[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 29-April 4, 2013

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only. Or FRG-7, 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

** MEXICO. 660, March 31 at 0553 UT, choral Mexican NA playing early before someone`s CST midnite; 0556 amid other QRMex, ID mentions Monterrey, i.e. XEFZ, 250 watts at night per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, April 1 at 0548 UT, Mexican music is dominant, certainly no WFAN! (see USA: 880), then singing ID for FM ``98.9``, which Cantú matches with the station heard several times before:
660 XEACB La Lupe + FM 98.9 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1050, April 2 at 1223 UT, hardly any signal from XEG, but instead ``La Radio de Sud-California`` with FM 99.1, orchestral music turning into romantic song. IRCA has no FM // but this info:
1050 XEBCS La Paz, 10000/-1, Radio Cultural Surcaliforniana, Gobierno del Estado, 1300-0500, from Universidad Autónoma de BCS. Cantú agrees on the slogan version I copied, as 10 kW daytime only; linx to this website http://www.bcs.gob.mx/ but I get ``no site configured``. WRTH thinx it`s 10/1 kW, i.e. fulltime. DST doesn`t start in BCS until April 7, but already on an hour earlier than WRTH and IRCA think.

Cantú has no FM connexion either for XEBCS, but lists a different La Paz station on 99.1: ``XHBCP 99.1 FM La Radio Contigo`` whose only URL is a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/99.1fm but it doesn`t work either. Were these stations related, or XEBCS took it over? La Paz seems so exotically remote, but only if you`re driving there, which I have never accomplished (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1320, March 31 at 1208 UT, live DJ IDs as ``La Poderosa, 13-20 AM`` and also an FM I could not catch, with almanac items, including death/birth of Selena so 1213 plays her song ``Amor Prohibido`` (Forbidden Love), soon fades out, from southwest peak. Slogan fits for XECPN Piedras Negras, Coahuila, which is powerful only on day rig of 20 kW, night 100 watts per IRCA Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search around sunrise here 1219 UT March 31: At 1216, barely audible ones on 774, 738, 702, 657; at 1219 on 828, 882. I usually check 774 first and assume it`s Japan, but companion 747 is missing! Then I more carefully DF these and find they are peaking from W/E, not NW/SE, ergo not from Asia but from Australia/Pacific. With nothing but carriers and rough DFs, likely: 774 3LO Melbourne; 738 Tahiti; 702 2BL Sydney; 657 RNZ Wellington; but 828 & 882 nothing above 10 kW in Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search just before 1216 UT sunrise April 2; this time at 1210 I started 9-kHz-with-DX-398-BFO steps at high end of MW band, so probably missed some which faded out sooner at the low end: 1332, 1314, 1125, 1098, 1035, 891, 882, 846, 828, and by 1216 UT, 774, but none lower. All of them seemed to peak from slightly S of due west, i.e. Pacific rather than E Asian which come from the NW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search around sunrise here at 1209-1213 UT April 4: detected on 594, 702, 774, 828, 1008, 1098, 1116. Can`t be positive all these are real, as 594 seemed to peak N/S, and 1098 was unlikely Marshall Islands in past years. But how will signals at 9-kHz intervals be audible on my DX-398 otherwise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 690, March 31 at 0548 UT, SS report about Pemex, peaks SSW, so most likely XEN in DF with news/talk format. Slow SAH with open carrier, no doubt KGGF KS again; see also KTSM log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1350, March 31 at 0534 UT, ``Viva México`` song; DF fits for KCOR San Antonio, Tejas, the usual SS dominator, but would they play such a song? Can you imagine any Mexican station playing USA patriotic music?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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