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[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, December 14-23, 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 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 100-foot E-W longwire.

** MEXICO [and non]. 700, Dec 22 at 1335 UT, rustic drum and flute 
music from WSW/ENE, surely XEETCH, native station in Etchojoa, Sonora; 
and the lowest XE frequency still propagating, not even 650 XETNT, 5 
minutes before sunrise here at 1340 UT, on the way to latest at 1344 
UT in another biweek; no WLW;

and nulling XEETCH, there is S Asian music, no doubt KHSE Wylie 
(Metroplex) TX, no longer brokered religion in Spanish as in NRC AM 
Log, and still reported as such by MAREs in November. Radio-
locator.com now says it`s ``Radio Caravan`` with Asian format:
https://www.radiocaravan.com/
which autolaunches Hindi/Bollywood audio (but English ad at 1814 Dec 
22), or choose Telugu instead. Also operates on FM, IBOC and in 
Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Re:
** MEXICO. 739.95, Dec 11 at 1300,
 news/talkshow in Spanish, making 
 terrible low het against KRMG 740.00
 Tulsa, which if carefully nulled, 
 partially audiblizes the Mexican, which
 we know is XEQN, R. FÃrmula, 
 TorreÃn, Coahuila. It has appeared on
 some official listings of 
 stations which are *not* migrating to
 FM, unfortunately. It`s been 
 off-frequency for years (Glenn Hauser,
 OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

XEQN is a migrant with a continuity obligation. That is, it's stuck in the combo phase until some other radio station comes along to serve some community that only can receive XEQN. In this case, the communities are in the municipalities of Nazas, Cuencamà and General SimÃn BolÃvar, Durango. (Cuencamà itself has no local stations.)

For some stations, these localities can be quite a ways away. For XEWA/SLP, the localities were in municipalities including Dr. Arroyo, Nuevo LeÃn; PeÃamiller, QuerÃtaro; Bustamante, Tamaulipas; and XichÃ, Guanajuato (Raymie Humbert, AZ, Dec 14, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)

** U S A [and non]. 1520, Dec 14 at 2153 UT on R75 with E-W longwire, 
nearby KOKC OKC talk is hardly dominant; by 2155 sports talker is 
atop, so is it KOLM Minnesota? 2159 Fox Sports net ID, and then 
``1520, KSIB, Creston, Iowa``, which is a 1 kW ND daytimer. 

There has also been a JBA 1 kHz het which at 2204 I pinpoint to 1521, 
not 1519, ergo a bit of the 2,000,000 watts out of Saudi Arabia, more 
than an hour pre-sunset here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Dec 19 at 2036 on caradio, 1520 KOKC OKC again 
with a JBA 1 kHz het, probably from Duba 2-megawatter. Those further 
east (and north, west?) should be looking for this against whatever 
1520 signal they may have, 2 or 3 hours before local sunset (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAO TOME [non]. 1530, Dec 20 at 0258-0300, no Yankee Doodle 
detectable from 600 kW ND VOA relay sign-on, as Mark Connelly, MA, has 
been urging for an `easy` African MW catch further east. But here, it 
can`t get past blaster WCKY Cincinnati. I am on the longwire rather 
than trying to null WCKY which might help little as they are 11 
degrees apart from this POV: 71.5 vs 82.5 degrees. The other time he 
suggests is at VOA sign-off 2200* maybe without YDD (Glenn Hauser, OK, 
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 1566 kHz, Dec 22 at 1343 UT I`m straining to follow 
the JBA carrier from the NW, as FEBC Jeju Island is scheduled to 
change from Japanese to Chinese circa 1345 when the signal toward 
North America drops dramatically with pattern change toward the west 
rather than east. And it does: fortunately a slight fade-up first, 
making the cut at 1344:31 more obvious, but during the following 
minute I can still detect it. There was little doubt about 1566, but 
lacking any axual audio, this bit makes it even more definite.

This is not a good TP morning, as only 3 other carriers were detected 
lowband. And local sunrise here is 1340, creeping to 1344 at the 
latest in a biweek, so a few more better chances to observe this. I 
wonder what the true bearings are of 1566 major lobes as both Japan 
and China cover large portions of the compass from so close. If 
centred on Tokyo it would favor Argentina beyond, while the direct 
path to Enid goes west of Japan as far north as Anchorage (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1570, Dec 15 at 2009, once again I am checking for early skywave from XERF, like the past two afternoons, 3+ hours before sunset --- but listening until 2023, it does not emerge from the jumble. Shows how variable conditions can be even for daytime MW DX (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1961, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Dec 14 from 0645: 
531, 549, 576, 585, 612, 621, 639, 666, 738, 747, 774*, 801, 837, 846
(2 --- one of them Kiribati TP?), 882, 909, 936(2), 954(6 kHz from 
local), 999, 1017, 1026, 1035, 1044*, 1053, 1089, 1098, 1125(2). (By 
now it`s 0708 as I doze off and undoze:) 1134(2), 1305(2), 1314, 1413
(2), 1485(2), 1503*, 1521, 1539(2), 1575, 1584(2), 1602. *=stronger 
ones; tried for audio on some but no go. (2)=at least two carriers 
beating. Quite a haul. 

Then at 0715 I check LW to find: 162, 180, 198(2), 216, but some of 
those could be beaconish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search from 0706 past 
0715+ UT Dec 22: 531, 549, 558, 621, 657, *684 with some talk, 200 kW 
RNE Sevilla, Spain? most likely; 693, 774, 801, 837, 846-or 
Kiritimati?, 855, 882, 909, 936(2), 954, 999, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1098, 
1107, 1116, 1125, 1134, 1152, 1215, 1305, 1413, 1539. Quite a haul 
this late in Europe, but it is the longest night. 

1305 & 1413 are often the best/only ones in the upperband, so whence 
most likely? Both Spain by proximity rather than power, multiple Radio 
5 synchro transmitters adding up to 75 and 25 kW resp. It`s a bit late 
on 1413 for the 500 kW from Pridnestrovye or 600 kW from BBC Oman 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Dec 22 at 1328 pre
-sunrise: not much from NW except 747, 774, 882 and 1566: see KOREA 
SOUTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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