO COVERT CHINESE RADIO NETWORK BROADCASTING IN 12
U.S CITIES AND BACKED BY THE BEIJING GOVERNMENT
I spent a lot (100's) of hours listening to 1520AM KYND while I worked at my
shop, and can say that yes, some of the programming from G&E/CRI was obviously
hand picked by the Chinese Government, along with the fact that a lot of the
big news stories involving China mysteriously were just left out of the
programming entirely. But still it was a good listen, and informative (KF5JMD,
ibid.)
Interesting posts. "G&E Studio Inc is 60% owned by state run Chinese Radio
International"; "The company leases stations and air time". G&E does not own
stations from what I know (and I sure don't know it all). The Daily Mail
article clearly says that: G&E does not own any U.S. stations, but it leases.
So, let's clarify: you rent a space to open, say a hair styling salon on the
corner of a busy intersection. You pay the rent and attend to your customers at
that location. My question, does the salon operator own the building? Next
question: Is the salon owner leasing the space from the building owner? If you
rent/lease a home, do you own it?
I think it might be fair to say 60% of their revenue came from the client China
Radio International. What I find interesting is how a naturalized citizen can
be foreign ownership. Sure, they could be a 'front' but a citizen is not [sic]
a citizen.
For the record, I have never seen, spoken to or dealt with Mr. Su. If he was
leasing the station I manage, I think I'd know it or I'd have some contact at
some point over half a decade. I have known of the people I dealt with prior to
them coming to us about the lease. In fact they had been involved in radio in
Houston.
Covert is really a funny way to describe things since most of the programming
came from independent air talent in the Los Angeles area who were hired to do
shows on topics like finance, sports, entertainment and such.
They would have been very covert if they were still on by making fun of the
Miss Universe blunder and how Mr. Harvey's post misspelled Philippines and
Colombia. Scary covert stuff indeed. My point is most all programming I heard
was the same sort of stuff you'd hear elsewhere on the radio dial.
It is true the English language programming, while mostly originated in Los
Angeles, was paid for through CRI who hired G&E Studios to originate
programming and broadcast a couple of shows off of CRI's English Service. Even
the news originated from Los Angeles air talent, was simply rip and read, with
local weather and traffic added.
This would be akin to the BBC hiring an American company to place BBC
programming on stations in the USA and authorizing that company to originate
programming of interest to the American public. The BBC is known as a state
broadcaster (b-turner, ibid.)
Yep, that's me jocking from my cheap studio at the house. That's what I get for
being an old top 40 jock back in the day when you only spoke over the music and
shut up before the lyrics began. We were having some problems today and the
engineer will be out there in the morning to see why what couldn't go wrong
did.
I mean we are talking something like turning on the radio, then you walk away
from it 5 minutes and for some reason without human intervention, it turns
itself off. All you can do is scratch your head, turn it back on and watch it
for a while to see if it does the same thing. Then again, if you watch it, it
never messes up. It waits until you are not watching it. Or at least that's my
experience with equipment that is to do what it is supposed to do (b-turner,
Dec 22, ibid.)
G&E Studio is still on in Atlanta (WJTP-890). Its the ONLY foreign station in
this market on in English. I used to enjoy listening to Nikki Lee's program
till they took her off (Lou KF4RCA Johnson, Dec 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1806, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540.08, Dec 30 at 1310 UT, het upon dominant signal KXEL on the
R-75. I measure it down to here, and on the DX-398 it`s about two clix (80 Hz)
above KXEL, furthermore looping NNW/SSE, just right for KGBC Galveston TX, and
with South Asian music; 1316 UT YL in English welcomes us mentioning 106.1 ---
so that clinches it, KGBC reported in RadioDiscussions to have replaced G&E/CRI
relay with ``Hum Tum Radio`` // 106.1. WTFDA Database has no such 106.1 listing
for TX, but this one is in the market:
K291CE KLTN-HD3 106.1 SUGAR LAND TX 0.19 kW 29.4456 95.2855 Spanish
KLTN is full-power on 102.9 in Houston, ``regional Mexican`` format. By 1318
UT, KEDA is gaining on 1540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Dec 31 at 1329 UT, R. Jalapeño is dominant signal, ID in
Spanglish from KEDA San Antonio, with a constant LAH: manœvering the DX-398, I
am trying to decide whether KEDA is the one off-frequency, to the hi side. No,
it`s further east, like from KGBC Galveston as I thought yesterday, tho I can`t
pull any South Asian audio from it today. By 1348 UT, KXEL is starting to
appear, and making a sub-audible het with KEDA, i.e. both very close to
on-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, Dec 29 at 1403 UT, flood warning for SE Missouri and adjacent
states, ``Talk Radio 100.3`` IDs, temp for Cape Girardeau, so KAPE, 5 kW day
power, the AM simulcaster not worth mentioning. Per NRC AM Log, 100.3 is a mere
translator, K262AX, so no longer branded as ``Cape 15-50``. Not many cities are
lucky enough to match call letters with (part of) their name.
Silent KLFJ Springfield remains out of the way for us to get KAPE beyond. Never
mind the Okies on 1550. When skywave is gone on 1550, we get KYAL Sapulpa vs
KKLE Winfield KS. Flooding along the Mississippi around St Louis could lead
some AM stations legitimately to run day facilities at night (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Dec 27 at 0110 UT, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is in dead air
again, as a winter storm is approaching, scared silent? So I can hear some
music playing under the carrier, unlikely stupid sports-talking from WTNI MS;
tweaking the NRD-545 tuning for tight bandwidth and passband, past the KZLS
carrier, 0130 UT Spanish announcement, ``disfrute la diferencia``, 0131 UT ad
with an 801-area code, which nails it as the SS Utahn, KBJA Sandy. This had
been DKBJA for a while, Deleted by FCC, but now the D is gone, so they are
apparently {Undeleted, UKBJA?} legally on air again. Nothing helpful about this
in their Correspondence File at AM Query (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Dec 29 at 0255 UT, local KZLS Enid is still/again in dead air
except for hum, facilitating pulling other audio around it on the NRD-545, with
antenna angle minimizing, narrowed bandwidth and passband tuning just right:
Spanish show with marriage advice; 0259 UT closing with 801-AC phone number for
Patricia, i.e. UTAH, until semana entrante, so a brokered weekly program. 0300
UT sharp, ID in Spanish as ``KBJA, 16-40-AM`` and then in English, ``KBJA,
16-40 AM, Salt Lake City``. Not sure if they mentioned SLC or Sandy in Spanish,
but as CoL, Sandy is supposed to be in legal IDs. Meanwhile I was also getting
WSJP in WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Dec 29 at 0255 UT, while mainly hearing Spanish from KBJA UT,
better on the N/S antenna I am also hearing English, prayer to Jesus, and Xmas
music, no doubt WSJP Sussex WI, now Alabaman Catholic with EWTN; tnx to dead
air from local KZLS, pulling audio around it with narrow bandwidth, PBT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Caradio bandscan Dec 30 starting at 1918 UT finds skywave in play
half a sesquihour after local mean noon, including:
1620, at 1918 UT, ``The Zone``, i.e. KOZN Bellevue (Omaha) NE
1510, at 1921 UT, football game, fades up and down, KCTE Independence MO, also
with lo het, so must be on its off-frequency transmitter now. This het is just
a bit higher-pitched than the one on 1540, at 1928 UT
1540, at 1921 UT, low audible het, like I was getting at sunrise from KGBC
Galveston TX (vs KXEL IA likely)
1660, at 1921 UT, sports talk, probably KWOD Kansas City KS, tho ND and TX are
also sports
1700, at 1922 UT, sports talk about Iowa over TexMex music, i.e. KBGG Des
Moines IA and KKLF Richardson TX.
See also separate logs: OKLAHOMA [non] 1460; USA 700, 1360 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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