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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 10-16, 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/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 â 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)

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** 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 â 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 norteÃa 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 Houston, but as we discovered a few months ago, it flipped from R Aleluya to Asian. The only other Texan Spanish religionist in NRC AM Log is: KDAE Sinton 1000/500 U4, address Corpus Christi and // Radio Libertad.

Now for the research. The main FB page by that name says it`s in El Salvador, with nothing much on it, but URL automatically inserts a dot: /cristotellama.hoy

Searching on KDAE leads to this:
http://www.radiolibertad.net/spanish/radioschedule.htm
of which 1590 is the only AM station, plus a bunch of Texas FMs, but program sked does not match what I heard, tho it has a female pastora. This may well require further monitoring.

Adding Herrera to search on "Cristo te llama hoy" leads to someone named Hna. Madai Herrera: 

https://es-la.facebook.com/herrera.madai/
which guess what, is on R. Aleluya, so that takes us back to KMIC Houston, including this item from a week ago at the SAME time:

``Cristo Te Llama Hoy/Hna.Madai Herrera 7 de febrero a las 5:15 Â
#BuenosDias ??
Este es el tema que compartà ayer en la radio. Es mi deseo que pueda ser de bendiciÃn a sus vidas. Y si lo es por favor compÃrtelo con alguien que no ha entregado su vida a Cristo. Hubo Cambio, Madai Herrera, Radio Aleluya 88.1FM - Programa Cristo Te Llama Hoy, 6 de Febrero del 2017, Lunes 7:30pm, PO Box 3262, Pasadena, TX 77501``

So is KMIC still Radio Dabang, or not, or partly that and partly Aleluya?? The latter still claims to be on 980 and 88.1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1590, Feb 15 at 0140 UT, another try to mail down the Spanish religion here which last night appeared to be coming from KMIC Houston, back in Spanish after a South Asian format. Don`t get much, but some gospel music and talk; at 0158 UT mentions La Virgen MarÃa, Catholic rather than Pentecostal or Hindu keywords. Then arrives this clarification from our DXLD correspondent in Houston, tnx Stephen:

``Glenn, it appears KMIC 1590 is back to Radio Aleluya, Spanish language religion. Radio Dabang had been on 1590 for several months with South Asian programming, after moving off KLVL 1480.

KLVL launched a new FM translator on 95.3, which went on the air with South Asian programming a couple of weeks ago. I discovered that it was Radio Dabang, // to both KLVL 1480 and KMIC 1590. Now it seems that Radio Dabang has dropped 1590 in favor of the FM signal and its poorer AM counterpart.

At a 0300 check February 15, KMIC 1590 was // to sisters KJOZ 880 and the local 88.1 FM, but NOT // to siblings KQUE 980 or KRCM 1380 (apparently running more than authorized 50 watts at night, but much less than the 22 kW day power; perhaps using directional array instead of ND?)

I will do some more checking to see if 1590 is fulltime Radio Aleluya or splitting time with something else.

The KLVL 1480 day signal is decent, but the night signal starts dying west of downtown Houston, and is buried in the co-channel pileup outside of West Loop 610.  The 95.3 translator gets out farther with an east-west directional signal that protects LPFM KEPH on the south side of the metro area and an unbuilt LPFM in NE Harris County.  Co-channel KTTF in Tomball (NW Harris County) has had some of its southeastern coverage area clipped by the translator.
Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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