[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 5-11, 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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** MEXICO. 610, Oct 7 at 1214 UT, ``la máxima expresión de la radio en Sabinas, BX!!``, then local time and temp. Cantú:
610 XEBX La Primera Sabinas, Coah. 5,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 620, Oct 6 at 0604, Mexican NA segué to Chihuahua SA, i.e. XEBU Chihuahua city (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 620, Oct 9 at 1222 UT, ``La Norteñita``, M&W conversation about this station maintaining identity while others have changed format and frequency; loops NE/SW vs an English ESPN station (surely KTAR Phoenix AZ the only possibility; see USA), while Mickey Metroplex is fully nulled. Also mentions a 5 pm event at Parque Palomar. It`s the usual XE dominating 620 here, XEBU in Chihuahua2. At night it has some competition from XENK in the DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 650, Oct 9 at 0523 UT, `Mundo del Trabajo`, regular program sponsored by labor union (sindicato) is closing, 0524 Radio 65 ID, 11:25 timecheck, on to band music. WSM nulled making fast SAH with XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, the dominant Mexican here on this frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, Oct 5 at 1203 UT, ``6:03 aquí en La Lupe 98.9`` more IDs and TCs every minute for 6:04 and 6:05 while it was still 1204, ``aquí en Delicias``, local news, then song ``La Nube Gris``. Name change since last year`s IRCA Log, this year`s WRTH; Cantú shows now:
660 XEACB La Lupe + FM 98.9 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, Oct 6 at 0554 UT, Chihuahua state anthem is already playing, mixing with KCMO, i.e. XEDP Cuauhtémoc (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 720, Oct 5 at 1208 UT, CDT TC, ``Radio Centro 10-30, calidad en su vida`` slogan, i.e. relay of network from DF. It`s not easy to match networks with stations if they are non-owned, and I don`t find any list of affiliates outside Mexico City at http://radiocentro.com.mx/ --- and IRCA Log does not include `GRC` under any 720 listing but then it still had XEJCC on 1520 as `GRM` = Grupo Radio México, different. Fortunately, in my recent Sept 26 log at the same hour, I had matched Radio Centro with Extremo 720, which Cantú says is:
720 XEJCC Extremo 7-20 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 1,0000 [sic]
At 1209, IFE and Cámara de Diputados federal PSAs, 1210 song in English, ``I`ll be Watching You`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 750, Oct 8 at 0602 UT, national anthem, to Sinaloa anthem as WSB is easily nulled; 0607 pro-Mexico PSA; 0608 Éxtasis Digital 89.5 and 750 ID, i.e. per Cantú:
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250
This is the regular XE heard here on 750, altho there are 8 others, one of which I heard once, XEOH in Chihuahua at SRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 770, Oct 9 at 1229 UT, Sinaloa ad, ``Los 40 Principales`` promo and jingle, FM frequency only heard, but it`s XEREV again from Los Mochis, dominant XE on this frequency, at least after XEACH Monterrey fades out, and no problem from Nuevo México until 1315 in October (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 790, Oct 11 at 1238 UT, Spanish talk mentioning Sabinas, Coahuila, Funerario Martínez, discussing politics; loops SSW. Perhaps they were referring to the theft of the corpse of Heriberto Lazcano, founder of the brutal Los Zetas gang, from a funeral home, but checking several press reports about it, I don`t find the name or even the town where this happened, somewhere in Coahuila. There is a mortuary by that name in Sabinas (and elsewhere), but no Sabinas station on 790. 

Tentatively this one from direxion and talk format, per Cantú:
790 XEGZ Milenio Radio + FM 99.5 Torreón, Coah. 1,000 1,000
IRCA Mexican log says that transmitter site is across the state line in twin city Gómez Palacio, Durango (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 830, Oct 5 at 1200 UT, ``iniciamos Radio Zócalo, Saltillo`` news and weather, i.e. as relayed by 5 kW groupie XEIK Piedras Negras, elsewhere in Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1000, Oct 7 at 1203 UT, orchestral NA, then full ID, hard to copy with KTOK OKC QRM incompletely nullable making a slow SAH; but I did catch a ``Chihuahua`` and a ``Rancherita`` which makes it XEFV Ciudad Juárez, ruling out the other Chihuahuan in Parral which I think I have yet to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1010, Oct 10 at 0602 UT, ID amid QRM extracted ``Chihuahua``, ``XETO``, I thought, but must have been this, Cantú:
1010 XELO Exa FM + FM 100.9 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500
And then played NA. XELO of course was the call on CiJz 800 before it became XEROK in deference to cross-border influence, and I don`t mean the 38th parallel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1030, Oct 10 at 0600 UT, enjoying the respite from KCTA`s hummy open carrier, mainly hearing KTWO Wyoming, but also a Mexican NA. Per Cantú there are two stations in the UT-6 zone where this would be playing at local midnight:
1030 XEYC  Radio Fórmula    Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000   500
1030 XEMPM Exa FM + FM 98.9 Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 5 at 1220 UT, Milenio Radio ID, per Cantú:
1090 XEAU Milenio Radio + FM 103.7 Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500
Also CCI from another in Spanish. Would be nice to get XEPRS from BCN, never heard here with its tight NNW/SSE pattern but apparently it is only in English with sports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1180, Oct 8 at 1227 UT, ``La Ke Buena`` twice between tunes, now definite vs circumstantial as logged Oct 3 at 0536, i.e. per Cantú:
1180 XEJK  Ke buena + FM 95.3 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1180, Oct 9 at 1203 UT as I tune in, ``Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua`` probably after NA, and song ``Eres tú, lo que más quiero en la vida``. So it`s XEJK, previously XEDCH. Why in the world would they give up such a perfectly-matched callsign? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search Oct 7 at 1218 found a few just barely audible: 738, 747, 774, 828. The last 3 surely the big 300 kW NHK Japan units, and the first, looping further south, Tahiti. Today`s sunrise was 1232 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 5 at 1213 UT, ``Donald Duck`` is back with extremely distorted talk vs clear signals from KQCV OKC and XEROK CiJz, which I think must be either XEZR in Coahuila or XEDD in Nuevo León. Is there no member of any of the clubs where I post this or any of the lists in south Texas or even NE Mexico who could nail down the source of this, easily in daytime? I suppose it could also be a spur from some other frequency, but seems right on 800 and no match in the area. I only hear it around sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 980, Oct 5 at 0554 UT, a ~5 Hz SAH between open carrier N/S, and Spanish romantic music E/W, direxions approximate. Suspect the former is KRTX Pasadena etc. TX as heard Aug 2 during this hour with Spanish religion, rather than KMBZ, KC/MO. And the SS most likely an XE rather than a K. IRCA Log shows ROM format on 980 only for XEKE in Navojoa, Sonora, 24 hours irregular, 250 watts night, which would be an interesting catch instead of my usual XEFQ Cananea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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