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[IRCA] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, August 3-September 6, 2012
- Subject: [IRCA] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, August 3-September 6, 2012
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
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
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
These logs are in three sexions, Oklahoma, rest of USA, unidentified, separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order
** OKLAHOMA. 780, Sept 1 at 0505 UT, steady open carrier in WBBM OTR null, i.e. groundwave from KSPI Stillwater, left their 250-watt daytime-only transmitter on all night again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Aug 24 at 1204 UT, WKY either just came on or was
already running open carrier. This plus sharp groundwave null allowed
an SRS signal to come thru, thought to be KCCC Carlsbad NM, but see
UNIDENTIFIED. By 1228 recheck, La Indomable had begun modulating music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Sunday Sept 2 at 1206 UT, WKY OKC is still condescending to broadcast in perfect English for this semihour only, pubaffs interview show mentioning http://limpsforlife.org and other health matters, OU Medical Center; by 1229 it was back to Spanish music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, August 16 at 1103 UT I have been tuning down the MW
band looking for Mexican 6 am CDT NAs, sure to be followed by sign-ons
or at least full IDs, but the first anthem I come to is one very
rarely heard any more, orchestral ``Star Spangled Banner`` so must be
a station in El Norte. But no ID afterwards at 1104, but wherever it
is, the temp is 70 and it`s Thursday August 16; into C&W music. 1108
two anti-drunk-driving PSAs ``sponsored by`` NHTSA, so does that mean
they were axually paid spots instead of free PSAs???
Whatever became of social if not legal obligation by US radio stations
to donate PSA time? Still no local references, altho I`m sure this
signal completely dominating 1210 has to be KGYN Guymon, habitually on
day pattern before sunrise, not nulling toward Enid or Philadelphia
like it is supposed to. Finally at 1109 an ad for some business in
Elkhart/Liberal/Guymon, the first two being Kansas border towns very
much in KGYN`s market. 1110 into AgNews, presumably not Spiro T (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Aug 24 at 1212 UT, WBBZ Ponca City with local
announcer giving weather, and 1214 into sports. He has a way of
``swallowing`` every other syllable, but I can still understand him.
Nice to hear a real voice on a hometown station rather than a pro
announcer.
On Aug 28 around the same time there was a `pro` announcer; no offense
1230, Aug 29 at 1213, WBBZ has gone back to the syllable-swallowing
announcer with weather summary, after having heard a pro announcer
yesterday. Canned ID as ``1230 AM stereo, WBBZ, Ponca City``, and on
to sports news. 1221 ending that and back to music, ``Working at the
Carwash Blues``; same announcer becomes a DJ, Mike Beckwith(?) saying
he`s substituting for Bill & Andy (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1270, Sept 4 at 1222 UT, underneath KFLC Univisión América news (see USA), I hear that SHVA at 1225 exclaiming ``¡¡¡1270 AM, La Que Buena!!!``, so KRVT Claremore (Tulsa market) is still monickered thus. After skywave dies out in full daytime, KRVT has the groundwave edge here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1400, Sept 4 at 1239 UT, I luck into a ``KTMC, AM 1400`` ID as local KCRC 1390 splash relents for a moment. Not sure I`ve ever logged KTMC before, from McAlester. Most of the time, KCRC obliterates not only adjacents but second-adjacent frequencies (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1520, Sept 1 at 1220 UT, KOKC with YL host interviewing another YL on phone, about the necessity to protect oneself from all the electromagnetic energy surrounding us, with ``harmonizers`` and other gadgets to prevent cellular/DNA damage. Seems locally originated; and sounds like a scam; hostess buys into it; is this really an infomercial? KOKC program schedule at
http://www.kokcradio.com/programming.aspx
shows 6-9 am Saturday is `Third Opinion`. KOKC 50 kW clear-channel ought to be QRM-free, but some skywave from the east is still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Sept 3 at 1214 UT, ESPNdeportes.com selling its revista for 18 dólares. I have been suspecting this is the latest format for KXTD Wagoner (Tulsa market), since they moved Que Buena to 1270; various references including wikipedia and radio-locator still show that on 1530, and ESPN Deportes does not seem to have any affiliate list. Tunein.com lists it as sports talk, along with some definite ESPN Deportes stations elsewhere,
http://tunein.com/radio/KXTD-1530-s26570/
but says KXTD has no stream. New NRC AM Log shows it with Spanish religion. Which is it, Bruce? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 790, Aug 29 at 1232 UT, River City Casino ad, ``Cardinals
Report`` summarizing last nite`s BB game, report on ``extreme
commuting``, 1234 River View Resort ad. That casino is in St. Louis.
There are several resorts by that name, like Maine and Massachusetts,
but I`ll go with the one near Eureka Springs AR, so this is KURM in
Rogers AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** 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)
** 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, WORLD OF RADIO 1632, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
840, Aug 29 at 1159 UT, 24 hours after yesterday`s log, KXNT is in
again at weak and steady level with a different ad, ID primarily for
KXNT-FM, Newsradio 100.5, then 840, and also mentions HD, but could
not catch whether referring to AM or FM. NRC AM Log of last year does
list 840 as IBOC; CBS is a diehard supporter of this failed
technology.
Note: city of license of KXNT (AM) is North Las Vegas NV, not merely
Las Vegas. Could help minimize confusion with original Las Vegas in
NM, which has no North. This time held up a bit later after CBS
network news on hour; 1208 introducing more news with substitute
anchors, all the stories previewed being national, nothing about
LV/NV, so is this local origination or does CBS have a continuous
national radio newsfeed available to its own stations? KXNT could
simulcast KNX Los Angeles; note the similarity in calls. Note also the
happy coincidence that the heritage KNX calls came about long before
the all-nx format.
** U S A. 840, Aug 31 at 1159 UT, KXNT North Las Vegas NV heard again despite nominal pattern, with ID for FM 100.5, 840, HD on 840, HD-1 on 100.5. Does that mean they also have an HD-2 on FM with something else? Into CBS news. Weak but steady; we`ll see if anything change in September reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also 870
** U S A. 840, Sept 6 at 1208 UT, checking whether I can still hear KXNT Las Vegas NV in September as I was in August around this time. No, instead it`s an adstring including McDonalds, Cornly(?) Iron, 402 area code, ``the 840-pound radio gorilla of the Midwest, 840-Country``, 1210 joining the Rural Radio Network for AgNews. So it`s KTIC, West Point, Nebraska, 5 kW daytimer. NRC AM Log says nothing about gorillas, just the rather staid ``Information Center`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Aug 31 at 1210 UT, ending `CBS World News Roundup`, glad this still exists, as seldom encountered, expanded morning newscast not even on CBS` own KXNT 840 just tuned; over to local news from the KOAM-TV Newsroom, references to ``the four states``, but not corners. KKOW Pittsburg KS, which used to be KOAM radio, the letters standing for each of the four states; really a regular audible all day on GW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, August 29 at 1200 UT I am hearing Mexican music, no NA, 1201 quick legal ID mentioning Las Vegas. Call letters were pronounced in English but could not copy them. Listed as KLSQ, city of license
really Whitney NV. That was easy; heard this last year and it was
tough to get a definite ID vs other SS such as from The Metroplex.
Supposed to be 5 kW day, 430 watts nite, and it`s certainly night at 5
am local PDT (really 4 am PST). FCC shows non-direxional daytime;
nighttime with major lobe to NW, minor lobe at 85 degrees, which means
even less than 430 watts OKward if really on nite facilities, which I
seriously doubt. This was just after relogging neighbor 840 KXNT North
Las Vegas, also suspected out of whack but with much more power to
start with. Too late to be hearing WWL`s continuous Isaac coverage;
and where`s XETAR? See MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1632,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 910, Sept 4 at 0520 UT, just as I tune in, mentions South Dakota lottery, ID as ``KJJQ, The Ranch, AM 910`` --- i.e., 500 watt station whose COL is Volga, address in Brookings. Any Russian ranch music? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Haven`t heard 50 kW KXEN 1010 Festus lately? Here`s why (gh)
FCC Actions: 1010 KXEN MO St. Louis – Licensed for U4 50000/500, KXEN
has a CP for U4 50000/420. This action temporarily moves their
transmission to Tower #2 of the WGNU-920 transmitter site located 1.16
km east of the KXEN site with U1 350/125.
The land on which KXEN’s towers are located is being sold and the new
owners have indicated that the land will be used for commercial,
rather than as a broadcast tower site. The temporary facilities will
be in force until KXEN finds a new tower site and the facility can be
built (Bill Hale, NRC DX News Aug 13 via DXLD)
1010, August 29 at 1225 UT, several St. Louis ads with 314-AC phones,
call 511 for safe digging, 1230 ``KXEN, St. Louis` good news station,
joining you in prayer`` (huh??), and into a revival show from
Connecticut, live? At least mentioned today`s date.
I was looking for KXEN after reading this in the latest NRC DX News:
[as above]
The KXEN website http://www.kxen1010am.com says nothing about this,
still claiming 50 kW daytime coverage, with maps! Can`t find a program
schedule to check name of the 7:30 am show. FCC AM Query, besides the
originally licensed 50/0.5 kW facilities and a new 50 kW CP, also
shows a CP for 420 watts at night, and applications only for 350 watts
day, 125 watts night, but apparently the latter are already in use
now.
So I was really not expecting to hear KXEN this well, if at all. Poor
signal but atop the QRM at the moment. Note: the WGNU site is in
Illinois, near Granite City, as are the old and proposed KXEN sites
nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1632, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1010, Sept 5 at 1215 UT, station break between gospel huxters, ``We are 10-10 AM, KXEN, good news for Saint Louis``. Sufficient signal I find hard to believe is the alleged temporary 350 watt transmitter at WGNU in Illinois. Makes 6 bars on the DX-398 signal meter; what about 50 kW KMOX at same time? Also 6 bars! But must have been in a fade, since the latter soon increases to 8 bars. But then a portion of its power is wasted on the IBOC sidebands. I wonder how the groundwave strength of KXEN seems in the St Louis area now. Could be the temporary antenna setup favors skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, August 29 at 1225 UT, ``Newstalk 1030, KFAY``, WSJ
report on higher fuel economy standards to be blamed on Obama. KFAY:
as in Fayetteville, Arkansas, tho COL is Farmington. Official August
LSR is 1130 UT; September, 1200. 10 kW day pattern is close to ND, but
with more to the SW and plenty to the west. So it was still
propagating almost an hour later, and a semihour after our sunrise
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, Sept 4 at 1219 UT, ``1030, The Light``, gospel music, NE/SW, CCI. KCWJ, COL Blue Springs MO, address Independence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1050, Aug 31 at 1218 UT from NE/SW, KSIS IDs in passing during local news, interview about United Way fundraising, http://spcuw.org which I find stands for Sedalia-Pettis County; 1221 on to sports sponsored by River City Casino (St. Louis). Yes, KSIS is 1 kW in Sedalia MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1250, Sept 6 at 1212 UT, dead air for at least a minute. No doubt it`s the usual dominant SRS signal, KYYS Kansas City KS, La Equis, la Super-Estación. By 1225 or so recheck, modulating Mexican music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1260, Aug 24 at 1215 UT, ``104.1 Newstalk, Springfield``,
i.e. KSGF in Missouri (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1270, Aug 16 at 1200 UT, Univisión America mention,
apparently affiliated now with that new radio network; and logged
legal ID with letters pronounced in English, ``KFJZ, Fort Worth-
Dallas`` ---- except it`s really KFLC; I must have been subconsciously
expecting to hear the legacy calls which are now on 870 in same The
Metroplex market. On to ``En Tránsito`` = traffic report (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MEXICO: 630
** U S A. 1270, Sept 4 at 1222 UT, Spanish news from Univisión América; hard to DF but atop other Spanish; surely it`s KFLC Fort Worth, a new format/affiliation with this new radio network. Still in at 1247 UT with Dallas traffic report in Spanish ``para Univisión América``, tho I seriously doubt the entire network is concerned with Metroplex transit; so KFLC gets to use the brand for local origination. New NRC AM Log correctly has it with ``Ua``. See OKLAHOMA for the understation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1300, Aug 30 at 1240 UT, Home Depot and Cole`s (sp?) ads, but no local references, CDT TC, ID in passing as KICN and KVRL (??); definitely N/S, so not Tulsa, skywave still in 38 minutes after Enid LSR. Searching NRC AM Log and FCC Query, the only fit is KBRL in McCook NE, which is under same ownership, Armada Media, as KICX-FM 96.1 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, August 29 at 1219 UT, ``Jail House Rock`` ending, 7:20
TC, ad for Hearing West Texas in Odessa and numerous other towns; KCKM
Monahans, a regular on SRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Sept 5 at 1236 UT, West Texas oil drilling news with locations, per-barrel prices, ``from the KCKM news desk, the West Texas powerhouse``, back to music. Easily overcomes KNSS Wichita at SRS. So this Monahans station still exists in English, despite once-related KCKN 1020 Roswell NM 50 kW flipping to 24/7 Radiovisión Cristiana a few days ago // 1330 in New York, Dominican Republic, elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1350, Aug 31 at 1224 UT, Spanish news about Isaac-caused evacuations, sounds like a US station, NE/SW. Looks like it has to be really from SSW, KCOR San Antonio TX, per new NRC AM Log, 5 kW with talk format, as the only other SS around here is eastward, KZTD Cabot AR (Little Rock), Fiesta Mexicana. Highly recommended, NRC AM Log ordering info; best time to get it is right now, hot off the press:
http://www.nrcdxas.org/catalog/books/index1.html#ARL
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1420, Sept 4 at 1227 UT mentions ``Talk JC``, which NRC AM Log neatly IDs for me as KJCK ``The Talk of JC``, Junxion City KS, 1000/500 watts (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1430, Aug 31 at 1227 UT, as I tune in, immediate ID as ``KZQZ Golden Oldies``, Everly Brothers, and soon fading. I.e. what used to be WIL, St Louis MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, Sept 3 at 1216 UT, huge signal but just barely modulated with gospel huxter screaming in Spanish about demonios. Still R5 considering the strength, no doubt from 50 kW KTNO Radio Luz, University Park (=Dallas) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, Sept 5 at 1225 UT, once again dead air on large carrier; a minute later at 1226 finally wakes up to play outro of previous preaching program with normal modulation level, ID as 1440 AM y 102.5 FM, i.e. Radio Luz, 50 kW KTNO University Park (Dallas) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1450, Aug 30 at 1244 UT, atop the graveyard jumble is ``1450 KOKL`` (?), into music. Must really be KOKO Warrensburg MO, which has an oldies format known as ``Co-Co``, per NRC AM Log 2011 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1460, Aug 24 at 1232 UT, Gregorian-chantish music briefly;
is there a Catholic station here now? Can`t find any leads in last
year`s NRC AM Log. {overlooked KHOJ St. Charles MO, EWTN} Might have
gone with KBRZ Missouri City/Houston TX, ``ethnic`` but their website
http://kbrzradio.com/5.html
shows: ``MONDAY-SUNDAY 24 HOUR A DAY!!!!!! SANGEET RADIO Variety
program for the South Asian community http://www.sangeetradio.com ``
When I tuned back a minute later, music was gone, but copied tentative
ID in passing, maybe different outlet, as ``1460 KFNO``. Make that
KXNO Des Moines IA, sports format, rather than KENO Las Vegas NV, also
sports (not including keno?). Volatile propagation post-sunrise (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1460, Aug 31 at 1228 UT, Catholic promo E/W-ish, 1230 priest into long tale of his experiences elk-hunting with a bow & arrow in north central Idaho. (WWJD?) Only EWTN around here is KHOJ St. Charles MO, 5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And my previous unID
** U S A. 1460, Aug 31 at 1230 UT, in N/S null of KHOJ MO, is a station with two ESPN frequencies, the other one being 1550 in Cozad. I.e., KICS really in Hastings NE, while 1460 itself is KXPN in Kearney, 5 kW. It`s rather strange that a semihour after sunrise here I am not getting anything in Spanish from nearest 1460, KZUE El Reno OK, which occupies the frequency by daytime groundwave. Not sure how Cozad really figures in the duoply, as Cozad is as far west of Kearney along the Platte, as Hastings is eastward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Aug 24 at 1233 UT, still no sign of reactivated
Metroplex TX station to be known as KBXD; more construxion delays?
Only KQAM Wichita advertising Kansas State Fair; 1440 Metroplex
Spanish was still skywaving in so should have heard KBXD if on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Sept 5 at 1923 UT, I am driving about 10 miles north of Enid to release a trapped squirrel who thinx he owns our pecans; they are not even ready for human harvest yet, but he and his relatives have scattered green pecan debris all over the ground.
On 1510 I have a weak signal with Mexican music, and it improves slightly as I get further from the KOKC 1520 splash (which fortunately is mostly talk now). The ubiquitous SHVA appears frequently, can`t get a definite ID, but ``15-10 AM, sólo música`` and may have mentioned ``Fiesta``. This sounds familiar, and I find an old report of this from 2010y!:
``UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, on caradio in the south side of Enid, at 1852 UT
Nov 1 beneath the splash from KOKC 1520 I am hearing bits of Mexican
music. The closest 1510 is 1 kW KNNS Larned KS, near Great Bend,
listed in NRC AM Log 2010 as sports/ESPN format.
Of the seven Texans on 1510, three of them have a Mexican or Tejano
format, mostly in the south except for KSTV Stephenville, between Fort
Worth and Abilene, but really too far from here for groundwave. Then
there`s 10 kW KCTE Independence MO, but it`s another sportstalker.
Google search on KNNS to the Wiki page inserts this: ``Template:
Infobox Radio station - this station is no longer broadcasting as of
early October 2010`` but unseen on the Wikipedia page itself (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST 10-44) And heard more traces of it since (see also earlier DXLD 10-15 where Royals BB in English was on 1510)``
I would have written almost the same thing now. The new 2012 NRC AM Log still shows KNNS as ESPN, so apparently this 2-year old flip has gone unnoticed except by me. KSTV is at least twice as far from here as KNNS, and full-day groundwave on 1510 from that far into Texas is not to be expected, even tho KSTV is listed as ``Fiesta AM``. BTW, Larnèd has two syllables, darn it. BTW2, KCTE 1510 sportstalk in English doesn`t make it here in the daytime from the Kansas City area, but with skywave it`s still audibly hetting off-frequency.
Now Wikipedia has been updated to confirm this: ``KNNS 1510AM is a regional Mexican station in Larned, Kansas, near Great Bend. The Regional Mexican format began in October 2010; before that, it was an affiliate of ESPN Radio from the spring of 2008 to 2010; before ESPN, it was an oldies station with the slogan "Music you remember." Before it was an oldies station, it was a general talk radio outlet``. And the callsign harkens back to ``news``, not to be confused with KNSS 1330 in Wichita.
And now KNNS has own website:
http://www.lacaliente1510.com/
including the ``sólo música`` slogan I heard, says it started 15 October 2010, and streams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Aug 30 at 1245 UT, death notices for various Iowa towns, outro as ``today`s funeral announcements``. So it`s KXEL Waterloo. Not too many 50 kW stations do this, I expect, but KXEL will, since it has sponsorship by a mortuary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, Aug 31 at 0505 UT, orchestral hymn, fast SAH, 0506 Family Radio with Bible reading; not // to Enid translator on 88.3 with music. 1560 must be KKAA Aberdeen SD, 10 kW day and night, heard before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Aug 16 at 1203 UT, I am tuning down the MW band again,
looking for Mexican NAs on sunrise skip which would lead to full IDs.
But at 1203 I hear a military band with an unfamiliar anthem, some
border state? Ha, followed by ``Good Morning, Vietnam`` twice in
English by Williams/Cronauer, and into Vietnamese language. So it`s
just KRVA in The Metroplex TX, a regular here while skip is in, and
that must have been the South Vietnamese ex-NA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1650, Aug 24 at 1217, looking for KYHN Fort Smith AR, which
DX MidAmerica reported to be back on the air as of Aug 17 (NRC AM Log
says it was silent since April 2008; IIRC their transmitter site {in
Oklahoma!} was flooded or somehow damaged) --- but, no sign of it in
KFXY 1640 null, just KCNZ Cedar Falls IA with local sports talk,
mentions Waterloo, etc. Cross-promotion for a game on `Cruisin` 1250`
i.e. KDNZ, which must no longer be Spanish as in last year`s NRC AM
Log? Yes, see http://www.cruisin1250.com/ --- now ``real oldies``. Or
has the call changed too? Yes, per FCC, now it`s KCFI which makes a
lot more sense (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nor heard
any sign of KYHN on several further day and nite chex (gh, DXLD)
** U S A. 1650, Sept 4 at 1234 UT, ``you`re listening to Radio Iowa``, weak and barely caught before local 1640 KFXY resumes gospel music splash. Still no sign of KYHN Fort Smith AR (OK site), which allegedly reactivated on 1650. So it was still KCNZ Cedar Falls. Is ``Radio Iowa`` a state network rather than KCNZ`s own slogan? There is an Iowa Radio Network in the NRC AM Log, but not applied to KCNZ.
Here`s the Radio Iowa affiliate list, not updated for a year:
http://www.radioiowa.com/radio-stations/
including KCNZ listed as Waterloo/Cedar Falls; it`s for news.
It seems the Iowa Radio Network is something else, a Clear Channel product originating with WHO, and with fewer affiliates:
http://iowaradionetwork.com/
Besides WHO, they hardly need any affiliates elsewhere in Iowa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Aug 24 at 1204 UT, joint ID ``93.5 and AM 930``,
thought for sure I had KCCC Carlsbad NM, nicely in null of WKY open
carrier! But can`t match that FM frequency to it. Wish I could
decipher a slogan I scrawled a few minutes after upwaking! Maybe it
was KDET Center TX (near Shreveport), which has an FM on 92.5 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1110, Aug 28 at 0507 UT, as KFAB is opening `Coast to
Coast`, quite a SAH is pumping from an open carrier, measuring
280/minute = 4 and 2/3 Hz, most obvious with KFAB nulled. There are
several stations SE of here, many of them daytimers, none to the NW
until the west coast. After midnight CDT, could be a legal test from a
daytimer. KTEK Alvin TX has a day pattern aimed right at us.
MW Offsets doesn`t list any stations in the likely area,
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
but shows KFAB at 1.8 Hz high as of last November:
1110 1110.0018 USA KFAB (Omaha, NE) [1110.000-] 20111114
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1110 possibility KVTT Mineral Wells (Fort Worth)? True, the pattern
looks a little awful towards Enid (David Block, TX, ptswyg via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1260, Sept 6 at 1213 UT, weak Mexican music looping NE/SW. At this hour I have a feeling it`s from the USA, not the USM. No Texans listed as such; suspect it`s KDLF Boone, Iowa, 5 kW ``La Reina`` as in NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1530, Aug 28 at 1212 UT, sports talk about the ``Leones
Negros``, fading out and in, mentions Veracruz too, and more Mexican
deportes stuff. Loops WSW/ENE or so, and a weaker SS in the null. The
Black Lions are the soccer team at the University of Guadalajara.
Likely national show, as there are only three XEs on 1530, none of
them in Guadalajara or with likely sportstalk format. Could even be
KXTD Tulsa/Wagoner OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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