[IRCA] KS & OK MW notes from Grant County

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mostly-Kansas MW observations on a mini-DX pedition Saturday afternoon Sept 26 to a quiet rural location on State Hwy 11a about halfway between US 64/81/60 junxion due N of Enid, and State Hwy 11 on the way to Wakita, Nissan caradio tuning in 10-kHz steps only:

526 kHz, tuned to 530 kHz could hear weak beacon (weacon?), sending OJ over and over in code, which is in Olathe, Johnson County KS near Kansas City, per the exhaustive list Bill Hepburn provides at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
No HAR or TIS audible on 530 itself.

690, KGGF Coffeyville KS heard closing a classic cowboy-music show at 1659 UT Sat, but no title heard. I will look it up on the KGGF website: yeah, sure, can`t find any such site. Maybe starts at 1606. Altho the closing bit I heard had a religious subtext, I want to check the show further, as I would put up with some of that to hear the ilk of the Sons of the Pioneers. Axually, I heard this in Enid before going to the site, but 10 kW KGGF has broad semi-local coverage.

910 had IBOC noise at 1917 UT, which must have been coming from Wichita on 900 as there is nothing strong enough on 920; and 890 has strong OK signal tho I think I could hear some IBOC noise under it. 2009-2010 NRC AM Log confirms that KSGL 900 Wichita does run IBOC. 250 watts daytime power. I had never noticed the IBOC from it with weaker signal inside Enid.

1000, KTOK OKC, IBOC has not been heard for a few weeks at occasional daytime chex, so I am beginning to think it is off for good. But it used to be intermittent, so maybe I have just been lucky.

1280, semi-local KSOK Arkansas City KS missing! At 1919 UT check and still when back home at 2050. The website http://www.ksokfm.com/ is very much alive, tho mostly about their FM on 95.9 with a link to 1280.

1600.2, off-frequency het I have been hearing for many months even in daytime against KUSH 1600 Cushing OK, was stronger at the DXpedition site than at home in Enid, leading me to believe it is from a KS station rather than TX. That would KMDO in Fort Scott, SE Kansas, 770 watts day, 35 night, both non-direxional. Some MetroPlex signals which reach Enid OK, e.g. 700 and 1040, did not make it to the DX site.

1610, Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA) HAR at 1912 UT with weather along the `pike from Kansas City to the OK border, voiced by synthetic woman. They have multiple transmitters, mostly on 1610, and no doubt I was hearing the closest one at South Haven. Sometimes have traces in Enid, but 1610 here daytimes is predominantly Great Salt Plains OK TIS. Yet the DX site was closer to GSP than Enid is.

1660, KXTR classical music weakly audible at 1914, groundwave from Kansas City (Glenn Hauser, Grant County OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      
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