[IRCA] Glenn Hauser, OK, MW logs, Jan 21-22 in UT

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some people have been wondering about my getting WNAX-570 South Dakota in the daytime here in Enid OK. Is it skywave, especially in midwinter? NO. I get it all the time, month-in and month-out, QRN level permitting. It is always under much stronger KLIF Dallas, and not really listenable, and with a slow SAH. (Calculated at 3.4 Hz on Jan 22)

Last time I was in OKC at midday, Jan 15, I checked on the caradio, and WNAX was still audible there, despite stronger signal from KLIF than in Enid, of course. Approximate distance Yankton-OKC is only 400 miles, not as far as you might think, since there is nowhere closer in SD than Yankton in the SE tip, and the path is across our high-ground-conductivity Great Plains.

I would love to try for further KFYR-550 Bismarck ND, which also has a tremendous coverage area; if only KFRM in Kansas would go away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UT Logs afternoon of Jan 21 on caradio as I was driving around or parked at various Enid spots:

1540 at 2042, ``ESPN Deportes Radio, 15-40 AM`` IDs more than once, with the ``ESPN`` letters pronounced as in English, no doubt mandated by management. Promo for station ad sales with 214 AC soon gave away the source. Fortunately The Dallas Metroplex has three overlain area codes so they have to give 10-digit phonumbers. 

This was atop the channel, probably KXEL skywave underneath. Amid SS, inserted a Selective Service System PSA in English, seemed aimed at guest aliens about the need to register. Never heard call-letter ID, but NRC AM Log 2009-2010 shows it as KZMP, COL University Park, 32 kW in daytime, U4 antenna. 

FCC AM Query shows a neat 3-lobe pattern, with peaks at 90, 190 and 285 degrees; nulls at 145, 230 and 355 (rounded off, measured only every 5 degrees). We are somewhere around 345-350 degrees, so suspect the pattern was out of whack to be putting such a dominant signal in here, and certainly skywave, not groundwave. 

See http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=63551 

Even stranger, FCC lists night power as 0.0 kW, yet includes all the antenna parameters, a similar but different pattern with 5 lobes, the major one due east. But on the pattern plot, power shows as 750 watts night, matching NRC AM Log info.

Meanwhile, Metroplex Spanish on 1440 was inbooming, in fact far stronger than OKC`s 1460 KZUE groundwave. No wonder, as KTNO is now 50 kW in daytime on what was once a 10-kW regional channel.

25+ hours after 1440 was dominated by KTNO, Spanish from The Metroplex, tried again on caradio Jan 22 at 2200 UT and immediately heard ID for WGEM in Quincy IL. Now there`s a heritage call which has managed to survive; I think I picked up their TV channel 10 in the 1960s long before I heard the AM. But it`s no full service radio, now just another ESPN affiliate per NRC AM Log listing. By 2206 Spanish music from KTNO was atop.

I wonder how 1540`s KZMP calls possibly correlate with a Spanish slogan, or with ESPN. Or are they just random? ``Zumbido más potente``? But there is no hum, hmmm.

Also wonder how the network ESPN could come up with a Spanish or English slogan to match the letters, which long ago became a meaningless corporate initialism, rather than Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, as was the original cable TV channel (I think). How about 

``Extremely Silly Passion Network``
``Estúpidos Son Para Nosotros``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1060, Jan 21 at 2054 UT, financial talk about derivatives, ``Off the Wall Street Radio Network`` --- not sure if that was a joke? No, googled this about Phil`s Gang Radio Show, and the time matches 20-21 UT: http://chataboutit.com/about/phils-gang-radio-show/
Apparently that ``network`` applies only to this one show, like EIB.

But whence on 1060? Retuned after hourtop at 2105, ad mentioned ``here in Boulder``, then ``AM 1060 and 1580, Business Radio`` in Colorado. So it`s KRCN, COL Longmont, 50 kW in daytime. 1580 refers to KKKK Colorado Springs; NRC AM Log shows them both as ``The Big Money Station``, not a slogan I heard. 1060 was so steady for so long that I was wondering if I had a new semi-close station by groundwave, normally vacant in daytime, but no, this was skywave (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1220, South Asian music dominating the channel, Jan 21 at 2124, in fact classical sitar music, nice! 2130 switched to vocal S Asian music. Only problem a bit of splash from semi-local WBBZ 1230 Ponca City OK. 

Lots of music, lacking ads or other announcements, even at drivetime! Should also make it a good companion if it streams. Finally at 2139 gave phone number 972-243-8411, i.e. Dallas. 2200 kept playing music past hourtop, a song with instrumental accompaniment including bagpipes. 2204 dead air as I had to tune away, but still there at 2225 check. 

Uplooked later in NRC AM Log, this is KZEE, COL Weatherford TX, Asian ethnic as ``Hot Pepper 1220`` and ``South Asian Radio`` with only 1.6 kW day power, so doing a good job here on afternoon skywave. Is Midwest City OK KTLV still on? Rarely audible here and no problem for KZEE`s Enid listener. 

Yes, it does stream, autolaunching from http://www.radiohotpepper.com/ And is there a program/language schedule? Of course not! But there is quite a gallery of hosts, most of them not accompanied by specific time slots. Refers to format as ``Indi-Tex``, and shows radio-locator map from site W of Ft Worth so skews eastward, but not nulled usward.

Also 24 hours after 1220 was dominated by KZEE, Hot Pepper 1220, one of The Metroplex ethnic stations, Jan 22 at 2200 on the caradio I could barely make out its South Asian music in the pileup.

The Metroplex sure has a lot of Asian stations of various ilx, as well as Spanish ones all over the AM dial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1190, Jan 21 at 2148 UT, promo for a silly ballgame in Lubbock, but then ID as ``CNN 1190`` so has to be KFXR Dallas, which has a minor lobe almost due north, besides the major lobes to the WSW and ESE from site W of Dallas. Do they reach Lubbock with that, day or night? It`s the original KLIF facility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

1210, Jan 21 at 2152, heard ID in English as ``ESPN Radio``, apparently atop KGYN. Only thing that fits per NRC AM Log listings is WSKR, COL Denham Springs LA, near Bâton Rouge with 10 kW, tho there`s another ESPN in SW Utah, a bit too early for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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