[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, November 12-19, 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.

** KOREA NORTH. Besides the het on Honduras 3250 until 1157, some other lowband signals were making it but only poorly Nov 18, better a semihour later: 2850 with soprano sing, 3480 with het vs the counter-revolutionaries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 1060, Nov 16 around 0115 on caradio I notice a fast SAH between Mexican music, surely 100 kW XEEP Radio Educación, which per WRTH is a rare remaining clear channel station with no other Mexicans on 1060; in fact, only XERF 1570 is likewise, since the former big commercial clears on 540, 730, 900, 1220 have long since been broken down.

SAH is with religion in English, presumably WLNO New Orleans. Which one is that far off, or is one plus, one minus? SW counterpart XEPPM 6185 is significantly off to the low side, always producing fast SAH with Vatican or Brasil. At 0300 recheck, now only Brother Scare to be heard, via WLNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Tulsa market TV/radio news alignments: 1170, KFAQ, Nov 12 at 1404 UT quoting Fox 23 [KOKI-22] local news and weather items in ``KFAQ News Time``; 740, KRMG, Nov 12 at 1407 with traffic report from News on 6 [KOTV-45]. So where on the radio may we hear news from KJRH-8 and KTUL-10? KRMG has added an FM relay, but not KFAQ, backward.

May I suggest that traffic reporting, at least, is more appropriate from radio stations to be quoted by TV stations, as there are few TVs in cars, and no one can hear `channel 6` on FM any more. But then, TV stations are more likely to have choppers, altho often outsourced and no longer essential for locating hazards and jams (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1390, Nov 18 at 1736 UT I am about 20 miles south of Enid, and astonishingly am hearing co-channel QRM under local KCRC, only one hour before low noon. This time of year on hiband it`s conceivable that residual skywave could be in play, e.g. from KGNU Denver CO, 5 kW ND, where it is a semihour earlier by the sun, but there are 1390s, one or two in every state adjacent to OK, the closest being 5 kW KFFK Rogers AR, and 500 W KNCK Concordia KS. Those two and most of the others are non-direxional but KCRC main lobe is 280 degrees day and night, evidently to protect Rogers, and diminishing its own signal to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1560, Nov 16 at 2057:30 UT I do catch a quick ``1560 KEBC`` ID from Radio Disney, confirming the latest call change. Seems R. Disneys never ID right at the hourtop, so tune-in early is necessary. Many new calls for this net`s stations alluded to Disney characters, e.g. 620 KMIK Plano TX; (Defunct 1380 KMUS was lucky coincidence, from Muskogee to Mouse). But can`t think of anything to fit KEBC beyond a rather lame ``Kids Enjoy BroadCasting``.

1560 was KOCY for quite a while, then in early October, 1340 KEBC was renamed KGHM as in game, but Clear Channel wanted to park the KEBC calls somewhere, so moved them to 1560. What about KOCY now, which would seem a more natural call for a station in Oklahoma City? FCC Queries show it unassigned to any AM, FM or TV station anywhere as of Nov 16, so CC apparently let the most historic set loose (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PS: Happy anniversary, State of Oklahoma

** U S A. 720, WGN, Extension 720 continues to be an oasis of intelligent discussion on the commercial MW band tnx to Milt Rosenberg, especially if the topic does not lend itself to Milt making anti-Obama remarx, such as UT Nov 19, on the significance of The Lord`s Prayer. As always, here in OK one must put up with periodic fades down by WGN, and fades up by Spanish KSAH San Antonio, whose subaudible heterodyne is an almost constant annoyance. 

Extension 720 is at 0405-0600 UT, had been UT Tue-Sat, but at the end Milt said from now on it will be local Sunday thru Thursday nites (except of course when pre-empted by stupid ballgames), instead of M-F, so in UT that makes it really Monday thru Friday. Website also provides lots of (too many) ways to listen online:
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/

Who takes over on UT Saturdays? Nick Digilio at 04-08, as well as UT Sundays 00-04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1460, Nov 16 at 1329 UT, PSA for 4-H, today`s hi temp to be 58 degrees, ``southeast Kansas` sports leader is ESPN 1460``, back to Mike & Mike show. Nothing heard in Spanish from KZUE El Reno OK, even when nulling ESPN. NRC AM Log shows KKOY Chanute KS as TLK/SPT but does not list ESPN for it. FCC AMQ shows KKOY as non-direxional day and nite, but cuts from 57 watts night to 1000 watts day, November sunrise being 1300 UT. KZUE has the same transition time from 137 to 500 watts. In full daytime groundwave mode we only hear much closer KZUE here from Radio Road. Recheck near low noon at 1820 UT, KZUE Spanish music dominates, but when nulled there is a fast SAH of 15-20 Hz, surely KKOY (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, WPJK, Orangeburg SC: since I have been missing it in the mornings, seeking it in the afternoon before 2215* UT as required by FCC for this daytimer. Nov 16 tune-in at 2214 and can detect the carrier but no audio in high noise level, plus it`s fading out and in. But it doesn`t go off at 2215: still 2216, 2217, 2218, 2219 --- then cuts off at 2220, five minutes late. That`s nothing compared to signing on a semihour too early the first week of November (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 3160, WPJK, Orangeburg SC is still signing on half an hour later than necessary in November: official FCC sunrise is at 1200 UT, but nothing there Nov 18. Carrier on from *1229:49, but no sign-on until 1232:20, 1233 right into usual Gospel Train music, S9+15 on 2 x 1580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 639, quite a het against WWLS 640 on the caradio, which is not too dominant here at night; could not tell on which side, around 0115 UT Nov 16 as I was on the way to Golden Corral`s free meal for veterans. At first I thought it could be another off-frequency Cuban, matching the het on 860 from 861, and also on 530 from LYQ 529; and quickly 10-stepping thru the band did not hear any other hets. But lacking so far any reports of Cuba-off, now I assume it was really a TA signal, the powerhouses listed being Cyprus, Czechia, Spain, Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Nov 16 at 1316-1322 UT, downward on DX-398 in USB mode, 9 kHz steps, BFO slightly off-tuned for easy spotting: 1566, 1377, 1287, 1188, 1179, 1134, 1116, 1008, 972, 828, 774, 747, 594 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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