[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, February 28-March 6, 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/page21

These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA, unidentified, separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

Last week my single post showed up more than once on some lists. I don`t know why, and I am not doing it!

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, March 2 at 0149 UT, big open carrier over WBBM, and DF fits for my nearby KSPI Stillwater, 250-watt daytimer, back to its old trix of not turning off carrier after sign-off which in March should be at 0030 UT. Nulling KSPI, I am getting more Spanish music than WBBM, probably XESFT. Some other northerly signals are propagationally weakened, notably WCCO 830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, March 3 at 0143 UT, local KGWA is in dead air, except for beeps averaging 20 per minute, but irregularly spaced from 2 to 4 seconds apart.

960, at 1359 UT March 3, somestation in English tearing up KGWA when it`s nulled, fast SAH, exactly an hour after sunrise here (blinding white snowcover, temp down to 3 F), but many westward signals still sunrise-skipping. Couldn`t pull an ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1500, Feb 28 at 1952 UT, I am checking the daytime occupant, KPGM Pawhuska, and find it to be running 7 seconds *ahead* of source // 98.1 WWLS-FM OKC (or rather COL suburb The Village --- where I lived 1954-1961y), so KPGM is in the WWLS Sports Animal sphere of influence rather than that of closer KYAL Tulsa; usual weak marginal 1500 signal. WWLS ID in passing heard on 1500, then at 1954 UT, KPGM ID as Pawhuska-Bartlesville, consult http://bartlesvilleradio.com where it`s obvious this cluster has the local market tied up, also with the 1400, 100.1, 104.9 stations --- PLUS Classical Bartlesville on HD2 of KYFM 100.1! Here`s the blurb about that:

``KYFM 100.1 HD-2 - "Classical Bartlesville" --- The new KYFM HD-2 features the "hits" of the classical repertoire, including Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms but also includes music from Pachelbel, Vivaldi, and Handel as well as John Williams, Ferde Grofe, Elmer Bernstein, and George Gershwin. You'll hear your favorites from the symphonic repertoire as well as chamber works with local information and works written to include the human voice, all in digital HD stereo and all for free with no subscription fees. Local weather information and announcements of upcoming local events will be part of this service from KYFM 100.1 HD-2.

The playlist includes overtures, piano quintets, violin concertos, symphonic marches, symphonies, horn sonatas and other standards from the concert repertoire plus music written for everything from operas to film scores.``
See [nothing] more at: 
http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/pages/kyfm-hd-2#sthash.9rxj1zNb.dpuf

Well, how generic can you get? That`s nice, but I certainly hope there are a lot more composers and ensemble types than they mention. Bartlesville is within reach of classical 88.7 KWTU Tulsa [altho maybe subject to CCI encroachments from Joplin and Ponca City], so I am a bit surprised that B.R. is doing this, but glad they are; might as well put an HD2 to good use. I wonder what the programming source is? It appears that ``Listen Live`` streaming applies only from their other four ``stations``. So I`m glad I found this out while investigating totally disposable silly sports networking.

Bartlesville is also the home of the OK Mozart Music Festival for a dekaday each June --- but it`s been dumbed down (ooops, I mean broadened, popularized) from year to year with more and more non-Mozart, even non-classical stuff; 2012 was the final year for Paul Neubauer being in charge of the chamber music series (which KCSC FM is now replaying on `Performance Oklahoma`; UT Thu 0200-0400 & Sat 1400-1600 on KCSC 90.1; UT Sun 0200-0400 (or -0300 sometimes) on KWTU 88.7: all times one UT hour earlier from March 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, March 2 at 1348 UT check, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is still playing True Oldies music part of the time, especially on weekends, despite alleged plan to flip totally to talk by end of February (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 660, March 2 at 0718 UT, Navajo drumming & chanting: oh oh, KTNN must be 50 kW non-direxional day pattern, as normally I cannot hear it at all at night, just after local sunrise. Too bad for WFAN, which we can`t hear anyway out here, nor should we want to. In case there were any doubt, immediately followed by ``KTNN, AM 660, Window Rock-Sanders`` ID. Sanders AZ is a little town on I-40 at the offset junxion with US 191; KTNN throws in secondary-city IDs from all over the res area. Then ad in English for 1-800-GRANGER, whatever that is as the ad does not explicitly say; Selsun-Blue scalping (gulp) product; quick ``AM-660`` singing ID, country song in English. Got to hand it to The Navajo Nation, rounding up so many national advertisers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 660, March 3 at 0157 UT check, Navajo talk replete with glottal stops, so obviously KTNN Window Rock AZ is still on ND day pattern; take that, New York! Again at 0617 UT check going smoothly from Navajo talk (ad?) to GEICO ad in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, March 1 at 1405 UT, weak but steady and clear signal with opinions-expressed disclaimer from ``Newstalk 720, KDWN``, so now`s our good chance to hear 50 kW ND Las Vegas NV; in fact from official March sunrise 1345 UT, altho before 1400 I was still hearing some 720 Spanish, presumably Juárez. 

Check again from March 9, when 5:45 am local = 1245 UT will be an hour too early to shift, in case they be confused. Such mixups, of course could apply to countless other stations. A few years ago, KDWN were apparently doing that all summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, March 1 at 1344 UT, big solid signal already from KKOB Albuquerque NM, now that official sunrise has shifted from 1400 UT in February to 1315 UT in March. (And April to 1230 UT). This led me later to check 720 for Nevada, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, Feb 28 at 0601-0605 UT, local KGWA Enid is still providing a ``Fox-hole`` of dead air instead of Fox news at local midnight, more often than not; I still check it occasionally, tho chances of hearing anything new are slim: tonight the KGWA null is dominated by blues music, so presumed WABG in Greenwood MS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 980, March 3 at 1403 UT, ``Country Morning Show on K-Mine, 980 AM or 96.7 FM`` and webcast on http://kminecountry.com --- ``tell your family, friends, lover(s), wherever your are, Moriarty, New Mexico or Hobart(?), Oklahoma; request line 505-285-5598. Website has a station history, photos of staff and equipment. This is KMIN, Grants NM, west of Albuquerque on the way to Gallup. 980 is 5000/230 U1, well into daytime now, while 96.7 is K244DT, also in Grants. I was thinking this station had manœvered to get into Albuquerque via some relay. ``Mine`` refers to uranium mines in the area, once a mainstay of the local œconomy despite a few health hazards. 

Axually, I was checking for a closer 980 enchanter, KICA Clovis NM, reported recently reactivated as an ESPN outlet duplicating 1010 KTNZ Amarillo TX --- but no sign now of KICA, which is 1400 watts day, also non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)

** U S A. 1080, March 1 at 1355 UT, ``Classic Rock 105, The Cackle`` ? Not sure of last word. Always fun to hear music on 1080 overcoming KRLD talk, like nostalgic Green Valley AZ; just after 1400 UT full ID as ``Rockin` the Castle Valley, 105, KSLL is rockin```, atop KRLD, and then ``Black Betty`` song. 

1080, KSLL is Price UT, 10 kW daytimer // translator which gets top billing! K285AB 104.9 per NRC AM Log; Castle is spelt Kastle there, and it employs AM $tereo. Apparently unrelated to plain old KSL, but the similar identity can`t hurt. It`s a new month with everyone`s sunrise shifting half an hour to half a sesquihour earlier than in February, in this case officially 1330 UT. 

Price area, between Provo and Green River on US 6, is known as Castle Country (with Cs), evidently inspired by rock formations rather than Mormon fortifications:
http://www.castlecountry.com/
My learning experience from this log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1080, March 2 at 1339 UT, immediately on tune-in, ``Classic Rock 105, The Castle``, ads. So it`s KSLL, Price UT, 10 kW daytimer after 1330 UT sunrise, as also heard yesterday morning. Rather fast SAH, but unsure if with KRLD or something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1090, March 1 at 1357 UT, poor signal with romantic music in Spanish, looping NW/SE which rather rules out Mexico, but fits perfectly for format and direxion of KMXA Aurora CO, 50/0.5 kW, whose official March sunrise is already 1315 UT, so should have been solider thence? No, day pattern exhibits two lobes/wings to the west and northeast, ``nothing`` toward us (while tinier night pattern goes WNW) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1110, March 5 at 1345 UT, IRN USA Sports for a triminute, the middle one being a work-from-home ad. This with KFAB tightly nulled. 1348 UT back to some talkshow, about Twitter. 1355 UT ``KYKK weather forecast``, so as suspected in my previous log it`s this Humble City NM 5 kW ND daytimer (Hobbs market, SE corner of NM). Presumably named after a now defunct Permian oil company which eventually led to Exxon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1170, March 5 at 1349 UT, KFAQ Tulsa seems weakish lately: on backup or reduced power? Can null it to hear something in Spanish about 3 Hz away. Recently IDed XERT Reynosa, but not now; this one with a 303- area code mentioned, by M&W DJs chatting, then Mexican music, so it`s KJJD Windsor CO, 1 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1490, March 5 at 0701 UT, CBS Sports Radio is atop the pileup and looping NE/SW. Likely one of my closest, listed as on that network, KTOP, Topeka KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510-, Feb 28 at 1345 UT, KCTE Independence MO is still off-frequency (of course), but legally on the air after sunrise, making het with real 1510 stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1550, March 3 at 1410 UT, Cokie Roberts & Linda Wertheimer discussing politix, so 100% sure it is a rare NPR station on AM, KUAZ Tucson AZ, a 50 kW ND daytimer, whose March hours are 1330-0130 UT. 

Looking thru KUAZ` correspondence file at FCC AM Query, UA notified that they were starting IBOC on May 13, 2010. NRC AM Log 2013 does not show it now as IBOC. Nor on this roster, not even as formerly: http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html
I did not notice any IBOC noise around 1537 or 1563, but was not looking for it at the time.

KUAZ also has a PSRA of 39 WATTS from Oct thru March, N/A the other months as already on from 6 am local with full power; limiting station being XEBG which is 10/1 kW in Tijuana per IRCA. KUAZ also has PSSA of 39 watts every month, as late as 0330 UT in March, 0430 UT in June and July (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1190, March 2 at 1406 UT, YL Spanish report on drugs in Sinaloa, interjecting ``Milenio``; loops E-W; guess could be XEPZ Juárez --- but then at 1409 UT a CST TC as 8:09, so that`s out. US station? KNUV Tolleson AZ is SS, but also in MST zone; heard before, might be that with a network TC from the Center. Per NRC AM Log, only other 1190 SS is WMEJ, 5 kW daytimer in Mississippi, a bit late for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, March 2 at 0134 UT, interesting music I find when nulling KSTP, lingering ~5 Hz SAH, sounds like K-pop or J-pop, but fading. Looking thru NRC AM Log, the only ETHnic (Asian) station possible would be KSJX, all the way from San José, CA! It`s 10/5 kW U4, day pattern with a considerable lobe eastward, night pattern with a deep cardioid null toward KSTP (which aims westward to protect WFED), official March KSJX sunset is not until 0215 UT, yet high-end at month-begin should be skywavable eastward by now as real SJ sunset today is only 0202 UT. Googling indicates KSJX is primarily Vietnamese, but http://mrbi.net lists it as Vietnamese/Other, and very few of the Multicultural group stations have own websites for any further research. 

Could the SAH be a clue? It`s usually dissatisfying to consult
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
as despite its length, it`s worldwide and far from complete as to US stations, in fact only 6 of them on the list at 1500, but does include these two:
1499.9993 USA KSJX (San Jose, CA)       [1499.9992-1499.9996] 20081126
1500.0014 USA KSTP (Saint Paul (N), MN) [1500.0005-1500.002]  20130909
showing them only 2.1 Hz apart, but the KSJX reading is from 5+ years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1560, March 3 at 1412 UT, ``I Shall Not Be Moved`` (or was it We--?), styled as if it were a Christian hymn rather than a Civil Rights anthem; loops NE/SW, no problem yet from OKC comedy, but fading out as the song ends. Most likely KLNG Council Bluffs IA, 10 kW ND daytime, which is religious, but there are also some MO and TX stations, and in KS, KABI Abilene which is Nostalgic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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