[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, December 7-13, 2012

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only. Or Sony SRF-59 when 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

** CUBA. 1620, Dec 8 at 0039 UT as I tune in, Spanish, sounds like Raúl Castro, for the moment atop the US stations making slow SAH, i.e. R. Rebelde, probably the closest one, in Guanabacoa CH, 5 kW per WRTH 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 640, Dec 10 at 0642 UT, ``40 Principales, 99.3`` and time check for 11:42. Therefore per Cantú:

640 XEHHI Los 40 Principales + FM 99.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 10,000 1,000

I couldn`t help but notice the entry right below it showing another 640 is now 50/25 kW! As yet unheard:
640 XENQ NQ + FM 90.1 Tulancingo, Hgo. 50,000 25,000

Must be a recent upgrade; new WRTH 2013 still lists XENQ as only 10 kW, ``La Superestación``. Why beef this up instead of just completing the migration to FM only? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 780, Dec 8 at 0109 UT, dominant signal is news in Spanish, WBBM completely nulled, and this one peaks slightly west of due south. Ciudad Victoria mentioned several times; 0111 ``la primera pausa de la hora`` and jingle I could not understand. Pause-announcements include a meeting this week in Toluca about labor law; promo for `La Hora Nacional` Sunday at 10 pm, ``México unido en una sola señal``, i.e. every radio station is obliged to carry this weekly government hour; then a minute or more of just instrumental music. 0114, plugging contacto methods for the show, phone report from Ciudad Victoria. 

Obviously this is from Tamaulipas, where Victoria is the state capital, but there are two 780 stations in the state: XEMTS in Tampico, Fórmula NotiGape; and XESFT in San Fernando, la Triple T. Cantú`s linx to both lead to group websites, neither of which mentions a station on 780! XESFT is more often heard, but I`m leaning to XEMTS based on the emphasis on news. OTOH, XESFT is very slightly further west than XEMTS which is close to due south from here. Low rumbling audible het growing from something else, as the het with WBBM is subaudible (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1030, Dec 13 at 0610 UT, live talkshow mentions ``en Chihuahua`` matter-of-factly, and so likely but not certainly:
1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500
as in Cantú; WSW direxion is right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1040, Dec 12 at 0657 UT romantic music in Spanish from SW/NE at first dominating WHO but that soon faded back up making 3.5 Hz SAH. With WHO nulled, at 0659 TC for 12:01, no ID and into choral Mexican NA; 0702 some ID but losing out to QRM. 

Then hear the Mexican NA again, must be from another station in the same zone. 0704 after that, a full ID with H`s in the calls. From Cantú, there are only two in the UT -7 zone: 
1040 XEHES Romántica + FM 94.1  Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son.    5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carriers, 0042-0050 UT Dec 8: first noticed 1521 tell-tale het upon KOKC-1520, from NE/SW, i.e. Saudi monster, so did a quick downward DX-398 scan of entire band at 9 kHz intervals with offset BFO. Carriers audible, mostly just-barely: 1602, 1539, 1521, 1494, 1485, 1206, 1197, 1179, 1152, 1143, 1053, 1026, 945, 909, 684, 639 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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