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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/page43
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
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Jan 20 at 0108, YL in English with gale warning,
barely audible vs noise level. Canadian Coast Guard site shows just starting at
0107 was MCTS Labrador / VOK - via St. Anthony site at the top of the Rock,
2598J3E, ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave
height forecasts for marine areas 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228,
229, 230, 235, 237 and 238. Ice conditions and forecast for the East Coast of
Newfoundland, and the Labrador Coast, south of 54N. Iceberg Bulletin –
Newfoundland Coast and Strait of Belle Isle`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2749-USB, Jan 17 at 0443, YL in French with marine weather, S9 but
so is the noise level. Canadian Coast Guard website finds the most recently
scheduled broadcast is originating from MCTS Les Escoumins / VCF - at 0437 via
Natashquan on 2598-J3E and this via La Vernière on 2749-J3E, ``Radiotelephony
--- Technical marine synopsis and forecast for marine areas 215 to 221 and 301
to 302. Wave height forecasts for marine areas 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 301 and
302. Notice to Fish Harvesters (when available).`` Nothing about it being in
French, as specified for some other transmissions. Nor pointing out that this
place is in les Îles de la Madeleine = Magdalen Islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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** OKLAHOMA. 640, Sat Jan 16 at 1337 UT, open carrier/dead air from KWPN Moore,
easifying audibility of KFI; 1358 UT recheck now it`s funxional with ESPN
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 890, Jan 19 at 2017 UT on caradio bandscan, I find that KTLR OKC
is modulating two programs at once! At equal levels. One is from BizTalk
network, which I wasn`t aware they carried. The second audio sometimes has
pauses, like other side of phone conversation unheard, and sometimes sounds
like somebody left his (produxion?) mike open + on the air with comments not
intended for broadcast. Between errand stops, rechex at 2035 UT and 2044 UT
find the doubletalk still emitting! No one at station listening to itself.
Don`t know for how much longer.
One promo still uses slogan ``Kommunity TaLk Radio``, tho KTLR originally
stands for TyLeR Media, the conglomerate in OK which has bought up lots of
radio and Spanish TV stations around Oklahoma City, including even KOKC & KOMA.
BTW, 1520 KOKC is registering only S9 on the N-S antenna, but 890 KTLR is
S9+32: lower-frequency advantage with only 1 kW ND, compared to 1520 with QRP
of 10 kW ND.
Here`s the 890 program schedule showing BTR weekdays from 1 pm to sign-off
(Jan: 5:45 pm CST), and various other times on weekends. Some blox mixed in are
in Spanish:
http://www.ktlr.com/engine/emw.exe/*qshome=home&st=561&rec=4&kw=news&parm=4&trec=2&lktype=6&snum=1
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 910, Jan 17 at 1339 UT and still at 1350 UT, open carrier/dead air
looping E/W, presumably KVIS Vinita OK, 1/1 kW U3. Missing Sunday-morning prime
preaching time! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 19 at 2048 UT on caradio, KETU briefly with double
audio, announcements mixing, Tulsa ads, 2049 UT, ``11-20 La Diferente``.
Recheck on NRD-545 at 2101 UT in time for full ID in Spanish as ``KETU, 11-20
AM, La Diferente`` also giving 10 mil watts, Tulsa, Oclajoma, ``con música del
presente y del pasado``, one minute of the most important news headlines,
leading, natch, with SCOTUS reviewing POTUS` immigration policy; 2102 UT music
show `La Rumba``.
This belies a new(?) item: ``La Zeta 95.7 Inc. acquires 98.3 K252DT Seneca KS
from First Ventures for $37,500. K252DT will rebroadcast Spanish Christian
"Radio Victory" 1120 KETU Catoosa/Tulsa OK (Radio Insight via Shawn Axelrod
VE4DX1SMA, Winnipeg MB Canada, Jan 15, NRC-AM via DXLD)``
I haven`t been able to find it on radioinsight.com and KETU has not called
itself Radio Victoria, nor been religious for over a year. This may come as a
surprise to the Seneca translator? Was someone reporting this relying on
outdated info? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. Another scan of the MW band during another presidential candidates`
debate, this one the Democrats originally on NBC-TV, UT Monday Jan 18 at 0220
UT: NOT a single station found carrying it, neither the bigsig clearish
channels nor anything recognizable on the regionals and locals. This includes
of course, all the stations which did carry the last Republican debate, and
some carrying the previous Democratic debate. Just too much more important
stuff, like far-right talk show reruns, silly sports talk, etc., etc. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Sun Jan 17 at 1340 UT, no signal from KGGF Coffeyville KS, nor
several minutes later. Often runs open carrier into the night, but now no
carrier at all, when it should be in well by groundwave around sunrise.
(Neighbor 860 KKOW Pittsburg is OK as usual). Recheck at 1709 UT: now 690 is on
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Jan 15 at 1339 UT, Albuquerque and Santa Fe ads, with a slight
reverb, leading me to believe that I am hearing both the 50 kW KKOB main
transmitter in the North Valley still on night pattern nulling toward WABC, and
not quite toward me --- AND its 230-watt night-only non-direxional relay
fill-in for Santa Fe, a.k.a. KKOB.
They should be precisely synchronized as there will be many places in the prime
coverage area where the signals are close to equal; and they are nearly synched
but surely only milliseconds apart, at almost the limit of perception. Night
hours when both KKOBs are on air: January, 0015-1415 UT; February, 0045-1400 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Jan 21 at 0519 UT, I check the Spanish station dominant here
with WCCO auroraled-out, just in case it`s something more Latin than only WFNO
Norco LA. Nope, it`s United Statesian, with a string of Ad Council PSAs in
Spanish, including understood.org twice, which is about ADHD and children`s
learning disabilities. 0521 UT ID as ``Fabulosa 830 AM, música todo el día``.
Even with non-auroral conditions, WFNO does amazingly well for 750 watts beamed
into the Gulf at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Jan 21 at 1931 UT, WCCO Minneapolis MN is making it on daytime
skywave, but faded out a few minutes later at 1937 UT check. 720, WGN Chicago
is also heard at 1932 UT and still at 1937 UT continues to be. Nothing unusual
at the hi end of band, altho at midband, 1040, WHO Des Moines IA is also making
it with Rush atop the Metroplex station SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 850, UT Sun Jan 17 at 0450 UT, KOA Denver with Art Bell musing on the
Clinton re-elexion campaign vs Bob Dôle! And wishing that Bill Clinton would
not be re-elected, in light of Whitewater, but afraid he will be. It`s the
widely broadcast `Somewhere in Time`` Saturday night reruns of the original Art
Bell show, this one from 1996y, a bi-decade ago. What`s the point? For diehard
fans of Art Bell, I guess. Apparently whoever threatened Art enough to get him
to quit his new show has okayed the reruns. Also on several other bigsigs as I
scan across the MW band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Jan 16 at 1341 UT, very poor signal with non-ID as ``Great
Country`` which I think is a syndicated format. Can`t get a DF on it due to
local hash (probably too many chargers running). Prime suspect is KPRM Park
Rapids in the middle of MN, 50/1 kW in NRC AM Log, which has a split
personality, not only ``Classic Country`` as format in Radio-locator, but also
with far-right nincompoops such as Limbaugh and Hannity per own website
http://www.kkradionetwork.com/page/show/348825-kprm-870-am-25-000-watts
Notice the disparity in power levels, but still plenty in daytime. FCC says 50
kW, but January sunrise is not until 1400 UT! (Feb: 1330 UT). Natch, no program
sked on website. No other existing country stations on 870 likely (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Sat Jan 16 at 1347 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is open carrier/dead
air. The January sun just rose officially at 1345 UT (Feb: 1315 UT), allowing
it to boost from 1 watt (ha ha) night power to 250 watt day, which is plenty
for groundwave to here. Or rather, they also have a PSRA of 250 so could have
been modulating that much since 1200 UT, despite 50 kW KWKH. Not unusual to
hear dead air from KLEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Jan 19 at 2104 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is off --- audiblizing
some weak sports talk, presumably KWKH Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Hi Glenn, I just came across your 1290 [as unID] logging in the 1/6
DXLD, and WZTI is indeed an oldies station, but it runs the "True Oldies
Channel," whose jingle is run frequently in the course of an hour. Also
included are frequent mentions of "100.3 FM and 1290 AM." FM gets top billing,
even though it's only a 250 w translator, which nulls at Chicago, protecting
the 100.3 there.
The playlist is late-fifties through late-seventies oldies, and does not
feature any of the crooners, although, prior to the format change as "Martini
Radio," the crooners featured prominently. If memory serves, the change was
approximately three months ago.
The daytime pattern outside of its main lobe closely emulates the legacy
contour of when the station was 1000 watts ND, daytime only. They went 5/5 U4
in September, 1981, when they were WZUU, also an oldies format. The pattern,
particularly to the south, tightens up quite a bit at night. Driving toward
Chicago on I-94 at night, it rapidly is overwhelmed by WHIO in Dayton, OH
within 20 miles of having passed Rawson Ave., the road on which the four
in-line towers are located. Hope this helps (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI,
Jan 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Following this report in AM Switch of NRC DX News Dec 28:
``1480 KBXD TX Dallas – Silent Dec. 17, 2014; on the air Dec. 10``
With what programming? I`m looking for KBXD, but have seen no other reports of
it and have been unable to hear it myself on several chex in January, such as
Jan 20 at 1354 UT. Now the dominant signal day and night continues to be KQAM
Wichita. That`s because the next NRC DX News of January 11 reported:
``1480 KBXD TX Dallas – Had been back on the air Dec. 10; silent again Dec. 21
to replace transmitter and hopes to be back on the air within 30 days``
So was that the old transmitter Dec 10-21? It used to make a fast SAH with
KQAM. Possibly it was this along with another unID log on 1480: ``UNIDENTIFIED.
1480, Dec 6 at 0126 UT, as I tune in, ID as ``1480 WGRA`` or maybe WGRE --- but
there is no such station listed by NRC or FCC on 1480, nor any fuzzily similar
call. Lots of QRM, maybe a music station vs all the talk stations. Also a low
rumbling het from somebody too far off-frequency. Frustrating.`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, Jan 15 at 1403 UT, ``1660, The Score`` ID from Kansas City, as
the station for national sports; also promoting 610 (KCSP) for local sports;
1405 UT into Dan Patrick show. Change of KWOD from ``KMBZ Business Channel``
(sub-station of 980 outlet) to ``The Score`` missed the August deadline for the
2015-2016 NRC AM Log. (Before that, from 2001 to 2011, it was classical KXTR,
sob, as a sop to ex-KXTR (FM) listeners, except for a month in early 2007 when
the WDAF calls (ex-610) were parked on 1660). And then there was KUDL from 2011
to 2014. Strange they haven`t changed calls again to distance from previous
format.
Furthermore, in checking FCC AM Query, I see that KWOD has a CP to change to a
different transmitter site; why? It`ll remain 10/1 kW U1 like most X-banders.
Old and new coördinates show it moving about 2 minutes further north and about
4 minutes further west:
Licensed: 39° 02' 17.00" N Latitude, 94° 36' 56.00" W Longitude
New site: 39° 04' 19.00" N Latitude, 94° 40' 58.00" W Longitude
The CP expires Dec 17, 2017, granted 3 years earlier. Old site is very close to
the state line, but I think barely on the KS side, so the new site will be more
securely inside Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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