[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, October 17-24, 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 with E/W longwire 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
   
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page15
   
These logs are in four sexions, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA, unidentified, separated by =======
Within each, they are in frequency order

** OKLAHOMA. 930, Oct 21 at 1214 UT, WKY OKC airing long string of commercials for Mundo-Fox, plugging various programs, including ``The Breach en Español``, ``José de Egipto``, in a loop such that Breach comes around again at 1219. Always branded as ``45.2 digital``, so is it only available as an off-the-air subchannel? They tell would-be viewers to ask their cable or satellite providers for it, a clue. 

RF 45 and virtual 45 in OKC is KOHC, a 15 kW digital class-A station per W9WI.com. Mundo-Fox is also branded as 45.2 in Spanish newspaper ads; and IIRC, Azteca América is on another subchannel, none indicated in W9WI.com. KOHC doesn`t make it to Enid, unlike full power 45s KOTV in Tulsa and KSNW in Wichita, and can only wonder how much these rip up KOHC close to OKC with a little tropo enhancement. Meanwhile, in Enid, KXOK, RF31 and its inter-city relay on RF32 continue to provide 31.2 as Mundo-Fox, except it`s been nothing but silence and full color bars for weeks now (and 31.3 as Azteca, silence and black screen, whenever checked) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 17 at 1944 UT check, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa has managed to modulate, with praise music, following at least a pentaminute of deadair 5.4 hours earlier. Oh oh, back to deadair again, Oct 18 at 1212 making usual SAH with KMOX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1380, Oct 21 at 1224-1229+ UT, Spanish with norteña, M&W DJ chatter, steady signal and partly readable when nearest local 1390 KCRC splatter abates, and nulling it as much as possible. Presumably is KMUS ex-Muskogee, now officially Sperry meaning Tulsa market. Some sunrise skip enhancement as it hardly can make it here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 570, Oct 18 at 1225 UT, far-right comments, then ``The Home of News New Mexico, KSNM 570``. Talkhost asserts since Clinton was caught lying, Obama must be too. About something. Thus making a very bad first impression as obviously extremely biased. There was info recently that KSNM was changing ownership; is this before or after? NRC AM Log shows 5000/155 watts with 250-watt PSRA but sounds more like 5 kW to me.

Yes, NNM originates at KSNM. About it with affiliate list:
http://newsnewmexico.blogspot.com/p/radio-affiliates.html

``News New Mexico Inc.. is an independent content production company headquartered in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Our flagship product, News New Mexico is a news, news commentary, and sports program that airs live from 6:00am to 9:00am in the Mountain Time Zone on a number of stations throughout the state. The show is also replayed in a number of areas and aired on a tape-delay basis. The News New Mexico Scoreboard Show also airs live as well as on tape delay. The live broadcasts air at 10:00pm - 11:00pm on Friday nights. News New Mexico Weekender is a compilation program that airs on weekends around the state. Newsbreak New Mexico is a two minute hard newscast that airs from 6:00am to 6:00pm. Below is a list of stations carrying our programming:

KSNM AM  570 - Las Cruces
KIVA AM 1550 - Albuquerque
KATK AM  740 - Carlsbad
KSVP AM  990 - Artesia
KLMX AM 1450 - Clayton
KINN AM 1270 - Alamogordo
ESPN 101.7   - Albuquerque
KPCL  95.7   - Farmington
KEND 106.5   - Roswell``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 620, Oct 18 at 1158 UT, ``If you want football in Arizona`` [hardly!], then BSA PSA, some XE QRM. So it`s KTAR Phœnix, now with ESPN. At least they kept the heritage calls. NRC Pattern Book 2013 shows night pattern with a pretty deep null toward me, but non-direxional daytime, 5 kW both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 630, Oct 19 at 0505 UT, solo M voice with hymn, from NE/SW, no doubt the St Louis station ex-KXOK (vs KHOW Denver from the NW/SE with I-70 traffic report: close to right angle apart, they are mutually nullable). Apparently 630 STL was off the air for a while:

NRC AM Log 2013 lists this as KJSL, 5/5 kW U4, religious ``Truth Talk``. Eric Bueneman, IRCA who keeps close track of his local radio scene, says in the Oct 5 DX Monitor, ``Bible Broadcasting Network signed my local on 630 back on the air September 25 as KYFI; the format is better than the fundamentalist talk that had been on the frequency for the last 19 years``. His further comments: 

``The fundamentalist Christian talk shows are gone from the station,
replaced with a mix of Christian Easy Listening music and teaching from Bible Broadcasting Network. The studios for the station were moved out of St. Louis to Charlotte, NC (BBN's flagship is WYFQ 930). KJSL had its local studios in Creve Coeur. Crawford acquired the station (the former KXOK) in 1994. Crawford still holds onto KSTL 690, broadcasting an Urban Gospel format as "Shine 690"; for how long is another question. KSTL is back to 24-hour operation after selling the 630 outlet``.

Looks like it will now be harder to hear XEFB Monterrey NL, never a bigsig here unlike many other Mexicans. NRC Pattern Book shows it throws westward, while St Louis` major lobe is to the SSW, and KHOW to the SE and SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, Oct 21 at 2005 UT, from squirrel haven north of Enid in a lo-noise area, very weak signal on caradio, but at 2006 I do make out ``Your Money on WGN``; also SAH of about 5 Hz, San Antonio? Long before sunset, but is it residual skywave or groundwave at almost 700 miles from Chicago? Again no sign of WSCR on 670, just KLTT Denver (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880, Oct 23 at 1245 UT, Navajo syllables heard with KRVN nulled, another pre-sunrise appearance by KHAC Window Rock AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 840, Oct 19 at 1220 UT, main station here is not WHAS or KTIC, but something NW/SE, speaker with strange accent answering questions fed by unaccented person about whether Arabs are descended from Abraham. In fact his accent was so heavy at first I thought it was some unEnglish language. The only thing which fits by format and direxion is KWDF in Ball LA, street address in Pineville, per NRC AM Log as REL: K-Love, 8 kW non-direxional daytimer, 7 am to LSS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 910, Oct 18 at 1205 UT, Fox `news` into ``91 Classic Country KCJB Minot`` ID, where it`s 35 degrees; promo pasta giveaway trivia quiz coming up. Quite dominant 5 kW signal from ND, nothing much audible with it nulled. NPR Pattern Book shows day pattern goes SW, night pattern NE. Guess which one they are really on now, long before Oct official sunrise of 1300 (November: 1345). Nothing about a PSRA in their FCC file (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 920, Oct 20 at 1216 UT, from NW/SE, dominant signal goes from Michael Medved far-right talkshow to a break with ID for KVEL, Vernal UT, also on 104.5 (translator), adstring including a security system, Laity Lodge referring to Tom Landry, some football coach, thehighcalling.org, local sheriff vs texting & driving; ad for something in Roosevelt [UT], local reference to ``The Basin``, steak dinner for only $22.99 in Fort Duchesne, Palmer`s American Car Care also in ``The Basin``. Vernal is in exotic NE Utah`s scenic dinosaur country. 1 kW night pattern goes mostly NNE, while 5 kW day pattern is non-direxional, surely already on now, way before sunrise. KYFR Iowa is barely audible with KVEL nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, Oct 23 at 1247 UT, in tight WKY OKC null, country music, English announcement, TC as 5:47, 1250 segué. Only fit in the UT-7 zone per NRC AM Log is: KAFF Flagstaff AZ, C&W, 5000/31 watts, PSRA 500, always non-direxional. But PSRA start-time of 6 am local MST would not come until 1300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1140, Oct 24 at 1236 UT, ``Radio Las Américas, 11-40`` ID after norteña music, loops about ENE/WSW. No such slogan listed for a Mexican and there aren`t any westward from XEMR Monterrey, the nighttime dominator. The SS in Arkansas is ``La Más Mexicana`` --- or was --- Google soon leads to Rogers AR now branded with this new slogan, broadening its scope:
https://www.facebook.com/lamasmexicana?ref=stream&filter=2
http://www.lasamericas1140am.com/
Autolaunches webcast whether you want it or not.

Really KLTK, COL Centerton AR, address in Rogers, 5 kW ND daytimer. Must be a fairly recent change, as still with old slogan in NRC AM Log 2013 and the last time I logged it. Per own website, also look out for ``La Más Perrototota y Punto``, ``Pura Música Perrona``. The new name may have more to do with Supermercados Las Américas than continental outreach, whose ads are splashed all over the page; new station owner? FCC AM Query still shows licensee as La Mas Mexicana LLC. 

I figure perrototota would be too idiomatic for my paper 626-page Random House dixionary, and I am right; perrona isn`t in it either, and both also stump Google translate. So what do these terms mean or connote? Are they familiar to any Mexican/American, or regionalisms? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, Oct 18 at 0515 UT, Spanish sports talk from SE/NW, no doubt WODT New Orleans LA with its major 5/5 kW lobe to the NW, now with ESPN Deportes, as the original WDSU is long-gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1290, Oct 20 at 1233 UT, Spanish music and SHVA announcement, but can`t copy anything identifiable; loops N/S vs sports talk in English. The only SS which fits in NRC AM Log 2013 is KRGE, 5/5 kW in Weslaco, RGV, TX, tho it`s supposed to be religious. There are no northeast XEs on 1290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1680, Oct 18 at 1149 UT, KRJO Monroe LA with country music barely audible. Seems not only now but at other chex, KRJO is not up to full power of even 1 kW night. Much weaker than other X-banders. Reactivated FCC website AM Query shows its Oct SR/SS times are 1215/2330 UT; should monitor then whether there`s a bump. In Nov, 1230/2315 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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UNIDENTIFIED. 700, Oct 20 at 1918 UT on caradio at a hotspot for MW in a mall parking lot, I am hearing not only Spanish from KHSE in The Metroplex, but something very weak underneath making SAH of about 2 Hz. Looking at 700 map, it has to be the further Texan, KSEV in Tomball (Houston market), 15 kW day power, altho not much toward us in either station`s pattern. Short for SEVen hundred, I suppose. Could those between Dallas and Houston confirm the SAH? Otherwise, less likely would be remnant sky- or even groundwave from WLW, a bit far and this is only half a sesquihour after local mean noon, Sun at zenith. This would be a slightly more possible in Dec or Jan. Without KHSE in the way, almost same direxion, KSEV might have a better chance here on groundwave. (KTRH 740 is of course totally blocked by KRMG --- and I rarely hear anything but KRMG at night on 740 except CFZM Toronto). (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 740, Oct 23 at 1226 UT I finally manage to hear some Spanish briefly under KRMG Tulsa before it goes to day power/tower. May have mentioned ``Radio Santa Fe`` or similar syllables. Don`t find any Mexican or US station with such a name; NRC AM Log does show KIDR Phoenix AZ as Spanish religion, but I can`t find a website for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 750, Oct 20 at 1205 UT, Rosary in Spanish --- obsessed with Mary`s bellyfruit over and over and over (BTW, confusing the womb with the stomach suggests an appalling lack of knowledge of physiology among SS Catholix {and confusing animal with vegetable}); loops about WSW/ENE, suggesting KAMA El Paso which is SS, but supposedly not religious, but2 it`s Sunday morning and anystation might do that temporarily. However, NRC Pattern Book shows both day and night it`s all-westward from there. Don`t see any other likely US SS stations even eastward. Rarely hear any Spanish on 750. The most likely Mexicans in Cantú:
750 XEOH  La Jefa + FM 96.1         Cd. Camargo, Chih. 1,000 750
750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin.     5,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 760, Oct 20 at 1920 UT on caradio at a hotspot for MW in a mall parking lot, I am hearing not only the religiBott from KCCV Overland Park KS (Kansas City market) as usual, but something very weak under, making SAH of about 4 Hz. The second and third nearest 760s are KMTL 10 kW ND Sherwood AR, and KTKR 50 kW San Antonio TX, but direxional mostly west and east-southeast. 

So which one is 4 Hz from KCCV? There is no reference for such needed information. Closest is 
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt 
but woefully incomplete when it comes to US stations, on 760 listing only WJR, KFMB and WCHP, and some info there dates back more than a decade. Non-direxional 50 kW WJR remnant skywave would be another remote possibility, but it`s only half a sesquihour before {sic: I mean after!} local mean noon.

Another possibility for such trace signals would be local overload or mixing products, but in Enid we have only three MW locals which could be easily ruled out if I had enough on the traces to compare them.

FWIW, I always check 670 and 720 for Chicagoans in the daytime, which have made it before. Now at 1925 UT, 670 bears only KLTT Denver, and a very weak signal on 720 could be WGN, or KSAH San Antonio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 940, Oct 20 at 1225 UT after noting the 940+ het from XEMMM (see MEXICO), partial ID in its null as ``94 [something] Country`` --- nothing similar in the NRC AM Log 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1230, Oct 23 at 0511 UT, I finally have the computer on past local midnite, enjoying `Map Is Not Territory` on KSFR webcast, so also check the WBBZ Ponca City webcast --- it`s music, not Coast to Coast AM, so scratch that as possible source of my previous unID on 1230 --- must have been some graveyarder much further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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