[IRCA] KXNT 840 NV makes it to OK at LSR

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U S A. 840, Aug 28 at 1159 UT, tune in just in time for air conditioner ad from theyesman.com, I thought, but Googling leads instead to http://www.theyesmancan.com/ in Las Vegas NV --- and hurried legal ID for ``Newsradio 100.5, KXNT-FM`` and 840, plus some other frequencies, translators?, bong and into CBS news from this network-owned station. 

(W9WI.com shows KXNT-FM on 100.5 is really licensed to Henderson, 100 kW at 357 meters, format ``soft adcon`` [what`s that?], so it`s another victim of the migration of AM formats to FM. Plus they have an application to move to another site with higher AAT, 459 meters, and much lower power, 5.6 kW.)

Weak but steady signal, and no sign of KTIC or WHAS nor anything else on 840. Both day and night patterns of KXNT are supposed to have a deep null toward the east, except for a very tiny lobe. Recently heard them earlier in the 11 UT hour with `Coast to Coast` on delayed PDT feed. I do think their pattern is out of whack, so a good bet for rare Nevada, eastwards. Fading out by 1205. Today`s Enid LSR was 1200 UT. Checked 720 for KDWN at 1203 UT, but it must be in whack, nothing heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

Earlier report:

** U S A. 840, August 16 around 1115 UT, guy talking about stories in 
Hindu scripture that strongly resemble an atomic explosion thousands 
of years ago, and how Robert Oppenheimer, father of the A-bomb, 
frequently referred to them; shivering Shiva! Sounds like Coast-to-
Coast fare. 

WHAS would normally be the dominant signal at night but it`s well 
after sunrise there and surely would not be running C2C after 7 am EDT 
(It is on the C2C affiliate list at 1-5 am EDT, ending at 1000 UT). 
Also looped more E/W than would fit for WHAS. Could it be KXNT Las 
Vegas NV?

Yes, the two 840 affiliates on C2C site are WHAS and KXNT. C2C is on 
KXNT schedule weekdays 12-5 am PDT = 07-12 UT, per 
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/kxnt-programming-schedule/
I had not realized it`s a CBS O&O station, no less so than WCBS or 
WBBM. Trouble is, KXNT day and night patterns are supposed to have 
only a tiny lobe to the east, with major lobes to the north and SSW, 
50 kW day and 25 kW night. Weak but steady signal, no QRM, and still 
in at 1135 when Coast to Coast AM was mentioned. 

BTW, I`m still hoping to hear KDWN 720 again, but have not since many 
mornings in Oct 2010, when they were switching to day pattern an hour 
too early. Maybe this year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 
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