[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, October 30-November 10, 2011

[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.
         
These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as
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** CANADA. CBC Radio One`s `Ideas` this week is a series about the 75th anniversary of CBC; I hope to catch them all on webcasts: UT Tue-Sat first airing at 0005 to the AT/NT zones, e.g. CBN, and repeated at 0105, 0205, 0305 and 0405 to westward zones. Off to a disappointing start: the narrator said twice that the original CFCF in Montreal was `WXA` instead of correct proto-calls XWA as any radio historian should know (Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DGIEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 2850, Nov 10 at 1307, S9+15 KCBS with emphatic Korean talk; 4450 also had Korean talk atop jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** MEXICO. 1030, Nov 1 at 1355 UT, was not expecting to hear a Mexican an hour after sunrise here, but there are Grupo Fórmula promos, 1356 Banco de México ad listing lots of 0800 toll-free numbers, roughly from east/west, 1358 losing out to C&W station. First I figured it might be Tijuana still in darkness, but that`s not Fórmula, instead per Cantú:
1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500
IRCA agrees on the group for this one, but Tampico, now surely too far east into dayside, is on another Fórmula network. Sunrise in Juárez was 1322 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1040, Nov 6 at 1251 UT, convenient ID at tune-in, ``Desde Guaymas, Sonora, México, Radio Vida``, i.e. XEGYS, tho Cantú still names this ``La Primera``, 5 kW day and 250 watts night, which it surely is on the Mexican Pacific coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, I sure am hearing KGYN Guymon a lot at night, when it is supposed to be nulling toward Philadelphia, not far from the Enid azimuth. Nov 6 at 1248 UT, dominant country music on frequency, while official November sunrise in the center of No Man`s Land is 1330 UT. FCC shows in CST with [UT] added:

Monthly Local Sunrise Times
November    7:30 [1330]
December    7:45 [1345]
January     8:00 [1400]
February    7:30 [1330]
  
Monthly Local Sunset Times 
November    5:30 [2330]
December    5:30 [2330]
January     6:00 [0000]
February    6:30 [0030]
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1600, Oct 29 around 2050, seems like Cushing`s KUSH is open carrier, only, but at least a carrier instead of nothing (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 660, Nov 5 at 1300 after some C&W music, missed ID but now CNN News about death at 92y of Andy Rooney, CBS, RIP. 1305 fade during another ID but after some more country music, English announcement and then into another language, sure sounded like Navajo as CCI grew. Altho this was looping east-west, I had been dismissing KTNN Window Rock AZ/NM as a possibility since it`s half a sesquihour before sunrise there and they should still be nulling toward WFAN and me. Official November sunrise is 1345 UT, December 1415, January 1430. (i.e. 7:45 am MDT Nov 5, 6:45 am MST from Nov 6. Watch out for many MW stations to power up at wrong time tomorrow.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 660, Nov 6 at 1310 UT, Indian chanting and drumming from the east/west, vs Dallas/Omaha from the N/S, no doubt KTNN AZ again radiating eastward long before local sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Nov 1 at *1345 UT, KKOB Albuquerque cuts on non-direxional 50 kW day pattern with programming about stox in progress, no greeting to us eastward listeners. Good signal held up for several minutes despite starting a semihour later than in Oct. Official sunrise gets later and later, 1400 in Dec, 1415 in Jan, while sunset is oblately at its earliest, 0000 UT, both in Nov and Dec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 830, Nov 2 at 1303 UT, ending Huckaby rant, ``My Talk 830, KOTC``, local news, briefly audible with WCCO nulled. This is the 10 kW daytimer widely accused of cheating at night, COL Kennett MO in the Bootheel, but address in Poplar Bluff, and supposedly moving to Memphis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 840, Oct 31 at 1334 UT, ABC News, into GEICO ad, 1336 ad for Chevy pickup dealer in Osceola, seed company in West Point, KTIC mentioned in passing. Osceola presumably referring to the little town SW of West Point in Nebraska, not the Osceola in IA. KTIC is 5 kW daytimer, which on a good quiet day can be detected here by groundwave, but this was still skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, Oct 31 at 1328 UT, religion in Spanish, outro as ``Un Nuevo Día`` with 817-AC phone, i.e. Fort Worth TX; also weak Spanish music audible when nulled, maybe remnant of XETAR in Chihuahua; and at 1331 also a WWL ID still made it thru. But at 1333 dominant was praise music in Spanish from KFJZ, allegedly known as Radio Fortaleza, but that slogan not yet heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1260, Oct 31 at 1315 UT, something in Spanish from NE/SW, but doubt it`s Mexico now. 1321 ad in Spanish for Greater Iowa Credit Union, Des Moines, ID as ``La Reina 12-60``, inviting kiddies to come to the station, address given, today at 4-6 pm to get some free sweets for Hallowe`en. NRC AM Log shows KDLF Boone IA, 5000/33/225 watts U3, 924 West Second St in Boone, birthplace of Mamie Eisenhower, which is quite a distance NW of Des Moines, so did they give a DM address for the dulces? I guess `the queen` doesn`t connote in Spanish what it does in English; altho I remember there was once a KWEN in Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1350-, Nov 4 at 1249 UT, dominant signal is ``Pueblo`s sports station, Homer 13-50``, with rumbling het. Comparing to adjacent frequencies, stepping with BFO, this one is definitely off, to the low side.

It`s now KDZA, after a frequency/call swap with 1230, which went on to become KKPC, on the Colorado Public Radio network. But the original KGHF 1350 Pueblo was one of my earliest DX catches in 1953-1954 when I started in Santa Rosa NM on the 1941 AM/SW Philco console with built-in rotatable box loop, still residing in my Enid attic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1460, Nov 1 at 1332, long list of unrecognizable local businesses, but one mentioned Burleson, and area code 817-645 ----. Show seems to be named ``Trade Fare`` (Fair?), i.e. KCLE in Cleburne but COL Burleson TX, 11 kW day power, way over KZUE in OK which is the 1460 occupant here daytimes once skywave dies out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier scan on DX-398, internal antenna only, 9 kHz steps in USB mode, Oct 31 at 1251 found only JBA carriers on 828, 774 and 747, all very likely NHK Japan. Today`s Enid sunrise was 1253. In one week it will be exactly 1300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search before 1300 UT sunrise in Enid, Nov 4, on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, 9 kHz steps with offset BFO for easily perceptible beats:

>From the northwest at 1240: 774, 792, 1134 (this one oscillating slightly, caused by a 1 Hz SAH between two carriers?); and at 1247 on 828.

>From the southwest: 738 is strongest of all at 1238, but no audio, KRMG-740 Tulsa still a big problem. Presumably Tahiti.

702 at 1246, carrier is more westerly than 738, presumably 2BL, ABC Sydney, Australia. True bearings from Enid are 232 degrees for Papeete, 256 degrees for Sydney. These correlate nicely! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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