[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 27, 2013-January 2, 2014

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT [5 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

** CANADA. 960, Dec 30 at 0603 UT, during 5-minute `Fox hole` on local KGWA Enid, dead air which still occurs more often than not at local midnite, besides a mishmash of stations when I null the KGWA carrier, if I aim thru it toward the NW, I hear sports news, and ID as CBS Sports. This is the position previously capturing CFAC Calgary AB, which once was ESPN, but it`s now CBS Sports. Website http://www.sportsnet.ca/960/ doesn`t show anything about CBS or any other specific network. Previous log Oct 28 as in DXLD 13-44 did find CFAC at the head of CBS Sports affiliate list. CFAC normally fails to restrict its 50 kW signal to northward as required by international treaty (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 530, Dec 26 at 1406 UT, `K530AM`, Vance AFB once again has turned the power up to sound like its mighty 10 watts instead of milliwatts, hyper-boring Ad Council PSA rotation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And still back to normal as of January 2
 
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** U S A. 850, UT Sat Dec 28 at 0637, surprised to hear a female hosting `Coast to Coast AM`, most unusual, via KOA (and countless other non-synchronized frequencies); admonishes callers not to use 4-letter words as her guest is discussing swearing, both casual and causal. Casual swearing serves no purpose other than to show the person is too lazy to think of and utter the proper word, and doesn`t care how it damage her reputation. Causal swearing is exclamatory and forgivable especially if from injury. Before next break, hostess IDs as Dr. Kathryn (?) Alpert (?)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1120, Dec 30 at 0655 UT, ranchera music mixing with KMOX. At first I am not hearing it when I null KMOX toward the SE for KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa the daytimer which has been caught running all-night, and would be praise music. By 0700 this is audible with KMOX nulled for ID mentioning Austin, Bustos? Media, ``líder de radio en español``, right back to romantic music in Spanish. So this is the new station KTXW, city of license Manor TX, which we already reported in DXLD 13-23 last June and followed up in 13-28: 

``Now we must beware of another new Spanish station on 1120, KTXW in 
Manor (Austin) TX which has just started testing, ``nostalgic wall-to-
wall Spanish language ballads format`` as `Exitos 11-20`` with 
5000/155 watts. Tnx to Artie Bigley for tip of this thread at 
http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=235285.msg2121776
KTXW is about 90 degrees away from KEOR from my angle, so besides 
format difference, not easily confundible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, 
WORLD OF RADIO 1672, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

Nevertheless, the 2013 NRC AM Log as of August still showed it ``not on air`` with 5600/155 watts. The latest NRC Pattern Book as of July 15 does not show it at all. 

FCC AM Query agrees day power is 5600 not 5000 W, and night pattern at
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1537028-120414.pdf
shows a deep null toward KMOX, and also toward us, mainly NW/SE but no null toward the SW. Day pattern at
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1537028-120413.pdf
shows major lobe to NW, minor to SE, but plenty toward Enid. 

Normally, KMOX has no such interference here at night, from KTXW which makes a SAH of 40/minute = 2/3 Hz, a lot closer than KEOR is to KMOX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1220, Dec 30 at 0704 UT, WSLM ID in passing atop the jumble, and with off-frequency het from TX nulled. 82-watt classic-country station in Salem IN continues to dominate the frequency, surely running day facility of 5 kW. Day & nite figure-8 pattern is slightly clockwise from east-west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1220, Jan 2 at 1336 UT, S Asian language stands out here, news? from N/S, no doubt The Metroplex TX outlet heard before, KZEE Weatherford but street address in North Richland Hills, P O Box in Hurst, ``South Asian Radio``, ``Hot Pepper 1220``, 1600/200 watts U4, all per NRC AM Log 2013. That means different direxional patterns day and night, despite NRC Pattern Book 2013 showing it ND day and night. FCC AM Query shows day pattern has main blob from NNE to ESE, a notch but not a deep one at 335 degrees, and not much further north toward Enid. Despite lower power, night pattern is better for us, a broad cardioid with null to its southwest. But it should now be on day pattern, official January sunrise 1330 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1440, Dec 31 at 0654 UT, ``14-40, Selvagemente (?) Mexicana`` slogan. This loops E/W, making rippling SAH with a N/S station which is in English (rather than Spanish religion from KTNO The Metroplex normally heard). Most likely KTUV Little Rock AR, which NRC AM Log shows as SS:MEX, unlike any other station around here. It`s 5000/240 U2, with nite pattern E/W. Last known slogan was R. Pantera. IRCA 2012 Log and WRTH 2014 show only three real Mexicans on 1440, in DF, Jalisco and BCS. And a real Mexican would not need to assert its Mexicanness (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 910, Dec 28 at 0645 UT, singing ID sounds like ``WHMO`` but no match in the NRC AM Log or FCC AM Query. Closest fonetikaly is WAKO in Lawrenceville IL, U3, 500/50 watts with an AC/OLD format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 1 at 0443 UT, very poor carrier, trace of music, probably previously IDed 1330 x 2, KGLD, Tyler TX. Not in the WRTH, of course, saving countless pages by skipping stations under 2.5 kW, but making the US info extremely incomplete (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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