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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 27-February 2, 2017

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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/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)

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** 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)

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** 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 VisiÃn 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 VisiÃn 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&hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=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 near Coachella, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree NM, etc. Looking thru listings for La Quinta and Indio, I don`t see any obvious matches, but maybe this translator per FCC FM Query:

K300CW CA INDIO FX LIC Licensee: ONDAS DE VIDA NETWORK, INC.
Channel/Class: 300D Frequency: 107.9 MHz

[Nuggets pulled out of FB:]

OrganizaciÃn religiosa en La Quinta (California) 4.8
NUESTRO MINISTERIO ESTA DEDICADO A PREDICAR EL EVANGELIO UTILIZANDO MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION TANTO DE RADIO Y TELEVISION

Voz y VisiÃn 29 de diciembre de 2016 Â
AtenciÃn McAllen, Corpus Christi, Webb, Laredo, Harlingen, Brownsville, Kingsville, Texas y todos sus alrededores. Desde hoy 29 de Noviembre pueden sintonizar y disfrutar de una nueva estaciÃn de radio: 840 AM Voz y VisiÃn Radio TelÃfono en cabina McAllen (956) 616-5573. Y en Reynosa, Tamaulipas (899) 454-2569. Gratis para toda la Republica Mexicana 01-800-681-1746 

[never heard any of those mentioned; this one includes a KVJY coverage map showing all the way up the TX Gulf Coast, clinched!]

Voz y VisiÃn 26 de diciembre de 2016 Â
AtenciÃn Odessa, Midland, Texas y pueblos alrededor! Voz y VisiÃn Radio empieza sus transmisiones a partir del dÃa 2 de enero de 2017. Frecuencia 810 AM

[i.e. KXOI Crane TX 1000/500 U3 Odessa was R. Alabanza per NRC AM Log]

Voz y VisiÃn en Albuquerque. 18 de diciembre de 2016 Â
Muy bien dÃa! Voz y Vision està en Albuquerque NM. Estaremos revisando las nuevas instalaciones de nuestro ministerio en esta ciudad. Ya en unos dÃas mÃs podrÃs sintonizar 1310 AM. Por hoy està en silencio debido a la espera de los Ãltimos documentos de la FCC. Siga orando por nosotros. Seguimos un un recorrido para ver dos frecuencias mÃs en Texas!

[KKNS Corrales NM 5000/500 U2, ABQ, was Radio El Camino -- NRC AM Log]

Voz y VisiÃn 4 de octubre de 2016 Â
Las seÃal de Arizona 1340 AM y 102.9fm han regresado al aire! Ya puedes aibtonizarlas [sic]

[So must be: 1340 KIKO Apache Junxion 1000/930 U1, address Miami AZ, was WWI OLD with 97.3 KIKO-FM per NRC AM Log. Would you believe the WTFDA DB shows *three* 102.9s IN Phoenix?

K275CL // KIKO-1340 102.9 PHOENIX AZ 0.08   0.0   33-29-33 111-38-23 OLDIES 1340/97.3 OLDIES 
K275CP // KIHP-1310 102.9 PHOENIX AZ 0.085  0.085 33-35-39 112-05-08 IMMACULATE HEART RADIO RELIGIOUS TEACHING 
KDIF-LP   102.9 PHOENIX AZ      0.1 0.0 -22.0 0.0 33-23-19 112-02-42]

So are all these stations now owned by the same entity? FCC AM Query shows all different, so are we talking LMAs here, just buying time?
KVJY: BI-MEDIA LICENSEE, LLC
KIKO: 1TV.COM, INC.
KXOI: HISPANIC OUTREACH MINISTRIES
KKNS: EL CAMINO COMMUNICATIONS, LLC

Henceforth I will move all my cautious UNIDENTIFIED 840 logs of this to accompany this USA log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1863, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[see also last week`s logs, and further PREVIOUS ones while it was still unID:]

UNIDENTIFIED. 840, UT Jan 27 at 0420 UT, another try to ID the Spanish religious station here sometimes audible with WHAS nulled, having to put up with other CCI and IBOC noise from WCCO. It so happens that with LSB fine tuning in 40-Hz steps on the acceptably misaligned DX-398, these signals fall about halfway between, so I can`t get just-right demodulation. In a fade-up as I tune in during gospel huxter`s monolog about how he started an AM & FM station in Dec 2015. More than once he`s plugging for 33 (rich?) people to support his ministry (bet I know where he got that number), as it`s listener-supported and located in ``Mesa, Arizona`` --- so that fits for the 480-AC phone number previously copied, and which I hear again and again, so I am sure of it: (480) 467-4626, presumably belonging now to someone other than the Anglo woman one lookup led to. 

{There are only two AM stations licensed to Mesa, neither of which looks likely, so maybe an AM/FM duo somewhere else in the PhÅnixplex are his flagships?? There is no 840 in AZ of course, one reason being the 50 kW in Las Vegas NV}

I still want to ID this by monitoring / research, but if all else fails, I`ll eventually phone him and ask which 840 station he`s on, KVJY Pharr TX? 

And he announces a second phone number, of which I am not so certain, (770) 989-4791. That AC is not Albuquerque, but suburban Atlanta GA, which makes no more sense on 840 kHz than (480) does. Into a fade at 0425 UT; back up somewhat at 0433 UT with a program ID ``--- radio`` and a website, neither of which I can copy, both given only once. No more fade-ups caught by 0500 UT Jan 27.

840, Jan 28 at 0240 UT another try. Worse reception tonight until 0300 UT; fade up a bit at 0253 UT can tell praise music is playing instead of verbal proselytizing. At 0259 ID time, mixture from something sounding like WGAU, but that`s not even fuzzy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 28 at 1406 UT wake-up and tune-in, WHAS ID still propagating a semihour after sunrise here and 1:15 after sunrise in Louisville. I null it and hear a snatch of Spanish, ``--- radio`` with SAHs, still suspecting KVJY Pharr TX in the RGV, but fades leaving a gospel huxter in English, presumably daytimer KWDF Ball LA. (The only other 840 around here, daytimer KTIC in West Point NE, I am ruling out as it`s C&W and ``Rural Radio``, barely audible in full daytime.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 29 at 1402 UT, WHAS still dominant with news, ID, but nulled, a gospel huxter in English, and in third place some Spanish music, presumably praise from suspected KVJY Pharr TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Jan 30 from 1340 UT, another try for the Spanish religious station. With WHAS nulled, at first I hear an English KTIC ID in passing from Nebraska; by 1342 UT fades up some praise music in Spanish, and bits until 1353 UT from suspected KVJY. Night before during SW bandscan 0321-0355 UT Jan 30 I also had DX-398 set up for this, but no shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, Jan 30 at 2011 UT on caradio, KNSS Wichita KS audio is hitting at modulation spikes only, totally unreadable, still so at 2018 UT. No one at station is listening to station to fix it! So how can they expect any audience? If anyone is there, they are probably paying more attention to some FM station in the cluster, notably duplicate KNSS-FM 98.7, no problem on it? Sean Hannity is scheduled now, after Rush. Good riddance! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, Sat Jan 28 at 1929 UT, SBG and I wonder if it`s KXEL Waterloo IA. Yes, mentions UNI, i.e. University of Northern Iowa, game involving fouls and free-throws, so evidently BKB. Come to think of it, free-throws in FB would make it marginally more interesting. How about melding all the SBGs into one? That would save a lot of trouble.

I have been remiss in pursuing daytime MW skywave this winter, and the season is winding up, but here`s one less than an hour after local mean noon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, Jan 28 at 1931 UT, KZUE El Reno OK groundwave in Spanish is dominant on the N-S antenna, but mixed with something in English on E/W antenna. Most likely KHOJ, the RCC station in St Charles MO skywaving in already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2130 kHz, Jan 29 at 0121 UT, JBA carrier, presumably a 3 x 710 harmonic, as first reported the previous morning Jan 28 by Tim Tromp, MI, to the harmonics yg; from bearing, suspected to be WTPR Paris TN, which he says drops off at precisely 0127* UT Jan 29 and 30, even tho that is not anywhere near local sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2520, Feb 2 at 1313 UT, open carrier at S9 fading to S6, maybe a trace of modulation, presumably from 2 x 1260, WOCO Oconto WI. They really need to boost their harmonic mod to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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