[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, November 2-3, 2010

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. MW log editors are welcome to excerpt items, reformat and change to favorite timezone if necessary. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; some caradio as specified; above 2 MHz on FRG-7 with 110-foot east-west longwire.
  
** MEXICO. Nov 3 I was snoozing thru the sunrise skip window from NW Mexico, yet at the late hour of 1328 UT I am hearing Spanish on 710 in the null of KEEL Shreveport [see USA], and sure enough, soon copy ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` jingle. XEDP normally peaks about an hour earlier, and Chihuahua is prettymuch gone by 1300. By 1347, KGNC Amarillo is dominating 710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, on caradio in western Enid, Nov 2 at 1820, WGN with promo, weak but steady. This is only one dodekaminute before local mean noon here which is always at 1832 UT (and means we should be in the UT-7 zone, not UT -6, let alone UT -5 we have been forced to observe for the past almost 8 months!). 

The sun is now low enough to allow residual skywave over more than a megameter from Chicago, as we observe periodically within a sesquimonth of winter solstice. Also, there is CCI on KLTT Denver, which normally has 670 to itself at the edge of its groundwave, so no doubt signs of WSCR Chicago. By 1912 recheck, WGN was a bit stronger. However, nothing unusual higher up the band, notably 1690 where I look for WVON Chicago, with 10 kW non-direxional at topend of the band ought to be skywavable, but such openings seem to favor lowend, akin to groundwave. WBBM 780 might make it too, or WLS 890, but both those are blocked by OK stations in the daytime.

570 seemed a bit strange. Normally, KLIF TX dominates but there is always WNAX SD audio underneath causing a slow SAH. At 1825, there were signs of another SAH from a third very weak signal, but no third audio. It seems the most likely source by distance would be 1 kW WKYX in Paducah KY, tho it has a null toward Dallas; would not expect it at all by groundwave, thru the poor-conductivity Ozarx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, checking again for KDWN Las Vegas, Nov 3 at 1315 UT discussion of the elexion ``here in Nevada`` but it`s really an ABC News correspondent via WGN, tsk; 1317 Chicago traffic, of little interest in LV. 

At 1332 KSAH in Spanish is up producing usual 4 Hz SAH with WGN, mentioning San Antonio College, still no KDWN, which apparently is not switching to day pattern at 1315 instead of correct 1415 for November (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 710, Nov 3 at 1326 UT, news in English from NW/SE, soon obviously from KEEL Shreveport LA, since refers to ``our state`` and Louisiana, Katrina consequences. Tho 50/5 kW, this one is seldom heard here, with deep null toward us, major lobes from SW to SE, day and night. See also MEXICO. By 1347, KGNC Amarillo is dominating 710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 1030, Nov 3 at 1335 I am getting financial/stox news in Spanish from E/W, mentions both pesos and dólares, stingers between each item; definitely not N/S so not KCTA which is bilingual religious. Then at 1340 a second station in Spanish with romantic music, 1343 both of them talking, but too much CCI to sort them out. 

While there are several US Spanish stations on 1030, most likely by far here is WGSF Memphis TN, now on day power of 50 kW and non-direxional per NRC Pattern Book. Strangely, I don`t recall hearing it before. The other one, likely XEYC R. Fórmula, Ciudad Juárez, Chih., or possibly XEMPM, R. Fama, Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, since WPJK Orangeburg SC second harmonic was already on the air a few minutes before legal sunrise 1200 UT Nov 2, I started monitoring Nov 3 at 1125. Nothing there until *1139 abrupt carrier on and standard sign-on announcement a few sex later, mentioning name of general manager, who is obviously clueless about his harmonic or when he should sign on. 

So do they still intend to sign on at the illegal November time of 1130? That of course makes it more DXable, but surely not the reason. Right into Gospel Train with its ``conductor``, beginning with `Q` in Morse toots, the same signal heard by compression waves in Enid and everywhere from trains warning of approaches to street crossings. Next check more than hour later at 1251, the 3160 carrier could still be detected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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