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[IRCA] MW DX from Enid, OK, Sept 24-Oct 1, 2010
- Subject: [IRCA] MW DX from Enid, OK, Sept 24-Oct 1, 2010
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
** JAPAN [and non]. John Wilkins` capture in Colorado before sunrise of NHK on MW 774 prompted me to try for this one again, as last year it also made it to OK. Sept 25 at 1152 UT I do detect a carrier on 774 from the NW, which is surely JOUB, Akita-2, 500 kW.
Close to KSPI Stillwater OK, with its spurs on 774 and 786, we have to
be careful! But the Sept sign-on for this daytimer is 1215 UT and it
has no PSSA, per NRC AM Log; in October it will be *1230. [corrected below]
On the DX-398 set to 9 kHz, I stepped thru the entire MW band with BFO
on and could only detect one other TP carrier, on 1098, which everyone
assumes is V7AB, Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS, 25 kW, leaving its carrier
on all-night after 1130 sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1098, only carrier on a trans-Pacific/Region 3 frequency
I could detect in a complete MW bandscan, Sept 27 around 1235, close
to local sunrise. Looped from the NW on the DX-398, presumably
Marshall Islands. Need to do this a semihour earlier, or much earlier
for them to be outputting any audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Oct 1 from 1156 UT started a MW bandscan with the DX398 indoors, only built-in ferrite bar antenna but with AC, set on 9 kHz steps, with BFO slightly off-tuned, to detect trans-Pacific carriers, and found a lot of them but none strong enough for modulation, in the order logged until 1205: 828, 747, 594, 567, 558, 693, 855- (off-frequency to lo side, so North Korea), 873, 891, 1053, 1098, 1134, 1242, 558; weakening by 1212. I expect many of them were superpower NHK outlets. See also OKLAHOMA: KSPI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Correxions necessary re my previous remarx about KSPI 780 Stillwater. Tho a daytimer, October official sunrise being 1230 UT, it was already on at 1209 Oct 1 with ONN newscast, mixing with a Mexican but not WBBM. NRC AM Log says it has no PSSA, which in a Sept 25 log under JAPAN, I mistook for PSRA: KSPI cannot stay on post-sunset, but obviously it can sign on pre-sunrise, probably at 6 am = 1100 UT. (It is impossible to nail down which stations have PSRA and which do not since FCC has disposed of its records of such authorizations!) FYI, official KSPI sunsets in UT are: Oct 0000, Nov & Dec 2315, Jan 2330, Feb 0015.
Furthermore, I said in that log and in previous ones dated Aug 7 and March 17, that KSPI`s spurs are on 774 and 786 kHz, i.e. 6 kHz above and below. But they are really on 776 and 784, i.e. 4 kHz above and below, as I originally reported on Feb 8! So there is no problem confusing the lower one with NHK on 774, on a 1-kHz-step tuner.
I was confused because I often hear these on the 10-kHz step caradio, where they also put 6-kHz, not 4-kHz hets on weak 770 and 790 signals, and it`s broad enough to audiblize them. Of course, these spurs, wherever they are, need to be eliminated. I wonder if anyone can get them beyond my groundwave range from this 250-watter (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. After surveying TP carriers Oct 1, see UNIDENTIFIED, I switched the DX398 to 10 kHz steps and went after Mexicans. Still indoors, on AC, but only with built-in ferrite antenna, easy to null QRM if necessary. Local sunrise is 1227 UT.
650, at 1219, string of government PSAs starting with Pro-Víctima, 800 number to call, from the National Human Rights Commission, mixed with some commercials, 1222 ID as ``W [doble-u] Radio, Radio 65`` including old XEW chimes, and again a few sex later. WRTH 2010 has R. 65 slogan for XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 5/1 kW, but no mention of W. Cantú confirms W/Radio 65 for XETNT: http://mexicoradiotv.com/listsina.htm
710, at 1216, about 5 TCs by live DJ for 6:16 am, so no doubt it`s in CST/MDT zone, finally slogan as ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc``, i.e. XEDP in town of that name, Chihuahua, 7 kW day and 100 watts nite, no doubt already on day power.
770, at 1225, right after 650 log, a 6:25 [MDT] TC, ``Los 40 Principales desde Los Mochis, Sinaloa``, IFE PSA. So XEREV from same city, 1/0.1 kW says WRTH. It takes the SS eight syllables to say what we convey in three: Top 40.
870, had to try for this one after the above logs: at 1228 going from Spanish to native language, 1229 ID by YL in passing as XETAR, music, rooster crowing.
It`s the Tarahumara station in Guachochi, Chihua2, La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara, 10 kW daytimer 6 am-6 pm CST per illustrated: http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=872:xetar-la-voz-de-la-sierra-tarahumara-&catid=35&Itemid=200018
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
and some earlier logs, which I hope I have not posted here before:
** U S A. Unusually tuning across MW on a Saturday evening, UT Sept 26
at 0339, surprised to hear something other than talk on KMOX 1120:
``Laura``, and soon break by DJ in ``Johnny Rabbitt`s Route 66 on
KMOX``. Also mentioned the KMOX Wax Museum; more oldies, classic rock,
with extensive comments from Mr. Rabbitt, who used to be on KXOK 630.
There was IBOC noise fading up and down, coming from KFAB 1110, but
KMOX gives it right back to KFAB listeners with its own IBOC, also
bothering KWKH 1130 Shreveport LA.
So later I find the KMOX program schedule, which shows quite a bit of
variety, but what is CBS, once a reputable news network, doing,
propagating Rush Limbaugh? Here`s the full sked, in CDT = UT -5.
http://kmox.cbslocal.com/programming-schedule/
WEEKDAYS
12:00 AM 5:00 AM Jon Grayson
5:00 AM 9:00 AM Total Information AM
9:00 AM 11:00 AM Charlie Brennan
11:00 AM 2:00 PM Rush Limbaugh
2:00 PM 4:00 PM Mark Reardon
4:00 PM 6:00 PM Total Information PM
6:00 PM 8:00 PM Dave Sinclair Automotive Group Sports Open Line
8:00 PM 12:00 AM John Carney
SATURDAYS
12:00 AM 5:00 AM Ralph Graczak
5:00 AM 8:00 AM Total Information AM Saturday
8:00 AM 11:00 AM KMOX Garden Hotline with Mike Miller
11:00 AM 2:00 PM KMOX Home Improvement Show with Scott Mosby
2:00 PM 4:00 PM KMOX Money Show with Mike Brown
4:00 PM 6:00 PM KMOX Auto Show with Greg Damon
6:00 PM 7:00 PM Voices of the Game with Dan McLaughlin
7:00 PM 8:00 PM The Comedy Show with John Carney
8:00 PM 1:00 AM Route 66 on KMOX with Johnny Rabbitt
SUNDAYS
1:00 AM 5:00 AM KMOX Radio Theatre
5:00 AM 6:00 AM This Week in Religion / Mormon Tabernacle Choir
6:00 AM 7:00 AM CBS News Weekend Roundup
7:00 AM 10:00 AM Total Information AM Sunday
10:00 AM 12:00 PM Sports on a Sunday Morning with Ron Jacober
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Golf Show with Dan Reardon
1:00 PM 2:00 PM Voices of the Game with Dan McLaughlin
2:00 PM 3:00 PM Real Estate Today with Gil Gross
3:00 PM 5:00 PM Dollars and Sense with Dave Simons
5:00 PM 6:00 PM Around the World in 60 Minutes with Michael Dixon
6:00 PM 7:00 PM Inside Baseball with Dan McLaughlin
7:00 PM 9:00 PM Charlie Brennan’s St. Louis
9:00 PM 11:00 PM John Carney Sundays
11:00 PM 12:00 AM Meet the Press with David Gregory
Note that they are no longer carrying 60 Minutes CBS-TV soundtrack at
6 pm Sundays, and incredibly, they are carrying NBC`s Meet the Press,
but apparently not CBS` Face the Nation, unless that`s part of the 7-
10 AM Sunday show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Just as I tuned by 1470, Sept 24 at 1233, heard ``NewsTalk
1470, KYYW`` ID but no location, back to Bill Bennett. Thank you very
much, no need to listen more than a few sex for his nonsense. KYYW is
in Abilene TX, maybe first time logged here.
O, I am sure I heard it sesquidecades ago under original calls KRBC,
which ended on 10/30/1984, and since then has had six other calls, the
current ones starting 6/24/2004, as conveniently compiled by FCC at
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=40997&Callsign=KYYW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
THANKS to everyone who replied about my 1521/1539 carriers, 1521 maybe Saudi Arabia at the very late hour of 0635 UT? (which I have not heard again)
I have compiled them all in latest DXLD 10-39, under UNIDENTIFIED. If you search on 1539 once you open the file you should find where the thread starts:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1039.txt
And you might find some other news of interest in that issue.
73, Glenn Hauser
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