[IRCA] KCKM solid to Enid including DX test

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U S A. 1330, March 22 for the DX test from KCKM, Monahans TX: I expect to hear it easily as I do when on 12 kW non-direxional day pattern around sunrise. 0500 UT ID as ``the west Texas powerhouse, KCKM``, sung ID and some music, nothing about a DX test yet. It`s already atop my nearest, KNSS Wichita, whose ID I hear at 0503 UT; then at 0504 UT sweep tones start from KCKM. I monitor and record the entire semihour, as KCKM remains atop with only a few brief fades. 

Consists of alternating sweep tones, always from low pitch to high, busy signals, fire-alarm siren & bells; Morse code IDs and other brief DX messages I am yet to copy in detail until I recheck the digital recording; ``on the radio`` jingles; musical piece apparently a TV theme I don`t quite recognize. I logged the repeated times for all these to the minute; there were *no* voice IDs during the test; why not? As the DX test started late, it also ended a bit late, 0533 UT back to another voice ID like at 0500 UT and power drops as music resumes with ``West Virginia``. 

Tnx to Bob Souza for running this test, after offering to do so in an unsolicited email I received after logging it last April, and then arranged by Paul Walker, who also supplied the test content. I understand it got out very well across the continent and even to Europe. KCKM did not have a QSL card last year, so I will be reporting for one offered now.

Turning on the radio again at 1320 UT March 22, still tuned to 1330, there`s KCKM atop on regular schedule, discussion of when hereford cattle were introduced to Albany, Shackelford County, which is not around Monahans but northeast of Abilene; then about Robert E Lee at some camp around the Civil War. Program is `Cowboy Corner`, probably syndicated; plug for Western Heritage Awards, April 12 at the Cowboy Museum in OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 
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