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[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 27-November 2, 2018

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These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimesÂutility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as 
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All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:
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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 with 00-foot E-W longwire.

** MEXICO. 540, Nov 1 at 0046, ``La Ranchera de PaquimÃ`` on AM & FM, i.e. XETX 
with FM on 90.5, from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 550, Nov 1 at 0045, ``91.3, La SÃper-EstaciÃn``, loops WSW. 
Of course it`s XEPL, Ciudad CuauhtÃmoc, Chihuahua. Axually, I thought 
they said ``101.3`` which sounds rather similar in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 630, Oct 28 at 1215, Spanish plugging a program on Alba? 
104.5, a Grupo Radio Centro station, 6:15 timecheck, music; loops SSW. 
Suspected XEFB Monterrey NL. WTFDA FM Database shows slogan ALFA 
104.5, CHR format for XHMF-FM in Mty but does not relate it to 630 
XEFB, which used to be news/talk. Is it now just an appendage of an 
FM, like so many US AM stations, or a promo for sibling station? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 709.875, Nov 1 at 0048, tell-tale het against KCMO or KGNC, from the 
sometimes off-frequency alternate transmitter of XEDP, La Ranchera de 
CuauhtÃmoc, Chihuahua. Still there at 0612 when I measure, 709.875? 
Yes, mwoffsets has it on 709.87 as of 2017-03-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 820, Nov 1 at 1241 UT, romantic music in Spanish over WBAP 
which a few minutes earlier had been dominant; 1242 canned YL ID as 
``Canal ochocientos veinte, ABC Radio``, i.e. XEABCA, Mexicali BCN and 
back to more romx, a title starting with ``Amor ---``. Now I measure 
its SAH separation from WBAP at less than 1 Hz, 48 per minute or 0.8 
Hz. My sunrise today 1255 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 860, Nov 1 at 1247 UT, KKOW Pittsburg KS C&W is 
getting CCI in Spanish, but cannot mutually null them, i.e. close to 
opposite direxion. They both null at the same position, audiblizing 
French from CBKF-2 Saskatoon; see CANADA. 1301 Mexican NA, short 
choral version, and 1303 ``XEMO, La Poderosa 860, mÃsica de 
recuerdo``, non-sign-on info with street address, website, and then 
prayer to MarÃa. XEMO is 10/7.5 kW from Tijuana BCN, which in fact is 
almost exactly opposite to here from KKOW, but six times further 
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, Nov 1 at 0052 UT, XETAR music and YL DJ with 5:52 TC, about to 
close down daytimer at 6:00. La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara, 
Guachochi, Chihuahua, at first atop WWL, then making fast SAH with it. 
I`m accustomed to hearing this around sunrise. 

BTW, the UT-7 TC confirms Mexico beyond the US economic-influenced 
border cities, has sensibly now ended DST a week before USA; it would 
be even more sensible for both countries to abolish it.

These XEs logged following Kaz`s advisory instead to seek US daytimers 
to the west on the best night of the year before they must sign off 
much earlier from tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 27 from 0455 
on the R75: 531, 558(2), 576, 585, 612, 621, 639, 666, 693, 729, 738, 
756, 774, 837, 855, 882, 909(2), 936, 954, 999(2), 1053, 1062, 1089
(2), 1098(-), 1107, 1215*, 1305(2), 1314, 1413, 1422, 1566, 1584(2). 
(2) = at least two carriers beating: *stronger; (-) perceptibly off to 
the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 28 at 0148-
0155, on the DX-398 aimed NE: 531, 549, 558, 576, 585, 621, 639, 693
(2), 711, 729, 738, 774, 855, 873, 882, 909, 936, 954, #963, 999, 
1017, #1026, 1044, 1053, 1089, #1125, 1134(2), 1152, 1179, 1215, 1458, 
1575. #are ones not heard on the sweep up but detected on a second 
sweep down; everything is fading up and down a bit, and heavy QRM 
level varies. (2) = at least two carriers beating. In USB tuning, the 
ones ending in -9 are interesting, as I am getting a big het from the 
-0 domestics, but also little lower pitch offset het from the TAs; 
even against 1000 KTOK OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Nov 1 at 1215-1221: 
531, 558, 567, 585, 594, 702, 711, 738, 747, 756, 774, 828, 837, 855, 
864, 873, 945, *972, 1008, 1017, 1044, 1098(2), 1143, 1566. 
*=strongest, no doubt Korea South; (2) = at least two carriers 
beating, Marshalls and what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific just-barely-audible mediumwave carrier 
search, Nov 2 at 1246-1304 UT, many from DU (WSW) and/or FE (NW). If 
there is no direxion appended, probably both or just too weak to tell 
on the DX-398: 558, 567-NW, 576-WSW, 585-NW, 594(2), 603-NW, 612(2), 
657-NW, 675-NW, 693-NW, 702-WSW(2), 711-NW, 738(2), *747-NW, 756(2), 
774(2), 819-NW, 828-NW, 864-NW, 873-NW(2), 945-NNW, *972-NW, 981, 
1008, 1035-NW+(2), 1044-NW, 1053-NW, 1062-NW(2), 1071, 1098(2), 1134-
NW, 1143-NW, 1332-NW, *1566-NW.

Notes: * means stronger ones; (2) means at least two carriers beating.

Above 890 kHz, local noise level degrades until it stops at 1305; a 
neighbor`s touch lamp? The 1300 UT mark comes by 1143 kHz. I switch 
back to 972 just before 1300, but cannot hear any time pips, tho on 
original scan at 1255 it was strong enough to push some audio, 
presumed South Korean. 

A medium SAH on 702, not from the NW, points to the offset between 2BL 
Sydney and Magic, Auckland NZ, as Mauno Ritola and Neil Kazaross 
recently discussed, i.e. 6 Hz apart: ``701.993 ABC Sydney, 701.999 
Magic, Auckland`` However, MWOffsets shows 701.9960 for 2BL as of last 
week, and 701.9991 for Magic as of 2017-02-26, i.e. only 3 Hz apart. 
There are also some weaker Au/NZ stations on ``702``.

945 bearing NNW is a puzzle. Frequency is very close, so unlikely a 
spur or birdie. That would put it at the longitude of western China, 
but the big`un with 400 kW is in the east, Jilin province (Glenn 
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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