[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, November 5, 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.

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KFXY Enid, I avoid not only because it blox three frequencies in the daytime, at least one at night, but because it`s nothing but gospel music and stupid ballgames; however, as I tuned across Nov 5 at 1253 UT, there was local news, including a week-old story about the latest sting of convenience store clerx arrested for selling beer to minors, a recurring problem here; soon outroed as ``CTB News in Ninety``, i.e. Chisholm Trail Broadcasting (also KCRC 1390), stix in a sesquiminute of edited local news (or olds) headlines here and there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, since I was still monitoring at 1415 UT Nov 5, a check to see if I can hear KDWN Las Vegas popping on at the proper November time for day-pattern switch: no, not yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1290, Nov 5 at 1359 UT I hear an ad for Four Corners Siding, and a 307-AC phone number more than once, but fades for ID; ~4 Hz SAH with something, probably our daytime dominator KWFS Wichita Falls. 

So it has to be in AZ, NM, CO or UT, right? The only 1290 in those states is in faraway Tucson. And no, 307 is Wyoming! So KOWB Laramie, as in Cowboy altho NRC shows its current format as news/talk/sports. And Google confirms there is a Four Corners Siding in Laramie, as well as Cheyenne (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1300, Nov 5 at 1400 UT, ad for McCook, then Open Line with Rich Barnett; so KBRL in Nebraska now definitely logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, Nov 5 at 1401 UT, AP Radio News, in null of KNSS Wichita, including Conan O`Brien starts Monday night on TBS. Optional cutaway at 1402:30 is taken by this station, enough news, already! Advanced timecheck for 3 after 9, ad for Veteran`s Day performances Sat Nov 13 7 pm, Sunday Nov 14 10:50 am at First Baptist Church, Monahans; 1404, it`s 9:04 at KCKM, then weatherfemale from Channel 9 [KWES Midland, really RF9, no longer COL Monahans]. Signal is now peaking, and it`s the one which has to be nulled in order to hear KNSS. KCKM Monahans TX, 5 kW, with CP for 12 kW to bother KNSS even more. Calls derive from KCKN 1020 Roswell NM, of which KCKM is a subsidiary relaying it part time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1550, Nov 5 at 1251 UT as I was tuning across, heard ``New Mexico Talk Radio`` slogan and call sounded like KMBA, but it`s really KIVA as per NRC AM Log. Was atop lots of other signals on the FRG-7, with the usual SW antenna, E-W longwire. I shall not believe this was on night power of 27 watts instead of day power of 10000. NRC does not show KIVA as having a PSRA, altho November sunrise in Albuquerque is not until 1345 UT, as we well know when KKOB 770 switches to day pattern audiblizing itself eastward. 

The calls KIVA have been all over the place in past years, seldom pertaining to a real Indian station. FCC callsign history shows 1550 has been KIVA since 05/18/2009, before that KQNM, and down the list KQEO. When I was living in Albuquerque, there was no local on 1550, so apparently the earlier calls applied to 920. Yes, history for present KSVA 920 shows before 01/23/1995 it was KQEO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


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