[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, September 7-20, 2012

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only.
 
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:
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These logs are in frequency order by weekly batches separated by ======

** MEXICO. 680, Sept 12 at 1213 UT, string of ads for agricultores, from Guasave, i.e. per Cantú:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 790, Sept 8 at 1206 UT, choral NA ends, ID as R. Fórmula, 
La Paz, Baja California Sur, plus XHNT on 97.5. Cantú:
790 XENT Radio Fórmula + FM 97.5 La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 750
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 830, Sept 8 at 1144 UT, Spanish TC for 5:44, temp 27C = 
81F, loops SW, CCI. Per Cantú the only 830 XE in the UT-6 zone is:
830 XEVQ Amor + FM 96.9 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, Sept 8 at 1158 UT, open carrier is on QRM-free, 1200 
start choral NA; by 1203 native language talk including XETAR ID in 
passing, rustic music. Torn between enjoying their entire exotic 
opening exercises, and logging more SRS DX, opted for latter, as on 
790, 880, 900.

870, Sept 12 at 1206, after NA promptly at 1200 UT, retune to find 
XETAR Guachochi, Chihuahua in native language and Spanish, mentions e-
mail address xetar @ cdi.gob.mx 

CDI stands for Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos 
Indígenas; brief mañanitas tune and on to other talk rather than 
birthday greetings. 

Here`s the CDI page about XETAR with photos and live listen link:
http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1377:xetar-la-voz-de-la-sierra-tarahumara-&catid=71:copia-de-radiodifusoras
CDI explained in English:
http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1335&Itemid=200011
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 880, Sept 8 at 1201 UT, slow timecheck for 6:58 = almost 
CDT, ID including FM 91.1, federal PSA for SCT (Secretaría de 
Comunicaciones y Transportes which includes equivalent of FCC), then 
full ID for 91.1 with 25,000 vatios, and 880 (sounded more like 800) 
with 10,000, street address in Torreón, Coahuila. Calls went by too 
fast to catch, so refer to Cantú:
880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 900, Sept 8 at 1204 UT, mentions Cuauhtémoc at tune-in, 
XEDT plus 98.3 FM with 25,000 vatios, location in Colonia Centro, 
``una estación de Cadena Hits``, matching Cantú entry:
900 XEDT Hits FM + FM 98.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
Cadena Hits is a subset of Multimedios, not even mentioning XEDT:
http://www.mmradio.com/hitsfm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 980, Sept 8 at 1216 UT, promo an IMER program Saturday at 9 
am hora del centro [so inconveniently must subtract 2 hours in 
Sonorazona; Arizonora?], then local announcer with 18.7 degree temp on 
8 September. Has to be the only IMER station on 980:
980 XEFQ La Voz de la Cd. del Cobre Cananea, Son. 2,500 500

Looking up the IMER website to be sure this 980 be unique,
http://www.imer.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=269&Itemid=91
I also encounter this disturbing story from Sept 5:
http://www.rwonline.com/article/mexican-institute-of-radio-says-digital-conversions-on-track/215294
Says IMER plans to convert all its AM & FM stations to so-called HD by 
the end of this year! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 990, Sept 8 at 1149 UT, local news including murder victim 
found in a remote area on La Loma, which is an antenna site. I.e. 
Monterrey NL, where Wiki says the local government`s channel 28 is 
located. Temp is 27 already; i.e. XET. Not to be confused with the 
Cerro de la Silla, Monterrey`s major landmark. Hearing Spanish on 990, 
one must be careful to distinguish XET from KFCD in The Metroplex, 
which dominates after Enid sunrise, 1209 UT today before which it was 
only 14 here, refreshingly cool (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1040, Sept 12 at 1202 UT choral NA, so I stand by for full 
ID/sign-on at 1204, but fading and only fragments caught: 5-letter 
call, ``para todo el estado de Chihuahua``, 5 mil watts, also 95+ FM. 
Almost matches Cantú listing:
1040 XEHES Romántica + FM 94.1 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1050, Sept 9 at 1217 UT, promo for a fútbol show lunes a 
las 2 de la tarde ``aquí en la radio de tu California``, and XED 
mentioned a bit later. I.e. Mexicali BCN. Cantú lists as a 10 kW 
daytimer, (same as XEBCS in La Paz), but IRCA has XED at 10/1 kW, 24 
hours, and WRTH 2012 shows it as 10 kW fulltime. Which of these three 
is correct? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** MEXICO. 620, Sept 17 at 1142 UT, promo news hour at 5 pm, promo ``Conozca Tlaxcala``, which means this is from anywhere else, mentions Cadena RASA, SEP PSA; 1145 back to ``Catálogo de la música que llegó para quedarse`` (music which is here to stay). All this fits only for XENK, Radio 6-20 in México DF as in http://www.620.com.mx/ which includes a coverage map barely reaching Tulancingo. Cantú says site is really San Andrés de la Cañada, Estado de México (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, Sept 17 at 1141 UT, mentions of ``radio pública``, Ciudad de México, Radio Ciudadana, IMER, full ID for XEDTL, 50 kW. Tho at night, i.e. now, it`s supposed to be only 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, Sept 19 at 0557 UT, ``Soy Soldado``, the super-patriotic recitation some stations play for whom the belligerent national anthem is not enough, atop English station KGNC or KCMO. No doubt it`s XEDP Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, the usual prime XE on 710 here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 720, Sept 17 at 1157 UT, 6:57 TC by YL DJ, ``La Kaliente``, soon covered by stronger open carrier, see next log. The first one is of course, XEDE in Saltillo, Coahuila, which doesn`t know how to spell ``hot``, supposedly only 250 watts at night, 8 kW days per Cantú, and the main source of QRM to WGN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 720, Sept 17 at *1157 UT, open carrier comes on atop XEDE; 1200:25 XE NA starts, but fading out by 1202 sign-on. It does loop much further west than XEDE; into discussion of riesgos, temor (risks and fear). It must be one of these two per Cantú:
720 XEJCC Extremo 7-20 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 1,0000 [sic, as India?]
720 XEVU  Éxtasis Digital + FM 97.1 Mazatlán, Sin. 1,000 500

XEVU would not be a talk format overall, and XEJCC is a confusing case. Altho Cantú has it on 720 now, IRCA list last year still had it on 1520, but ``moved to 720?``, and the format then was ranchera; XEJCC pertains to Grupo Radio México, and its station list at
http://www.gradiomex.com/?page_id=6
still shows: ``XEJCC-AM 1520 Khz. LA 15 20 ROCK VARIADO``
Wikipedia says: ``Ahora es Adquirida por Grupo Radio México con la frecuencia 720 AM con el nombre Extremo 7-20 y con el formato de Música Pop en Inglés y Español.``

I had a similar tentative log of XEJCC 720 on Sept 21 of last year. See also USA: KSAH 720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 750, Sept 14 at 0601, in WSB null, XE NA, 0603.5 unfamiliar state anthem until 0607.5, no ID, then a federal PSA extolling something about México, and finally YL ID mentioning ``Éxtasis Digital, 89.5 FM and 750 AM`` (pronounced in ENGLISH!), no call or location heard but that combo leads only per Cantú to:
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sinaloa 5,000 250
differentiating it from the other E.D. on 750, Acapulco whose FM is on 107.5; both supposedly 250 watts at night, and 5 kW day in case they forgot to do something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 750, Sept 19 at 0559 UT weak music in WSB null, 0600 full ID for XHCSI 89.5 y XECSI 750, then choral NA. Cantú:
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250
Not bad for 250 vs 50000 watts. Welcome to Sinaloa, Brother (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 790, Sept 13 at 1215 UT, ``Radio Fórmula, 790 La Paz``, promo a L-V programa at 5:30-10 am, 1217 news about Benghazi and Cairo. Cantú:
790 XENT Radio Fórmula + FM 97.5 La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 750
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, Sept 15 at 1216, mañanitas long version on and on, no doubt XETAR Guachochi, Chihuahua, as also heard a few minutes earlier in native language; now weak but mostly clear. Sunrise skip from NW Mexico was below average today. Enid LSR: 1214 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 900, Sept 13 at 1208 UT, ``Hits FM 98.3`` from Cuauhtémoc, ``música country``, automated TC for ``seis, ocho``, then C&W song in English. So is this format by definition music only in English? Cantú:
900 XEDT Hits FM + FM 98.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 920, Sept 13 at 1202 UT, Chihuahua anthem, so it can only be this one per Cantú:
920 XEQD Romance + FM 95.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 1,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 980, Sept 15 at 1202 UT, temp and time ``5:02 en Cananea, Sonora``, refers to ``radio pública`` more than once, ID in passing as XEFQ. It`s the IMER station whose formal name La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre was not heard today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 980, Sept 18 at 1202 UT, news report on ``digitalization`` of IMER stations in Mexico City being completed, so this must be the IMER station in Cananea, Sonora again, XEFQ. See also 1570 XERF log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1635, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1000, Sept 18 at 1204 UT, NA ending and Ciudad Juárez mentioned, making slow SAH with KTOK OKC, nulled as best I could. So it`s the usual XE SRS occupant as in Cantú:
1000 XEFV La Rancherita Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 D
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1000, Sept 19 at 0559 UT, KTOK OKC is conveniently in dead air, allowing clear ``La Rancherita`` slogan to be heard especially when nulled, before KTOK remodulates just prior to 0600; i.e. XEFV Ciudad Juárez, Chih (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1040, Sept 17 at 1223 UT: music, poor signal, ``90.1, la número uno``. Cantú shows:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Sonora 5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, Sept 17 at 0500, XEPPM music is still playing until cut off abruptly at 0502:40* while carrier stays on a while longer. I soon tune to XEEP on MW 1060:

1060, Sept 17 at 0504 UT, world news in Spanish, looping N/S with dominant signal, including clips of PBXVI in French from Lebanon at 0507; and later somebody in English soon voice-overed; 0513 Radio Francia Internacional ID in passing. At least on weekdays, R. Educación has long relayed news from RFI at local midnight = 0500 UT, when it used to be simulcast on SW. (Likely recorded several hours earlier as RFI is not known to have any Spanish broadcast itself at 0500) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1635, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES

** MEXICO. 1300, Sept 18 at 1217 UT = Enid LSR today, Radio México Noticias, from Ciudad Juárez, also greeting listeners en El Paso, Las Cruces, Univérsity Park, but not Enid. XEP has no problem overriding Tulsa around LSR, more so than other 1220+ stations, with its odd 38 kW daypower, vs 200 watts at night, but I wonder about its direxionality if any. Maybe the pending new NRC Pattern Book will show it. Cantú:
1300 XEP Radio 13 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 38,000 200
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1570, Sept 18 at 1219 UT, XERF with glowing report on IMER`s digitalization of its 9 stations in the DF having been completed, lauded even by Pres. Calderón himself`s soundbite (pato cojo hasta el 30 de noviembre). Must be continuation of report started earlier on 980 XEFQ, q.v. They enumerated 94.5, 105.7 and 107.9 but did not hear any other FMs or AMs mentioned specifically. IMER website 
http://www.imer.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=269&Itemid=91
shows only 7 stations in the DF, the others being 660, 710, 1220, 1350, so these are presumably now IBOC too; the ``digital`` system not specified, but AFAIK, DRM lost the battle, and IBOC is already running on a few commercial border stations (FM only?). Previous news was that all IMER stations nationwide would be digital by yearend. This program is from the ``Sistema Nacional de Noticias`` (a.k.a. Antena Radio?). 1570 soon losing out to another SS at 1222, ESPN; See OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1635, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** MEXICO. 560, Sept 20 at 1135 UT, long singing jingle I wish I could have copied, then says ``Lupe 93-3``, salud PSA. So it`s per Cantú:
560 XEXZ Lupe + FM 93.3 Zacatecas, Zacatecas 5,000 1,000
Lupe is short for Guadalupe, patron saint, allegedly a virgin, a bit more formal than ``Guada``. Countless Mexican women are named Lupe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 640, Sept 20 at 1132 UT, ID mentions 99.3 FM y 640 AM, on to music in English. With the proliferation of FMs duplicating AMs, there could be more than one matchup, but so far in Cantú, only:
640 XEHHI Los 40 Principales + FM 99.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua 10,000 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, Sept 20 at 1128 UT, a guy speaking slowly and deliberately unlike most SS, apparently a local political commentator, mentions that ex-president ``Gustavo Díaz Ordaz vino a Nuevo León``, i.e. came to NL, implying that he is located there. Still going past 1131, 1138 as QRM is growing. On that flimsy evidence I make it tentatively per Cantú:
660 XEFZ ABC Radio Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 760, Sept 20 at 1205 UT, choral NA loops E/W, no full ID follows but ``continuamos con más música en Radio Geny``, i.e.:
760 XENY Radio Geny Nogales, Sonora 5,000 100
per Cantú. I bet it is on day power at 5 am. Another SS to the N/S nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

See also UNIDENTIFIEDs 800, 830

** MEXICO. 1100, Sept 20 at 1155 UT, YL DJ in Spanish, NE/SW; 1157 fades down just in time for SHVA full ID at 1200 with phone numbers; 1210 I catch YL DJ with a 5:10 timecheck, so it`s in the UT -7 zone. Since the Arizonan is not Spanish, that leaves only this in Cantú: 
1100 XENAS Unica + FM 95.5 Navojoa, Sonora 1,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Sept 20 at 1207 UT, unreadable ``Donald Duck`` distorted modulation can be heard mixing with KQCV OKC and XEROK CiJz. Best DF I can get on it is SSW/NNE. Presumed Mexican which has been this way for months, altho I can`t even recognize it as Spanish. Based on direxion and proximity, the two most likely culprits are per Cantú:
800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah.     2,000 2,000
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
As I say every time I hear this, without response, someone in south Texas should be able to pinpoint this mess by groundwave in daytime. Note that there is only one Texan on 800 even in the daytime, KDDD way up in the NW corner at Dumas, which is now Spanish, the Ding-Dong Daddy; how would that translate? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 830, Sept 20 at 1123 UT I make out one word vs WCCO QRM, ``Consentida``. Since that is often a station name or nickname I hope to find a Mexican in the lists, but not in IRCA, Cantú or WRTH. (WCCO has Charles Osgood endorsing stamps.com; come on!) Searching on ``la consentida 830`` leads to one old blog post from 2005y referring to that as in Mexico City. Now the M.C. station on 830 is XEITF, Radio Capital. Too flimsy a connexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 780, Sept 19 at 0603, WBBM in a fade so without nulling it I hear ``es la una, con tres minutos``, with a SAH of about 1 Hz; nulled, KSPI carrier is not on tonight. Must have just missed an ID, somewhere in the CDT zone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 970, Sept 15 at 1205 UT choral XE NA ends, but ID tough copy with ACI and CCI; mentioned W, and Éxitos, I think, but W Radio affiliate list at http://www.wradio.com.mx/escucha/emisoras/ includes nothing on this frequency. Per Cantú the only XE with a W in its call is XESW, Radio Madera, La Mera Mera, Cd. Madera, Chih., 5 kW daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Encouraged by Richard Allen`s reports from nearby, I have been looking for TP carriers on MW around sunrise, which was 1213 UT today. Finally Sept 13 at 1154 I have a just barely audible one on 738, which is presumably TAHITI (and which Tim Tromp has heard from as far as Muskegon, Michigan with much better equipment); and at 1156 a JBAC on 774, no doubt NHK Japan; could not detect anything on its usual companions, 828, 747 or lower 9-kHz intervals (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAHITI. 738, Sept 20 at 1120, JBA carrier looping WSW, likely this which others with greater gain are hearing into deep North America. No signals on the NHK splits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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