[IRCA] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, November 16-22, 2012

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified
    
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 four sexions, Canada [if any], Oklahoma, rest of USA, unidentified, separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

** CANADA. 750, Nov 18 at 1218 UT, ``CK classic hits``, events calendar for today, ad for Northeast Ab Chop Shop (?? that`s what it sounded like; chop shops don`t usually advertise), Prince Albert Shopper, ``CK-750`` program promo for something at 7:40 am Thursdays; 1222 losing to Mexican music, but no Usonians. Why would a station abbreviate its call to the least distinctive part of it? Must be CKJH, Melfort, Sask., 25/25 kW U3, i.e. non-direxional day and all-north at night; yeah, sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, Nov 17 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid with another Fox-hole, occupied by mixture of ABC News and Mexican music, i.e. likely KMA and XEK. I am no longer necessarily reporting these every night unless there is something definite or new, but I always try to check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

960, Nov 18 at 0600 UT, KGWA stays on a minute longer than usual with commercials, and only at 0601 starts the Fox-hole of dead air, modulation cutting back on at 0605 after only 4 minutes, during which nothing notable could be heard from understations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

960, UT Wed Nov 21 at 0600, KGWA Enid fails to stop modulating, instead Fox ``news``, so no understation DX tonight. It`s been quite a while since this happened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Thu Nov 22 at 0600 UT, KGWA Enid manages to modulate instead of providing a Fox-hole, for the second night; is my understation DX window done for? Will keep checking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1000, Thu Nov 22 at 1208 UT, KTOK OKC has replaced its morning newstalk on this holiday with a 2-hour musical program for Thanksgiving, featuring various US military bands playing instrumental inspirational music, starting with ``God of Our Fathers`` by the US Marine Band, then ``Shaker Melody``, by a US Army band. Announcer gives scriptural background for each piece. The music is nice, but this whole concept is a clear violation of Separation of Church and (Military) State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 17 at 1319, KEOR is on with Mexican music. Seems to be starting at 1300 UT most days, which is official sunrise in November, and maybe on until 2315 sunset (in December, 1330-2315) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 20 at 0444 UT, Spanish music audible with KMOX nulled, tnx to tip from Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa who found daytimer KEOR had kept transmitting after sundown tonight. NEVER any IDs or other announcements (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 21 at 0605 UT, romantic Spanish music best with KMOX nulled, making SAH of 2.8 Hz this time: Daytimer KEOR, Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa, continues to test with no announcements ever heard, apparently all-night so certainly DXable at distance if you can get past KMOX. Just don`t expect to hear any ID. Bruce Winkelman and I will vouch for its source (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1644, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Nov 16 at 1340 UT, dead air from KFXY Enid, but with strong carrier nulled as best I can, no understation audible at this hour. Didn`t last until 1400. Wish KFXY would start a regular dead-air hole in darkness like KGWA at local midnight (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Nov 17 at 0559 UT, local KFXY Enid in dead air, before firing ID and 0600 SRN ``News``. Doubt the deadness lasted long, but worth further checking; this time, no time to pull WTNI or any other understation. 

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** U S A. 720, Nov 18 at 1226 UT, callers from Panamá, New York, about fútbol in Spain, 1228 ESPN Deportes, 7-20 AM, San Antonio, plus promos for 104.1, La Estación de la Raza, Norteño 104.1. So it`s KSAH Universal City (San Antonio) TX. Signal is equally strong as WGN and each can be heard clearly in the null of the other, tho they are not that far off opposite from here. 10/0.89 kW but sure sounds like day power, altho November official sunrise is not until 1300, and there is nothing about a PSRA in its FCC AM Query files (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 840, Nov 22 at 1230 UT, ``Christian teaching on KWG#``, and `Grace to You` show; good in null of WHAS, loops NW/SE. Must really be KWDF, 8 kW daytimer in Ball LA, which is NW of Alexandria. NRC AM Log shows it starts at 0700 ET = 1200 UT, but FCC AM Query says altho it has a PSRA of 500 watts, in November only, it does not apply due to WHAS! However, legal November sunrise has just happened at 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, Nov 21 at 1335 UT, deep-nulling of groundwave from WKY OKC continues to be productive: news in English about record harvest of bears (???), Wisconsin Public Radio news, wpr.org mentioned, WLBL. I suppose it`s programmed out of WHA Madison, despite the local ID. This is 5 kW when on day power, from Auburndale, which is otherwise too insignificant to appear in my Rand McNally atlas index. FCC AM Query topo map shows: ESE of Marshfield in Wood County, a significant 19-kiloperson town, in turn SW of Wausau in the center of the state, no doubt no accident, an ideal spot to plant this non-direxional service. But only 70 watts at night for the Auburndalians. As for the ``bear harvest``, it must have been deer:
http://www.wpr.org/news/display_headline_story.cfm?storyid=35237

BTW, I listen every Sunday at 1830-2000 UT to WPR online, but that`s the other classical stream, live concerts from an art museum. At intermission they talk about the exhibits, which is sort of frustrating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1010, Nov 16 at 0629-0631 UT, sermon, or at least a religious talk in Spanish with consecutive translation to English, phrase by phrase, loops E-W dominating channel. Smax of KXXT Tolleson AZ (Phœnix market), and likely on day power of 15 kW rather than nite power of 250 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1030, Nov 17 at 1228 UT, YL named Alicia in pretty good Spanish but gringa accent, some stresses on wrong syllables, closing a gospel huxter show with address in San Antonio. 1229 no ID and 1230 into another g.h., this one all-English, `Thru the Bible` with the very late J. Vernon McGee. Dominant VG signal from N/S, no doubt KCTA Corpus Christi TX, and certainly not the 217 watts its PSRA allows in November from 1200 to official sunrise at 1245 --- but the full 50 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Nov 16 at 0634 UT, music in Spanish, 0635 announcement maybe mentioning ``Radio Acción``. Then KNX fades up. Suspected WCSZ Sans Souci SC (Greenville market), as has been widely reported out of whack and getting out at night. Seems WCSZ has no website and no stream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1070, November 17 at 0616 UT, ``el sonido joven, La Jefa es más música``, loops E-W, announcement between musix. So this Spanish I have been hearing vs KNX, and more or less in null of KLIO is indeed WCSZ in Sans Souci SC (Greenville market). NRC AM Log says ``La Jefe`` which is a contradixion in gender, but close enough. It`s been widely reported recently, suspected 50 kW day power at night. Harold Frodge in MI also had La Jefa, 10 Nov at 0213-0230+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1644, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1200, Nov 21 at 1323 UT, plug for some Univision (TV) show, news reports mixing English and Spanish. Dominant over WOAI. Must be WRTO Chicago, which is a Univisión América (they skip the accents, but I sure won`t) affiliate; not only the single one listed on 1200 in the 2012 NRC AM Log, but the only 1200 SS in the US. Previous unID of a Mexican here could have been this too. Other Chicago clears were still audible shortly after sunrise here at 1315 but 1248 in Chicago per gaisma.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1300, Nov 22 at 0647 UT, sports references to ``UT``, so could it be one of the Tennesseeans? No such luck: ``AM 1300 The Zone`` and further talk about the Texas Motor Speedway, so it`s KVET Austin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 16 at 1339 UT, KBXD Dallas with its characteristic SAH against KQAM et al., YL talking about aid projects such as clean water wells, consecutive translation to unknown (African?) language. Sounds like typical missionary business, such as ICDI in the Central African Republic, to get the natives to associate developmental progress with Christianity, even tho by definition it`s a 2000+ year regression (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 17 at 1252 UT, Brother Scare occupying more time on new KBXD Dallas than expected; guess he`s a convenient filler. Jerry Kiefer replies, ``Good morning Glenn, Yes, you quickly figured it out. Stair is filler at the moment until we get all the clocks into the Scott automation. (Hopefully) should be complete this week.`` After 1300 it was on to gospel music checked at 1316 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 17 at 2040 UT, on caradio, gospel music no doubt KBXD Dallas TX, usual fast SAH with KQAM Wichita, but then fading down. Anyhow, skywave is starting to kick in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 21 at 1314 UT tune-in, no waiting for an ID: ``The more you listen, the better you feel, KBXD, Dallas`` and into a quarter-hour of `The Power of Pentecost`, featuring pre-Thanksgiving hymn, ``Thank God for the Blood``. Oooh. Dominant signal on frequency. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 21 at 2048 UT, new KBXD Dallas is already skywaving in with gospel music, frequent IDs with variety of slogans including ``The answer to your prayers``, and plugging their 50 kW power. Way over KQAM Wichita groundwave on caradio, but fading down to nothing and back up. 2100 into `Financial Survival` with Cedarstrom which isn`t exactly religious. KQAM might even have issues with this in their coverage area? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1600, Nov 17 at 1309 UT sounds like a national anthem, just ending, presumably South Vietnam`s, then Vietnamese announcement mentioning Dallas AM and Houston AM, http://saigondallasradio.com
Het from the off-frequency Kansan is bothering; at 1313 mentions ``phát-thanh`` i.e. radio station; then to some more triumphal choral music.

That website worx, but labeled instead Radio Saigon Dallas, shows KRVA 1600, tho the listen-live link says 890, which we know was recently acquired by China Radio International instead. 

Lots of Vietnamese including fora, but linx to an ``about`` page in English with photos of the staff, one of whom has red hair but all of whom have Vietnamese names:
http://saigondallasradio.com/?q=content/about-station

BTW, our closest 1600, KUSH in Cushing OK has an application to raise day power from 1 to 5 kW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1660, Sunday Nov 18 at 1200 UT, `Radio Health Journal` starting, and then also heard on local 1640 KFXY Enid. 1660 loops as KUDL Kansas City, instead of Bloomberg News at this hour, while 1680 KRJO Monroe LA stayed with BBN. Program site 
http://www.mediatracks.com/radiohealthjournal/
has an ``affiliates`` link but it`s for *them* to log in, not a listing for the benefit of would-be listeners. It`s even more unusual for KFXY to break away from its southern gospel music format for such a show, paid infomercial? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Nov 17 at 1259 UT again getting another station with Spanish music when WKY OKC groundwave is precisely nulled. Maybe this time an ID?? Grrr, at 1300 only a non-ID, but clearly: ``Radio Cumbre 9-30`` by SHVA (super-hype voice actor), right back to another upbeat song in Spanish. 

Cannot find anything by Googling or in all the references for USA or Mexico. Suspect KCCC Carlsbad NM in a recent flip from oldies, so I ask Jerry Kiefer, ex-Roswell. No, he says: ``KCCC is still oldies, but for sale. With the fulltime FM in Carlsbad Spanish and 740 Spanish part of the day, not much market. Sorry I can't be of much help.`` Ideas, anyone? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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