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All times and dates strictly UT [5 hours ahead of `ELT` during EST; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-05 UT period
to the previous date by ELT].
Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; IC-R75
with E-W longwire.
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/page67
[over 282,000 views! as of February 16, 2018]
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. 530, Feb 10 at 0735 UT, quick check of K530AM, Vance AFB, as I am
about to do a TA carrier bandscan, finds it is still running the
hurricane-preparedness PSA despite Enid being 500 miles inland (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Feb 16 at 1438 UT, KGYN is missing vs KOKK [q.v.] and other
signals. Should be audible at 10 kW ND power, which they had also been running
at night making it dominant even here toward Philadelphia. Maybe they`ve
flipped again to radiate direxional-west all day and night? But by midday 1900
UT, JBA alone with KGYN ID on groundwave remnant only.
Following the rules about night and day patterns are obviously beyond them. Yet
this is the station which for years has kept a CP going for 50/10/19 kW. And
had been reported?/rumored? to be planning an ultimate move into the OKC market
if it could get rid of 1220 KTLV. But the CP is for the same far-out
No-Mans-Land coördinates as now, site right next to US 412 just east of Guymon
with a big KGYN sign on the shack, three towers aimed right at WPHT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Feb 12 at 1345 UT, quick headlines on Radio Oklahoma
Network, from newsroom of News9 (KWTV 39 OKC), back to Triple Play Sports, KOKB
Blackwell OK. Quite an affiliate list here of RON:
http://radiooklahoma.net/affiliates.php
showing sub-networks each station takes; and bleeds into all neighboring states
except Colorado, via border stations, or at least into extra-statal DMAs (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 720, Feb 14 at 1930 UT during caradio bandscan, WGN ID right away in
passing, less than one hour after local mean noon, and the sun is climbing
pretty high almost two months after solstice, almost one month before equinox.
If it`s skywave, wouldn`t I be getting higher Chicagoans, notably 1690 WVON?
Nothing there. So more likely extended groundwave beyond one megameter tnx to a
quiet spot I park. How about 670 with WSCR which should be just as good? No,
only a JBA SAH, between it and KLTT CO (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Feb 14 at 1412 UT, obviously K`KOB, Albuquerque on 50 kW ND
pattern already, someguy talking about recent visit to Las Vegas, and seeing
for himself the massacre scene. Obviously the *other* one in Nevada, not the
original Las Vegas in New Mexico. (All NM media should default to LV NM, and
have to specify Nevada if it`s the upstart; but an I-40 exit sign to LVNM had
to be specified as NM, within NM, as stupid enginists were taking it for
Nevada). Fading at 1417 UT. Official FCC KKOB sunrise in Feb is indeed 1400 UT;
March, 1315 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Feb 16 at 1431 UT, loops E/W, promoting adoption from Family
Life Radio, myflr.org, i.e. KFLT Tucson AZ, legally on ND 50 kW day power from
1415 UT in Feb, to be 1330 UT in March. 770 KKOB also still in. Too bad AZ
lacks any first-class 50/50 kW U1 clear channel station with rational
programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Feb 14 at 1410 UT, S Asian language probably Punjabi or Hindi,
drops in English expression ``fighting old demons``, loops SSE/NNW, and
presumed KFJZ Fort Worth TX, which NRC AM Log had with BIZ/TLK format (in
English), but must have been updated since. I had similar language mixture at
last log Nov 17, 2017 at 1311 UT. Radio-locator.com now merely says ``ethnic``
with no details and no website. Wikipedia still has it as a BizTalk affiliate.
Sure is hard to find any current accurate info re (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 910, Feb 14 at 1421 UT, ad with 575 area code, mentions west Texas,
but 575 means Roswell NM, KKBE; soon fade into CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1040, Feb 16 at 1435 UT, in WHO null, mentions 98.5, i.e. KCBR
Monument CO. Should be on 2 kW CH power at 1345-1545 in February before full 15
kW day power; March from 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Feb 14 at 1925 UT on caradio near downtown Enid, KLEY
Wellington KS is all messed up. Continuous spark-pulses at steady rate of about
288/minute or 4.8 per second on this frequency only so not external QRN; mixed
in are very irregular split-second flashes of carrier modulated mostly with
music; sometimes once a second, other times with long 5+ second pauses. During
one 60-second span, I counted 39 of them.
I`ve previously noted anomalies with KLEY, 250 watts not audible here in
daytime, while it used to be; and if really on daytime-direxional pattern,
would be going north only, away from us. Who cares at KLEY? All that matters
for this dog is the translator tail wagging it from 100.3 (Glenn Hauser, Enid
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Feb 15 at 1534 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is still out of order:
carrier cuts off and on, but continuous talk modulation can more or less be
followed as the cuts are now so rapid; not that anyone would put up with it
1130, Feb 15 at 2119 UT, KLEY Wellington KS still SNAFU, carrier cutting on and
off irregularly with music bursts, 29 times in one 60-second period. Also
separate rapid pulsing at regular rate.
1130, Feb 16 at 1437 UT, KLEY still pulsing and bits of modulation separately
cutting on and off; also continuous background noise level transmitted on this
frequency only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1210, Feb 16 at 1439 UT, nothing from KGYN from the west, but N/S
station mentions celebrity birthdays, 1440 UT Rainbow Flower Shop ad in Huron,
so KOKK in SD. Day pattern goes SE, night pattern NW, both with deep nulls to
NE/SW, but we are almost due S from it. At 1454 UT plug some SD event
specifying time as Central.
Roughly the western half of SD is on Mountain, more sensible than any other
central-tier state, but if the MT/CT boundary followed the 97.5 W meridian
where it should, like Enid west of that, even Huron would be in MT, leaving CT
only for the easternmost strip of SD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Also CCI from C&W to the NW/SE (not KGYN, which is talk ex-C&W), likely KHAT
Laramie WY, 10000/1000 U2 (altho WY has another 1210 C&W, per NRC AM Log, KRSV
Afton, 5000/250 U1, near the ID border on US 89 S of Jackson) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 12 at 1334 UT, ``KSOK, Cowley county`s station for the
hits, 103-3, The Mix`` from Ark City KS. Not really: 103.3 is K277CK (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520, Feb 14 at 1404 UT, before it`s too late after sunrise, KYND
Cypress TX reconfirmed *still after several months* running the loop barker
seeking someone to rent this wonderful 25 kW station; under KOKC, but fades-up
and pauses allow me to recognize the spiel previously heard several times. Slow
SAH with KOKC of 36/minute = 0.6 Hz. Owner posted that he doesn`t sign on until
8 am CT, even tho the daytimer could start earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Feb 12 at 1340 UT, no sign of a het from KGBC Galveston TX,
which sometimes jumps to 1540.1+; just KXEL English mixing with ESPN-D Spanish
from KZMP The Metroplex.
And it`s too early for 1520 KYND to be heard stunting under KOKC, as owner said
he wasn`t turning it on until 8 am = 1400 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, Feb 16 at 1451 UT, ``Bison 1660`` slogan and back to ESPN with
Dan Patrick (non). I was expecting KWOD Kansas City, but this is the mascotic
slogan of KQWB West Fargo ND, listed by NRC AM Log with Fox SR instead of ESPN.
Bisons apply both to football and basketball teams of NDSU, HQ in Fargo,
admitting a certain partiality by this radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNIDENTIFIED. 1560, Feb 14 at 1933 UT, KEBC OKC, dominant daytime station with
sportstalk, unusually has some CCI, and seems defective like spur breaking up?
But no het. Nearest other 1560s are WMBH Joplin MO and KABI Abilene KS (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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