[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, August 26-27, 2017
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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use.
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/page61
[over 239,000 views! as of August 27, 2017]
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of
USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are
in frequency order
** U S A. 740, Aug 26 at 0559 UT, ``Radio 740 KTRH``, mixing with KRMG Tulsa,
slow SAH vs music, no doubt CFZM. To hear KTRH it`s more necessary to null CFZM
than KRMG! KTRH should have been a class 1-A 50 kW nondirexional day and night
station, but as a late-comer, had to protect San Francisco, Tulsa, even
Toronto. This surely makes Houston the largest city in the USA with no such
station providing near-nationwide coverage. I doubt if it`s on ND antenna even
now, poor signal here. Switching to day pattern instead of night wouldn`t
really make much difference, both direxional to SW. Would it still be easy for
such a station to flip a switch and go non-direxional which it normally never
does? At 0603 UT, KTRH with EAS tones and tornado warning for Galveston County.
{a sesquiday later it was reported that there had been 99! Tornado warnings
caused by Harvey.}
BTW, circa 1530 UT Aug 27, CNN reported that CBS affiliate KHOU-TV ``11``
Houston was off the air, showing studios flooded! So is the transmitter site
also flooded; or powerless? Via Mike Terry:
http://www.khou.com/weather/flood-water-seeps-into-houston-news-studio-during-live-broadcast/468095916
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, UT Sun Aug 27 at 0421 UT, surprised to hear Jim Bohannon on
KRVN, topic ``Spoil Your Dog Day``. It`s a M-F show only, which KRVN has been
carrying after local midnight. Finding a plain old program schedule on busy
website http://krvn.com remains impossible; not even by searching it on
``Jimbo`` or ``Bohannon`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, Sat Aug 26 at 0521 UT, WOAI is the only significant TX station
audible with Hurricane Harvey coverage and it`s mostly coming from The
Weather Channel! cable TV station, but not synchronized. Finally at 0544 UT I
time the delay of 95 seconds compared to what we are getting via Suddenlink
cable in Enid. WOAI does break in with local coverage and still a heavy
commercial load thanks to all those intervals provided by TWC.
Yet seems odd for reporter to keep referring to what we can *see* which is very
difficult on an AM radio station! Such as next WOAI listen, UT Sun Aug 27 at
0423 UT, report from Buffalo Bayou, tornado warning in Harris County ``on your
screen``. No, it isn`t!! BTW, nothing special from WWL, yet (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Random nighttime Aug 26-27 chex for 1030 KCTA Corpus Christi
turn up nothing --- they have a 50 kW non-direxional transmitter daytime+ only,
and have been known to run it illegally into the night, but now that they could
do it legally and necessarily in an emergency, none of it! Of course, being a
gospel huxter, KCTA no doubt lacks any local news department, let alone weather
as they don`t care what is going on in the real world.
Rather, 1030 is dominated by XEYC R. Fórmula charlanoticias en Juárez --- I
just notice altho WRTH 2017 has it among other 1030 stations, the frequency
shown for it is ``1400``, where it was years before?! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1090, Aug 26 at 0551 UT, Catholic talk in English from NE/SW, in fact
sounds like Mother Angelica --- yes, // but out of synch, about 2 seconds
*ahead* of her own 11520 WEWN, into music. So this is KEXS, Excelsior Springs
MO (Kansas City), an 8 kW (application for 10 kW) DAYTIMER. Of course, God`s
ETWN stations are not subject to Laws of Man! I see Rob Ross, Ont., has also
logged KEXS at night. Tsk2, it overcomes KAAY Little Rock, a Brother Scare
outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, circa 0430 UT Aug 27 altho I did not log it at the time, some
gospel huxter in English musing that it`s God`s will for Texas to be flooded.
(Right, because TX denies
Re: [IRCA] The ABC Website Archives Really Do Work- Sometimes
--- Begin Message --- Gary, Except you refer to ``at 1327 UT or 2327 Western Australian time`` as if WAT were UT +10 instead of UT +8, so something needs to be corrected here. There are three other Ozzies on 558, all really in the Eastern timezone UT +10 but none of them are ABC. 73, Glenn Hauser --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, August 19-25, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use. 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/page61 [over 238,000 views! as of August 25, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 1040, Aug 19 at 1800 UT, YL with Fox News, running ahead of // 1000 KTOK OKC. Hmm, could this be WHO barely on groundwave, or the Metroplex station? NO! I forgot that local 960 KGWA puts spurs on plus/minus 80 kHz, as so IDed at 1805 UT. The other one is more blocked by KRVN, and neither can be heard at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1157 & 1183 kHz, Aug 19 at 1757 UT, IBOC noiseblobs peaking here, i.e. out of KFAQ 1170 Tulsa. Had not heard any IBOC from them, day or night, for many weeks/months (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 740, Aug 25 at 1150 UT, looking for KTRH Houston on day pattern due to Hurricane Harvey, but can`t find it, even nulling KRMG. KTRH has sometimes come in before, without any hurricane. NRC Pattern Book reminds that day & night it`s nominally same direxional circle tangent toward SW down the coast; adding in nighttime a smaller lobe due east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 19 at 1758 UT, weak signal of music? too weak to be KLEY nearby Wellington KS; also inferior to 1120, 1140 and 1150 stations. KLEY had been AWOL earlier, came back, and may have been off for some time again, not checked for recently. 1130 KWKH Shreveport would not be playing music except incidentally during sports talk. There is another possibility, 25 kW direxional daytimer KTMR Converse TX (Houston market), listed last year as Spanish religion. Pattern is flattened with a null toward KWKH, of course, major lobes WNW/ESE, including some to the NNW, ourway. But really too far for daytime over-Texas groundwave, except maybe a remnant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) no, it must really be KLEY on reduced power. See later Eclipse trip log (gh) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, August 19-25, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page61 [over 238,000 views! as of August 25, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 710, August 20 at 1133, promo news show lunes a viernes 5:40-6:45 am, on ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, 89.7 FM``, XEDP jingle and back to music. Dominant signal now. 620, Aug 20 circa 1135, no sign of XEBU, Chihuahua2, tho other NW Mexicans are in on 550, 650, 710, etc. So wonder if it`s still on AM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA carrier search, Aug 25 at 1135-1143, in the order detected, all looping WSW toward Au/NZ except 1098-W: 774, 702, 693, 603, 558 (Fiji?), 576, 594, 612, 621, 684, 756, 882, 891, 1098 (Marshalls), 1548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Eclipse DX Report from Glenn Hauser
: http://www.w4uvh.net/Eclipse2017contrails.jpg Our undivided attention for the next 3 minutes goes to viewing and photography. The diamond ring effect flashes, and then the glorious corona. Here`s my photo: http://www.w4uvh.net/Eclipse20170821_1801.jpg Most of the other eclipse viewers are in a hurry to drive out as soon as totality is over, and it takes more than half an hour. Cops are directing traffic, halting it on US 81 to let them get out. I am in no hurry as there is a lot more to monitor. 1080, bandscanning down as far as I can get anything vs the storm noise level, at 1815 there is a an ad with 972-AC, which means KRLD Dallas, also way out of the path in the other direxion. Gone by 1822. Got to be skywave, as it barely makes it to Enid on groundwave. 1120, at 1816, KMOX has faded in during their own live eclipse coverage in St Louis, counting down to totality there at 1:17:31 CDT. At 1819:20 they say it`s ending; by 1821 signal is fading a bit. Nice to hear this despite 1110 KFAB. 1510, what`s next? Maybe I can get WLAC Nashville, next big city on the totality path. At 1826 I`m hearing British accent, must be that filler for Rush; Yes, the EIB jingle, and 1830 WLAC ID, no eclipse coverage! Best distance for me of the lot; see table below. 1630 & 1650 & 1690, the CO/WY stations are gone before I recheck them at 1830. 1690 at 1834 now has something, ad about credit, mixed with C music? The talk I would now expect to be WVON Chicago, but no idea about C I haven`t been doing any SW or ham monitoring. Brother Scare has been making a big deal of the Eclipse over his Tabernacle in SC, so I tune him in at 1845 on WRMI 11580 to hear him singing some Aleluias, 1846 ``Praise God`` and long pause. He`s speechless! Or rather, I soon discover at 1848 that his audio feed has been cutting out, tsk2. By 1854 the Eclipse here is about three-quarters. Sitting in the driver`s seat, I notice that the notched Sun is being reflected from my watch face onto the inside car door. Heading back down US 81 to Enid, at 2116 I notice that 1350, KMAN Manhattan KS is talking about what is *going* to happen regarding the eclipse, a bad time to be running a delayed playback of some talkshow. 2120 plugs translators on 93.3 and 93.7. I don`t write down the calls or locations. Should have, as NRC AM Log does not mention either. More and more AM stations will be adding more and more FM translators. Approximate city-to-city distances from Fairmont NE in km and statute miles, as in distancefromto.net --- 766/476 Casper WY 416/258 Holcomb KS 335/208 Blue Spring MO 611/380 Cheyenne WY 637/396 Denver CO 230/143 Sioux City IA 605/376 Saint Paul MN 877/545 Fort Worth TX 878/545 Dallas TX 671/417 Saint Louis MO 1065/662 Nashville TN 830/516 Chicago IL Berwyn 473/294 Enid OK 1732/1076 Walterboro SC (Glenn Hauser, NE & KS, August 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~ NOW, backing up, about my trip to Fairmont NE and back, other non-eclipse radio logs, this time in frequency, not chronological order: 550, August 21 circa 1600 UT entering Nebraska on the other side of KFRM, its pattern is very evident as circle tangent to the southwest, making it a bigsig daytime in Enid, but now it`s weakening and with a ripple SAH, which I can only conclude is caused by KFYR Bismarck ND, which is also 5 kW day, but non-direxional and has a tremendous groundwave coverage area. At the Eclipse site in Fairmont NE, I get a 5 Hz SAH on 550 between the two. KFRM Salina used to announce that its transmitter is in Cloud County, Kansas. 570, August 21 at 2106 UT, WNAX Yankton SD is playing ``The Star Spangled Banner``, nice rendition by a baritone, a cappella, IDed as Gerald ---, since a Minnesota Twins game is starting. WNAX makes it to Enid on groundwave, but not without KLIF CCI. 1130, August 20 at 1735 UT, I am trying to hear KLEY Wellington KS, which has been JBA in Enid on daytime groundwave, where its listed 250 watt daytime power used to be quite sufficient that far away. It must have been what I was hearing before, but so weak I suspected to be something more distant, maybe Houston. KLEY also supposedly ONE WATT at night. It`s still far too weak on the road, but gradually improving; still weaker than 1140 OKC or 1150 Salina or 1120 Tulsa. As soon as we get into Kansas, KLEY is quite better, surprisingly at 1735 UT with an ad for the Pratt area Chamber of Commerce, which is far on the other side of Wichita and surely not in KLEY`s coverage either, but then a Wellington ad for RCB Bank. 1738 UT back to programming, which is a drama for kids about Pawnee Ann and her decoder badges, also mentions Hapnore (?) Candy. Or is it Bonnie Ann? No, ``Pawnee Ann Hillside``. Strange. 1749 outro credits as having been ``Kansas Radio Theater on Rocking M Stations``; so that`s what many/all of them carry at noon S
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, August 4-18, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page61 [over 237,000 views! as of August 18, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 610, August 12 at 1129 choral NA, loops about SW, fade for ID at 1130. More and more XE`s are playing anthem at hourbottoms for some reason. Most likely XEBX Sabinas, Coahuila, but would welcome further XESAC Saltillo, or XEEL Zacatecas. Also often heard is XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, which is partly // 650 XETNT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, August 12 at 1131, full IDs, maybe sign-ons for Radio 65, XETNT, and XHTNT, 106.5, Los Mochis, Sinaloa; 1133 into `Rincón Norteña` music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, August 12 at 1105, after choral NA, XEDTL sign-on, Radio Cuidadana of IMER, Ciudad de México, also on an HD2 of some FM frequency. XEEY Ags2 was already on and QRMing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, August 11 at 1053- 1055: 774 and 882 from WSW, presumably Australia/New Zealand. Another on 1098 has no null, so likely local birdie rather than Marshalls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 774, Aug 12 at 1109, JBA carrier looping WSW, likely 3LO Melbourne. This so weak that I don`t bother with a complete 9-kHz bandscan, but instead search for 10-kHz Mexicans at SRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1020-, Aug 12 at 1113 UT, annoying low het to KOKP Perry OK, slightly on low side; in addition to a much closer SAH to KOKP. Also heard previous mornings; can`t get a reliable bearing on it or enough signal to separate it. BTW, 740 KRMG Tulsa still suffers from a horrible rumbling low het around sunrise from XEQN, Torreón, Coahuila, as previously IDed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, August 4-18, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use. 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/page61 [over 237,000 views! as of August 18, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 1530, August 4 at 1203 UT, `La Que Buena`` also mentioning Oaxaca almost sounding like an ID, but probably a musical group; from KXTD Wagoner OK (Tulsa market), 5 kW daytimer (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Looking thru long pdf by frequency of TIS & HAR stations: http://www.ircaonline.org/TIS_2016.pdf I search on OK and don`t find much in this state, but some odd ones on split frequencies in the X-band, all with same callsign KD8618: 1614, 1628, 1652, 1676, 1700 kHz, licensed until 12/07/24 to: ``Conoco-Philips Communications Inc., Bartlesville, (Industrial Business Pool)``. Four of those should really stand out if they are ever active. Will have to seek them the next time I`m at OK Mozart. Callsign format of two letters plus four numbers implies they are mobile/portable units (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1891, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 1370, August 9 at 1158 UT, ad for Coyote Tractors on highway 290, 1159 UT ID as Fox 1370, but 1200 UT into CBS News bong. This doesn`t quite compute, so my research finds: Google is smart enough to correct Coyote to Kioti! US 290 connects San Antonio to Austin to Houston TX. The only 1370 along this route is KJCE Rollingwood = Austin market, and it`s Talk 1370, not Fox 1370. Wikipedia and NRC AM Log of last year confirm it carries CBS news; and the find-a-Kioti- dealer website goes to this: Paige Tractors, 4409 Highway 290 East, Paige, TX, 78659, Distance: 46 miles from KJCE`s Austin zipcode of 78746. Wiki also informs that call derives from a previous branding ``K-Juice``. It`s 5/0.5 kW U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, August 12 at 1123 UT, open carrier/dead air, at first suspected KBXD Dallas until I hear that in Spanish gospel underneath, so now presumed KQAM Wichita, and making usual slow SAH together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, Aug 7 at 0539 UT, JBA carrier even with R75 preamps off; perhaps pirate as reported sometimes, or TIS. I usually start/end MW bandscans here with nothing heard. There are also Australian and Argentine broadcasters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] UNID 1710
--- Begin Message --- So why don`t you guys DF - triangulate it? For starters, what is its bearing from Tim, from where exactly in West Michigan? I`ve also had a JBA carrier on 1710. 73, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, July 28-August 3, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use. 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/page60 [over 233,000 views! as of August 4, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 880, August 3 at 1113 UT, YL with news about infrastruxure funding, on the ``World Radio Network`` --- huh? N/S so obviously KRVN Lexington NE; 1115 UT website worldradio.com and discuss Nebraska corn crop, on ``Nebraska World Radio`` --- huh? We already have the WRN based in London and the religious HCJB-affiliated WRN in the RGV. I honestly thought they were saying ``world`` but website reminds me it`s really ``Rural``! And any qualified Nebraskan may join the NRRA for $25 and get a certificate. Other stations in the group are KNEB 960 and KTIC 840. Anyhow, the world beyond its daytime coverage area will be trying to hear KRVN around 1800 UT August 21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, July 28-August 3, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page60 [over 233,000 views! as of August 4, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 540, August 3 at 1055, choral NA already playing from WSW, 1058 as expected ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, XETX sign-on full ID from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, along with 90.5 FM, street address, Grupo BM Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 540, August 3 at 1058, having just heard XETX sign on, now there is another Mexican NA in its null toward the SSE, and 1100 ID as ``Los Cuarenta``, i.e. XEWA, San Luís Potosí, SLP. At this angle I am also getting a low het, but no time to pin it down, suspected Nicaragua where Managua sunrise is not until 1132 vs 1140 here. On July 8 until 0459*, Bruce Conti in NH measured R. Corporación on 539.859 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, August 3 at 1103, choral NA from SSW, 1105 into music but interjecting ``La Kaliente 102.9``, i.e. XEEY, Aguascalientes2, 50/10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710.0, August 3 at 1106, bit of ``Ode to Joy`` theme, or rather whatever hymn has stolen its tune, and sermon in Spanish about el muro de Jerusalén. Voice sounds like same guy I frequently hear a few minutes later in bajoalemán, i.e. XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, not on the off-frequency transmitter at the moment. Maybe he appreciates Beethoven (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search: the ``season`` has begun --- I`d rather be sleeping, but since I`m awake, August 3 at 1047, a quick check for TP carriers, on 9 kHz steps via the handheld DX-398: Yes, JBA ones detected only on 774 from the WSW, i.e. 3LO Melbourne, Australia; and at 1049, 1098 kHz from the west, i.e. V7AB, Marshall Islands. Sunrise here: 1140 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, July 15-27, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page60 [over 232,000 views! as of July 28, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 650, July 23 at 1120, Mexican music from XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, the major lowband signal holding up as Enid sunrise 1131 is nigh. 1128 full ID as Radio 65, Radio Viva, noticias Altavoz.com, and into choral NA at this odd time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, July 22-27, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use. 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/page60 [over 232,000 views! as of July 28, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 740, Sunday July 23 at 1140 UT, distracted from SRS DXing by an interview on KRMG rather than far-right talkshows; with conductor of an orchestra about their upcoming 10-concert 2017-2018 season, seems like it`s quite creative. Some time references imply however this was recorded circa last February. I figure it`s the Tulsa Symphony --- but no, wrapping up at 1156 UT with Andrés Franco, conductor of the Signature Symphony, of which I had never heard, http://www.signaturesymphony.org on the program `Oklahoma Perspective`. Season theme is ``"From the Heartland: Tulsa Music Connections" as explained: http://signaturesymphony.org/signature-symphony-at-tcc-announces-2017-2018-season/ Quite affordable too, individual tickets $12, season $60. Makes me wish I were much closer to Tulsa. The S.S. is part of Tulsa Community College. This motto appears twice on website: ``Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam.`` It looks like Latin, but maybe it`s nonsense? Google can`t translate it all. In segments, comes up with ``just hate tomorrow, protein and antioxidants in poverty and need`` --- huhhh??? Tulsa Symphony, OTOH, emphasizes that it`s ``professional``, now in its twelfth season following the demise of the Tulsa Philharmonic. https://tulsasymphony.org/ It`s also broadcast on KWTU 88.7, the only one pending on current schedule: ``September 10, 4-6 pm [CDT Sunday = 21-23 UT], Classics Series: The Firebird, Symphony No. 90 (Haydn), Hary Janos Suite (Kodaly), The Firebird Suite (Stravinsky)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 1460, July 24 at 0132 UT, YL speaking calmly in Asian language really stands out --- not Mandarin, but seems tonal, maybe Cantonese, Vietnamese, Cambodian or even Myanmarianese? At the moment atop some CCI in Spanish, maybe still KZUE in OK. Loops about 170/350 degrees on the DX-398, so I bet it is something from the multi-ethnic Houston market. Also makes fast SAH circa 10 Hz with algo. At 0140 UT, language disappears, replaced by Home Depot, Lowe`s ads in English, then ``Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN-Radio at Wrigley Field`` (likely KXPN Kearney NE, 5000/56 watts U1). Later checking NRC AM Log, the obvious answer: KBRZ, Missouri City TX, 5000/125 U1, but applied for 1/125 U5. FCC AM Query now does not show any such app. However, KBRZ FCC sunset in July is 0130 UT, so they were a bit late dropping power; August: 0100* UT. Physical address in Houston, ETHnic format, ``International Language Radio``, per NRC. Radio-locator instead calls it ``Sangeet Radio``, http://www.sangeetradio.com/ which pretends 95.1 FM is its only frequency, but which is really just a measly translator, K236AR per NRC Log. A.k.a. on website ``No. 1 Desi Hit Music Station``. Program sked for ``Weekend`` (so Sat & Sun are identical?) shows 6-9 pm [CDT = UT -5] `Zeeshan ON AIR` with the ``RJ``, Zeeshan Ishaq. She(?) is not among the RJs (which means?) in the ``Profiles`` photo gallery. We still don`t know what language this involves, no doubt obvious to the ethnix. ``About Us`` at http://www.sangeetradio.com/?page_id=10 still does not enlighten us, but says KBRZ caters to all South Asians. So who is Zeeshan Ishaq? Searching on that seemingly unique name gets lots of hits, at least top-10 at linkedin. Adding KBRZ to search gets to this one: http://zeeshanonair.com/schedule/ indicating it`s a guy who plays Bollywood music, far from what I was hearing. Also linx to his FB https://www.facebook.com/Zeeshan-On-Air-951-FM-1460-AM-626258387450241/ where it`s clear he is a Pakistani Moslem, backing Azad Kashmir against Indian occupation. So maybe he had this woman guest talking on his show when I heard it, in Punjabi? Urdu? But those
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, July 15-21, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 is no longer in use. 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/page60 [over 230,000 views! as of July 21, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1050, UT Monday July 17 at 0141 UT, start of interview in English with author of a book about guns, no sign of XEG yet but CCI from another; 0142 UT cut to ad for MO State Fair in Sedalia, and 0143 UT sig drops off, LSS for KSIS, 1000/86 watts U1 in Sedalia? Yes, official FCC sunset in June & July is 0145 (August: 0115). At first I thought the first station was something else, since the interview was interrupted just after it started. But sked for KSIS http://ksisradio.com/shows/sunday/ confirms at 8 pm CT Sunday is: `Armed America Radio`, and if that`s not enough, at 11 pm, `The Gun Owner`s Newshour`, both from Townsquare network. A turn-off for visiting Sedalia? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1257 & 1283 kHz, July 17 at 0139 UT, IBOC noise is very evident QRMing 1260 and 1280 stations, therefore emanating from something on 1270. No doubt KFLC Fort Worth TX, 50/5 kW as still listed only IBOC active on 1270: http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html And on 1270 itself Spanish is atop sports in English from OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, July 21 at 1220 UT, an hour after LSR here, I start some MW bandscanning, where skywave has not quite faded out yet on the topend. KOKC talk from OKC has almost equal signal making slow SAH of 24/minute = 0.4 Hz, and inseparable by DF, so obviously KYND Cypress (Houston market) TX. It`s playing hymns in English, with a brief unID announcement between them. As of a year ago in the NRC AM Log, KYND was UC:OLD/TLK, 25 kW direxional daytimer, reduced to 18 kW critical hours, different pattern. The indispensable new 38th edition NRC AM Radio Log (about 300 pages on paper only, 3-hole-binder punched) will be out in about a month, and pre-orders are being taken via http://www.nrcdxas.org/catalog/books/index1.html#ARL (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540.0, July 21 at 1223 UT, since I`ve just heard KYND 1520, time to look for KGBC in Galveston, and there it is with a live timecheck between songs for ``23 past the hour on Galveston`s own KGBC``. How nice that it is once again Galveston`s rather than China`s own (KGBC and KYND both used to relay China Radio International). This has a 72/minute SAH = 1.2 Hz, perhaps with remnant of KXEL if not something closer, and obviously is back almost on-frequency (last year it was way off plus making an audible tell-tale het). 1227 UT a string of about a dozen people getting happy-birthday wishes; and one may apply to be included via http://www.kgbcradio.com --- do you have to prove you`re local? Celebrating un-birthdays would be less risky for identity theft. By now some SS CCI is growing; at first I thought I heard San Antonio mentioned, which would be KEDA, but then definitely ESPN-Deportes Radio, i.e. KZMP. Due to direxionality, it`s not unusual for 2.5 kW KGBC to overcome twice-as-close 32 kW KZMP in The MetroPlex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, July 21 at 1230 UT, ``Money Talk 1690`` and moneytalk1690.com ID from KDMT Arvada CO. Note the word Denver is not included in the URL. Remnant skywave yet from the NW more than an hour after SR here. KDMT should have been bumped up from 1 kW night to day power 10 kW from its FCC-official July sunrise of 1145 UT (August: 1215 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, July 7-14, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page60 [over 229,000 views! as of July 14, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 890, Friday July 14 at 1600-1614 UT, KTLR OKC with reactivated `Broad Spectrum Radio`. Easily heard here in daytime coverage area, but not on alleged FM // 103.7, which is really K279CR: how can that exist with 100 kW rimshotter from Anadarko KVSP on 103.5? James Branum of BSR notified us yesterday he was resuming produxion starting with this weekly quarter-hour on KTLR, so I make a point of listening, altho he has already posted his rough script at http://broadspectrumradio.com/2017/07/14/bsr-oklahoma-magazine-show-from-broadspectrumradio-com-july-14-2017/ whence it may also be downloaded. Notable excerpt: ``The new vision of the BSR project will revolve around 4 principles: Solidarity, Socialism, Spirituality and Science. Let me explain a bit more about each of these 4 S’s… First, by Solidarity, I mean the idea that this is not a neutral media outlet. BSR does take sides, and we seek to be on the side of the oppressed, the marginalized and the forgotten, both locally and around the world. Second, by Socialism, I mean the idea that I first heard expressed by the National Lawyers Guild, that human rights should have primacy over property rights, and hence our economic structures should exist to serve human needs and not human greed. I also should say for those who are scared of this particularly "S-Word," that my kind of Socialism is grassroots, democratic, and to the extent possible, nonviolent in nature. Third, by Spirituality, I mean the idea of "a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves" and the "search for meaning in life." Spirituality does include religion, but it includes more including the arts, music, literature, as well as some of the secular forms of spiritual practice, such as non religious meditation. And finally, by Science, I mean the quest for knowledge by way of the scientific method, but I also more specifically seek to explore the citizen scientist concept, the hobbyists and other individual experimenters who work independently and/or collaboratively in discovery. And because of my own interests, I will especially look at science through the eyes of the DIY/maker culture, particularly in the areas of ham radio, shortwave radio listening and related hobbies.`` He plans to resume SW with a monthly one-hour show by end of July. No details yet but previously employed WBCQ, WINB, and two mini-stations in Germany and Australia. Welcome back, James; I endorse your worldview and urge to provide such programming to counter all the crap, especially on US SW. And also on KTLR! Earlier at 1134 UT they had a talkshow with Angie & Malcolm, americaoutloud.com making fun of Al Gore and his ``brand`` of Global Warming. You`ll be sorry! (Or your grandkids will curse you) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 1020, July 14 at 0557 UT, gospel huxter in Spanish making 5-6 Hz SAH with nearby KOKP Perry OK, no doubt usual KCKN Roswell NM, relaying Radiovisión Cristiana, WWRV 1330 NYC, and also as usual failing to null its 50 kW(?) toward KDKA and us. I recently saw a listing in some MW DX publication showing KCKN as ``silent`` it comes and goes, and may well have been silent at some previous date not specified (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Re KHGG 1580]. Here's a piece of the Fort Smith puzzle: http://foxsportsradio1031.com/ You may need to contact Fort Smith Radio Group to figure this one out as they seem to have two generations of websites going (Raymie Humbert, AZ, July 7, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Viz.: ``Fox Sports Radio 103.1 FM --- Welcome to The Sports Hog 103.1. If you have any questions about programming, sales, or anything related to sports, please don't hesitate contacti
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, July 7-14, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page60 [over 229,000 views! as of July 14, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. July 14 at 1110 UT, I happen to awaken, and instead of immediately turning over for another two hours, I turn on and tune in for some long-missed sunrise skip (SRS) from México, since my sunrise is not until 1125 today. As for SR in various Mexican cities, incredibly, http://www.gaisma.com/en/dir/mx-country.html includes a number of locations one has never heard of, but omits decent-sized cities like Los Mochis, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc (and not even Chihuahua capital!); but safe to assume their SRs are considerably later than mine. Good conditions, with only an occasional lightning crash, not nearby. First a quick bandscan from the bottom finds SS probable XEs on: 540, 560, 610, 640, 650, 660, 690 (two, despite KGGF), 720, 780 (under Pete 94-3, Stillwater), 790, 800 (vs KQCV), 1030, at least. Specifically: 710, July 14 at 1112, Low German preacher about Jesus, a dead giveaway for XEDP as logged with him many times before. Now it`s on-frequency with no het, while I had noticed the 710-minus het in bedtime bandscan circa 0600 UT. By 1125 recheck he`s done, over to a YL DJ in Spanish, plus ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` jingle. This one is listed as only 100 watts at night; yeah, sure. As previously researched, they switch between two different transmitter sites, one of which is significantly off-frequency. 650, July 14 at 1117, Los Mochis ad at tuneby, so XETNT as expected. 790, July 14 at 1119, Spanish news about Nuevo León. One thing for sure, there is no 790 XE in NL, but in a bunch of other states. 770, July 14 at 1126, ``Sinaloense`` state song, 1127 ID for ``Grupo Chávez Radio, su radiodifusora local, la voz de esperanza``; 1128 TC for 5:29; ``Los Cuarenta``, rock music. This is XEREV also in Los Mochis. The ``40`` brand has dropped ``Principales``, which was really a cumbersome translation for ``Top``. We should not assume that La Voz de Esperanza is a real station name now altho they did utter that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, June 30-July 6, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page60 [over 227,000 views! as of July 6, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire UNIDENTIFIED. 1190.05 approx., June 30 at 0225 UT, off-frequency station here; better on the N/S antenna than the E/W, and employing all the splitoff tuning techniques of the NRD-545 (notch filter, very tight selectivity = narrow bandwidth, passband tuning, on USB), I *think* it`s the one in Spanish, such as XECT, Contacto 1190 in Monterrey NL, 1/100 watts per IRCA 2015 Mexican Log (when will there be a 2017?), but IIRC when last heard it was not off-frequency. There were six further Mexicans on 1190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, June 30-July 6, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 227,000 views! as of July 6, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1310, June 30 at 0222 UT, ad for Madisonville, also mentions Hopkins County, which match in KY; ergo, this is WTTL, U2 1500/500 watts but with a CP for U1 1500/40, per last year`s NRC AM Log. FCC AM Query now shows it`s licensed for the latter, no longer a CP, so nice to get a 40-watter, if we can believe that. Madisonville is in western KY, halfway between Evansville IN and Clarksville TN. Not to be confused with Hopkinsville KY which is in a different county to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1580, June 30 at 0217 UT, adstring including area code 479, 474-0006 for Able Construxion; 0218 UT a ``101.1 Flashback`` about a historical gunfight; 101.1sports.com ? Movemart, 646-MOVE, movemartinc.com another ad for Able roofing, mentions Oklahoma, 101.1; 0220 UT finally some music, a torch song. AC 479 means this is Arkansas, where we have KHGG Fort Smith (almost Oklahoma). NRC AM Log shows it as U1 1000/49 watts, TLK/SPT, ``The Sports Hog`` but no FM. Lots of QRM but now well after sunset I would lean closer to 1000 watts. WTFDA FM Database does not show an AM // but instead: [K266BS //KHGG-FM 101.1 VAN BUREN AR 0.25 0.25 83.0 0.0 35-26-51 94-21-54 THE SPORTS HOG 103.1 [sic] SPORTS] Yes, there is a non-translator on 103.1, so why do they keep announcing 101.1, a mere translator? [KHGG-FM 103.1 WALDRON AR 6.1 6.1 412.0 412.0 34-58-44 93-56-42 3F20 - THE SPORTS HOG 103.1 SPORTS] Because Waldron is some 40 miles SSE of Fort Smith, not good enough! while Van Buren is truly a suburb right next to Fort Smith. The `real` FM station is neglected not only by the original FM, but eclipsed by its translator in The City? Not exactly: 1580 website linked from radio-locator.com http://sportshog1031.com/ says nothing about a 101.1, except logo grafix for sibling stations include: ``101.1 FM THE JUDGE Fort Smith`s Country`` --- so apparently the Fort Smith Radio Group has recently flipped things around. Could be HD2 is also involved here, but what really is on main channel of 103.1 now? Anyhow, day and night coverage maps for 1580 show that site definitely on the AR side of the border (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, June 23-29, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page59 [over 226,000 views! as of June 29, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire [Mostly, NOT, but this contains all my non-domestic MW DX logs. Must get busy with some real XEs] ** BENIN. 1566, June 23 at 0446, JBA carrier still at 0502, presumed TWR. Even weaker than when I heard it June 21 at 0353-0412. Regarding 1566 kHz carrier heard twice, presumed TWR, I belatedly check the city-to-city distance between Enid and Parakou: 10326.32 km = 6416.48 statute miles. But WRTH shows a more precise transmitter site is Serarou, unfound in first atlas I pick up, but is in the database of distancefromto, only: 10313.19 km = 6408.32 statute miles. Call it ``over 10 megameters``. Not audible just before 0545* June 25, maybe too late. Parakou sunrise today 0532, and at 9.34 degrees north, varies only about a semihour later in the ``winter`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 09°36'17.62"N 02°39'00.08"E https://binged.it/2t9Z7vq 73 wolfie [aerial view of transmitter site:] https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=70b90b27-487d-4263-8ccd-5e5bef2d6007=9.605318~2.646653=16=h=2=2=S00027 (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shux; no icons for coffee shops nearby; o well, indicates single tower, so non-direxional; despite an awful lot of Atlantic not far to the south. 1566, June 26 at 0507, JBA carrier on the R75; at 0512 not on the NRD-545 or DX-398, but by 0515 detectable on the NRD, presumed TWR Parakou. Nick Hall-Patch in BC and Don Moman in Alberta were hearing this again last night with some audio, also suggesting 1296 Sudan, which is 600 kW further east so fading out earlier; not here. June 27 at quick 0311 check, no 1566 audible --- oops, that`s too early, before nominal *0315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, June 23-29, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 226,000 views! as of June 29, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 900, June 25 at 0559 UT, an English station looping N/S, ``Newstalk 900``, fade for call letters, 0600 UT bong and CBS news, soon losing out to Spanish, probably XEOK Monterrey. The *only* fit by direxion, network and slogan is per NRC AM Log: KJSK, Columbus NE, 1000/65 watts U1. No fade back up toward end of news. Perhaps they were really on 65 watts and I was lucky. None of the TX stations, nor Minnesota, Saskatchewan match (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, June 9-22, 2017
--- Begin Message --- These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also HF/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/page59 [over 224,000 views! as of June 22, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire [Mostly, NOT, but this contains all my non-domestic MW DX logs. Must get busy with some real XEs] ** BENIN. Benin in on 1566 MW --- From 0353 past 0412 June 21 I had a JBA carrier on 1566 looping about 80 degrees, which fits for TWR`s 100 kW transmitter. Tnx to tip from guys in western Canada (Don Moman, AB and Nick Hall-Patch, BC) who were hearing 1566 before and after 0500 last night (but did not mention Benin explicitly). WRTH says TWR morning schedule is 0315-0545. No other splits audible here in the 1500s. Later, on globe refined the true bearing to 76 degrees; Parakou is slightly north of central Benin. If this carrier is audible in Oklahoma and AB/BC, it may well be heard all over North America; go for it! No audio here but very little doubt this is it: also very close to 1566.00, so unlikely to be any spur (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, and welcome to Summer! 0433 UT June 21 as amended, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1883, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, June 16-22, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 224,000 views! as of June 22, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 690, June 17 at 0617 UT, long string of Ad Council PSAs, 0619 UT Fox Sports Radio promo for FS1 (TV?), 0620 UT back to ``live`` stupid sports talk on FSR. It`s obviously my nearest, KGGF Coffeyville KS. Own program schedule http://kggfradio.com/kggf-am/kggf-am-line-up ignores the 12-5 am CT period (when it used to be silent), as well as weekends, but a wide variety of local and network non-sports talkshows elsewhen. I suppose they are just filling in overnight with FSR, rather than 100% now. I need to check it more often (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, June 17 at 0624 UT, surprised to find Jim Bohannon here, looping N/S, so must be KRVN Lexington NE, and best on LSB to avoid USB-only KHAC Window Rock AZ cheater, altho it`s close to 90 degrees away. 0628 UT Jimbo break includes an ad/PSA for something in Nebraska. Jimbo website, undated http://www.jimbohannonshow.com/station-finder/ convenient for searching all on one page, includes not a single 880 station, and as always not a single Okie. Does still show 690 KGGF Coffeyville KS, at live time of 9-12 midnight CT, whence he`s been gone for months; out of date! http://krvn.com has lots of stuff, including, rather than soft-core Babes some stations purvey, Tractor of the Week! http://krvn.com/tractor-of-the-week/ but no plain old program schedule! No hits searching site on Bohannon! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1883, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060+, June 17 at 0631 UT, praise music in Spanish looping WSW/ENE, and giveaway off-frequency fast SAH on the hi side against any other 1060 stations, i.e. KIJN Farwell TX, 10 kW daytimer, *still cheating*, but that`s OK, since it`s In Jesus` Name. WWJD? Not known to be a broadcaster or DXer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1080, June 17 at 0607 UT in bandscan on DX-398, NO signal from KRLD Dallas! Not even a carrier. Sometimes it`s weak here at an awkward 400-km distance, but now it`s definitely off. Band is noisy and maybe somewhat auroral, as other clears including CBS stations are barely audible if at all, WBBM 780 and WCCO 830; nor WHAS 840, and 650 at 0621 UT instead of WSM is occupied by Spanish, probably XETNT. Recheck at 0633 UT, now I have an open carrier on 1080 from SSE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, June 17 at 1338 UT, Adèle song from KLEY Wellington KS, finally back on the air after a few weeks` silence; ad for a 401K with an 844 toll-free number; ``from the Wheat Capital of the World [not Enid???], The Wave, 100.3 and 1130``. Still on at 1705 UT recheck, via groundWave (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1883, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, June 17 at 0603 UT, ``estamos en todo el mundo en www.lapatrona.com`` and on to music, vs various English talkers --- that should be enough to downpin it; usually dominant SS on 1440 is KTNO The Metroplex, but it`s Christian, surely no such slogan unless a recent flip. But no hits on that website. OR was it www.lapadrona.com? I don`t think so: that`s an Italian bondage site! Search soon finds station Facebook, which is from: KTUV Little Rock AR, 5000/240 watts U2 and previously `La Mexicana` as in NRC AM Log: https://www.facebook.com/La-Patrona-Ktuv-1440-am-437504819943372/ which started about a month ago, and that leads to its correct website, not as I had heard it: http://www.radiolapatrona.com But this site they link to from FB is NOT KTUV, rather a different Patrona, ``la que manda``, implying not bondage but dominance! 88.1, WHPR --- where is that? Certainly not in Arkansas. Has the same grafix design, so obviously related. Here it is in WTFDA Database, apparently no longer only a 44-watt ``power talk`` (ha3) English in Michigan: [WHPR-FM 88.1 HIGHLAND PARK MI USA 0.044 0.044 32.0
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, June 9-15, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 223,000 views! as of June 15, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1130, June 11 at 1223 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is still AWOL. Had not rechecked it lately, but first noted off as of May 20. Gone for good? Have they notified FCC? On the 1130 DF toward Shreveport I do have a weak gospel huxter this Sunday from KWKH. 1130, June 15 circa 1830 UT check, KLEY Wellington, Kansas, is still off the air: 250 watt daytimer was easy on groundwave here, not at night with (ha, ha) ONE watt. Wikipedia entry leads to this website: http://rockingmradio.com/kley-100-31130/ Claims format is A/C, plus sports, plus farm-and-ranch. 100.3, which is really a negligible FM translator, K262CQ, now gets top billing, and the frequencies sort of match. But if the translator is still operational (too far from here to tell under normal conditions), how long can that last without the AM primary being on the air? Is there a loophole? jpg graphic shows kleythewave.com but that website (also with www.) is imaginary, still for sale by godaddy. KLEY was poorly managed, captured sometimes with long dead air periods, but at least the 1130 carrier was on. I should also seek sibling stations on 1550, 92.7. We drive right by them on the road to Wichita, so maybe next time an eyeball QSO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, June 11 at 1228 UT, KBXD Dallas making slow 1 Hz SAH with KQAM Wichita English talker. Praise music in Spanish, 1234 UT plug some upcoming revivals, 877 phone number, Iglesia Evangélica la Nueva Esperanza. So it is still presumably greatly extending the reach of 700 KHSE by duplicating it with 50 kW day. On June 8 I received this enlightening info from Jerry Kiefer, FL, who used to work for KBXD: ``Glenn, The circus is about to move on. Here's the last chapter in the KBXD saga. Yet another sale of Dallas AM KBXD/1480, a year after last year’s transaction with Georgia-based Chris Muse failed to close. That one was for $1.5 million (May 11, 2016 NOW Newsletter). The backup buyer is John S. Hammond and Linda Hammond’s Hammond Broadcasting Group, a niche-format player based right there in Dallas. They’re paying $600,000 for KBXD, which has a six-tower daytime directional array blasting 50,000 watts, and a four-tower directional array for the 1,900-watt night signal. This year’s price and last year’s price are more comparable than you’d think – separately, Hammond’s buying the Salem-owned KBXD site for $600,000. The seller of KBXD is the patient Mark Jorgenson of "ACM JCE IV B LLC." That company took over KBXD and three other AMs previously held by James Crystal Enterprises out of the 2015 bankruptcy auction. (The debt-holder was Atalaya Capital.) Buyer Hammond Broadcasting has begun an LMA with KBXD, adding to its interests around Dallas-Fort Worth. Quick list of those - Hammond Broadcasting owns [ex-] South Asian KHSE Wylie, Texas/700. John’s a principal of Texoma Broadcasting, licensee of South Asian daytimer KVTT Mineral Wells/1110. He also has an attributable interest in the company that brokers time on Liberman’s regional Mexican KZMP University Park/1540. Broker on the sale of KBXD – Jorgenson Broadcast Brokerage. Not much of a deal. Seller grosses 600K, take out of that 200K for engineering including a used DX50 Harris transmitter. The killer was 600k$ to Salem for the tower site, plus out of pocket expenses over the past several years. Hard to move six towers and stay close to the original site. This was the only place you could throw your night lobe over Dallas. Jerry`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1490, June 12 at 0455 UT tune-in, one station is atop the graveyard, with YL ID ``KDMO, Carthage-Baxter Springs-Joplin``, and NOStalgic music, so this 1/1 kW U1 station. Baxter Springs is across in Kansas on the opposite side
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, May 5-June 8, 2017
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These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also
HF/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/page59
[over 222,000 views! as of June 8, 2017]
All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire
Note: it seems I have had no Mexican MWDX (FM is another matter) since May 4
--- sunrises are just too early this time of year for SRS DX --- got to sleep
sometime. But I want to keep this thread going, at least with a sort of
non-domestic item about a non-heard station!
** ALASKA [non]. 89.3, June 5 at 1910 UT I happen to tune nearby KIEL Loyal OK,
as Ron Myers is talking about the ``Mission Alaska`` project of Radio 74
Internationale, trying to raise money. I only hear the last part of it: To put
a 50 kW AM station on the air before the CP expires next January. Needs to get
work done on the antenna site this summer before everything freezes; but still
raising funds of $150K to purchase the land. See http://www.radio74.net so I
research further:
It`s for 50 kW on 1200 kHz from Chugiak AK. More about it here:
https://www.radio74.net/alaska-project-brochure
which talks about this to bring Adventist/3ABN programming to Alaska.
As if Alaskans have no gospel huxters on radio already.
Yet this page, https://www.radio74.net/about-us
says ``RADIO 74 INTERNATIONALE is an independent Christian ministry and is not
sponsored, regulated or controlled by any denomination or religious
organization.`` {My impression is that KIEL is really predominantly or nothing
but 7DA, e.g. `Your Story Hour` until 1629 UT June 7}
More, if it will ever load:
https://www.radio74.net/blog
NRC AM Log shows 1200 as ``K#8 Chugiak AK U1 5/9600 new not on air ``. FCC
AM Query says licensee is Steve King, and there was correspondence about this
dating back to May of 2010. Is 74 trying to acquire the CP from King, or is he
the front for 74 all along?
Where is Chugiak? 32 km NE of downtown Anchorage per Wikipedia. On a US map
including Okie station, own website also shows they have two other stations in
Alaska. The affiliate list can be found under the LISTEN drop-down, which is
not a link to webcasts. The AK stations are on FM in Juneau and North Pole
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, May 26-June 8, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 222,000 views! as of June 8, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1630 kHz, June 3 at 0610 UT, open carrier/dead air from KKGM TX, atop KCJJ Iowa City, ``The Mighty 1630`` ID by the latter at 0614 UT. Checking since Mark Sills, Dallas, informed me June 2 at 1603 UT that his 1630 station had been putting out a ``loud roar for a couple of days with feedback``. He tried calling them, but no answer or disconnected. At 1609 UT he followed up, that he had reached someone at a sibling station who said it was the phone company`s fault, as they were unable to contact the transmitter to turn it off. I say, you`d think that after a few days, they should have managed to physically enter the transmitter site if that was the only way to control it! 1630, June 4 at 0611 UT, KKGM Fort Worth TX (street address in Dallas; QSL address in Lexington KY per NRC AM Log), is still diffusing dead air, atop KCJJ Iowa making a SAH of about 7 Hz with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1630, June 8 at 0608 UT check, gospel music, presumed KKGM TX back in whack after days of dead air, still with SAH of about 7 Hz from KCJJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Mostly FM DX this biweek, and `Mostly Mexican` is really something heard on FM about a new 50 kW AM station in Alaska, which you might consider domestic] --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, May 19-25, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 218,000 views! as of May 25, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 1020, May 20 at 1817 UT, KOKP Perry, semi-local ``Triple Play Sports Radio`` is off, while its usually // sibling 1580 KOKB Blackwell is fine. If it keeps off, that will clear the way for KCKN Roswell at night with WWRV 1330 NYC relay. During my bandscan at the kite field, rest filed under USA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1020, May 21 at 2201 UT check, KOKP Perry is off the air for at least the second day in a row; and at 1646 UT check May 22, at least third day in a row (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1020, May 24 at 1403 UT check, KOKP Perry is still off the air, as it has been since at least May 20. Is there any explanation at http://tripleplaysportsradio.com/ Of course not! But soon to be redubbed Double Play Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, May 24 at 1849 UT, KOKP Perry is finally back on the air with sports talk; it was still missing earlier today at 1403 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1050, May 25 at 1818 UT, from a quiet parking lot in western Enid, non-ID as ``All-new Heart & Soul 99.1 FM, Pulse of the City``, which refers to K256CR of KGTO Tulsa, per NRC AM Log. Slight CCI from the 1050 in Lawton, on non-direxional carantenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1260, May 22 at 0242 UT tune-by, ``KWSH, Today`s Best Country``, from 1/1 kW U2 Wewoka station, better than I can hear it on daytime groundwave, and likely on ND day pattern instead of night with a notch toward Enid. NRC AM Log had slogan as `The station you grew up with`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 720, UT Monday May 22 at 0255 UT, somestation here is playing music of somesort --- could it possibly be WGN? Yes, per sked at 9-11 pm CDT Sundays: ``After Hours with Rick Kogan: Chicago photographs, music, clocks and the making of Teddy Roosevelt --- Tonight on the program, Rick Kogan delved into the worlds of music, photography, clocks and history. To begin, publishers Richard Cahan and Michael Williams joined Rick in studio to talk about their new book, "Chicago: Classic Photographs." Then, Ben Montalbano from local band Matthäus joined Rick and producer Lise to debut his band’s brand new song, "To the Years," and talk about his upcoming EP. Jason Matthiesen from the Chicago Clock Company called in to talk about the business’ 100th… Read more`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780-CUSB, May 22 at 0253 UT, C music with no LSB, which is how KCEG Fountain CO transmits, why? Tuning LSB I hear only WBBM, while on USB they are mixing. As I said concerning KHAC 880, Sept 11, 2014, `` We are wondering if lacking LSB is a defect or deliberate employment of the Kahn Powerside System``. Here`s one thread about it: http://www.broadcastengineering.info/viewtopic.php?f=2=3124 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, UT Monday May 22 at 0249 UT, Spanish sermon dominant from KCKN Roswell NM, obviously high power, 50 kW, and not protecting Pittsburgh, also in the continuing absence of my nearby KOKP Perry OK. Understation has religion in English which fits for KDKA on Sunday night, EDT: ``9p-11p Amplify with Father Ron Lengwin`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, May 21 at 2201 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is off the air for at least the second day in a row; and May 22 at 1646 UT, at least the third day in a row (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, May 24 at 1403 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is still off the air, since at least May 20. Is there any explanation at http://rockingmradio.com/kley-100-31130/ Of course not! Don`t know about 100.3 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF R
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, May 12-18, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 216,000 views! as of May 18, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1480, May 16 at 1232 UT, yes, KBXD Dallas has a new ``renter`` --- Spanish monolog preaching, Jesucristo-this & that, and plugging newly on 14-80; mostly below KQAM which I can`t null completely, making a 72/minute SAH = 1.2 Hz. It`s a pain to have to listen to the latter, with a diehard Wichita local host Trumpster, still partisan to the corrupt, treasonous, incompetent, minority mis-elected Trumpence regime. The preacher mentions another AM frequency before 14-80, which I have trouble copying; at 1239 UT brief CCI from a third station with praise music. KBXD fading down as hourtop approaches, but 1258 UT canned English ID as heard before, ``KBXD, 1480, Dallas``, a bit of music, and then Spanish ID mentioning Wylie-Dallas-Fort Worth, studio address, fade; 1301 UT a 972 AC phone number, YL now; 1302 UT Spanish song and repeated requests by a different OM for reception reports, how far are they reaching now that they have 50,000 watts on 1480, Waco? I finally copy the first frequency definitely as 700, and apparently going to do this until next program at 8:15 am CT. So 1480 is duplicating 700 KHSE, CoL Wylie, which counts upon only 1500/920 watts U4. Too late this morning to get it, altho under best conditions is barely audible on groundwave and at night skywave with plenty WLW QRM. Related from radio-insight.com: ``Station Sales Week Of 5/13: By Lance Venta on May 13, 2016 No Comments --- Mark Jorgenson’s ACM JCE IV B LLC sells 1480 KBXD Dallas to Chris Muse for $1.5 million plus a $13,000 payment to break the station’s tower lease`` So it`s not only been rented but sold. What`s this about the tower lease? Are they moving somewhere else again? BTW, right next to it from Venta is an item about Amarillo 99.7 Fun FM called ``KBXD`` as well, but WTFDA FM Database shows its correct call is KBZD (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, May 18 at 1200 UT, my DX-398 AM sexion is still tuned to 1480 from yesterday morning, so I turn on KBXD again; in Spanish with slogan ``Estás en sintonía de [algo] Esperanza``, then English almost-legal canned ID thrice, ``KBXD 1480 Dallas``. Then ad mentioning ``Radio Setecientos A-M`` for KHSE 700 which is now being duplicated on 1480. Then Esperanza slogan or program name again, later preaching. (Both Wikipedia and Radio-Locator have way outdated info on KHSE as ``FunAsia``). KHSE is attributed to Hammond Broadcasting, but not KBXD, yet John Hammond was the one calling for ``renters`` of 1480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1500, May 18 at 1208 UT, KJIM Sherman TX is dominant over KSTP and/or OK`s KPGM, with `Osgood File` after CBS News. Charles` aging voice is evident, but he`s still ``seeing us`` on the radio, no longer on TV`s Sunday Morning, outro referring to his social media activity. 1211 UT local announcer ID as K-Jim, and also K267CB on 103.1, I wrote and thought he said, but really on 101.3; Then plays NWS robot with some hum, forecasts for several days ahead, mostly showers and T-storms (like Enid, high risk of tornados May 18). ``America`s best music, the memory-maker, AM 1500, K-jim``. Still a small local station with a distinctive format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, May 16 at 1230 UT, promo for a show on ``Estrella TV, Canal 29``, which we long ago pegged to The Metroplex market; and string of ESPN Deportes promos, from KZMP University Park, now on 32 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, May 16 at 1223 UT, local news on a change of personnel at KMGH (channel ``7`` named originally for McGraw-Hill publishing), non-ID as `Denver`s Money Talk` from KDMT Arvada/Lakewood (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [No Mostly Mexican MWDX a
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, May 4-11, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page59 [over 215,000 views! as of May 11, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 1420.0, May 10 at 1224 UT, CBS Sports Radio // 1390 KCRC Enid, of which this is the long-standing spur. Usually it makes an audible het with real 1420 stations, but either accidentally or deliberately, KCRC has tightened up the spur so that now it only makes a fast SAH. Ditto the other one on 1360.0. Also makes it harder to detect the second-order much weaker spurs at 2 x 30 kHz above and below, i.e. 1330 & 1450 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 540, May 5 at 2056 UT on caradio, KDFT Ferris [Metroplex] TX in Spanish giving a 214 AC number, and somewhat above KWMT IA, on daytime groundwaves via caradio about 15 miles north of Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, May 10 at 1220 UT, ``This is KBXD, Dallas`` ID loop with percussion repeating every 9 seconds --- a DXer`s dream! No more longer loop offering station ``for rent``. Does this mean they got a bite but not yet digested? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1877, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1630, May 7 at 0129 UT, S9+15 of dead air, loops for KKGM Fort Worth TX, my closest and usual dominator. By 0132 UT I make out a bit of music, maybe KKGM just barely modulated. Format is gospel. Sounds like English, so not KRND WY; 0143 UT now some talk under, presumably KCJJ IA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, May 7 at 0129 UT, Spanish play-by-play of a game involving a pelota, mentions Colombia, so KKLF Richardson TX ``Banda 13`` is a sports station at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [No Mostly Mexican MWDX this week] --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] not so UNID 800
--- Begin Message --- James Renfrew Tue, 02 May 2017 20:28:12 -0700 2315 EDT / 0315 UTC 800 "RCN" Spanish language, announcing "RCN" and "RCN.org". Heard a few more of these IDs at 2115, too, which also mentioned "103.7" ( I think). A web search on "RCN.org" diverts to spam. Now, I suppose this must be TWR from Bonaire. Spanish language WNNW in Lowell MA is doing music, not talk. The TWR web site indicates a Spanish music program at this time, not the talk I've been hearing occasionally bubbling up. I guess TWR is no longer on shortwave, since the website only mentions AM and FM broadcasts (one of which is 103.7), so no parallel possible. The website offers live audio, but it appears that this means you can select podcasts of the various programs, not live. == Jim, Check the WRTH or other listings. On 800 is 100 kW HJBW, Bucaramanga, Colombia, RCN! Presumably stands or stood for Radio Cadena Nacional. 73, Glenn Hauser, May 3 No reply; not sure he accepts this, based on the // FM 103.7? Now it occurs to me he might have really heard ``RTM`` as in Radio Transmundial. But I find only 89.5 mentioned at http://www.twrbonaire.com and I can`t find any FM for 800 HJBW Glenn, May 7 --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, April 29-May 4, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page58 [over 213,000 views! as of May 4, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 620, May 1 at 0415, ``La Norteña``, 91.7 ID, i.e. XEBU Chihuahua2, 5000/250 watts, but not unusual here at night, often over US stations. I don`t think they said ``Norteñita`` as listed this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, May 1 at 0416, surprised to find XEROK VG at S9+30, blowing away KQCV OKC; usually it`s the other way around. But now XEROK does sound like a borderblaster. Mentions Ciudad Juárez, promo for 800, songs [later on May 1, CKLW programming was reported by CTV Windsor, via Artie Bigley, to have moved to sibling station CKWW 580, due to a fire in the CKLW transmitter, so that 800 is off, opening for DX?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, May 4 at 0449 UT, XEROK music blasting over KQCV OKC like a cannon. I really think it must have ramped up to full power lately of 50 kW ND, which means it`s probably tearing up KQCV in parts of OKC as well, outside its main lobe, supposedly protecting XEROK. Seems like I have a pipeline from the WSW, with 1020 KCKN also inbooming, but I really think it`s the stations, not propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Raymie Humbert, AZ, replies to my previous logs of no FM for XEROK: ``That makes a lot more sense. Grupo Siete Comunicación is the full name of the company (Speaking of which, their own site doesn't list XHEOB-FM, a common head-scratcher...)`` (gh, DXLD) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 29-May 4, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page58 [over 213,000 views! as of May 4, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 1000, May 4 at 0446 UT, KTOK OKC with Dodgers baseball play-by-play, and not the OKC farmteam, because an ad for Southern California Toyotathon is then inserted, in the bottom of the eighth, just before midnight here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 690, May 4 at 0556 UT, one minute of Fox News Radio, ``Mighty 690, KGGF, Coffeyvile KS`` ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 810, May 1 at 0417 UT, ``810KLVZ.com`` so Brighton CO station is back on the air. As of 2016 NRC AM Log in August, said it was silent as of 4/2016. But in DXLD 16-45: ``AM Log Updates: 810, KLVZ, CO, Brighton – Format to NOS (ex - Silent); slogan to "Legends 810/94.3," adds // K232FK - 94.3 (John Wilkins, NRC DX News Nov 14 published Nov 6 via DXLD)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, May 4 at 0446 UT, KCKN Roswell NM in Spanish sermon from WWRV 1330 NYC is S9+30, blowing away semi-local KOKP Perry OK. Jerry Kiefer, FL, who used to be with KCKN, replied to my previous log of April 28: ``Greetings Glenn, Quick comment on KCKN. They might be running non directional at the moment. The night pattern throws 40 watts in your direction and the day pattern less than 500. Either could be screwed up. Not being in the loop anymore that's the only thing I can offer. Take care`` This signal is no 500 or 40 watts. How about 50,000, ND? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1070, May 1 at 0422 UT, KNX with IBOC noise circa 1057 & 1083, 0425 UT traffic on the fives at 9:25 timecheck. Not unusual here with Wichita nulled, and thus its IBOC is more of a factor than that from 1080 KRLD. 1147 & 1173, May 1 at 0426 UT, IBOC noise from KSL. I haven`t noticed any from 1170 KFAQ in quite a while, which would give KSL a take-that from 1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1240.20, May 1 at 0427 UT, quite a het against the 1240.0 pileup, presumably KCRT Trinidad CO, reported on 1240.19, as of March 20, 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1479.967, April 29 at 0537 UT, 1-kHz step bandscan with BFO finds sore-thumb off-frequency carrier here; 0610 UT ad in English with a 972-904- phone number, and covering ``from North Texas north to Oklahoma City``. So KBXD Dallas not with Namaste at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, May 4 at 1208 UT, song in Spanish about María with various rhymes such as fría; after a ``Tally-ho!`` as in Bollywood, 1211 UT English announcement, paraphrased, ``KBXD, 50,000 watts covering North Texas and as far as Oklahoma City to the north, Waco to the south. If you would like to rent this station, please call John Hammond, 972-904-5904``. Same music resumes in a loop, 1216 UT same announcement again. So Radio Namaste is gone. Wonder why they couldn`t make it? Rather enjoyed their music and Hinglish chat. I question how much of a signal they put into OKC on daytime groundwave when really 50 kW. This daytime coverage map http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KBXD-AM=D has OKC just inside its outer ``fringe`` contour, whatever that amount to. Night map of only 1900 watts shows a deep notch toward OKC and five others in a ``flower`` pattern; you couldn`t even hear it in Plano http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KBXD-AM=N Radio locator also claims its format is still gospel music! This time no off-frequency het with KQAM Wichita, closer to 1480.00 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, May 4 at 0600 UT, WCKY in dead air interrupted by bits of Brother Scare who was already on the previous hour; finally 0604 UT cuts back on without breaking up. Meanwhile I could hear an understation in Spanish, probably KGBT among several other possibilities (Gl
Re: [IRCA] not so unID 800
--- Begin Message --- Jim, Check the WRTH or other listings. On 800 is 100 kW HJBW, Bucaramanga, Colombia, RCN! Presumably stands or stood for Radio Cadena Nacional. 73, Glenn Hauser --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] CKLW fire, moved to 580
--- Begin Message --- ** CANADA. CTV Windsor Published Monday, May 1, 2017 1:27PM EDT http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/am800-is-broadcasting-on-sister-station-am580-after-transmitter-fire-1.3392792 AM800 CKLW is currently broadcasting on its sister station AM580 after a transmitter fire. No word on what caused the fire or how much damage was done. You can also listen to AM800's news and talk-programming online or via the iHeartradio app (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) So if 800 is off the air, go for DX. BTW, XEROK was inbooming here last night, rarely overcoming KQCV OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Entercom's 85-Year-Old Tower in Suburban KC Coming Down Tim Kridel
--- Begin Message --- !!! But which station(s) are/were on it? Who cares? Not the Shawnee Mission Post! Altho guyed, it`s apparently self-supporting, wider at the base, not what would be built for an AM station today, but it must have been originally for AM. Glenn Hauser, OK https://shawneemissionpost.com/2017/04/28/a-fixture-for-nearly-85-years-entercom-tower-set-to-come-down-in-westwood-next-week-62576 --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 22-28, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page58 [over 211,000 views! as of April 28, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 596 kHz, April 22 at 1838 UT check, high noon, still JBA carrier which I traced months ago to a spur out of 1640 KZLS, east of Hennessey (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGESET) ** U S A. IBOC noise check around 0456 UT April 28: 670 WSCR, 780 WBBM, 830 WCCO, 1080 KRLD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, April 28 at 0454 UT, outro from a network (?) called Radio One, then local weather from KGGF Coffeyville KS, axually from a YL weatherperson at NewsOnSix = KOTV-45 (for a while longer), Tulsa. I continue to lament that KGGF no longer carries Jim Bohannon at 02-05 UT, which used to be our best source, so at 0457 UT I check whether he`s still on: KWTO 560 Springfield MO, KFEQ 680 St Joseph MO --- yes, he is. KWTO is where he worked early in his career. I don`t find a network named Radio One in the list on page 271 of the NRC AM Log, nor as a station group on page 276, nor as a show on page 272. `When Radio Was` is on the schedule at 11 pm-midnight CT M-F http://kggfradio.com/kggf-am/kggf-am-line-up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, April 23 at 1214 UT, steady signal mentions crawfordbroadcasting.com and loops N/S. Surely it`s my nearest at that angle after sunrise here, KAAM Garland (Metroplex) TX. But that station is not licensed to Crawford, and the website shows their only 770 is KCBC San Francisco (Manteca) CA, certainly not what I am hearing with its lobes into the Pacific, even if on 50 kW cardioid day pattern. KAAM program schedule http://www.kaamradio.com/schedule/ states merely `public affairs`` for 7-7:30 am Sundays. Apparently they carry some Crawford program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, April 28 at 0500 UT, singing ID for Radiovisión Cristiana (1330 NYC), so KCKN Roswell NM is currently active, and plenty to QRM KOKP Perry OK with a heavy SAH, let alone KDKA Pittsburgh PA which it is supposed to protect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1030, April 23 at 1221 UT, IDs as ``Real Country 1030 AM, KCWJ`, i.e. Blue Springs (Independence) MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1140, April 23 at 1223 UT, jazz show with classic performances from 1948, 1949; 1241 UT Miles and the Nonet. Tight DF for NE/SW, atop some SS QRM from AR or NL, 1258 UT finally YL talkover mentions Kansas City, so KCXL Liberty MO, now on 4 kW non-direxional day power. Name of show in passing sounded like ``Neon Jazz``, but program schedule http://www.kcxl.com/shows.html lists `Neon Beat` at 6-8 am CT and all afternoons Saturdays & Sundays, otherwise far-right extremist talk shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1875, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: ** U S A. 1640, April 15 at 0437 UT, local KZLS (Alex Jones accusing salon.com of lying about him; he makes me want to puke), with an understation, traces of Spanish. Rather than Argentina or Perú, I`m confident it is KBJA Sandy UT, the only SS known in North America on 1640. No sign of WTNI Biloxi MS with silly sportstalk in English, which is the usual understation, and often QRMing KZLS as if on daypower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn - re 1640 don't forget Juventus don Bosco from Dominican Republic. I have pointed out to the editors that the current edition of WRTH omits all Dominican Republic stations from their Central American listings. 73 (/Andrew Brade, England, DX LISTENING DIGESET) O yes, I had a gnawing feeling something was missing. But still KBJA would be far more likely here. DR is of course not in Central America, but grouped with Caribbean, Bermuda & Mexico for the by-frequency pages in the back, no DR at the end of the list on page 551. The National Radio page for DR, 186, does include that 1640 station, plus others on 16
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, April 22-28, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page58 [over 211,000 views! as of April 28, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 570, April 28 at 0455, dominant signal here with choral NA early, stops at 0456 but no ID, so sign-off? Nothing further heard. Loops south, so I would expect XEBJB Monterrey NL. IRCA Mexican Log as of 2015 showed XEBJB as 24 hours, but some others going off at 0500 or 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, April 27 at 1200 UT, XEROK with choral NA, near-local KQCV OKC nulled as much as possible. This time I can copy enough of the full ID which follows at 1202 to tell that Radio Cañón with street address is *not* mentioning an FM frequency with a seven in it, but instead after 800, they say ``Grupo 7`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, April 15-21, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page58 [over 209,000 views! as of April 14, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 800, April 20 at 1303 UT, after Mex NA, sign-on by a station with address in Ciudad Juárez, seems to mention FM 102.7. As usual, a struggle to copy weak signal, no borderblaster, with near-local KQCV OKC nulled as much as possible. XEROK, Radio Cañón is not known to have an FM, but adding that is certainly the trend on both sides of la frontera. Wikipedia gives website as http://calibre800.com/ but that`s the newscast it carries, not the station per se, and no sign of an FM mentioned there. 102.7 may be wrong, as there is a K-love translator on that in nearby Anthony TX, altho as such would be subject to bumping by a US non-translator, and presumably Mexican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 15-21, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page58 [over 209,000 views! as of April 21, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 930, Sunday April 16 at 1228 UT, tune-in just in time to hear closing of weekly 7 am CT pubaffs show in English, `Sunday Morning Magazine` which WKY is still carrying post-flip to SS ESPN Deportes elsewhen, inviting potential guests to contact them; immediately back to Spanish ID. Previously also heard but not synchro on sibling KWPN 640, both licensed to RADIO LICENSE HOLDING CBC, LLC along with some FM stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1390, April 20 at 0609 UT, local KCRC is open carrier/dead air. STILL so at next check 1211 UT --- I bet it was thus all night, no one caring or noticing at station which lost plugin from a sports network. Sibling 107.1 KNID is still alive at 1221 UT check, you bet! That`s what matters. By next check 1345 UT, KCRC has resumed stupid sportstalk. Lack of splatter made DXing 1380 and 1400 easier, but nothing definite; two SS on 1380, probably Houston and Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. IBOC checkup on major CBS AM stations, April 19 at 0148-0150 UT: NOT heard around 1160 KSL, 1120 KMOX, 830 WCCO, 780 WBBM; maybe still on 670 WSCR; noise definitely still infesting 1080 KRLD. Altho updated 21 March 2017, I think quite a few more here are now ex-IBOC: http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1380, April 15 at 0446 UT, Spanish religion about ``el caudillo de Israel``, i.e. KRCM Shenandoah TX, probably on 22 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 15 at 0445 UT, South Asian songs dominating again this time of night, no doubt KBXD Dallas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1640, April 15 at 0437 UT, local KZLS (Alex Jones accusing salon.com of lying about him; he makes me want to puke), with an understation, traces of Spanish. Rather than Argentina or Perú, I`m confident it is KBJA Sandy UT, the only SS known in North America on 1640. No sign of WTNI Biloxi MS with silly sportstalk in English, which is the usual understation, and often QRMing KZLS as if on daypower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 7-14, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page57 [over 207,000 views! as of April 14, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 930, Friday April 14 at 1228 UT, WKY with no morning DJ show which was still shown on their website April 1, but repeated IDs as ``930 AM WKY Deportes`` The call letters always pronounced in English. String of national and local ads & PSAs, including one in English for an OKC Low-Testosterone business --- sports fans have got to keep it up! 1232 UT plugs WKY carrying Texas Rangers SBGs. 1233 UT rejoins network ESPN Deportes. The website still uses the old name, http://www.laindomable.com/ but has wiped musical show info, except for this presumably now outdated about the DJ known as The Roadrunner, (tho check to be sure whether he`s not on M-F at 21-01 UT). I am preserving here for posterity [sic without fixing up accents, horrendous comma splices]: http://www.laindomable.com/shows/jose-rivera-el-correcaminos/ ``20160421_JoseJaimeLeo-27 [portrait] http://www.laindomable.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1023/2015/05/20160421_JoseJaimeLeo-271-300x200.jpg Mi nombre es Jose Rivera, me apodan El Correcaminos, naci en Nuevo Laredo, amps. Mexico en un 22 de Mayo de 1900 y algo, desde niño me gusto’ la locucion, no fue’ hasta finales de los 90’s que se me dio’ la oportunidad de estar en una radio al aire, en el 1340 AM, la caliente, con Chuy Vega, estaba en aquel entonces en ventas y chuy me daba la oportunidad de entrar al aire en su show, trabaje’ un tiempo , deje la radio, en Agosto del 2001, un amigo de nombre Mathew Mollman, me dio’ la oporunidad de ayudar en su estacion por 2 semanas, y entre’ a trabajar en la 106.7 para un total de 3 años y medio. La Indomable me contrato’ un 14 de febrero del 2005, y aqui estamos, gracias al publico, ahora de 4-8 PM. Me encanta la musica, especialmente el rock en español, amo la cumbia, la clasica, la norteña, la banda, la punta, la rumba, el danzon, la characa, el merengue y la salsa, me gusta toda la comida en moderacion, Tacos de Carne Asada, Abichuelas con Arroz, un buen Caldo 7 mares y un buen Sirloin con Camarones. Me gusta ayudar a mi gente, complacer a mis radioescuchas y siempre estar al tanto de lo que pasa en Okc, La Union Americana y el mundo entero. Si le gustaria conocerme mas a fondo, lo espero de 4-8 de Lunes a Viernes, Aqui, en La Indomable 930AM`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 1480, April 7 at 0122 UT, South Asian song is somewhat atop the QRM, so apparently KBXD Dallas is still on with R. Namaste. I was wondering, since haven`t heard it in some time. Best to check around sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 9 at 0650 UT past 0703 UT, South Asian songs are dominating, presumed KBXD Dallas with Radio Namaste, and suspected on 50 kW day power/pattern. No announcements heard unless while I dozed off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 14 circa 1200-1230 UT, no R. Namaste from KBXD Dallas unless it`s the SAH vs dominant KQAM Wichita. Should be in on SRS with 50 kW day power; meanwhile KTNO Spanish religion also from The Metroplex is good and dominant on 1440; so is KBXD off again? Recently was hearing it dominant at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, April 7-14, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page57 [over 207,000 views! as of April 14, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 650, April 14 at 1157, good signal from XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, which really gets out on skywave. Much better now than any other XE in the 500s, 600s or 700s, altho 730 XEHB Chihuahua is weakly audible too. XETNT with music, 1159 full ID for XHTNT 106.5 and XETNT 650, both Radio 65. 6 am timecheck, announces newscast, but not yet, back to songs. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1159 UT on way to earliest of the year in about two months, 1113 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 31-April 6, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 206,000 views! as of April 6, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire Re my 1550 unID last week, whether it could be Mexican, but this week IDed as KMRI in Utah, as in Domestic report, Raymie Humbert, AZ, replied on the WTFDA Forum March 30: ``XENU has not migrated — though it is highly likely to be a new-round migrant so it will probably disappear in the next few years. XERUV is done (permit discontinuity where the permitholder actually will wait to get a new concession!). There's also XEREL Morelia (Michoacán state network, not // FM) and XEBG Tijuana.`` UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 1, at 1159-1202 UT: 774, 693, 594, 828, 1314, all seem from NW but extremely weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 31-April 6, 2017
--- Begin Message ---
All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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
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/page57
[over 206,000 views! as of April 6, 2017]
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of
USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are
in frequency order
** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Saturday April 1 at 0453 UT, Spanish here is still WKY,
but it`s sports talk, not music! Long string of promos, jingles from ESPN
Deportes, national feed giving times in Pacific and Eastern, and who cares
about the Great Center of America, let alone the Mountains?? During otherwise
Spanish, the letters ESPN are always pronounced in English to avoid invoking
images of penises, altho such a macho connexion would seem to be apt. How much
coverage of women`s sports is there, anyway?
0457 UT local ads including a Dodge dealer in Midwest City, Goodwill Industries
(in Spanish they should say benevolencia or buena voluntad); PSAs for how to
impress girls, drunk driving. I keep listening for the ToH ID at 0500 UT, which
says ``WKY, Oklahoma City, 930AM, WKY``. The call letters are pronounced in
English, altho they don`t have to be (but doble-ve ka i griega is a bit more
cumbersome, less so doble-u ka ye). {There was never a worse callsign for a SS
station, all three letters being ``foreign`` to Spanish!}
No mention of ``La Indomable`` which has been its brand for eight+ years
already, and back to ESPND. Recheck at 1435 UT, still Spanish sports talk, no
music!
Radio-locator.com still has its format as ``Regional Mexican``, i.e. frenetic
oom-pah-pah music, a staple on our dials for years. The website still exists
under the old name
http://www.laindomable.com/
but all the Noticias on the homepage are about sports, notably including
European soccer games. How much of an audience in OK is there for that, in
Spanish to boot?? But it still plugs at least one DJ program, outdated? `El
Show de Mandril`, L-V 7-12 am (meaning before noon?). Will have to wait until
April 3 morning to confirm whether that still exist. I suspect not, as radio
stations have this all-or-nothing mentality about formatting. Or is this a bad
joke for April 1?
Newspaper ad from November, 2014, DJs presumably jobless now:
http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg
Their nicknames meant Roadrunner, the Little Doll, the International.
If you search on ESPN Deportes you get stuff about the cable TV channel,
finally leading to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio
which shows affiliates in only 18 states, of course not including Oclajoma. It
links to website
http://espndeportes.espn.com/radio/index
which turns out to be a File Not Found. Grrr.
Also nothing recent in radioinsight or radiodiscussions concerning WKY
DXLD archives: see
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9004.txt
at the beginning of 2009y for reports on when La Indomable started, after some
shorter-lived format attempts on 930. Refers to ESPND being on KINB 105.3,
apparently a related station, so what`s on 105.3 now? Sports talk in English,
at 1518 UT April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1872, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
===
** U S A. 1550, April 3 at 0352 UT, ``La Raza, ciento punto uno`` after
music not // 1570 XERF La Hora Nacional, so two clues this is Unitedstatesian,
not Mexican: true dentro-mejicanos don`t need to brand themselves as ``La
Raza``. NRC AM Log shows the only SS on 1550 as La Raza is KMRI West Valley
City UT (SLC), 1/340 watts U1, but nothing about an FM. Then I search the
WTFDA FM database for a Raza on 1550 with any FM, but no hits. Nor does
Radio-locater but leads to its website http://www.larazamedia.com/ which does
display 107.1 only in the form of some listener`s greeting. ``La Raza 107.1 es
la mejor estacion de Utah" Saul Venegas, Salt Lake City UT``. This is probably
my unID of March 27.
To which Raymie Humbert, AZ, replied on the WTFDA Forum March 30: ``
XENU has not migrated — though it is highly likely to be a new-round migrant so
it will probably disappear in the next few years. XERUV is done (permit
discontinuity
[IRCA] WKY 930 OKC flips from Indomable to ESPND
--- Begin Message --- ** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Saturday April 1 at 0453 UT, Spanish here is still WKY, but it`s sports talk, not music! Long string of promos, jingles from ESPN Deportes, national feed giving times in Pacific and Eastern, and who cares about the Great Center of America, let alone the Mountains?? During otherwise Spanish, the letters ESPN are always pronounced in English to avoid invoking images of penises, altho such a macho connexion would seem to be apt. How much coverage of women`s sports is there, anyway? 0457 UT local ads including a Dodge dealer in Midwest City, Goodwill Industries (in Spanish they should say benevolencia or buena voluntad); PSAs for how to impress girls, drunk driving. I keep listening for the ToH ID at 0500 UT, which says ``WKY, Oklahoma City, 930AM, WKY``. The call letters are pronounced in English, altho they don`t have to be (but doble-ve ka i griega is a bit more cumbersome, less so doble-u ka ye). No mention of ``La Indomable`` which has been its brand for eight+ years alrleady, and back to ESPND. Recheck at 1435 UT, still Spanish sports talk, no music! Radio-locator.com still has its format as ``Regional Mexican``, i.e. frenetic oom-pah-pah music, a staple on our dials for years. The website still exists under the old name http://www.laindomable.com/ but all the Noticias on the homepage are about sports, notably including European soccer games. How much of an audience in OK is there for that, in Spanish to boot?? But it still plugs at least one DJ program, outdated? `El Show de Mandril`, L-V 7-12 am (meaning before noon?). Will have to wait until April 3 morning to confirm whether that still exist. I suspect not, as radio stations have this all-or-nothing mentality about formatting. Or is this a bad joke for April 1? Newspaper ad from November, 2014, DJs presumably jobless now: http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg If you search on ESPN Deportes you get stuff about the cable TV channel, finally leading to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio which shows affiliates in only 18 states, of course not including Oclajoma. It links to website http://espndeportes.espn.com/radio/index which turns out to be a File Not Found. Grrr. Also nothing recent in radioinsight or radiodiscussions concerning WKY DXLD archives: see http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9004.txt at the beginning of 2009y for reports on when La Indomable started, after some shorter-lived format attempts on 930. Refers to ESPND being on KINB 105.3, apparently a related station, so what`s on 105.3 now? Sports talk in English, at 1518 UT April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 24-30, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page57 [over 204,000 views! as of March 30, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** CANADA. 2749-USB, March 26 at 0158 UT, roboYL in French with day-by-day forecasts of some marine weather, at S9 until off at 0200* UT. I still can`t catch a definite ID, if any, but Canadian CG shows the latest 2749 transmission is VCS Halifax from Chebogue NS site starting at 0140 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 730, March 27 at 0446 UT, unusual to hear something in English rather than Korean or Spanish on 730; talk show with weird subject, guest mentions Archimedes, radio-telemetry, Noah`s Ark, higher dimensions, harmonic transmitters (? I could use some of those!). Looking for // I finally find one on 1170 KFAQ which is running 30 seconds ahead of 730. No SS CCI until something fades up at 0454 UT, and talkshow is C2CAM with George Noory, guest David Sereda, 0457 UT wrapup, apparent music fill, but no ID in QRM by 0500 UT. (Sereda had been a wacko guest numerous times, but not scheduled for 3/26; an old rerun, I suppose.) My first guess is KDAZ Albuquerque, but not on the C2C affiliate list, just 1600 there. C2CAM website, and NRC AM Log show the *only* 730 affil is: WWTK Lake Placid FL, address in Sebring, which is U4 500/340 watts. Day and night patterns are NNW/SSE, not favorable for here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, March 27 at 0441 UT, Spanish, child`s voice, mentions ``mexicana``, peppy music. Having realized nothing logged on 1550 recently, I am paying more attention to it. There are four Mexicans listed, closest being XENU in Nuevo Laredo but only 250 watts night. Have none of those migrated to FM-only yet? Could be Unitedstatesian, two in FL, two in CA and one in GA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 24-30, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 204,000 views! as of March 30, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, March 27 at 0441 UT, Spanish, child`s voice, mentions ``mexicana``, peppy music. Having realized nothing logged on 1550 recently, I am paying more attention to it. There are four Mexicans listed, closest being XENU in Nuevo Laredo but only 250 watts night. Have none of those migrated to FM-only yet? Could be Unitedstatesian, two in FL, two in CA and one in GA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] philosophy of logging a new one
--- Begin Message --- Since I am a frequent reporter of just barely audible carriers, often making assumptions on what they are, here`s my take: There are formally no ``new ones`` for me, since long ago I distanced myself from the rat race of tallying up station/country counts, not only on MW but anywave. I realize this is all that seems to matter to many of my colleagues, but my DXing is quite fulfilling for me, as I have no idea how many stations/countries I have heard on various bands, so each log stands on its own. Everyone may feel free to consider how likely my conclusions are to be right, but if they are wrong, it is not detracting from anyone else`s totals. For myself, each clue, such as frequency offset, DFing (which many others don`t seem to do or be able to do with fixed antennas), and loads of previous experience, can add up to a near-definite log. I`m always open for any evidence to the contrary. >From my geographical position, and not doing much antenna experimentation, I >realize I am not likely to get much audio from any TAs or TPs. So >circumstantial evidence will have to do. 73, Glenn Hauser, OK --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 203,000 views! as of March 23, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 730, March 23 at 1228, ID for ``107.1 FM, Fiesta, y 730 AM``, i.e. XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 50/1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 980, March 23 at 1230, which is Enid sunrise, phone numbers, ``es la FQ, una estación del Instituto Mexicano de la Radio``, i.e. XEFQ, Cananea, Sonora, 2.5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search March 17: finally I awaken two minutes before sunrise here so check it out at 1237-1239: 774, 693 and 594 from NW, presumably Japan; and 702 from WSW, presumably Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 23, UT: At 1140: 684-WSW, 702-WSW, 774-WSW, 828-WSW At 1213: 1098-W At 1222: 1548-WSW, 774-NW At 1224: 1098-W That`s an interesting group: WSW ones would be Australia or NZ, where there are no stations greater than 10 kW on 684 & 828. Note how 774 produced both DU and Asia, i.e. Australia and later Japan. 1098 of course is the Marshall Islands carrier. And 1548, 4QD Emerald, Queensland which has been making it with audio as far as IL and MI lately. Enid sunrise today 1230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2017
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page57 [over 203,000 views! as of March 23, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order [but only USA this week] ** U S A. 700, March 17 at 1257 UT with WLW still in but nulled, Texas ads including one in Sugarland, mentions an FM ID in passing, and ``Voice of Texas``. Therefore it is not my closer one, KHSE in The Metroplex, which is Spanish religion, but the farther one from Houston market, KSEV Tomball, 15/1 kW U4, with such a slogan in NRC AM Log. Day pattern has less of a null toward us than KHSE. Can`t find any FM for it listed, not even mentioned on own website, but clearly a far-right extremist outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 740, March 17 at 1258 UT, KTRH Houston with TX ads, I-45 mentions, is making 72/min SAH with KRMG Tulsa = 1.2 Hz; even tho 50 kW, day and night patterns are supposed to have deep nulls toward OK, so I again suspect they are out of whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, March 17 at 1301 UT, NPR News from Culver City, California, so has to be WSUI Iowa City IA --- a public radio station the Trumpsters would love to do away with (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, March 17 at 1303 UT, Mexmx, ``La Estación de la Raza`` by SHVA, i.e. KMMQ Plattsmouth NE (Omaha market), not to be construed as racist? What if Anglos were to slogan that way? With nearby KOKP OK nulled as much as possible, and no sign of KCKN Roswell now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1260, March 17 at 1307 UT, ``Radio de la comunidad latina de Iowa``, many ads mentioning Des Moines, 515 area codes, ``La Reina, y nada más``, música. 5 kW KDLF Boone IA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 3/23/17
--- Begin Message --- UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 23, UT: At 1140: 684-WSW, 702-WSW, 774-WSW, 828-WSW At 1213: 1098-W At 1222: 1548-WSW, 774-NW At 1224: 1098-W That`s an interesting group: WSW ones would be Australia or NZ, where there are no stations greater than 10 kW on 684 & 828. Note how 774 produced both DU and Asia, i.e. Australia and later Japan. 1098 of course is the Marshall Islands carrier. And 1548, 4QD Emerald, Queensland which has been making it with audio as far as IL and MI lately. Enid sunrise today 1230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] DX dead spots
--- Begin Message --- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Effective_Ground_Conductivity_Map.png Had I been live during this thread, I too would have said Oklahoma`s red dirt with iron oxide can`t be the cause, cf the Iron range of Michigan. I would hypothesize that the Ogallala Aquifer (what`s left of it) has something to do with the large 30 G.C. area in TX-OK-KS-NE. Not a 100% match of course, but quite a bit of overlap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer How fortunate we are here in the great center, since so much of the USA is way lower in GC. WNAX 570 Yankton SD is here on groundwave any day; only problem KLIF Dallas also 570. Also: KWMT 540 Fort Dodge IA vs another Metroplex station. 550 has signs of Midland TX and 580 signs of Lubbock TX under the Kansans. 670 KLTT Denver is barely audible on daytime groundwave, and sometimes WSCR Chicago tho by then I`m not certain it`s GW rather than daytime skywave, or a mixture with sporadic E affecting MW. 73, Glenn Hauser, Enid --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 12-16, 2017
--- Begin Message --- Note: this report concerns logs following the imposition of DST, so EDT conversions are now called for. All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; 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 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/page56 [over 201,000 views! as of March 16, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 1540.11, March 13 at 0434 UT, off-frequency het loops about SSE/NNW, not much signal from KXEL, and with notching on the NRD-545, separable from various signals on 1540.0. Playing classic rock music. I bet it`s KGBC Galveston TX, which for many months in 2015-2016 was off frequency, but no het lately, presumably temporarily fixed until now. At 0434 UT, partial ID as ``##101.5 FM & 1540 AM``, refers to a website ending in 1015.com. Researching later: WTFDA FM Database confirms the 1540/101.5 translator for KGBC: ``K268DE // KGBC-1540 101.5 GALVESTON TX 0.22 0.22 0.0 0.0 29-18-52 94-48-19 Chinese ETHNIC/ASIAN`` It used to be Chinese with CRI relay // 1520 KYND but that was done long ago. Wikipedia has some info, starting with newer? but still outdated format: ``The current format is a business talk format.[5] [sic] In 2016, after 69 years of broadcasting as "1540 KGBC", Siga changed the station's image to reflect the new 101.5 translator dial position attached to the heritage AM`` Then I search out this website unknown to Wikipedia: http://www.gc1540.com/ which still exists but refers to www.gc1015fm.com --- GC stands for Gulf Coast. ``Visit our Facebook page Check out the Live Surf Cam Courtesy of Gtownsurf.com K242BG 101.5 fm (Galveston) and KGBC 1540 am (Galveston & Houston), keeping Galveston Island and Galveston County connected with great music and entertainment Owned and operated by SIGA Broadcasting on Galveston Island Texas`` The AM appendage still claims to broadcast on 1540, rather than 1540.11 kHz! Clearly it`s mainly music now, with local talk, and not particularly business. Check out the Local Programs tab (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1869, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, KGBC has been running an Oldies format for a few months now. The 101.5 translator is fairly new, but covers much less area than the daytime AM signal. No het on 1540 when checked recently. Unsure if Oldies is "permanent" as the new FM outlet may have convinced Siga to try something other than a succession of brokered formats. The nighttime KGBC signal doesn't make it to my QTH, some 70 miles away --- buried in the 1540 pileup (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, 0021 UT March 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1540.11, March 15 at 0109 UT, no het from KGBC Galveston TX, as heard a binite ago, so presumably back on 1540.00 (or off), with 1540 dominated by far-right talkhost presumed KXEL, and TexMexmx in background, from KEDA San Antonio. KGBC might have been on 2.5 kW daypower then too instead of 0.25 kW nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1869, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 10-12, 2017
--- Begin Message --- Note: this report concerns logs before the imposition of DST, so EST conversions are still called for. A separate report for the EDT period will follow. 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 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/page56 [over 201,000 views! as of March 16, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, March 12 at 0135 UT, roboYL in English with marine weather, citing some UTCs and some Eastern Standards; vs S9+10 lightning crashes. Scheduled starting at 0137 UT is VOK, Labrador via both Cartwright and Hopedale, but if timing is precise, preceding it from 0107 UT is VOK via St Anthony site. Nothing on 2749 now, but see CANADA. I THINK all these stay on same UT schedules despite imposition of DST, right? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, March 12 at 0152 UT, roboYL with maritime weather in English, S9+10 vs QRN level merely S9; VCS Halifax via Chebogue NS site scheduled starting at 0140 UT. Nothing heard on 2598 now, but see NEWFOUNDLAND earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, March 12 at 0155 UT, KOKC with a gun show explaining exactly where to shoot people to cause the most damage. Good to know! Outro as `Frontlines of Freedom` on a growing network of outlets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 1020, KMMQ Plattsmouth, NE: regarding my log of this station mentioning ESPN Deportes, Wayne Heinen, NRC AM Log Editor, checked with Andy Ruback of the NRG group in Omaha owning it, who says it is still same format as before, ``Regional Mexican``. Local DXers Carl Mann and Rick Dau agree. So what I heard must have been a fleeting reference for some reason (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1450, March 10 at 0619 UT bandscan on the E-W antenna, briefly atop the mush is an ad with an address in Portales, so it`s KSEL NM, which is only 950 instead of the usual 1000 graveyard watts. KSEL is on the ``second ring`` of 1450 stations from here beyond Woodward and Altus, along with KLMX Clayton NM. Portales distance 344 miles = 553 km, making me grateful for such a log from one of the gateways to NM. BTW, KSEL used to be the call of a Lubbock station, 950 until 1987y, now KJTV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note: my companion Mostly Mexican MWDX Report this week failed to change the dates on the subject line to March 10-16, but it is different from previous one --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, February 24-March 9, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 201,000 views! as of March 16, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. [Re last week`s report about FM side of 730 XEHB:] They might even be missing the added E in the XHEHB ID, which is common for that variety of AM-FM migrant. (See: XHEOA, XHEPQ, XHECPQ which are known to ID as XHOA, XHPQ and XHCPQ. Fun fact: two of those "wrong" calls are actually available!)(Raymie Humbert, AZ, March 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1300, UT Monday March 13 at 0436, Radio Mexicana ID from XEP, and music, evidently not running `La Hora Nacional` now as would be expected Sundays at 10 pm local, since Juárez has certainly copied El Paso by going on MDT of UT -6, unlike further south in México, no DST until April 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, February 24-March 9, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 200,000 views! as of March 9, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 730, March 9 at 1309, Spanish federal PSA for the Cámara de Diputados, and another one, then full ID for XEHB AM 730, 50,000 watts y XHHB FM 102.1(?), 25,000 ERP ``en efectivo``, with street address in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, ``sólo éxitos en Fiesta Estéreo``. WRTH 2017 still has the old ``Ke Buena`` slogan and no FM //. Or is it 107.1 as in IRCA Mexican Log 2015? Yes, WTFDA FM Database, which now includes Mexico, shows 107.1 is really XHEHB-FM in nearby San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua, Estereo Fiesta, but fails to show // 730 XEHB. The real XHHB FM is 94.7 in Hermosillo; the E`s are inserted to avoid duplication as AM stations are forced to start migrating to FM, but are easily missed in hearing or even speaking. I started bandscan upward from 540 a few minutes earlier, already after our sunrise at 1251, and this is the first Mexican still audible, despite horrible splash from 740 KRMG on 50 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 870, March 9 at 1313, XETAR hasn`t quite faded out yet, in indigenous language with some Spanish number-words, LV de la Sierra Tarahumara, Guachochi, Chihuahua, as long as WWL is nulled, still strong. Far from the border, this daytimer will keep signing on at 1300 UT until DST overtakes April 2 for *1200, when our sunrise will then be circa 1210 UT, maybe reaudiblizing XETAR for a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521.0, March 5 at 0218, quite a het upon Kim Komando, 1520.0 KOKC. Loops NE/SW, not SE/NW, so surely it`s the 2-megawatt BSKSA, Duba, Saudi Arabia, rather than a ZNS spur. No other TA carriers noted in cursory check of a few frequencies on MW & LW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 3-9, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page56 [over 200,000 views! as of March 9, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** CANADA. 2748.99-CUSB, March 5 at 0202 UT, marine weather by French YL, including Madelaine, avis aux navigateurs. CCG website shows VCS Halifax via Chebogue NS site starting at 0140 in English, then French. S8, better signal than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** OKLAHOMA. 1000, March 9 at 1320 UT, KTOK OKC, mentions ``the late Mike McCarville``, who had a morning talkshow here. Yes, he just died yesterday. Another conservative I never listened to. Here`s a story: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/163475/ ``McCarville [portrait] --- Condolences to family and friends of longtime OKLAHOMA radio talk show host and political commentator MIKE MCCARVILLE, who died TODAY (3/8) at 76, according to a post at his website. http://mccarvillereport.com/archives/43933 MCCARVILLE, most recently proprietor of "THE MCCARVILLE REPORT" political blog, was a host and PD at KTOK-A/OKLAHOMA CITY and a commentator for KOSU/STILLWATER and KGWA/ENID; he also filled in on NRANEWS.COM's talk shows online and on SIRIUSXM RADIO. He was a former reporter for THE OKLAHOMAN and THE TULSA TRIBUNE, among many other papers and publications. and an Assistant News Director for CBS affiliate KWTV/OKLAHOMA CITY. In the post on THE MCCARVILLE REPORT, Contributing Editor JASON DOYLE ODEN wrote, "It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that our friend MIKE MCCARVILLE is no longer with us on Earth. After struggling with an illness, he has gone to his deserved rest. That familiar laugh and smile are now part of Heaven’s domain. It is the image of that twinkle in MIKE’s eyes and his quick offer of a cup of coffee that haunt me as I write this piece to stay [sic] goodbye to the man who was my boss, my mentor and best of all, my friend."`` Then weather by Emily Sutton, of KFOR-TV. Lots of TV weatherpersons have side deals with various radio stations, extra cash, or it is just part of the TV jobs for promotion? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 910, March 9 at 1316 UT, loops WSW/ENE, listener comments on phone separated by beeps, turns out to be a promo for calling 623-9100, for ``Noalmark Broadcasting Group and 93.7 The Beep``. Opinion format culled from voice mails? Suspect it`s KKBE NM, soon confirmed by PSA for City of Roswell, other ads. (No sign of KVIS OK yet.) WTFDA FM Database shows as to be expected, 93.7 is a mere 250 watt translator wagging this 5 kW dog: ``K229BV // KKBE 910 93.7 ROSWELL NM 0.0 0.25 0.0 5.3 33-23-55 104-31-18 `NEWS TALK 910` NEWS/TALK`` No such slogan listed, but ha2, it`s not really ``The Beep`` despite the beeps, but ``The Beat`` according to Wikipedia with ``rhythmic contemporary`` format, whatever that mean. 910 was originally KBIM, which led to KBIM-TV channel 10, and its original full-power KBIM-FM was 97.1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, March 9 at 1322 UT, with KOKP morning non-sports talkshow nulled, Spanish making slow SAH, and ``ESPN Deportes`` ID in passing, then Omaha traffic report and weather. It`s KMMQ Plattsmouth NE on 50 kW day power, last known as ``La Estación de la Raza`` in NRC AM Log 2016-2017. No sign of the other SS on 1020 now, 50 kW KCKN Roswell NM, despite just hearing 910 KKBE, so presumably that broke down again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1350, March 5 at 0222 UT and 0229 UT, partial IDs amid music as ``La Nueva 13-50 AM y la 97.9 FM, los éxitos``. That`s now a match in the WTFDA FM Database for KZTD in Cabot AR, for ``K250BT, 97.9, Jacksonville AR, 250 watt translator // KZTD-1350, FIESTA MEXICANA 1350, REGIONAL MEXICAN``. I logged this last September with very confusing FM connexions to 105.5 Baton Rouge LA, and 98.7 Wichita Falls TX. See http://www.b
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 24-March 2, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page56 [over 199,000 views as of March 2, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** U S A. 820, March 2 at 1304 UT, another talk station with WBAP nulled as much as possible. Think I hear a traffic report mentioning Gary, 1306 UT into a show from Washington DC. Must be the Bill Press show as scheduled on WCPT, 820 for Chicago which is now Willow Springs IL, 5800/1500 U2 per NRC AM Log, ``Chicago`s Progressive Talk``, yet affiliated with Fox, among other networx! Other Chi stations are still in, including 780, 1000 and 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm guessing this was a product of WCPT's daily carriage of the late Alan Colmes, who is and will be sorely missed by forward-thinkers. Alan's show was itself a product of the Fox News-Talk Network (to their credit); personally I can't think of any talk-host with whom I agreed more closely, or often, than Mr. Colmes (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, March 2 at 1314 UT, romantic music in Spanish over WOAI. No doubt it`s WRTO Chicago, maybe still Univisión América but not their new sports network as allegedly in the offing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [No Mostly Mexican DX = international this week] --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican [sic] MW DX to Enid OK, February 17-23, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 198,000 views as of Feb 23, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire Not much on MW this week, but have been plenty busy on SW and TV --- UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search Feb 23 at 1259-1302 UT, all from NW, i.e. Japan, Korea: 774, 747, 594, 1566. LSR here 1309 UT, to surpass 1300 in one week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 17-23, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page56 [over 198,000 views as of Feb 23, 2017] These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order Not much MW this week altho I have been plenty busy on SW and TV --- ** CANADA. Re CJRN, 1610, Montreal comments last time, not that I myself have heard it with CHHA Toronto in the way: "Their about-us page does not explain what Humsafar means" [...] Dear Glenn, "humsafar" means "soulmate", and there are plenty of Bollywood titles on the subject. One of my all time bollywood music favourites is "aye mere humsafar" from "all is well", e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtEuD0OhkY Don't watch, just listen. Kind regards, (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, a regular listener to http://gaana.com/radio/meethi-mirchi Feb 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lest you see a 6-minute romantic but inexplicit hetero Aryan lovemaking scene abed (gh) === ** OKLAHOMA. 910, Feb 23 at 1307 UT, military medley on piano catches my ear, Anchors Aweigh, Marine Hymn, 1309 UT into vocal hymn solo and loops E/W, so presumably KVIS Miami, monarchists` ``King`s Vision`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 10-16, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page56 [over 197,000 views as of Feb 16, 2017] 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. 1610, Feb 11 at 0555 UT, South Asian music, so is it CHHA Toronto, Voces Latinas? Not all their programming is Latin, notably 03-04 UT Punjabi Tue-Sat, and 04-05 UT Mon. But until 0600 UT (1 am local) sked here http://chha1610am.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PostCard-CHHA-1610AM-2016.jpg `El Nocturno de Radio Voces Latinas` which implies Spanish. There is another ethnic Canadian on 1610, CHRN, Montreal, supposed to be all-Asian, with only 1 kW vs 6.25 from CHHA, and closer CHHA normally blox it here; but this website is also blocked as insecure: https://radiohumsafar.com/ but I get thru to this one: http://www.radiohumsafar.com/ where its disorganized and incomplete program schedule http://www.radiohumsafar.com/schedule/ gets no closer than this: 10:00 pm to 04:00 am Punjabi News Monday to Friday Their about-us page does not explain what Humsafar means, just: ``Radio Humsafar is a twenty four hour a day, seven days a week source for South Asian programming. On air in several places in Canada as well as all over the world via Internet. Radio Humsafar broadcasts in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English. Radio Humsafar reaches over 1.5 million listeners throughout the world. Radio Humsafar enjoys a top notch team of broadcast professionals with wide international experience. From Punjabi and Hindi musicals to Classical and Ghazal programs, from talk shows on current and controversial issues to live news direct from India and Pakistan. Radio Humsafar connects Canadians and Americans of South Asian descent to their roots, tradition and culture. Radio Humsafar – dynamic, energetic, stimulating, informational, and entertaining.`` So are those its literal meanings? Google translate cannot deal with Humsafar, at least when spelt Romanly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = ** U S A. 1020, Feb 15 at 1337 UT, Spanish alabanzas QRMing semi-local KOKP Perry OK, with a 68/minute SAH = 1.13+ Hz, so KCKN Roswell NM must be back on air. Loops for there rather than the other 50 kW SS, KMMQ Omaha market, which anyhow is areligious. It`s tough to keep up with KCKN`s comings & goings, as the latest NRC DX News dated Feb 20 but published Feb 12, reported in AM Switch, ``Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: KCKN NM Roswell – Silent Jan. 26; transmitter was operating erratically`` --- at least they are keeping FCC informed, with an understandable delay in getting the info out. The thing is, KCKN has no business QRMing KOKP, since it`s pre-sunrise there and should be on night pattern with null toward us, and mainly KDKA. But that`s SOP for KCKN. Are they telling FCC about that? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1280, Feb 15 at 1343 UT, just as I tune in, non-ID for ``103-3 The Mix``, i.e. KSOK Arkansas City KS, before it`s solid on daytime groundwave; and the FM is of course nothing but a translator but better than 100 watts night power on AM? Or rather, ``The Mixx`` per NRC AM Log. I couldn`t hear the second X; classic rock ensues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1590, Feb 14 at 0147 UT, earnest YL preaching Christian stuff in Spanish, dominating frequency for a while and slightly stronger on N/S than on E/W antenna. Her ministerio is named Cristo Te Llama Hoy, and says it`s on FB by that name. 0154 UT gives contact info including a P O Box somewhere in Tejas, and her apellido is Herrera. 0155 UT to music and fadeout; 0159 UT fade-in a bit, but no ID; 0200 UT fade in better with norteña song, maybe hymn, cut off at 0202 UT to intro next program, maybe mentioning Alma Viva, phone number, and fade into QRM as I have to QRT, without getting a DF on the DX-398. Also a persistent het on low side, maybe KWBG IA as in DXLD 16-15. First thought is KMIC Hou
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican [sic] MW DX to Enid OK, February 10-16, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page56 [over 197,000 views as of Feb 16, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire UNIDENTIFIED. Trans Pacific JBA MW carrier search February 15, UT: Unlike neighbor Richard Allen, I had all these on the DX-398 when I awoke just after sunrise at 1319 UT: At 1320, 612, 594, 558 from WSW At 1323, 774 from NW At 1326, 1134 from NW, 1422 from NW At 1328, 1548 from WSW At 1320, 1557 from NW, stronger 1566 from NW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, Feb 15 at 0230, carrier making quite audible tell-tale het against 1520.0 KOLM/KOKC, no doubt BSKSA signifying trans-Atlantic propagation is open. But nothing detected on several other lower split frequencies checked. So I try longwave again: At 0231-0232 UT Feb 15, I finally get some JBA trans-Atlantic LW carriers on 162, 198, 207, 216 kHz on the NRD-545 and ALA-330S, with no sign they are NDBs, altho some higher LWBC channels are beacon-blocked. 216 is strong enough to DF on the DX-398 as from NE. I was a bit surprised at 162 as France is presumably running much reduced power now just for phase-modulated timesignals. 198 would be BBCR4, 207 Iceland (but no 189), 216 Monaco/France. Or Morocco is also listed on 207, but nothing heard on 171 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 2/15/17
--- Begin Message --- UNIDENTIFIED. Trans Pacific JBA MW carrier search February 15, UT: Unlike neighbor Richard Allen, I had all these on the DX-398 when I awoke just after sunrise at 1319 UT: At 1320, 612, 594, 558 from WSW At 1323, 774 from NW At 1326, 1134 from NW, 1422 from NW At 1328, 1548 from WSW At 1320, 1557 from NW, stronger 1566 from NW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also, the night before: UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, Feb 15 at 0230, carrier making quite audible tell-tale het against 1520.0 KOLM/KOKC, no doubt BSKSA signifying trans-Atlantic propagation is open. But nothing detected on several other lower split frequencies checked. So I try longwave again: At 0231-0232 UT Feb 15, I finally get some JBA trans-Atlantic LW carriers on 162, 198, 207, 216 kHz on the NRD-545 and ALA-330S, with no sign they are NDBs, altho some higher LWBC channels are beacon-blocked. 216 is strong enough to DF on the DX-398 as from NE. I was a bit surprised at 162 as France is presumably running much reduced power now just for phase-modulated timesignals. 198 would be BBCR4, 207 Iceland (but no 189), 216 Monaco/France. Or Morocco is also listed on 207, but nothing heard on 171 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, February 3-9, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page55 [over 196,000 views as of Feb 9, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 700, Feb 8 at 1328, Indian drumming and fluting vs WLW. Presumed the indigenous station often audible around sunrise here, XEETCH, Etchojoa, Sonora, 5 kW daytimer, La Voz de los Tres Rios (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search February 8, UT, all looping WSW from down-under, except 1566-NW, surely Korea: At 1317, 774, 702 At 1318, 684, 657 At 1320, 702, 792, 828 At 1322, 837, 882 At 1325, 1566-NW Local sunrise here: 1326 UT, now earlying 1 minute per day. I`m not always awake in time to check for these, but my neighbor Richard Allen near Perry always seems to be, and reported today to IRCA: ``Pre-sunrise carrier signals heard on 612 and 702 kHz from DU direction, both strong at times. What's going on? There appears to be no correlation between solar activity and propagation!`` WWV had reported at 1200: solar flux 72, K-index 1, no storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 3-9, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page55 [over 196,000 views as of Feb 9, 2017] 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 [Note: altho MW clubs are reluctant to publish logs like the following, I classify them as MWBC, since: MW really extends up to 3000 kHz; and, these are one-way: broadcasts, not two-way. This also applies to harmonics of MW stations falling below 3000 kHz; in fact, even above 3000 such spurious transmissions are certainly relevant to MW] ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Feb 4 at 0454 UT, YL robotic English marine weather, VP S7 at same level as noise. 2598-USB, Feb 4 at 0455 UT, sounds like same YL with robotic marine weather, gale warning, mentions times in EST, and then AST; slow fades past 0458 UT. Surprised to find this stronger than 2749, not usually the case with NS vs NL distances. Don`t have two receivers at hand to match them, but at this hour may well be // and both from Québec as per Canadian CG listings, from most recent start times, and nothing further after these for a few hours: 0437 UT, 2598, VCF Les Escoumins, site: Natashquan QC 50 08 40 -61 48 00 0437 UT, 2749, VCF Les Escoumins, site: La Vernière QC 47 21 26 -61 55 36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** OKLAHOMA. 1600, Feb 8 at 2110 UT, KUSH Cushing with several classic country and classic rock tunes; 2116 UT ad string including promo for News9 (KWTV)`s latest weather gadget coming soon; 2118 UT ``Oklahoma`s Americana Station, KUSH 1600 and KUSH.com, The Kush``. No longer with talkshows in afternoon, such as the sparsely-affiliated Marilu Henner show. Upgrade from 1 to 5 kW ND daytime was completed some time ago, resulting in slightly better groundwave signal here; with 70 watts at night, we`d never know it exists vs the skywave from Denver, St Louis, Dallas, etc. In fact, during above log occasional fades produced SAH of 5 or 6 Hz, probably from Vietnamese Metroplexer KRVA, which is its major nemesis once skywave starts to kick in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 770, Feb 3 at 0248 UT, plugs for ``promo code W-A-B-C`` to some 800 number, vs CCI, presumably including KKOB/KKOB. Unusual for WABC NJ to make it ~1315 miles out to here. In case you think it`s in New York, check this coverage map http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WABC=AM=L=N which shows it not even reaching Scranton at night from just east of Clifton NJ; never mind skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Feb 8 at 1334 UT, extended weather forecast, ``Newstalk 770 and 92.5, WVNN, where Alabama talks, depend on it``, 1335 UT on to `live & local Dale? Dave? Jackson Show. I was expecting to hear bleed from KKOB/KKOB already, 8 minutes after sunrise here, but WVNN is in full daytime, not faded out yet, 7000/250 watts U2, Athens AL. 92.5 is not a mere translator, but 3.1 kW WVNN-FM licensed to Trinity AL, which is way down the other side of Decatur. Too bad Athenians can`t listen to WABC at night. NRC Pattern Book indicates WVNN is the closest non-daytimer 770 to WABC, i.e. 817 statute miles by air, per distancefromto.com --- that`s enough for no ``clear channel` protexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880-CUSB, Feb 8 at 0455 UT, KHAC Tse Bonito NM is dominant with no LSB, as always running 10 kW day power at night, and at :55 past most hours for about 2 minutes, interrupting programming for `American Family News` which is anything but, pushing far-right agenda, pro-Gorsuch & pro-DeVos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060+, Feb 8 at 1338 UT, KIJN Farwell TX, Spanish ad with heavy gringo accent for a pro-beef cattle-feeder in nearby Hereford TX, back to praise music; off-frequency on hi side making usual fast SAH with anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, Feb 8 at 1352 UT, KVGB Great Bend KS with `News from the Oil Patch` by guy with non-radio vo
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 27-February 2, 2017
--- Begin Message ---
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
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/page55
[over 195,000 views as of Feb 2, 2017]
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. 800, Feb 2 at 0549 UT, on E-W antenna without even trying I can copy
CKLW atop CCI from KQCV OKC, with Bell`s Canada ad, and something in
Windsor/Essex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
=
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, Sat Jan 28 at 1928 UT, KUSH, Cushing playing jive music,
subformat Americana, I suppose. Weekday afternoons, it`s talk shows (after me,
the deluge from Trans-Canada).
{later: or used to be. Now music also heard weekday afternoon; can`t find a
simple program schedule on their website or active FB, but seems to indicate
local talk in the mornings ``Kush Girls``; music in afternoons} (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
==
** U S A. 660, Jan 28 at 1936 UT, my MW bandscan downward for skywave signals
(after 1540 KXEL IA) finds something here on the E-W antenna, country music and
talk seemingly in English at 1939 UT; ads in English at 1942 UT, and ending
with something -online.com. The N/S antenna has KSKY The Answer talk from The
Metroplex as usual dominant on groundwave, but E/W brings this, also making a
1.2 Hz SAH.
I`m thinking it`s got to be KTNN Window Rock AZ, at midday! Not listening long
enough to hear some clinching Navajo chanting, but their website is indeed:
http://ktnnonline.com/ The only other 660 anywhere around here is 1 kW KCRO
Omaha, opposite direxion from Dallas, and Christian in English.
So I`m confident it is KTNN, which is 1008 km or 627 miles from here, 50 kW ND
but I know groundwave doesn`t even reach into the OK Panhandle. 770 KKOB ought
to make it too, but too much QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, Jan 28 at 2330 UT, I turn on the PL-880 still tuned to 660, and
there`s Navajo talk from KTNN AZ, as heard four hours earlier already in
English, but nothing unusual now, just before sunset here, and while still on
their ND 50 kW day power (sometimes, extending past their own sunset) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 840, Feb 1 at 0436 UT, yet another try to ID the Spanish
religious station with WHAS nulled. Non-ID immediately upon tune-in as ``---
radio, la mejor alternativa`` and praise music. 0452 UT sermon, 0454 UT Mesa AZ
phone number again, (480) 467-4626, then full source ID as ``Voz y Visión
Radio, P O Box ---, La Quinta, California, 92248``. And phone there as (760)
889-4791. That chex for Indio, California area, not AC (770) as first thought
(in Spanish it`s virtually impossible to tell a setenta from a sesenta without
extremely clear reception --- why don`t they do as the French do and make 70 =
sesenta y diez??), and a missed call-letter ID ``--FM, Voz y Visión Radio, tu
mejor alternativa`` and fade. Just before 0459 UT legal ID but again I can`t
copy the call letters, just ``--- AM 840, mejor alternativa``, back to music.
Meanwhile at 0500 UT the Cuban NA is audible mixing, from Santa Clara.
Finally I have enough to go on, to nail down whether this is really KVJY Pharr
TX, as seems to be the ``only alternative`` not just the best one. Searching on
the slogan I get this webpage which is not very informative,
http://www.vozyvisionradio.com
labeled Indio CA in one spot, Phoenix AZ in another, showing traffic from
visitors in Hollywood FL, Bryan TX, Phoenix/Mesa AZ (So do they have stations
in these cities too?)
Who cares about websites? All that matters is FB, and linx lead to that:
https://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Voz-y-Visi%C3%B3n/1457015621208536
https://www.facebook.com/vozvisionministries/?ref=page_internal_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE=nf
This page has the (760) phone number and a city map of presumably La Quinta CA:
https://www.facebook.com/vozvisionministries/about/?ref=page_internal
So are their flagship AM & FM stations in Mesa/Phoenix, or La Quinta/Indio CA?
These are way out east
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, January 27-February 2, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page55 [over 195,000 views as of Feb 2, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 770, re my log of XEACH Monterrey, Raymie Humbert, AZ, replies on the WTFDA Forum: ``Luces de la Ciudad is the LHN optout in Mexico City. Radio Fórmula must be pretty lazy to not put the Nuevo León one on the air instead. The NL one has the less inspiring title Nuevo León en La Hora Nacional: http://www.nl.gob.mx/nuevo-leon-en-la-hora-nacional [his tagline based on federal XE standard disclaimers:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 890, Feb 2 at 0544, romantic song in Spanish on E/W antenna without needing to null WLS, same // two syllables later on weaker 900. This means it has to be R. Progreso, 890 per WRTH being 200 kW from Chambas-Centro 6 in Ciego de Ávila, mid-Cuba; 900 being 50 kW at San Germán, far Holguín. 900 delay must be caused by a satellite hop or two to Holguín beyond Ciego de Ávila. So I also try to detect a // on 880 beneath KRVN/KHAC and whatever: almost positively. That would be 12 kW at nearest Pinar del Rio-San Juan. 900 is one of Cuba`s most powerful single MW transmitters, the other 200 kW being the main Rebelde on 710 but lots of relays also there to block ``wacky`` WAQI, Miami. 0545 segué to a more upbeat song, and on 890 I can tell the modulation is distorted. Soon WLS fades back up overtaking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, January 20-26, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page55 [over 193,000 views as of Jan 26, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 580, Jan 26 at 1302 UT, Spanish vs WIBW in English, temps in F and C; discussing exchange rates differing little between bancos and casas de cambio, and the puente; this-day-in-history; 7:05 TC at 1305; 878- phone number, US toll-free apparently. So it`s obviously XEMU Piedras Negras, Coahuila on the border. Fortunately, no wasteful wall will prevent signals penetrating from our good neighbor to the south. Also hearing many of the other usual pre-sunrise N/W Mexicans up to 870 XETAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, UT Mon Jan 23 at 0438, ``desde todo el equipo de Luces de la Ciudad`` birthday greetings; on to actividades ``en el sector chino de nuestra ciudad`` for Chinese New Year imminent, also mentions Zona Rosa (which I suppose exist elsewhere than the DF), boletos disponibles. Typically this would be XEACH, Monterrey NL, with KKOB/KKOB easily nulled. This is during the local-content cutaway from `La Hora Nacional` aprovechado by many stations, but they seem to think ``nuestra ciudad`` is sufficient identification. There might be same programming on 570, 630, 900, 990, 1050, 1140, but no exact matches (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 20-26, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page55 [over 191,000 views as of Jan 19, 2017] 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. 2598-USB, Jan 23 at 0446 UT, YL in French intonation, S7 = noise level. Per Canadian CG sked in DXLD 16-43, final weather broadcasts before frequencies resuming in 3 hours are from: 0437 UT 2598 VCF Les Escoumins from site Natashquan QC 50 08 40 -61 48 00 and also, but unheard: 0437 UT 2749 VCF Les Escoumins from site LaVernière QC 47 21 26 -61 55 36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 1680, Jan 26 at 1317 UT, W in chat show, ``The Morning Scramble at 99.7 My-FM``, i.e. via its AM appendage, KRJO Monroe LA, so format is not just AC music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2520, Jan 26 at 1252 UT, S7 open carrier, presumably the WOCO Oconto WI second harmonic from 1260 which others continue to report, so I wonder if they are just warming up for a sign-on? 1259-1301+ UT maybe a trace of modulation, much less than the carrier level ought to provide, so I`ve yet to get a definite ID on it. Much stronger than a JBA carrier from the other active US harmonic on 2960. 2520 carrier still audible at 1325 UT, S7 = the noise level. I never hear 2520 in the evening, so maybe they really cut from 1000 to 29 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 23 at 0437 UT, Spanish station in total null of WHAS. I figure it`s KVJY Pharr TX, as heard a few times before, but what I get does not match up to last known info about it. ``La mejor alternativa, 107.9, la palabra de dios, levantando una nueva generación``, into praise music. As of November, logged by Terry Krueger, KVJY was // Ultra 104.9 FM, with pop music format. http://www.ultra1049.com/ still appends 840 on its home page. Maybe has really changed format/FM relayer again. Slogans and format do not match up to any likely Mexicans either. The 107.9 in the RGV is KVLY EDINBURG TX 100.0 kW, 257.0 m, MIX 107.9 ADULT CONTEMPORARY, per WTFDA Database, and no match to // 840. Note the similarity in calls http://mix1079.net/ but ownership is different. If this is the source for 840 now, it too would have to be a drastic format-change. There are only two other US 840s this could possibly be, both of which are listed as religious, but not Spanish, and are daytimers: KDLF Ball LA, and WBHY Mobile AL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 24 at 0215 UT, I`m trying to get an ID for the Spanish religious station previously heard, but reception tonight is not so good. WHAS can be almost nulled with the DX-398, and occasional peaks of the Spanish station, but heavy IBOC noise from 830 WCCO, unlike last time with no IBOC or auroral conditions weakening CCO; even tho it`s worse on the hi side of 840, I still hear the noise using LSB tuning. And of course that does not null at the same angle as WHAS. There is also some other CCI music, probably Cuba. That or WHAS is making a SAH of about 5 Hz. Initially 0215 UT heard mentioning ``palabra de dios``. Another peak at 0248 UT, taking oración requests for ``protección divina``; lots of names mentioned, but no locational references. (As if some nonentity individuals need help from some radio station to get a DXing God`s attention!) Fades again including past 0300 UT hourtop when I quit for now; in fact, I wonder if it has signed off. Prime suspect remains KVJY Pharr TX in format flip. Perhaps an RGV DXer could clarify this, Steve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 25 at 0459 UT, another try to ID the Spanish religious station here. Gives phone number at least thrice, 480-467-4626, but no ID caught as IBOC noise grows (WCCO must have been in a fade); WHAS nulled leaving usual SAH with the unID. Trouble is, AC 480 is suburban Phoenix AZ, and a reverse lookup leads to one Carleen Hansen, in Scottsdale
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 13-19, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page55 [over 191,000 views as of Jan 19, 2017] 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 ** U S A. 1620, Jan 13 at 2302 UT, ``News-talk 1620, now on FM 92.3`` non-ID, also mentions Fox. The only such format around here on 1620 is WTAW College Station TX. But NRC AM Log shows no FM // for it. So how about WNRP Pensacola FL (CoL Gulf Breeze)? No FM for it either in Log. Yes, WTFDA FM Database, which now allows searching on // column, quickly clinches it: ``W222BR // WNRP-1620 92.3 PENSACOLA FL 0.25 kW 30-25-59 87-13-09 NEWSRADIO 1620 TALK/SPORTS CP from Pollard, AL`` --- While the closest 92.3 to WTAW is a translator for KRZI-1660 Waco with ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican [sic] MW DX to Enid OK, January 13-19, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 191,000 views as of Jan 19, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566, Jan 19 at 1331, detecting the HLAZ/FEBC Jeju carrier from the NW, I`m standing by from 1343 for the cutoff antenna change from Japan beam, which I do perceive at 1344:30*. It comes back on in a few seconds with weaker signal toward China, but I don`t need to hear that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1566, Jan 14 at 1345, I tune in too late for the beam switch from HLAZ, FEBC Jeju, Korea South, but still get a hefty JBA carrier looping NW, and even detectable still at 1357. It must have been even stronger before 1345. I bet my neighbor Richard N Allen near Perry OK had it much better? ``There was a sudden, but brief, barely audible trace on 1566 at local sunrise (1341),`` he reports to IRCA for January 14. A complete 9-kHz bandscan after 1345 found nothing else, not even 1098 Marshalls which RNA had best yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 19, UT: At 1327: 774-NW, 792-WSW At 1329: 1098-W At 1331: 1566-NW [See KOREA SOUTH] LSR in Enid today: 1341 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, January 6-12, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 190,000 views as of Jan 12, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 1570, Jan 12 at 1347, XERF plug for `Antena Radio Segunda Edición`, which I guess is later in the day, noon? en 107.9 y 1220, from IMER, referring to the XEB DF MW frequency and maybe that`s now its own FM, also on ``estaciones en el interior de la república``, (Ciudad Acuña seeming like that from the metropolis? Even tho it`s right on the border, with the DF much more ``interior``). Good signal now but hardly a border blaster any more, and USA is no help allowing lots of low-power CCI. Still claims and listed as 100 kW, but Jerry Kiefer, ex-KBXD, tells me: ``HI Glenn, Mike Van Hooser in Dallas showed me a Mexican government web page where they were listed as 30 kW/Radio Poderosa. Evidently been that way for a few years`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 12, UT: Nothing on low or mid-band, but just: 1098-W at 1317, presumably V7AB Marshall Islands carrier still on 1566-NW at 1320, stronger carrier, presumably HLAZ, FEBC Jeju Island, Korea South (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Note: we are expecting an ice storm the next few days, Jan 13-15, in case you don`t hear from me for a while --- gh] --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 6-12, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page54 [over 190,000 views as of Jan 12, 2017] 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]. 540, Jan 12 at 1320 UT, discussion of drought and floods due to climate change in Saskatchewan, from CBK in well, or XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, frequent canned IDs, mutually nullable without anything from the country in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 680, Jan 12 at 1324 UT, treacherous traffic report about Winnipeg area from CJOB, Chevrolet dealer sponsor. Good for a while rather than St Joe or San Antonio, just after hearing 540 CBK and before hearing 750 CKJH; see separate logs. CJOB is 50/50 kW U4, both day and night patterns going N/NNE, little or nothing to the south, yeah, sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 750, Jan 12 at 1330 UT, nulling KOAL UT, I get another station in English, obviously Canadian referring to km, highway 345(?), provincial news, Battleford, Prince Albert, high temperature minus 26, yourtownnews.ca which in turn is connected to CK750, as CKJH in Melfort, Sask. is branded, linking to http://www.ck750/com and plug a pizza party. One YL seems to be doing all the announcing, news and commercials. Need USB tuning to avoid 740 KRMG splash. CKJH day pattern is ND; night pattern mostly to the north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610, Jan 7 at 0349 UT, South Asian songs dominating at S9+20, no doubt CHHA Toronto during its Punjabi hour UT Tue-Sat, but hardly Latina! Skedgrid in ET, unchanged in 16 months?: http://chha1610am.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PostCard-CHHA-1610AM-2016.jpg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 820, Jan 8 at 2344 UT, as I am trying to hear what else is on here besides WBAP at sunset, burst of wideband RF noise, as my nearest streetlight starts to ignite; almost clear sky in pink cirrus sunset, which was at 2333 UT, already 16 minutes later than earliest a month ago (while our latest sunrise has just passed at 1344 UT) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1328 UT, `America`s Morning News` show going into commercial break, loops NW/SE, ad for attending NASCAR in Vegas, fading and separable from Canadian [q.v.], back in at 1335 UT. I think this must be KOAL Price UT, 10/6.8 kW U2, likely on ND day pattern since at night it`s cardioid nulling east. And KOAL is news/talk with lots of networks, but NRC AM Log does not show it as a TRN affiliate; AMN website does not provide any affiliate list: http://www.talkradionetwork.com/shows/americas-morning-news/ Not daytimer KMMJ NE this early, nor KSEO Durant OK, another daytimer I have never heard from across this state. But soon, WNDZ Indiana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1353 UT, Ukrainian with heavy American accent, mention www.oldtownschool.org which is a folk music school in Chicago, so certainly WNDZ Portage IN. I had already heard Utah and Saskatchewan on 750, much further west. Maybe some CCI in Spanish now, El Paso or Grand Island (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1429 UT, after Howard Kurtz, Fox mention, ``Newstalk 750`` ID and calls sounded like KGNU, but only fit is KBNN Lebanon MO, 5 kW daytimer, after hearing other 750s: KOAL, CKJH, WNDZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Re DXLD 17-01, on 1020, gh hearing KCKN Roswell NM again:] Glenn, Looks like they found a couple used final tubes to get the Continental going again. Rumor has it the transmitter was just out of tune. I'm too far removed to know the exact cause. That being said, there is no way you should be hearing it in Enid unless the pattern is out. Towards your direct we had a super tight null offering 40 watts towards you. The day pattern protected Amarillo 1010 and ERP was about 500 watts
Re: [IRCA] RIP DX Tests (was: Re: Rackley on Synchronous AM Boosters)
--- Begin Message --- Rick, I get your point, but that only matters if you gotta get QSLs. A test without even offering QSLs would allow one to KNOW whether oneself heard the station, sufficient. 73, Glenn Hauser On Sat, 1/7/17, Rick Dau <drummer196...@hotmail.com> wrote: Sorry, DXers of the world, but it's high time that DX tests be done away with Back in the day, some unscrupulous participants in the hobby made it a practice of waiting about 2-3 weeks after tests were conducted, looking through the pages of DX News, DX Monitor, and other print publications, jotting down the details of what OTHERS were hearing, then sending their own faux reports based from those details off to the testing stations. Very often, engineers would happily mail back QSLs to the offenders, totally unaware of what was going on. Fortunately, a select few DID get wise to the shenanigans being perpetrated and then began conducting tests with the caveat that reports had to be mailed within a scant few days (say, within a week or so) after the test, or they would simply not reply to the report. This was, in effect, to curtail the cheating. But with the progress of technology comes a downside. Through reflectors such as these, along with message boards, DX chatrooms (WHEN they work), and other means of instant communication, the cheaters are once again seeing the information that others are posting without making their OWN efforts to hear the stations. DX tests were fun while they lasted, but, IMHO, they need to be put down. 73, Rick Dau South Omaha, Nebraska From: a...@yahoogroups.com <a...@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of wghau...@yahoo.com [ABDX] <a...@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 5:48 PM To: a...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ABDX] Re: Rackley on Synchronous AM Boosters To answer Todd`s question about anyone hearing KKOB Santa Fe, recently in my reports and DXLD: Also, I have repeatedly called for a DX test to be arranged on Santa Fe only, turning off the main Albuquerque transmitter, however briefly (without of course, trying to set it up, myself; maybe I would if I still lived in ABQ) And now there is no CPC chairman. Glenn --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 30, 2016-January 5, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page54 [over 188,000 views as of Jan 5, 2017] 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. 2749-USB, S7 Dec 30 at 0114 UT, YL in French mentioning TUC (UTC), marine weather. Starting at 0107 is VOK, Goose Bay, Labrador, via St. Anthony site at the northern tip of the island. However, the Canadian CG website says VOK operates only in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On two occasions now - this morning (30th) is the second time - I heard two stations operating at the same time on 2749. Tune in today was at about 0810 UT, and at about 0750 UT the first time. They are both more or less equal strength and it's difficult to copy very much of what is being said. One is in French, and the other sounds to be English, and must surely be QRMing each other, unless the skip is different over there. I have some files somewhere and will look them out to see if I can discover why the two are on at the same time. I can also regularly hear 2598 in this same time slot, and it's always in English. Unfortunately there is a Stanag transmission just on the high side of frequency that makes copy difficult. There must be a significant difference in the propagation of these 2 MHz frequencies and propagation on medium waves. Well known Newfoundlanders on such as 590, 600, 750 and 1400 were all inaudible as was Sydney (NS) on 1140. 73 and Best wishes for 2017 --- hopefully with better propagation! (Noel Green, Blackpool, England, Dec 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Per the schedule in DXLD 16-43, 0740 2749 VCO Sydney Port Caledonia NS 46 11 14 -59 53 59 0810 2749 VCS Halifax Sambro NS44 28 21 -63 37 13 Perhaps VCO ran overtime into VCS slot (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = ** OKLAHOMA. UNIDENTIFIED. 1450, Dec 31 at 0251 UT as I tune past, slightly and momentarily atop the pileup mentions KOCO weather, high 48(?). Which means it`s an Oklahoma station not too far from OKC, whence ``channel 5`` (7) supplies the forecasts, so most likely KGFF Shawnee, but also possibly KSIW Woodward, unlikely KWHW Altus (ex-harmonicizer circa 2900v). I look around http://www.kgff.com for a connexion to KOCO without finding any, nor on their active FB. But that`s not unusual for such deals to be uncredited. We are informed in fine print at the bottom that ``KGFF Radio is a broadcast service of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation``, one of the lesser tribes, so does KGFF do any native programming? You`d never know it from their website with hardly any program info except `Mike in the Morning`. There is an unlabeled gallery of fairly old/deceased pop stars. NRC AM Log shows format as OLD from Westwood One. I try to Listen Live around 0500 UT, but from Surfer Network get an Access Denied, streaming unavailable due to content. KGFF is barely audible on 1450 daytime groundwave mixing with KSIW (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Dec 30 at 0150 UT, country gospel songs in English are mixing with Spanish religious talk from Denver, and sports talk in English from Cedar Falls. At 0156 UT I would qualify it as praise gospel rock, certainly implying I am really hearing KFSW Sallisaw, which is much more of a challenge than the other 1650s (except XEARZ). But no ToH ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1010, Jan 2 at 0557 UT, EOE plug for My Hometown Media, then ESPN, fade for ID but presumably KTNZ Amarillo TX, the usual occupant. Searching on My Hometown Media, it`s hard to pin on Amarillo, however. There is such a radio group in Cherokee Village AR, three FMs, but no connexion to AM and there is no 1010 anywhere in Arkansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, Dec 30 at 0138 UT, Spanish religious talk and hymn, steadily audible with semi-local KOKP Perry OK nulled, even tho far from sideways. 0159 UT timecheck for ``9 de la noche en Nueva York
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, December 30, 2016-January 5, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 188,000 views as of Jan 5, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** CUBA [and non]. 530, Dec 31 at 0300, Radio Rebelde IS of some notes from Cuban NA and then some electronic tones; presumably from the Isla de Juventud (ex-Pinos) transmitter, above Enciclopedia but not as dominant as last time, and also mixing with `K530AM` Vance AFB. Strangely, Fox ``news`` // 960 KGWA is cutting in and out, almost sounds like the Vance transmitter is doing it as the PSA loop stops when this happens. However, we have had high winds and some bimetal shorting may be causing anomalies like this and 15280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re Enciclopedia: ``Do they have any informational shows or segments when we don`t hear them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` No. I too recall the old days when Enci -- at least a couple times per hour -- aired brief "history" segments (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, Jan 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Dec 31 at 0304, Spanish atop WSM which is easily nulled. Whenever this happen, I hope it`s something other than XETNT, but soon promoting the Noticiero Altavoz from Radio 65 en Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, December 23-29, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 187,000 views as of Dec 29, 2016] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** CUBA [and non]. 530, Dec 27 at 0320, surprised to hear Spanish talk about béisbol, R. Rebelde // 1180 and a bit of an echo against // 5025. Atop music from presumed R. Enciclopedia, which is normally dominant, listed 10 kW from nearest Villa María, Ciudad de la Habana. WRTH 2017 shows two Rebeldes on 530: unknown power in Caribe, Isla de Juventud, and 1 kW in far Guantánamo. Rebelde is also atop my local Vance AFB TIS with fake call K530AM, announced at irregular intervals, among still running continuous PSA loops, including what to do when a hurricane is approaching. Oklahoma? At same time on E-W antenna, 590 is dominated by music, presumably 25 kW Radio Musical Nacional, La Julia, Mayabeque (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 530, Dec 28 at 0153, soft piano version of ``Yesterday``, so R. Enciclopedia regains dominance, no sign of R. Rebelde on 530 as heard 22.5 hours ago. Original format was presenting bits of spoken knowledge as the name implies, but strangely kept the name with flip to EZL music. Do they have any informational shows or segments when we don`t hear them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 730, Dec 24 at 0151, three canned ``[E]stereo Fiesta, 107.1 FM, 700-30 AM`` IDs by super-hype voice actor within two minutes, as XEHB Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua is now known, outdating WRTH 2017 already on this which still shows ``Ke Buena``; and IRCA Mexican Log 2015 with that plus ``Viva Villa``. Axually, this is hardly news, first reported in August *2015*, NRC IDXD by John Wilkins, CO: ``730 MEXICO XEHB Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. AUG 6 1150 - Orchestral anthem followed by FM-only ID at 1151: "Escucha Estereo Fiesta XEHB-FM Estereo Fiesta..."; also gave address on Ortiz Mena Boulevard and mentioned Grupo Radiorama; back to music after the ID. Good signal and alone on the frequency, probably already on 25 kW day power. New slogan, ex-R. Viva Villa, ex-La Ke Buena. [Wilkins-CO]`` XEHB is totally and typically dominating frequency on caradio, forget XEX or any other NAFTA country, and obviously on 50 kW day power instead of 1 kW night as listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Dec 24 at 0257 explaining what a Villancico is, 0259 ID as ``Radio Fórmula de Monterrey``, i.e. XEACH, 25/1 kW. Dominant on my N/S antenna, while KKOB is on the E/W, see USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 23, UT: At 1323, 702-WSW, 657-WSW, 612-WSW At 1326, 792-WSW At 1328, 1566-NW until cut at 1344:35*, usual time for HLAZ language/beam switch from Japan to China (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 23-29, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page54 [over 187,000 views as of Dec 29, 2016] 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 ** OKLAHOMA. 960, Dec 24 circa 0145 UT, I`m a few blox from the KGWA transmitter site in NW Enid, looking for Xmas lighting displays, so also try to hear the plus/minus 80 kHz spurs on exactly 880 and 1040, which I have detected further at home in daytime --- no trace, vs KRVN and WHO. Will have to try for these and maybe more in full daytime near site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1300/1330/1360 and 1420/1450/1480, Dec 23 circa 1945 UT after dining at Pizza Inn across the street from 1390 KCRC transmitter and studio site in Enid, once the caradio is away from a noisy spot, I go after the perpetual spur field of KCRC. The closest pair, 1360 & 1420, are plenty loud as junior 1390s, here overriding KTJS OK and KPHN KS, which further away in Enid, can be detected as hets against the not-exactly plus/minus 30 kHz spurs from 1390. I`ve also heard much weaker hets on 1330 vs KNSS KS and 1450 KGFF/KSIW OK, and up close they are of course much stronger. Now the supreme catches: plus/minus 90 kHz JBA spurs causing hets on 1300 KAKC OK and 1480 KQAM KS/KBXD TX. But not enough another 30 kHz out to hear anyhets on 1270, 1520. Way to go, Hiram, seven frequencies for the price of one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 770, Dec 24 at 0259 UT, after getting XEACH on the N/S antenna (see MEXICO), on the E/W antenna a full ID as ``Happy holidays from 94.5 FM and AM 770 News Radio, KKOB Albuquerque``, bong and CBS News still exists. Seems to be a slight reverb, implying I am getting not only the main 50 kW transmitter in the North Valley, supposedly protecting WABC, but also the 230-watt night-only fill-in from Santa Fe. Someone recently claimed a log of Santa Fe based on double audio, but I wonder just how much out of synch they were and are? Also, the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log does not show any FM simul for KKOB. Is 94.5 new? Nor does the WTFDA FM Database, with only two 94.5`s in NM: ``KYAT 94.5 GALLUP USA 100.0 100.0 420.0 35-36-22 108-41-26 KYAT FM COUNTRY NAVAJO FM STATION COUNTRY K233CG // KQRI 105.5 94.5 SANDIA NM USA 0.0 0.25 1240.0 35-13-00 106-27-07 AIR ONE CHRISTIAN ROCK`` But 94.5 is now on the KKOB homepage, and of course getting top billing there as well as on the air: http://www.770kkob.com/ So NM`s #1 commercial AM station has recently had to get on FM to let a mere translator wag its dog. Apparently just acquired it from Air One/KQRI. It`s on Sandia CREST, not Sandia the town/res, which does make a big coverage difference even with 250 watts --- if there is no co-channel. Which there is. I always anticipated, while approaching ABQ from the east on I-40, emerging from Tijeras Canyon and picking up the 100-kW Gallup on 94.5 which at that elevation has a line-of-sight, unlike further down in the valley. Maybe still can get it in spots, as even some of the bigsigs atop the Crest are blocked within the canyon. But not a pretty picture. The *real* KKOB-FM was and presumably still is, on 93.3, 20 kW from the Crest, but separately programmed from 770/94.5 with CHR. Turnabout: in Gallup, 93.3 is blocked by a local gospel-huxter translator, K227CB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Dec 24 at 0256 UT, it seems that KHAC AZ is off, as I am hearing only KRVN and some weak Spanish music on USB. Then I realize I am on the N/S antenna, and switching to the E/W antenna, there`s KHAC religioning on USB side only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Dec 27 at 0313 UT, Spanish giving an AC 713 phone (Houston TX), ``Aleluya Bróádcasting Nétwork``. On E-W antenna, no KRVN to speak of, but bigsig from KHAC AZ on 880-USB, none of that on LSB, only this, which has to be KJOZ Conroe TX, 10/1 kW U4, which has undergone a
Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 12/23/16
--- Begin Message --- UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 23, UT: At 1323, 702-WSW, 657-WSW, 612-WSW At 1326, 792-WSW At 1328, 1566-NW until cut at 1344:35*, usual time for HLAZ language/beam switch from Japan to China (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 16-22, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page54 [over 185,000 views as of Dec 22, 2016] 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 ** U S A. 1020, Dec 21 at 0528 UT, Spanish pentecostal gospel huxter overcoming KOKP Perry OK, especially if I null it, typical of what KCKN Roswell NM used to accomplish before it crashed. Making 3.5 Hz SAH = 210/minute. At 0531 UT, KDKA makes it thru with ID and CBS News Update. AM Switch in NRC DX News post-dated Dec 26 reports: ``STAs granted: 1020, KCKN NM Roswell – Granted STA with U4(?) 1000/1000; bad tubes in main transmitter`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1857, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Dec 21 at 0524 UT, S9+40 signal in silly sports talk, overcoming KMOX IBOC circa 1133. Playing ``Spanish Flea`` song in background. Must be KWKH Shreveport LA on 50 kW ND day pattern, much more signal than we normally get at night when it`s supposed to be a wide blob centered on SSW, essentially nothing to the north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1250, Dec 21 at 0519 UT, strange rappish song of syllables, including ``konichiwa`` a couple times, but not sure rest is Japanese; then songs in Spanish and English, but more than one station mixing. 0521 UT fades in strange language again, 0522 UT Spanish announcement re navidad, and English ad for tickets at Little Rock Center, a venue? Or Little Rock Central, referring to the notorious historic high school? So I will tentatively ID this one as KPZK, 2000/1200 watts U4, UC:AC format from Little Rock AR, per NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Dec 20 at 1355 UT, KBXD Dallas, Radio Salam Namaste W chattering in Hinglish, something about banana chips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, Dec 20 at 0513 UT, HPRN Sports report, including a Nazarene girls` team, forecast hi today 56, lo 29 (obviously stale from previous morning hours), fishing license PSA, 0515 UT High Plains Radio Network, AM 1590. Therefore it is KDAV Lubbock TX, 1000/1000 watts U4. Some QRM from S Asian music, KMIC Houston or WCGO Evanston IL? Also a low audible het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == UNIDENTIFIED. 2520, Dec 19 at 1348 UT, S6 carrier with some fading to S5, no modulation audible which ought to be, if any; 1355-1402 UT monitored continuously in case about to sign-on. Likely a second harmonic, and Tim Tromp in West Michigan had just reported yesterday to the harmonics yg: ``WOCO on 2520 (2 x 1260), Strong signal right now on 2520 // to 1260 kHz (also heard here) and confirmed with a clear TOH ID at 1300 UT with local talk and Christmas music``. WOCO of course is close to him in Oconto, Wisconsin, 1000/29 watts U1 plus 500-watt PSRA. WOCO official sunrise is 1315 UT in Dec, 1330 UT in Jan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1857, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican [sic] MW DX to Enid OK, December 9-16-22, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 184,000 views as of Dec 15, 2016] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 1566, Dec 19 at 1339, carrier looping NW on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, and at last I can pull some audio: talk, maybe Korean? and piano music. Could also get the carrier at 1343 but no audio on the R-75 with E-W longwire. At 1345 weaker, no audio audible. It`s FEBC, HLAZ from Jeju (Cheju) Island, 250 kW. WRTH 2016 shows 1345 is the time it transitions from Japanese to Chinese, no doubt also antenna change correlating with signal drop here, altho it`s already just after sunrise. Aoki also shows those times but no azimuth info. A few minutes earlier, I had sought TP carriers on lowband, 774 etc., but none audible. Then checked NK MW/low SW frequencies and found 2850 to be S7 at 1347, 3250 also audible, but nothing unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1857, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566 kHz, Dec 20 at 1339 I`m chasing again FEBC, HLAZ Jeju Island, and there it is looping NW, 1342 music, and I am listening with offset BFO for a carrier break, which happens for a few seconds at 1344:34 as the beam is being changed from Japan to China. Distance from the 250 kW station is 10995 km or 6832 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1857, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 2859.82, Dec 9 at 0019, JBA carrier. Suspected to be R. San Carlos, 2 x 1430v, as tipped by Tim Tromp in MI the night before: ``For those interested in DXing medium wave harmonics, we have one right now on 2859.8 kHz: Spanish language with a *very* tentative ID caught at 2300 UT TOH that sounded like "Radio San Carlos" (Costa Rica), which would be 1430 x 2. Fair and steady carrier but weak modulation that seems to come and go. Still there at 0017. A quick search of Glenn Hauser posts reveals Radio San Carlos has been reported on 2859.8 in past years. 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, Perseus + D-KAZ aimed due South, Dec 7-8, IRCA via DXLD)`` I had several logs of it in 2009-2010y but not since! At that time it was signing off circa 0200. I scan the 2 MHz band almost every night for harmonix, but none heard in a long time now. Where has this been, and why is it back now? WRTH 2016 shows 3 kW on 1430 from Ciudad Quesada, TIRVDC, at 11-03 UT. 2859.82, Dec 10 at 0128, no signal from presumed R. San Carlos second harmonic like last night. 2859.82, Dec 11 at 0132, nothing detectable from R. San Carlos. OK, enough non-logs. I will keep checking and certainly report if a carrier reshow here. Has Tim Tromp or anyone else heard it again since his original tentative log Dec 7 at 2300, and mine Dec 9 at 0019? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1856, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. Re Harmonic alert: Radio San Carlos (Tent) 1430 x 2 --- Just an update on this one, I'm noting a weak carrier on 2859.8 right now at 2253 UT 12/14/2016. Threshold audio at best on peaks, presumed to be from the same station. Best on my South D-KAZ. 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2859.82, Dec 16 at 0016, JBA music, tentative R. San Carlos, 2 x 1430v. It`s less than the noise level of S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search Dec 20, UT: 1098-west at 1336, presumed V7AB Marshall Islands; only other is 1566, see KOREA SOUTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 22, UT: 666-NW at 1333. Altho it loops appropriately for Japan or China, also seems a bit unstable, so may be a birdie. No others in complete bandscan, not even 1566, except: 1098-W at 1336, surely the usual V7AB Marshall Islands, probably a bihour after programming ceased, carrier staying on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a mes
Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 12/19/16
--- Begin Message --- ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 1566, Dec 19 at 1339, carrier looping NW on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, and at last I can pull some audio: talk, maybe Korean? and piano music. Could also get the carrier at 1343 but no audio on the R-75 with E-W longwire. At 1345 weaker, no audio audible. It`s FEBC, HLAZ from Jeju (Cheju) Island, 250 kW. WRTH 2016 shows 1345 is the time it transitions from Japanese to Chinese, no doubt also antenna change correlating with signal drop here, altho it`s already just after sunrise. Aoki also shows those times but no azimuth info. A few minutes earlier, I had sought TP carriers on lowband, 774 etc., but none audible. Then checked NK MW/low SW frequencies and found 2850 to be S7 at 1347, 3250 also audible, but nothing unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, December 9-15, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page54 [over 184,000 views as of Dec 15, 2016] All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 720, Dec 10 at 0157, ``Continuamos en El Fonógrafo 700-20 AM`` non-ID, overcoming WGN, another Chicagoan attenuated by auroral conditions. When this happens I keep hoping to hear something deeper, such as R. Católica in Nicaragua; El Fonógrafo is only XEJCC Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 25 kW daytimer until 0200 per IRCA Mexican Log 2015; 1 kW per WRTH 2016, both as ``Extremo 720``. Let`s hope both catch up with current name in new editions out shortly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, Dec 10 at 0134, Spanish station is over WBBM in auroral conditions, plug for a torneo de pesca (fishing tournament), federal PSAs, non-ID as ``La Poderosa, 103.7 FM, 780-AM``, into music. That all fits for XESFT, San Fernando, Tamaulipas, 5/1 kW. Also mentioned Victoria, i.e. the state capital, Ciudad Victoria; on the NRD-545 with fixed antenna; at 0156 recheck on the rotatable DX-398, separable from WBBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, December 15, UT: 594-NW at 1335 747-NW at 1335 774-NW at 1338 - this one is now tougher due to continuous music splash instead of talk from 780 KSPI Stillwater OK 1098-W at 1340 1566-NW at 1341, strongest of the lot, but still no audio Enid sunrise today: 1336 UT; will reach latest circa January 6 at 1343 (meanwhile, earliest sunset already passed a week ago at 2316 UT, creeping later now) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 9-15, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page53 [over 182,000 views as of Dec 8, 2016] 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, Dec 9 at 0021 UT, YL voice in English with marine weather, S9 peaks, but noise level is S8. CCG schedule shows starting at 0007 UT is VCP Placentia, via St John`s transmitter site. Nothing now on 2749-USB from NS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** OKLAHOMA. 4600, Dec 15 at 1357 UT, weak but clearly audible signal matching 1390 KCRC Enid sportstalk, again making appearances. Not a plain old harmonic, and previously logged early this year: ``4600, Jan 28 at 1352 UT, JBA talk, which on a hunch I match to local KCRC 1390, ESPN, so it`s some kind of local mix, not a harmonic`` Had I researched my archive further then, I would have found this strange computation from 2014y: ``4600, May 18 at 0112, JBA modulation from local Enid mix // 1390 KCRC ESPN audio. But our other strong signal, 960 KGWA has to be involved. Formula: 4 x 1390 = 5560, minus 960 = 4600`` No longer with ESPN. But there is no sign of audio on 4600 from KGWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. KCKN had another transmitter malfunction and has been off for about a month I'm told. No other info other than they are "working on it" Take care (Jerry Kiefer, Orlando, Dec 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1856, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That is 50 kW 1020 in Roswell NM, where Jerry used to work. Now that he mentions it, has not been noticed lately, QRMing nearby KOKP 1020 Perry OK, but might have just finally fixed their null toward KDKA. KCKN was a 100%(?) relay of WWRV 1330 NYC, Radiovisión Cristiana, complete with local timechex and ads (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1856, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1050, UT Sun Dec 11 at 0142 UT, talk about University of Minnesota Gopher football, hockey, Perkins ad, over XEG, certainly unusual. Confirmed only 1050 Gopher FB affiliate is KLAH Pipestone MN: http://sportsaffiliates.learfieldsports.com/affiliates/minnesota1 which is a diversion from its normal format of ``Blazin` Country``. It`s licensed for 9380/432 watts U4, so obviously on day power and pattern with two major lobes NNE/SW, rather than minor nights to NW/SE. Pipestone is in the SW corner of MN. Above affil list linx to day and night radio-locator coverage maps of each station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 2-8, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page53 [over 182,000 views as of Dec 8, 2016] 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 ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Dec 8 at 0546 UT, KGYN Guymon with C tune, tear-in-beer, NOT Xmasmx, despite appearing on a list of stations going all-Xmas, originating in NRC DX News and quoted by Steve Whitt, UK in the MWCircle yg. Of course, *some* Xmasmx could be playing but not all-out. And also KGYN is obviously still violating its requirement to protect Philadelphia at night. Recheck at 1321 UT, ``Today`s Country 1210 KGYN`` ID, after 9-degree-F temp check [official low was 2; now 20 in Enid] (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Dec 3 at 1320 UT, KXTD with non-ID for ``Que Buena, 104.9 y 100.3`` but not 1530. 104.9 is the translator in Tulsa, while 100.3 is KCXR in Taft OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 640, Dec 2 at 1337 UT, KWPN Moore OK sportstalk is absent, but I am getting a good E/W signal with talk about a green spot in the Libyan desert, turns out to be gospel huxter. Could it be KFI? Program sked at http://kfiam640.iheart.com/onair/ shows `Coast to Coast AM` starting at 10 pm PT [0600 UT] on Thursday, and nothing else until 6 am Friday [1400 UT]. More like WCRV Collierville (Memphis) TN per REL format, 50 kW daypower starting at 1300 UT in Dec, (night power only 480 watts) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, Dec 2 at 1340 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS in local news, YL mentions ``98.9 Double Q FM``. That would be sibling station KQQF, obviously a qutely kindred call, but is it now duplicative? WTFDA FM Database does not show // 690 and names it ``Star 98.9`` with HOT AC format. And it`s the only FM station in Coffeyville proper, not even a translator of KGGF or anything (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Dec 2 at 1341 UT, Ukrainian talk from NE, 1342 UT sounds like an ID, which would be WNDZ Portage IN (Chicago market and address), 15 kW daytimer, direxional pattern tangent westward, plenty toward here. Ukrainian really stix out on the domestic AM dial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780-CUSB, Dec 4 at 0143 UT, cowboy music obviously from KCEG, ``The Ranch``, Fountain CO, NO signal on LSB, but on USB mixing with WBBM which is DSB. So I can listen to WBBM QRM-free but not KCEG, even with WBBM nulled as much as possible. 0150 UT, program is `Calling All Cowboys`. Then ad for Royal Gorge Cabaret, Rosenkranz Mysteries, but AC 312 phone and then mention Highland Park. Oops, this part is WBBM, not KCEG, for there is no Royal Gorge Cabaret near Colorado Springs, but there is a Royal GEORGE Theatre in Chicago --- with Rosenkranz! 0159 UT definitely back to KCEG for outro to `Calling All Cowboys`, which says it originates with 88.9 KPOV, High Desert Community Radio in Bend OR, then ID mentioning Colorado Springs. KCEG is 1900/720 watts U4 and not specified as USB only in the NRC AM Log, an essential datum in my opinion, like it also is for KHAC, 880-CUSB, AZ. CUSB meaning carrier plus USB; as far as I can tell it is not reduced, as typically done on SW, WBCQ 9330. KCEG day pattern goes north, smaller night pattern SSE, neither should be much good for here but it`s a significant challenge to WBBM when KSPI is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1160, Dec 8 at 1317 UT, KSL, SLC UT with ABC News headlines, ID, traffic report. I always associated KSL with CBS, but CBS Radio (news) network seems about to self-destruct. NRC AM Log shows nets as both CBS and ABC in that order, plus others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican [sic] MW DX to Enid OK, December 2-8, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page53 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire UNIDENTIFIED. 711.0, Dec 4 at 0147, carrier/het first noticed against KCMO/KYBA, likely the 300 kW Moroccan in El Aiyun, -[spelt by WRTH Laâyoune], occupied WESTERN SAHARA, the closest, strongest and most oft-reported 711 TA from further east. Loops about ENE, and the true bearing of El Aaiún from Enid is exactly 70 degrees. Made sure het was not on low side from sometimes off-frequency Mexican. Nothing on 783 from neighbor Mauritania (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 2, UT, all looping NW, not WSW, except for 1098 from west: 747 at 1314, 1325, *1329 774 at 1314, *1329 828 at 1326 972 at 1319, 1327 1053 at 1320, 1327 1098 at 1320, 1328 [Mauno Ritola hears from V7AB Marshall Islands that they are currently on 13 kW, to be restored to 25] 1197 at 1321 1566 at 1323 All on the DX-398 with internal ferrite antenna only, except *R75 with E-W longwire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Dec 3 UT, all from NW pointing to Japan or Korea, except 1098-W from Marshall Islands: 594 at 1313 693 at 1312 747 at 1311 774 at 1311 828 at 1315 1053 at 1316 1098 at 1316 1566 at 1320 Local sunrise today: 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search Dec 4, UT: 612-WSW at 1302 657-WSW at 1303 702-WSW at 1304, 2 signals beating 693-NW at 1301 738-SW at 1304 747-NW at 1300 774-NW at 1259 828-NW at 1305 1098-W at 1307 NW implies Japan; WSW, Australia/NZ; W, Marshall Islands; SW, Tahiti. Enid sunrise today: 1328 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Dec 7, UT: At 1300, 774-NW, 747-NW, 612-WSW At 1302, 702-WSW (2 carriers beating, as often the case: one is likely 2BL ABC Sydney; second most likely is 10 kW Magic in Auckland) At 1303, 792-WSW, 828-NW At 1306, 1098-W At 1308, 1566-NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Dec 8, UT: At 1243 and 1313, nothing on 774 or 702, so no further lowband chex. At 1324, 1566-NW is JJBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 25-December 1, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page53 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 660, Nov 25 at 0127, mis-timecheck, ``7 con 26; es La Kaliente``, music, dominant from south. It`s 50/10 kW XEEY, Aguascalientes2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 730, Nov 27 at 0152, YL DJ giving two phone numbers for requests/dedications, each only once and too fast for me to copy. (I thought I had a decent digit span.) She mentions Ciudad Jiménez, so I`m sure it`s the usual dominatrix, XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, certainly not desportive XEX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 760, Nov 27 at 0148, conversation in Spanish, mentions pelota, so about sports, way over WJR and looping approx. ENE/WSW. Then WJR fades back in but still a hefty collision. Don`t see how it could be any US station, but one of four in NW Mexico: XEDGO Durango2, XENY Nogales, XEEB Ciudad Obregón, or closest XEES Chihuahua2. IRCA has no format for the latter, a.k.a. Antena 7-60, but the others are musical, two of them romántica. 730 Chihuahua is inbooming even more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BONAIRE. 800, Nov 25 at 0124, Spanish Christian sermon vs KQCV English evangelism, OKC nulled as much as possible but still making hefty SAH of 156/minute or 2.6 cycles/second. Runs a bit past 0130 with address in Habana, 0131 ID as ``800`` altho I was hoping to hear a clear ``Radio Transmundial``, into Luís Palau, which as I`ve previously researched is on the TWR sked at this time. Then there`s some CCI from another Spanish, perhaps XEROK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This item from Mission Network News Dec 1 (via Artie Bigley), says TWR is still running only 100 kW: ``[Steve] Shantz explains, "We have a project underway right now which we’re about 80 percent complete on, and that is to raise our power from 100,000 watts to 450,000 watts and also put in a more efficient antenna system that can really beam and focus the energy onto the island of Cuba. So we hope that very shortly we’ll be able to go on the air with a brand new transmitter at 450,000 watts and be able to really put a powerful signal into Cuba so on a daily basis"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 810, Nov 26 at 0202 tune-by, ``Radio Rey, Reynosa, Tamaulipas,`` ID in passing in the mix as I happen to be aiming N/S. That`s XERI, 1000/100 watts per IRCA, not bad! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 25-Decembere 1, 2016
--- Begin Message ---
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
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/page54
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. 680, November 26 at 0205 UT, quick weather break with temps plus and
minus 3, i.e. Celsius, i.e. Canada, i.e. CJOB Winnipeg. 50/50 kW U4 night
pattern supposedly goes only NNE (and day pattern only has a little tail to the
south). Before and after this I was getting 50/46 kW U1 CBW much stronger, q.v.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 990, November 26 at 0153 UT, CBW Manitoba with `As It Happens` I
really should listen to more, kicker story about an ad in Britain being banned
because it called for messing with bean cans whose sharp edges might cut kids.
(Meanwhile I hear co-city station CJOB 680, q.v.). After the news, at 0210-0216
UT, `The Current Review` has a very interesting interview with a linguist who
was advisor to an Amy Adams movie about aliens, deciphering their language.
That would be ``Arrival`` I`ve yet to view (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, November 26 at 0054, S6 robot YL with marine weather
in English, mentions Newfoundland Standard Time. It`s MCTS Placentia, VCP via
St Lawrence, Nfld. site starting at 0048 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
===
** OKLAHOMA. UNIDENTIFIED. 1040, November 25 at 2007 UT, `Dave Ramsey Show` is
opening --- the only thing unusual in a MW bandscan on caradio from a quiet
location in central Enid, seeking early low-noon skywave. I tuned in too late
for any local ad or ID, but figure it`s WHO Des Moines. However: Rush is on
their sked at this time. There are only two other possibilities in this part of
the country: KGGR Dallas, which is religious, and KCBR Monument (Colorado
Springs) which is hip-hop (if active, and not to be confused with VOA Delano).
`Dave Ramsey Show` website agrees it is on other stations in those markets, so
what in the world did I get? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 1040, Nov 26 at 1958 UT, I`m tuned in on the caradio a bit
earlier than yesterday to catch an ID from the mystery station which was
carrying Dave Ramsey from 2007 UT on Friday. There it is, weak but steady. This
time the Clark Howard show is upwrapping, TD America ad (how many
Unitedstatesians know that TD stands for Toronto Dominion?) And now at 10
seconds before 2000 UT, ID time! Which is dead air! Gr. Then Fox News
Radio, 2002 UT USFS Wildfire PSA from Ad Council, 2003 UT more ``news``, 2005
UT ``News talk 960, KGWA`` --- so 1040 is a +80 kHz spur from one of my locals,
not WHO nor KGGR nor KCBR. And it makes a SAH of ~6 Hz with one of them. What
are the chances of a spur being that close to ``on`` frequency? Did KGWA
fine-tune it?
I`ve never noticed this before {nor is it audible at night, overwhelmed by
WHO}. Now, is KGWA 1040 produced by my Nissan caradio, or really there to be
heard on other receivers? I`m not hearing it at further part of Enid, but maybe
it`s just a worse signal/noise level. At 2126 UT I try it on the NRD-545 ---
yes, it`s audible and // 960. Spurs usually come in matching pairs, so how
about 880? Even here, KRVN Nebraska reaches us adequately on daytime
groundwave, but with the PL-880 on 960 and the NRD-545 on 880, I can make a //
to an 880 undersignal. I had previously suspected anything daytime under KRVN
would be a remnant of KJOZ in SE TX, if not further skywave.
So all three of our Enid AM stations, besides producing weak harmonics and
low-SW mixing products with each other, are also spur producers:
1390, KCRC as previously reported, constantly puts almost matching modulated
hets on 1420 and 1360, plus and minus 30 (but not exactly) kHz, and weaker
second order ones at different pitches, near 1330 and 1450 = plus and minus ~60.
1640, KZLS, puts at least one spur on about 595 kHz, object of a transmitter
search which took me out into the wilds of Garfield county a few weeks ago
(Glenn
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 18-24, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page53 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. 540, Nov 21 at 1303 UT, CBC news, as CBK Watrous is in, not too commonly, so where is La Ranchera de Paquimé? Canadian angle obvious, but checked 990 for // stronger CBW Manitoba, yes. 1313 UT recheck, now CBK is local, YL with Saskatchewan weather, -3 now in Regina and Saskatoon. I used to put non-ITU callsigns like ``CBK`` and ``CBW`` in quotation marks since CB- calls really pertain to Chile (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Nov 20 at 0245 UT, robot YL with weather in English, S8. Starting at 0240 UT was VCS Halifax via Sambro NS site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB & 2598-USB, Nov 24 at 0442 UT & 0443 UT, robot YL with marine weather in French, both S5 equal to noise level. Too weak to tell if they are //, but CCG schedule shows both are VCF, Les Escoumins QC, starting at 0437 UT, via different sites Natashquan on 2598 and La Vernière on 2749. No more transmissions on either frequency, from other stations, until 0737 UT. The skeds were compiled before DST was over, so are we sure they stay on same UT yearound? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. Re ``870 UNID -- 10/30 1850 [EDT] – Country gospel music, ID as "Top Ten Radio" (I think), with WWL nulled, but losing out to it by 1852. Prime suspect looks like KPRM-MN, or maybe KAAN-MO? (GH-OK)`` In NRC DX News, David Yocis says: ``WPWT-TN, "Top Gun Radio," a sunset regular here``. That`s a 10 kW daytimer in Colonial Heights, near its address in Bristol, a long way from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, Nov 18 at 0138 UT, ``Univisión América, 1,200 AM, una estación Euforia``, atop WOAI even on E/W antenna, fast SAH, as WRTO Chicago is still competing for this ``clear`` channel by illegal daytime operation at night. Euforia appears to be a subset of UA stations with various musical genres sorted into further subsets at http://www.univision.com/musica/radio#/tab-city BUT the ``3`` stations under CHICAGO do not include 1200! Just FM 93.5 & 103.1, 105.1, 106.7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, Nov 22 at 0204 UT, Spanish music from WRTO Chicago at about equal level to silly BKB game in English from WOAI, i.e. situation has become the norm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1380, Nov 18 at 0141 UT, ``Vida 13-80`` promo as I tune in, dominating frequency, strongly implying that KRCM Shenandoah TX is still running 22 kW day power instead of 50 watt night power, so should still have a European service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Nov 21 at 1318 UT, R. Salam Namaste ID in passing from KBXD Dallas, W & M chattering in Hinglish, i.e. Hindi, with English expressions liberally sprinkled in effortlessly, talking about Bollywood; such as, she says, ``I like belly dancing``. Dominant now with little KQAM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, Nov 19 at 1956 UT on caradio, Spanish ad for Estrella TV Canal 29, which I already matched with KZMP University Park TX. Altho I had IDed this thru my own monitoring research, Wayne Heinen of the NRC AM Log forwards further confirmation of the format flips: ``Glenn, I thought that I had sent this snippet from Radio Insight earlier in the week but found the email stuck in a constipated Outlook outbox: After Deportes Media lost its LMA of Liberman Broadcasting’s 1540 KZMP University Park/Dallas in September, Liberman did bring the network back to the market in mid-October and like iHeart in San Francisco is now operating the network directly. Original Report 11/10: Deportes Media has lost its LMAs of three of the four. Wayne`` Now I`m hearing KZMP less than a sesquihour after local mean noon (always 1832 UT), so a neat reminder that the daytime s
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 18-24, 2016
--- Begin Message ---
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/page53
All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire
** MEXICO. 540, Nov 24 at 0513, Mexican PSA, ``¡La Ranchera de Paquimé!``
canned ID from XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Slogan IDs run every few
minutes, great for DXing. So conditions back to ``normal``, this 700-watter(?)
dominating instead of CBK. Even with XETX nulled, I`m hearing Top 40ish music,
presumably XEWA SLP (which must be distinguished from the other XEWA on 540 in
Monterrey with different format) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, Nov 22 at 0316, Spanish music over WSM without even nulling it;
0318 Radio 65 singing ID, i.e. XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 800, Nov 21 at 1306, ad mentions El Paso, Zaragoza, so XEROK is in,
but touchy to get it past KQCV OKC, nulled as much as possible. Almost
sufficient at sunrise, but no borderblaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1020, Nov 22 at 0308, ``RR`` once a minute underneath KOKP Perry OK
semi-local sports talk. The RRs fire about a sesquisecond after true minutetops
of WWV. Also a het from about 1019.9, but can`t tell if that`s Radio Reloj or
elsewhence. WRTH 2016 shows no Cuban clox on 1020, but three other stations,
and this isn`t even an overnight filler switch.
Terry Krueger`s Cubalist as of Aug 29, 2016, does not show a current Reloj on
1020, but in 2003-2006, Reloj audio was used as a jammer (against Turks &
Caicos?) from Jorobo, Las Tunas. The current Radio Artemisa here might explain
it, as Greg Hardison recently heard Reloj overnight on another Artemisa
frequency, 770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Terry L Krueger replies to my log of ``RR`` Reloj sounder on 1020: ``I
hear 1020 Reloj regularly overnight. Believe I've heard Artemisa here overnight
as well so inconclusive as to source. Daytime -- such as right now at 1530 GMT
-- Artemisa strong on 1020, parallel 770. Never a Reloj daytime here but if
it's a dedicated Reloj on the eastern half of the island, I'd not hear it from
this location. Had the Artemisa overnight Reloj relay around 0840 GMT today on
770. Artemisa at 1126 GMT recheck`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
More from Terry:
1020: Getting Radio Artemisa at GMT 1104+ today, parallel 770, with Reloj in
the mix, also WURN, Kendall FL ("Actualidad Radio" news format in Spanish). So,
confirms not Artemisa.
Radio Guamá and CMKS also still listed at 1020 per RadioCuba; can't recall my
last reception of either here though. Still suspect Reloj is a dedicated
transmitter on 1020 from central or eastern Cuba.
Archival logs found are below. Interestingly, no trace of Reloj 1020 during
extensive Cuba monitoring from various points in the Florida Keys, 2012:
1020 CUBA Radio Reloj, Jobabo, Las Tunas. 1010 May 27, 2015. This one -- which
has been here for a long time -- is certainly dedicated solely to Reloj audio
feed and not an overnight feed, as audible well after 6:00 a.m. local time, and
certainly from the eastern half of Cuba, as not audible after 1030 GMT from
this location. This site was listed in the 2008 WRTVH.
1020 CUBA Radio Reloj, Jobabo, Las Tunas. 1135 December 12, 2010. Mostly poor
under Radio Guamá, sounders never can catch up with reality: 4 seconds off, 7
for the "RR" sounder. This one is not in your WRTVH-2010, though it was listed
a couple of years back I believe.
1020 CUBA Radio Reloj, Jobabo, Las Tunas. 1116 July 8, 2012. Weak and about the
last traces post-sunrise with Radio Artemisa dominating daytime.
(Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, 1120 UT Nov 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1190, Nov 23 at 0112, Spanish M Catholic talk dominant from N/S,
not // WEWN 5810, about trip to Ciudad de México, 0117 pause for corte
comercial, Mexican promos, on ``Contacto 11-90 de AM``, i.e. XECT, 1/100
watts, Monterrey NL, way after sundown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1190.12 approx., het to 1190 stations at 0305 UT November 22,
soon fades; ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. 1650, November 11 at 0138 UT, I am finally
hearing the ND beacon ``SAC``, barely against Spanish from Denver and
other
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 11-17, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page53 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire UNIDENTIFIED. 774, Nov 17 at 1308-1311 UT, JBA TP carrier from NW, so surely NHK. No others detected on likely frequencies. Sunrise here today: 1311; will attain another semihour later by latest in early January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, Nov 12 at 0114 tune-in just as they ID ``Grupo Fórmula Juárez, 10-30 AM, abriendo la conversación``. XEYC, allegedly 1/1 kW yet dominant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, UT Nov 14, prompted by Ben Dangerfield in Wallingford PA who reported, ``Best TA night of this season with 42 signals so far. Lots of Spain, the best being 585, 684 729, 774 and 855 but more in the 1100s. I've had a busy day so quitting at 2130 EST`` Scanning the entire MW band from bottom to top in offset 9 kHz steps on the DX-398, I get these carriers looping generally NE, or more like 50 degrees: At 0321, 585 and 774 At 0324, 1044 At 0325, 1053+ --- definitely off to the plus-side compared to 1044, must be the widely reported Tripoli, Libya which Mark Connelly in MA put 22 Hz high on October 14, altho it sounds like more than that now. But in July, Wolfgang Büschel mentioned not hearing it on 1053.016 Then I try the NRD-545 and ALA-330S, without a complete bandscan: At 0328, 1044, but not 1053 At 0329, 774 At 0407, 774 and 1044 At 0410, 783 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 11-17, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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 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/page52 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. 2598-USB, Nov 13 at 0210, YL with weather in English, seems some noise in background, and fades. Canadian CG sked shows this is: 0207, 2598, VOJ, Port Aux Basques, from Stephenville NL site. 2748.98-USB, Nov 13 at 0208, YL in French, mentions geo coordinates in apparent notices to mariners about obstruxions, etc. Altho it started almost a semi-hour ago, this one is listed as: 0140, 2749, VCS, Halifax, from Cheboque NS site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, Nov 13 at 0250 UT, WOAI, San Antonio, the original ``Clear Channel`` station, is attempting to broadcast a BKB game in English, but heavy QRM in Spanish with a SAH of ~6 Hz from another game involving a pelota. Hard to null either as they are roughly opposite, surely WRTO Chicago, which normally does not QRM WOAI here at night. Sometimes WRTO even overrides WOAI; obviously on 20 kW day power and pattern with null toward SE but broadly plenty to the SW --- instead of 4 kW night beamed northward only! At first I thought it might be something else, even Cuban, but not // 1180 and later mentions of Chicago and canasta, so also BKB. Listed as Univisión América affiliate, but that does not preclude local SBGs. 1200, Nov 17 at 0527 UT, ``AM 1200, Univisión América`` ID mixing with WOAI, so WRTO Chicago is still running day facility at night. Tsk2, no clear channel for San Antonio any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1540, re the ESPN Deportes station I heard, KZMP University Park TX has supposedly flipped to ranchera. Trying again Nov 11 at 0145 UT, there`s a discussion in Spanish, maybe religious, 0149 UT some Tex-Mex music which may or may not be same station, but now likely KEDA San Antonio. Parked here, I happen to notice that there is no longer a het from the third 1540 Texan, KGBC Galveston, which for months was audibly off frequency on the high side. Wayne Heinen, Aurora Colorado, of NRC AM Log replies: ```Glenn, Can’t find anything on ESPN Deportes on 1540 but the fact that KZMP has dropped it is reiterated here, from Radio Insight: ``Deportes Media has lost its LMAs of three of the four stations it operates with ESPN Deportes Radio programming. The company lost its LMA of Liberman Broadcasting’s 1540 KZMP University Park/Dallas in September and that station flipped to a simulcast of "La Ranchera 106.7" KZZA. Deportes Media had moved its San Francisco LMA from 860 KTRB to iHeartMedia’s 910 KKSF in July, but the format there is now being operated by iHeart directly. In Miami, Actualidad Radio’s 990 WMYM Miami has replaced Deportes Media’s LMA of Multicultural Broadcasting’s 1210 WNMA Miami Springs FL as the local affiliate. Deportes Media continues to operate Entravision’s 1180 KGOL Humble/Houston TX. The websites for the other three stationssimply state the stations are off the air and a Dallas phone number for their accounting department. Deportes Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2015 and agreed to merge with CornerWorld Corporation in March. The merger had to close by September 30, 2016 or would automatically terminate. No filing or proof of closing can be found`` Also I logged KZMP with that programing and slogan 11/7 in overnight taping. 73, Wayne, N0POH, DM79op``` 1540, Nov 12 at 1342 UT, again a long string of ESPN Deportes promos, but nothing local, fading by 1350 UT. DFing it, possibly a bit CCW from KZMP The Metroplex, but maybe skewed by need to avoid local noise source. I notified Wayne Heinen of NRC AM Log: ``It seems to me there may be 3 possibilities: KZMP is still running ESPND at least part-time. Bearing may be slightly CCW from The Metroplex: The Gretna LA station is already listed as Spanish (Tropical) so that may be a start. There aren`t any 1540s to the N/NNW, except Mc
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 6-10, 2016
--- Begin Message --- Note: this is my first report in the Standard Time season, so conversion instruxions have changed: 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 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/page52 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 ** OKLAHOMA. UT Monday Nov 7 at 0145:15 UT, my computer and video screens in front of me start shaking for a few seconds; earthquake! Soon revealed as centred slightly west of Cushing, USGS rating 5.0 at 0144:24 UT; so it took almost a minute to reach here? Some reports near the epicenter said it lasted up to a sesquiminute, and there was a lot of damage especially to old buildings in Cushing. OKC TV stations rushed in to cover it; KWTV and KFOR were both running late, due to stupid ballgame overruns on their networks, their full newscasts not starting until 0450 UT and 0500 UT respectively. This allowed KOCO and KOKH to get the jump on them from 0400 UT, even 0300 UT, respectively. As usual, too little too late, the oil-controlled Republican Okie government may ban a few more fracking/injexion wells around areas already devastated by quakes. 1600, Nov 7 at 1317 UT I start listening to Cushing`s only radio station, KUSH (not even an FM translator there, per WTFDA DB), during the usual W morning chat show, where of course this is the topic of the day; but skywave QRM from Vietnamese KRVA The Metroplex is still heavy making a slow SAH of 28/minute = 0.47 Hz. Anyhow, KUSH survived the shakeup. Here`s KUSH website for its own latest news, streaming: http://1600kush.com/wp/ It`s OK here on groundwave after skywave fades out (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1600, Nov 7 circa 2000 UT on caradio, KUSH Cushing with network news and talk shows, nothing local about the quake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) === ** U S A. 860, Nov 7 at 1325 UT, KKOW Pittsburg KS concluding ``Full Moon Polka`` part of daily Polka Time segment combined with birthday wishes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, Nov 7 at 1315 UT, ESPN-Deportes promos, i.e. KZMP University Park (Metroplex) TX, 32 kW day power since 1300 UT (December: 1330 UT) but losing out to KXEL. Altho in Spanish, the abbr. ESPN is always pronounced in English to avoid sexual embarrassment. They`re stuck with the brand, altho its original meaning has long been surpassed in both languages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) However: 1540, KZMP, University Park, TX was Spanish sports, now Mexican, slogan "La Ranchera 106.7" IRCA DX Monitor (via Nov NZ DX Times via DXLD) UNdated info, so is that correct? If so, what was the ESPN-D station I was hearing on 1540? No others are listed in the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log as of August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1220, Nov 8 at 0121 UT, unusual to hear Spanish here, looping E-W, or slightly clockwise from that. Spirited dialog in colloquial Spanish I can hardly comprehend, but one guy is very excited and yelling as if covering a game, mentions ``canasta``, so maybe it`s basketball. Bearing rules out Mexico, but does refer to ``República Mexicana`` so maybe originating there. By nulling this I can also hear a real Mexican on 1220, XEB from the south, since it`s a second ahead of // fellow IMER outlet 1570 XERF. UnID has been dominant for a while, but losing out to CCI by 0130 UT. Now searching for US SS stations on 1220 in NRC AM Log 2016-2017: Unless there has been a recent format flip from something else, WAYE Birmingham AL, 1000/73 U1 looks like best bet, ``La Jefa``. There are others in CA, FL, IL, NC (2), all of which are too far, off-azimuth, or wrong format such as religious. At least perpetual cheater WSLM in Indiana is not being heard now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: Little 250w KTMZ in Pomona does indeed have a HispaniSports format (ESPN Deportes), but I would never bet on it being them, as their signal rarely even makes it to
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 4-6, 2016
--- Begin Message --- NOTE: this is my final report during the Daylight Shifting Time season. In order to reduce (?) confusion, a separate post will cover the week`s further logs in Standard Time season. All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page52 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 ** U S A. 810, Nov 6 at 0110 UT, robotic weather voice catches my ear, with conditions for Memphis, Union City, Dyersburg, and mid-South synopsis before cutting back to music. Has to be the only 810 station in the western end of TN, 250-watt daytimer WCTA, Alamo, which is between Dyersburg and Jackson: 2 hours and 25 minutes past official FCC sunset for Nov & Dec, earliest of the year, at 2245 UT; direxional emphasizing the southwest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 4-10, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page52 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 730, Nov 6 at 0108, heavy promotion for Grupo Radiorama, Estéreo Viva, 107.1, `Qué Buena Mañana` show, i.e. XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. I caution against assuming a Mexican on 730 is XEX, as XEHB really gets out, better to here as a rule, in fact (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re my carrier on 1521, Saudi or East Turkistan? Bruce Conti, NRC Nov 4 IDXD Editor reminds: ``1540, ZNS1 Bahamas transmits spurs at 1521 and 1559 kHz`` So need to be careful with the DFing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] [dxld] Sao Tome 1530 tower collapsed
--- Begin Message --- São Tomé - Since the start of the new season, I have been checking the audibility of the remaining English broadcasts of the Voice of America. Many are also audible in Europe and do provide for some interesting listening (US presidential race, intercultural experiences in South Korea). Checking the medium wave Pinheira 1530 kHz today, I did find it at 0300 h UTC in English. Reception deteriorated quickly against European co-channel stations. (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, 5 November 2016, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Fri, 11/4/16, Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com [dxld] <d...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ** SAO TOME. The northeast tower of the 600 kW São Tomé 1530 IBB/BBG medium wave relay has collapsed. The station is now operating non-direxionally on the remaining tower. The pattern was a wide-spaced two-tower array, with two major lobes, one more or less northerly, the other northeastward. So it is not clear whether this would diminish or increase its signal toward North America, where it has occasionally been DXed, around sign-on *0258 UT (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Sao Tome 1530 tower collapsed
--- Begin Message --- ** SAO TOME. The northeast tower of the 600 kW São Tomé 1530 IBB/BBG medium wave relay has collapsed. The station is now operating non-direxionally on the remaining tower. The pattern was a wide-spaced two-tower array, with two major lobes, one more or less northerly, the other northeastward. So it is not clear whether this would diminish or increase its signal toward North America, where it has occasionally been DXed, around sign-on *0258 UT (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 28-November 3, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page52 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 590, Nov 3 at 1159, tropical music from SSW thru hourtop; 1203 mentions ``informativo policíaco`` apparent program title about all the crime down there, but plays more music. 1206 finally live announcer about Reynosa, 23 grados, presumably the expected high today; 1207 timecheck for 7:07 ``en la ciudad de Reynosa`` where they have to stay on US DST for another week, unlike deeper Mexico. So it`s XEFD, Tamaulipas, 5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 610+, Nov 2 at 1231 UT, het upon KCSP 610, loops SW/NE; less than 1 kHz off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 650, Oct 28 at 1245, adstring in Spanish, finally 1247 Grupo Chávez plug, which means XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 6:47 timecheck [last day of MDT for them], and then ``Altavoz Informa`` which is their morning news block; vs. KGAB Cheyenne WY on day power, mutually nullable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Nov 2 at 1229, XETNT Los Mochis says ``Buenos Días, Yarderos`` and 1230 plays choral NA, odd time, but signals the re-start of their broadcast day. 1231 rooster crows, YL says ``Amanecer Sinaloense``, then Sinaloa state song, which names its major cities but also refers to neighboring states. Dominant signal with no KGAB WY yet. 1235 jingles from Grupo Chávez, music, no formal sign-on. 1237 starts `Buenos Días, Yarderos` show (Llarderos?); 1245 ads for an óptica, a carnecería, and a centro cebollero (selling nothing but onions?). 1250 KGAB starting to show weakly. 1252, timecheck from XETNT as 9 para las 6, confirming that Sinaloa is already back on MST = UT -7 instead of MDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 870, Nov 2 at 1239, no XETAR yet; still not at 1300, instead WWL 105.3 ID, but a SAH from something. 1308, now XETAR is in with usual native-language openings, ``cuatro pueblos unidos en una sola voz``. So this daytimer is on MST signing on a real hour later than before to keep it at 6 am local, unfortunately losing an hour of sunrise skywave propagation, but we still have another two months of latening sunrises, gaining half a sesquihour by early January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search October 28, UT: 702-WSW at 1233, two carriers beating 774-WSW at 1233 1098-W at 1238 576-, at 1235, 1241, somewhat NW but hard to peak, and it`s a bit off-frequency to lo side, so suspect this is really something local. However, not hearing it later during full daytime. (I am still hearing the 594+ spur of 1640-KZLS.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search starts a bit late today Oct 31 as I wake up just before local sunrise at 1254 UT: 702-WSW at 1251 612-WSW at 1252 657-WSW at 1253 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Nov 2, UT: At 1214, 702-WSW, 612-WSW, 738-SW At 1227, 792-WSW, 882-WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Nov 3, UT: At 1219, 612-WSW At 1221, 702-WSW, 738-SW, 756-WSW At 1222, 792-WSW At 1223, 828-WSW At 1225, 774-WSW (which I couldn`t hear earlier, always sought first) Sunrise here today 1257 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, October 28-November 3, 2016
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page52 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. 2598-USB, Oct 29 at 0054 UT, robot YL with weather in English, S6; 2749-USB, Oct 29 at 0055 UT, robot YL with weather in French, S5. Still in well on MF despite depressed northerly MUF on HF. Rich Ray`s compilation for the DXLD yg from Canadian Coast Guard shows these are, with start times: 0040 UT 2749 VCO Sydney via Port Caledonia NS 46 11 14 -59 53 59 0048 UT 2598 VCP Placentia via St Lawrence NL 46 55 06 -55 22 45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Oct 31 at 0305 UT, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC with double audio, an ad for something and an Ad Council PSA at equal levels. 0306 UT both stop at same instant, for single audio on ``Free Talk Live, Hour 3``, host not apologizing for the error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = ** U S A. 830, Nov 2 at 1306 UT, classic rock looping slightly clockwise from E/W, ID for some FM station; 1310, sounds like ``Jeff FM``, album from 1986, 662-area code phone and mentioning Memphis. Wikipedia says, ``Area code 662 is the telephone area code serving the northern half of Mississippi, including the five counties that are part of the Memphis metro area``. So, of course, it`s the station hijacked from Kennett MO, ex-KBOA which verified decades ago with a playing card, and is now: WGUE Memphis, with FM 99.3 Guess FM, per NRC AM Log. That`s really a 99-watt translator wagging this dog, W257CY per WTFDA Database. What a strange name --- meaning you never know what they`ll play next? NRC AM Log shows address in Southaven MS, yet 901-AC Tennessee phone number! This is just past sunrise 1256 UT here, yet still getting DX from east rather than west. Likewise, on 840, instead of KXNT NV, or KTIC NE, at 1303 UT I`m getting ABC news, and still Louisville KY, 9:03 timecheck from WHAS ID and local news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Nov 3 at 1213 UT, ``Star Spangled Banner`` sung in English, odd time, not sign-on but starting the broadcast day, obviously from KHAC NM as always permanently on 10 kW ND day power, since it`s the one also obviously lacking LSB, just USB plus carrier and looping W/E. 1214 UT on to a country hymn in English with steel guitar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Oct 28 at 1305 UT, KBXD Dallas with ad for that jeweler in Frisco and something in another Metroplex suburb, IDs in passing as Radio Salam, M hosts in Hinglish; 1307 UT traffic report of necessity mostly in English; with usual slow SAH vs KQAM Wichita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1580, Oct 31 at 0259 UT, ``God Save the Queen`` on organ, but fade-down for KFCS ID as expected from Colorado Springs CO, the usual dominatrix now, not unwilling to run 10 kW day power at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = UNIDENTIFIED. 610+, Nov 2 at 1231 UT, het upon KCSP 610, loops SW/NE; less than 1 kHz off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 870, Oct 30 at 2250 UT, country gospel music, ID as ``Top Ten Radio`` (I think), with WWL nulled but losing out to it by 2252 UT. Prime suspect looks like 25 kW KPRM Park Rapids, MN. Do they use such a slogan, or program name? Or maybe KAAN in Bethany MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1590, Oct 29 at 0026 UT, I`m checking for the S Asian music John Reed in Shawnee OK had reported to NRC DX News a couple weeks ago which he concluded came from KLIV, way out in San José, California. Doubtful to me, so I researched that and concluded it was most likely WCGO Evanston IL. Here`s his report and what I wrote in reply: ``1590, KLIV, CA, San José – 10/14 2130 [EDT = 0130 UT Oct 15] – After listening to this station occasionally over a span of several years, but hearing no ID I finally IDed it. The broadcast is in Hindi language with a few English
Re: [IRCA] 1650 "SAC" Morse Code oddity
--- Begin Message --- If it`s on 330 putting out a fifth harmonic, also look for others, especially odd ones: 660, 990, 1320, 1980, 2310 --- and of course 330 itself --- Glenn Hauser On Fri, 10/28/16, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote: http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list KHz A-Z ID LSB USB Sec Fmt 'Name' and Location S/P ITU GSQ PWR Notes Heard In Logs Last Heard 320 SAC 398 398 6.03 Beaumont TX USA EM20wb Southern Avionics Co. (SAC) testing NDB using thier standard freq and ID prior to delivery to user. AZ CA CO IL MA MN MO NS OH OR TN TX 25 2015-03-11 325 SAC 400 400 5.4 Beaumont TX USA EM20wb Southern Avionics Co. (SAC) testing NDB CA MO 3 2015-03-11 To be an harmonic (x5), fundamental would have to be 330 kHz instead, possible if this is just for testing; or 275 x 6. So this is overcoming the 1650 broadcasters? Does anyone get a DF on it? --- Glenn Hauser --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 1650 "SAC" Morse Code oddity
--- Begin Message --- http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list KHz A-Z ID LSB USB Sec Fmt 'Name' and Location S/P ITU GSQ PWR Notes Heard InLogsLast Heard 260 SAC 387 400 5.9 Unknown XUN ENG IL MN OH TX 5 2013-04-17 300 SAC 400 401 5.68Unknown XUN CO IL TX4 2011-03-19 314.5 SAC 400 400 5.4 UnKnown XUN CA CO IL MO TX 6 2014-09-25 320 SAC 398 398 6.03BeaumontTX USA EM20wb Southern Avionics Co. (SAC) testing NDB using thier standard freq and ID prior to delivery to user. AZ CA CO IL MA MN MO NS OH OR TN TX 25 2015-03-11 325 SAC 400 400 5.4 BeaumontTX USA EM20wb Southern Avionics Co. (SAC) testing NDB CA MO 3 2015-03-11 To be an harmonic (x5), fundamental would have to be 330 kHz instead, possible if this is just for testing; or 275 x 6. So this is overcoming the 1650 broadcasters? Does anyone get a DF on it? --- Glenn Hauser On Fri, 10/28/16, longw...@comcast.net <longw...@comcast.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] 1650 "SAC" Morse Code oddity To: "Bob Galerstein" <bobg...@optonline.net> Cc: a...@nrcdxas.org, IRCA@hard-core-dx.com Date: Friday, October 28, 2016, 1:29 PM It is probably some sort of a harmonic of a beacon that has been reported on 320 and 325 khz. The offset of this beacon has been reported at either 398 or 400 hz above and below center frequency. It supposedly belongs to Southern Avionics and the location is Beaumont Texas. Keith McGinnis Hingham MA From: "Bob Galerstein" <bobg...@optonline.net> To: a...@nrcdxas.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 9:18:04 AM Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] 1650 "SAC" Morse Code oddity When I see the letters "SAC," I think of "Strategic Air Command." Doubt there's any connection but just wanted to bring that up. Bob Galerstein WB2VGD Monroe, NY On 10/28/2016 12:56 AM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Easy copy here in Central Alabama, near Birmingham. Slow speed CW, about 5 WPM. > > Any ideas about who this station might be? > > > 73, > > Les Rayburn, N1LF > 121 Mayfair Park > Maylene, AL > EM63nf > > Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. > > Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. > > >> On Oct 27, 2016, at 11:18 PM, James Renfrew <jim.renf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Not hearing it in western NY. Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Tim Tromp <kilok...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Mark, at least I'm not going crazy then :-) >>> >>> 73, >>> -Tim >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Mark Pettifor <m...@spacetubes.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm hearing it also, on the south DKAZ, using the ELAD FDM-S2, as you >>>> describe. >>>> >>>> Mark in Goshen, IN >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2016-10-27 11:56 pm, Tim Tromp wrote: >>>> >>>>> 0341 UTC and I'm hearing "SAC" repeated in morse code on 1650 kHz. The >>>>> code is weak and fades in and out but clearly visible on peaks on the >>>>> Perseus SDR's waterfall and offset by 400 hz on both sides of 1650. >>>>> Unlikely this is some kind of image on my end. I'm hearing this on my >>>>> South antenna while conditions are still heavily favoring the South. >>>>> Anyone else hearing "SAC" or know anything about it? Could it be >>> related >>>>> to Southern Avionics Co. in Beaumont, TX.? >>>>> >>>>> 73, >>>>> Tim Tromp >>>>> West Michigan >>>>> --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, October 21-27, 2016
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 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 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/page52 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 ** OKLAHOMA. 930, Oct 21 at 1236 UT, WKY OKC transmission has finally stopped hiccuping, interrupting Spanish chat every 1.36 seconds (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = ** U S A. 570, Oct 27 at 0518 UT, ``American Pie``, 0520 UT ``104.5 FM and AM 570, Las Cruces`` non-ID with no calls, right back to another classic rock tune. Good signal mutually separable from KLIF. Hard to believe KWML Las Cruces NM is on night power of 155 watts instead of day 5000 watts, both non-direxional. 104.5 despite top billing is a mere translator, K283CG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 650, Oct 25 at 1231 UT, Fox ``news``, into KGAB news center, i.e. Cheyenne WY, dominating way above any XETNT, let alone WSM at this hour. Obviously on 8.5 kW ND day pattern instead of 0.5 kW direxional night to the NW; yet local official FCC sunrise for Oct is not until 1315 UT (November: 1345 UT). Not the first morning I have heard them lately. Community of License is Orchard Valley, a south-side suburb; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190-, Oct 27 at 0546 UT, unfamiliar rock music, ``You are listening to Boulder and Denver`s premiere independent radio station, 98.9 and 1190 AM in Boulder``, no calls, but per NRC AM Log 2016 it`s student-operated KVCU, with an AOR/VAR format. 98.9 with top-billing is a mere translator, K255DA. Hard to believe 1190 is 110 watts night power instead of 6800 day power, both non-direxional. Is slightly off-frequency to low side; fades a bit vs some Spanish CCI, more likely Mexican than United Statesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1380, Oct 24 at 0321 UT, sports talk in English about Cubs is dominating and // echoing with 1020 KOKP Perry OK which is with Fox Sports Radio; 1380 from NE/SW, instead of usual KRCM Spanish religion from SSE on day power --- it may be there but very weak now. Altho KKRX 1380 Lawton OK has flipped to sports, it`s south of here, and with CBS Sports Radio (but exclusively??), and never heard at night. KHEY El Paso TX, 5000/500 U1, is Fox Sports Radio, and indeed at 0332 UT I hear Fox SR mentioned, so very likely this (and Juárez stations are in well). Only other could be KXFN St Louis, silent since last December, had sports format, and would have to be on reactivated 5 kW day pattern southwards (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1620, Oct 24 t 0315 UT, YL with weather for Pensacola, Milton, etc., in some detail, lows to be in mid-to-low 40s in the FL Panhandle; purple flags on the beach warning of jellyfish. ``Look at satellite weather`` so maybe a TV simulcast from a 10 pm CT newscast? So it`s WNRP, Gulf Breeze FL, 10/1 kW. This one is amazingly rare here --- 1620 dominated by NE, TX, or from that direxion, R. Rebelde, Cuba, usually without any sign of WNRP. Maybe they failed to decimate their power tonight? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) = UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1180, Oct 27 at 1256 UT, open carrier/dead air making SAH of 160/minute = 2 and 2/3 Hz with sports talk, but traffic report at 1259 UT, ID as ``1180 Zone 2 the Deuce``, i.e. KZOT Omaha NE. OC/DA loops SW/NE so I think it`s KLPF Midland TX, which I recently confirmed had completed its upgrade move from 1150, with Guadalupe Catholic network programming in English. About to sign-on? No, still OC but fading at 1302 UT. Both these are 25 kW day power, KLPF non-direxional, but KZOT is broadly direxional southwest, nothing unusual here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion
[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 21-27, 2016
--- Begin Message --- 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/page52 All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 E-W longwire ** MEXICO. 800, Oct 24 at 0605 after multi-verse XE NA, barely hear a ``Cañón`` ID, so XEROK, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua is still here, but much QRP vs KQCV OK nulled as much as possible; also a ``punto siete`` reference to FM //? But none is listed for XEROK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1521 kHz, Oct 25 at 0126 UT, in a TA JBA MW carrier bandscan I do detect one here, very weak against KOLM & KOKC 1520. By 0130 with extremely narrow bandwidth on the NRD-545, I think I am squeezing some audio thru, possibly Qur`an? So is the Saudi 2-megawatter at Duba back in business; or could it be CRI Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, reported testing last week after an absence, scheduled 00-02 in Russian? Aoki says 100 kW, WRTH says 500 kW, but it`s big in Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re my 1521 kHz, Noel Green, NW England replies: ``Glenn, I've been trying 1521 in our late afternoon / early evening but not heard either of these stations. Maybe due to propagation, but I don't think so as Saudi's 1600 kW station on 1440 is often heard well. 73 from Noel``. The same evening but no time specified, Bill Whitacre says about Sa`udi, ``BTW, 1521 is no longer the 'monster' it has been in seasons past. In fact, it's not in here at all! Must be having tx problems. Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, besides CRI Urumqi, hardly any other 1521 options from AfroEurAsia (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1560, UT Mon Oct 24 at 0319 UT, `La Hora Nacional`. topic cultural events in Guanajuato, which I had heard publicized last week in a promo on some other XE. Not // much stronger 1570 XERF. Loops SW, whence the only possibility is XEJPV, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, more like WSW. At 0331, 1560 has moved on to something else, while XERF is just wrapping up LHN from/about Guanajuato, so playout must have started at least a minute late there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 21, UT: at 1216, 774-NW, 693-NW at 1221, 828-NW, 1098-W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search October 23, from 1227 to 1232 UT: mostly NW from Japan/FE at first, then some WSW, DU, all as usual on the hand-held DX-398 with internal ferrite antenna only. The big guns from NHK, 774, 747 and 693 initially were strong enough for some audio, especially 774: 774-NW, 747-NW, 738-SW, 702-NW, 693-NW, 666-NW, 657-?, 612-WSW, 594-NW, 567-NW, 792-WSW, 828-WSW, 837-WSW. At 1234, 1098-W. Our sunrise at 1246 UT. At 1250, 774-WSW, 702-WSW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 24 at 0557-0601, all roughly NE to ENE, u.o.s.: 773-E (Mauritania), 747, 738 [could also be opposite TAHITI already], 603, 846, 882, 1044, 1098, 1368. (No TP search circa sunrise Oct 24: much needed sleep catchup. Per Richard Allen, didn`t miss much) (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, October 25 at 0119-0125, looping roughly NE except 783-East as in Mauritania: 612, 774, 783, 837, 1017, 1053, 1152, 1215 --- and see separate 1521 entry. On the handheld DX-398, I also have one on 1125, but suspiciously + and it vanishes when I turn off the NRD-545 nearby. That also emits its own birdie carriers on a few other frequencies; beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific pre-sunrise JBA MW carrier search October 25: nothing lowband, only 1566 from the NW at 1227, presumably FEBC S Korea and/or the N Korean jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 27 UT: 576-NW at 1236 612-WSW at 1246 702-WSW, 2 carriers beating at 1237; also 1245, maybe one more from W? 774-WSW at 1238 828-WSW at 1240 936-WSW at 1241 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors an
