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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, September 22-28, 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 eriod 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/page62
[over 249,000 views! as of September 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

** CANADA. 1610 kHz, Fri Sept 22 at 0615 UT, YL in Luso Portuguese, talking about the press. No doubt CHHA Toronto, Voces [sic] Latinas, now with a little less QRM since PMS ANGUILLA tower is blown down. Program grid at
http://chha1610am.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PostCard-CHHA-1610AM-2016.jpg
is not at all helpful, merely showing ALL NIGHT MUSIC at 1-6 am M-F, and nothing on Sat & Sun; oh look, it`s a biyear old, but what comes up direct from the current homepage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 532.5 & 650.8, Sept 26 at 2335 UT, steady unmodulated carriers. On a hunch, I calculate the difference, 118.3 kHz, and check for some others at the same separation: there they are! On 769.1 and 887.4, at least. I don`t have any other radio encended but this NRD-545, so suspect these are internally generated, altho unnoticed before: Yes: starting with 118.3 kHz itself on the LW band; but wait: try switching from the Wellbrook to the notverylongwire, and they go away, so it`s really the ALA-330S producing them; but, why? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 700, Sept 27 at 2045 UT, groundwave to quiet spot in western Enid on caradio, end of `Despacito` song, prompt ID for KHSE 700, Wylie etc., and K281CS 104.1 attributed to 8 cities (but there are a lot more suburbs than that in The Metroplex), and still saying ``This station is for rent. Please contact John Harmon, 972-904-4904``, then rap song in English. I bet they play some S Asian tunes too. Day power is one sesquikW and day pattern has a lobe toward OKC, me too; but a notch due north:
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KHSE-AM&h=D
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 990, Sept 28 at 1226 UT, after failing to pull an ID from a station in English inviting local PSAs, un-nulling the Spanish which is certainly KFCD Farmersville TX, one of the Metroplex stations which hijacked a frequency from poor Wichita Falls: gospel harmonies in Spanish, promo preaching event Sept 30 in Area Code 214, ``tres Ãngeles`` codeword for that 7D Adventist sect, two IDs in passing, the next at 1231, sound like ``Radio Movimiento`` but not positive about the word. Maybe program rather than station name. Can`t find any correlation online with KFCD, but rather surely unrelated: Radio Movimiento, KPCN-LP 95.9 FM, Portland OR, which is secular about Hispanicism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1310, Sept 24 at 0049 UT, Hilltopper Sports Network, ad for TNN(?) Mobile; interview with guy from US Bank supporting this game and United Way, before kickoff, mentions Mandalay (?) Bay, then clinched by ``southern Kentucky``, ``Hilltoppers`` team, ``Bowling Green area `` mentions; so it must be WTTL Madisonville, which is west of B.G., rather than the other KY in the far east. WTTL: 1500/40 watts U1 even tho it`s after sunset, breaking format from ``Classic Hits 103.5`` translator. The Hilltoppers are at WKU in Bowling Green (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, Sept 24 at 0054 UT, UNI Panthers volleyball, pizza ad, other local ads, ``on the Panthers Sports Network``, dominating frequency is KXEL Waterloo IA as if it`s on 50 kW ND day pattern rather than night with a null to the south. Official September sunset was 0015 UT (October: 2330). Volleyball?! Imagine that; must not have been any football game they could diffuse this Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1897, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1130, Sept 24 at 0046 UT something in Spanish here with romantic music, rough DF ENE/WSW, avoiding KWKH game. Two Mexicans at that angle are XEHN Nogales, IRCA-listed as talk, and XEMOS Los Mochis, Ãxtasis Digital. Those fit better than any SS 1130 in NRC AM Log, in CA, GA, TN, TX. However, our sunset was only 0026 UT, so probably too early for the NW Mexicans or KSDO San Diego. How about WYXE Gallatin (Nashville) TN, 2.3 kW daytimer, religious? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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Mini-Daytime DX-pedition to NW OK

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Daytime LW beacon bandscan Sept 28 at 2050 UT includes: 356 PTT, 350 RG, and 341 EI. Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
356 PTT is Pratt KS, 341 EI is Enid OK of course, but no listing for 350 RG! (NOT to be confused with RG on 352 from Rarotonga!) 
MARE Log Summary Aug 2017 reminds us that our RG is still on the air:
350 RG +1.0 -1.0 Oklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World A/P; 03 Apr (HF), 10 Sep (DT) (Glenn Hauser, Great Salt Plains OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1040, Sept 28 driving by the transmitter site of KGWA 960, twice, just west of it on north-south Oakwood Road, I am tuned to one of its spur frequencies, and observe that only at quite close range, it is strongest and clearly audible in noise, just to the north, but a null to the west despite being closest to the 4-tower parallelogram there, thus matching roughly the daytime direxional pattern on 960 itself, NNW/SSE to favor the rest of Enid and incidentally OKC beyond, where it can hardly be missed tuning between WKY and KTOK (if anyone ever does that any more). KGWA spur also on 880 making a SAH with KRVN Lexington NE, plus and minus almost exactly 80 kHz; why? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1360 & 1420, Sept 28 at 1858 UT, the KCRC 1390 Enid spurs are still audible out of town at Helena, making slightly different hets against real 1360 and 1420 stations; but not the second-order ones on 1330 and 1450 I can hear in town (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1090, Sept 28 at 1854 UT, Catholic Radio discussing whether this one or 1190 has a better signal in certain areas, during apparent fundraiser. 1090 is KEXS Excelsior Springs MO, the highest-frequency KC-market station to make it here on midday groundwave, 472 km = 293 miles. Has a CP (no longer merely an APP) for increase from 8 to 10 kW daytime, same pattern with major lobe WSW but broad enough for some of that to the SW (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1130, Sept 28 at 1857 UT, from this angle too still no audible daytime signal from KLEY Wellington KS. Its 250 watts are either off, or extremely direxional away from OK (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1150, Sept 28 at 1856 UT, I am bandscanning on caradio near Helena OK, NW of Enid. This frequency mainly bears KSAL Salina KS, but underneath is C&W music making a fast SAH. The latter could either be 1000-watt KNED McAlester OK, 289 km = 179 miles, or 530-watt KOLJ Quanah TX (across the SW corner of OK), virtually equidistant at 284 km = 176 miles; both with C&W formats and all three of them non-direxional daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1370, Sept 28 at 1859 UT, still no signal audible from KGNO Dodge City KS. Can`t believe it`s funxioning at 5 kW ND which should be making it on daytime groundwave across the Ogalalla Aquifer, only 205 km = 127 miles. Is it gone, QRP, or really out of whack direxional away? (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510, Sept 28 at 1859 UT, promo Rockin` M Theater, car ad for Hays KS, ID for KNNS Larned and KRMR-FM Hays [105.7], 1900 UT Fox ``news`` (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 92.9, Sept 28 at 1920 UT, only thing of interest on an FM bandscan is weak signal in Spanish mixing with weak signal in English. Per WTFDA FM Database, no OKies on 92.9 are SS, but one Kansan:
KMML, (// KSMM 101.5), 92.9, CIMARRON KS, 32.0 kW H&V, 186.0 m HAAT, 37-56-30, 100-18-44, Spanish, REGIONAL MEXICAN, LA MEXICANA. Cimarron is between Dodge and Garden Cities, 232 km = 144 miles (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 659, Sept 28 at 1900 UT, The Answer 660 in The Metroplex has QRM from a carrier 1 kHz below it which cuts on for 5 seconds, off for 1 second, repeats. Loops east/west. Not coming from my car or anything in it, and not noted anywhere else. Not a harmonic from LW as nothing like it circa 330, 220 or 165 kHz. I`m parked at the military monument just south of Helena OK with three antique tanx, not looping toward them either. Possibly connected with security system at the Helena prison, a few miles away? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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