[IRCA] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, April 5-11, 2013

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; or Sony SRF-59 as specified; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 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. 1610 kHz, April 5 at 0621 UT, heavy drama in Spanish from NE/SW, briefly ascendant over the KATZ IBOC noise, presumably CHHA, Voces Latinas, Toronto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 960, April 9 at 0500 UT tune-in for the KGWA Fox-hole allowing DX thru the hummy open carrier for a pentaminute --- but not tonight! Big mixup at Williams Broadcasting, with self-promotion audio overlapping loop with tone and ``Dial Global, AMC-9, transponder 23. To authorize your receiver, contact Dial Global network operations, 720-873-5177 from 8 am to 5 pm Eastern time.`` This alone kept going not only past 0505 but past 0530. So KGWA tuned to wrong satellite channel, or the right one but failed to renew their authorization. May have gone on all night; should have been good as a defacto but ID-less DX test (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 6 at 1256 UT, more than an hour after a Tulsa daytimer could be on the air, KEOR, R. Victoria is not: nothing there with still audible KMOX nulled. Maybe someday I`ll catch when it come on, but is there at 1718 UT check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1390, April 10 at 0533 UT, KCRC Enid is in open carrier/dead air, but nulling it as best I can, nothing readable underneath the remaining hum, just traces of understations. Still OCDA past 0600; normally with ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 690, April 8 at 0611 UT, once again dominant signal is open carrier/dead air from KGGF Coffeyville KS, atop talk probably KTSM C2C (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, April 11 at 0539 UT, open carrier/dead air yet again after local midnite from KGGF KS, vs. IBOC 687 from WLW-700, and weak understation probably KTSM. Anyhow it`s good for any Coffeyvillans trying to DX something else on 690, like I can do normally for only 5 minutes on 960. Whenever I tune by 690 around sunrise, KGGF is modulating; would be interesting to discover at what time it come back to life, and do they perform a sign-on or sign-off which would reveal it`s intentional to go silent overnight, merely neglecting to turn off the carrier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, April 5 at 0617 UT, hard to pull out from under WWL tonight, but Vietnamese music still here with a SAH, i.e. KFJZ Ft Worth TX daytimer cheating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, April 7 at 0543 UT, dominant with WKY OKC nulled is a `Coast to Coast` station --- WTAD is an affiliate, but there could be others on 930; 0559 ad for QuincyJournal.com so it is WTAD Quincy IL again. I was never hearing this before a few nites ago, so think their nite power/tower must be askew. BTW, this one is pronounced Quinsy unlike ``Quinzy`` in Mass. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, April 8 at 0559 UT, ID before news, ``heard around the world --- WTAD, Quincy IL``, as it`s still the dominant inhabitant of 930 when I null WKY OKC, and WTAD only started appearing last week. Note one of the four very deep nulls in WTAD`s night pattern is at 230 degrees, with four lobes in between: 
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/305660-3646.pdf
We are very close to that direxion. I bet it`s on ND day pattern and may well be on day power too of 5 instead of 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, April 11 at 0532 UT, without really trying as I am bandscanning, here`s English with WKY Spanish easily nulled. Yes, yet again it`s WTAD Quincy IL, which must still be on ND day pattern instead of nulling toward OK; during break in C2C, with local ads, 613 AC, something ``courtesy of star radio``, Quincy weather: rain, 41/49/32 lo/hi/lo; ``Talkradio 930, WTAD`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, KGWA Enid failed to provide a Fox-hole for a couple of nites at 0500-0505 UT but it`s back April 5; nulling its hummy carrier finds a stronger signal than usual, easily readable with ABC News at 0502-0505, presumed usual KMA Shenandoah IA, with a slight echo from another ABC affiliate. I even tried to copy what followed at 0505 despite KGWA resuming modulation with that annoying lawn-care commercial which opens with banging on a counter-desk bell, but too much KGWA.

At 0538 the understation is still giving KGWA fits when nulled, so I again concentrate on trying to copy it; just national ads, but 0539, local ID! Sounds like ``Newstalk 960, KGAL`` ---? Uplooked later in the NRC AM Log, it must have been KGKL, San Angelo TX, which among its numerous network affiliations is A = ABC! It`s also close to the null direxion from KGWA, opposite from KMA. 

Could this be what I have been hearing all along? KGKL is 5/1 kW U2 while KMA is 5/5 kW U2, meaning both are non-direxional day, direxional nite. NRC Pattern Book shows KGKL has a deep null toward Enid & Shenandoah! So now it must really be on day pattern and perhaps even day power. KMA has a minor nite lobe toward Enid while KGWA protects it. When I am hearing an echo on the 960 midnite ABC news, I now think it`s KMA & KGKL rather than KNEB in Scottsbluff NE. I would love to have heard the listed slogan for KGKL, ``Voice of the Concho Valley``. I once considered moving to San Angelo for a while, but decided it was too dominated by Christians who even run the public radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 960, April 7 at 0501 UT in KGWA Fox-hole, some understation goes by with a W- ID, I think. Maybe not the same as:

960, April 7 at 0539 UT, some station with `Coast to Coast`, weekend host with deep voice, John B. Wells, recognizable despite local KGWA modulation.

960, April 7 at 0559 UT, my dream has come true! In a few-second pause before joining Fox `news`, KGWA dead air allows me to hear ``The Voice of the Concho Valley for more than 80 years, News-talk 960, KGKL, San Angelo``, the Texan I recently IDed thru KGWA, and where something must have just changed, like running day power/tower at night.

Lots of stuff on the website http://960kgkl.com/ but no obvious program schedule; KGKL is however on the C2C affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, April 10 at 0500-0505 UT, KGWA Enid has repaired its Fox-hole after last night`s messup with the Dial Global satellite channel loop; now all I hear is ABC News with slight echo, no doubt from KGKL and KMA. Just before 0600, there is another pause in KGWA modulation, neatly audiblizing another full ID from ``The Voice of the Concho Valley``, KGKL San Angelo TX, also mentioning it`s with ESPN (but not all the time). (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1664, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1030, April 7 at 0602 UT, ABC news with VG signal looping NW/SE, certainly anomalous: 0605 ad for Price & Son Funeral Home, Garden City KS, so it`s KBUF, COL Holcomb KS. Night pattern is supposed to shoot to the southwest and normally not heard here, so must be on ND day pattern; power 2.5/1.2 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, April 7 at 1252 UT, some great country music riffs, hiliting fiddle, bass, steel guitar and other instruments, then ``KCKM, heard everywhere and online in stereo, KCKM.com`` So not in stereo on 1330? Why not? Guess not: no $ symbol in the NRC AM Log for this Monahans TX 12/1 kW U2 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1420, April 7 at 0611 UT, pause in `Coast to Coast` modulation when I hear ``on information radio, KTOE, Mankato``. I thought the C2C audio was from something else, but maybe not: KTOE in Minnesota is yet another affiliate. It`s 5/5 kW U2, with night pattern NE/SW, favorable for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1470, April 11 at 1217 UT, Bill Bennett himself delivering a commercial in his `Morning in America` show. Website is user-unfriendly forcing you to find a station by entering `your` zip code. Suspect often-heard KYYW Abilene TX, so try its zip, 79605, but that brings up a different station there, KSLI 1280. NRC AM Log however shows its format is C&W, while KYYW is news-talk. So go to the KYYW website itself http://1470kyyw.com/shows/ --- bingo, MIA is on there at 7-8 am CDT, tho Bill doesn`t know it (there`s a lot of stuff he doesn`t know but thinx he does) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1370, April 7 at 0608 UT, solo hymn, 0610 program previews for something on W#LO, or WLO#? Only two fuzzy hits in NRC AM Log are: WLOV Washington GA, 1 kW daytimer, Nostalgia; and WLOP Jesup GA, 5/0.035 kW, Fox Sports. By religious format, maybe this one: WLLM, Lincoln IL, 1/0.035 kW. Hard to DF in heavy QRM but roughly E/W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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