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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 21-27, 2014

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All times and dates strictly UT [5 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; 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/page28

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

** CANADA. 800, Nov 26 at 0654 UT, Jesse Ventura-like voice and probably JV himself on `Coast to Coast AM` // countless other frequencies like 840, 850 but never synchronized; with KQCV OKC nulled. Presumed CKLW Windsor, Ont., tho also listed as on CJAD Montreal, and low-night-power stations in AL, MO, WV. CKLW does have a minor lobe toward us out of 50000/50000 U4, while KREI Farmington MO in between is 1000/150 U1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, Nov 21 at 0050 UT on caradio, KOKC is absent! Nothing else except enough weak carriers to audiblize the 1521 het from Sa`udi Arabia. Tsk2, a golden opportunity for WHOW or KOLM, but neither audibly cheating tonight. 

Would have been nice to hear WWKB Buffalo NY, which is 50/50 kW U3, but with deep null to the west day and night. (Only as a DX catch since it`s just another ESPN nonentity.) WWKB has been erratically off due to the snowstorm, allowing Rob Ross in London, Ontario at one point to hear nothing but KOKC on 1520 --- but KOKC is supposed to be westward only at night, altho granted an STA of 12.5 kW due to antenna problems, so maybe also non-direxional? If WWKB has been damaged, or due to emergency, it might also be non-direxional temporarily.

At 0054 UT KOKC pops back on, amid anti-American diatribe by Michael Savage who`s on until 0100 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The FCC granted this to KOKC AM ten days ago: 

Exhibit 13
Description: OPERATIONS AT VARIANCE

THE STATION PROPOSES TO OPERATE AT REDUCED POWER AND IN NON DIRECTIONAL MODE WHILE WORK IS COMPLETED ON THE STATION. PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT 16 BELOW.

Attachment 13
Exhibit 16
Description: NARRATIVE

THIS STA IS A MODIFICATION OF AN EXISTING STA BSTA-20140514AAH. AS PREVIOUSLY ADVISED THEREIN, THE LICENSEE HAS HIRED CONSULTING ENGINEER, JACK SELLMEYER, TO REPAIR, REDESIGN AND UPGRADE THE EXISTING ATUS AND CONVERT THE NIGHT PATTERN TO MOM. AN STA MODIFICATION / EXTENSION FOR KOKC IS NEEDED FOR A PERIOD OF 180 DAYS TO OPERATE THE FACILITY WITH PARAMETERS AT VARIANCE WITH THE LICENSED PARAMETERS AND/OR NON-DIRECTIONAL AT 12.5 KILOWATTS TO MAINTAIN SERVICE TO OKLAHOMA CITY PENDING COMPLETION OF THE REFURBISHMENT JOB. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE LICENSEE RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS THE GRANT OF THIS STA REQUEST FOR A PERIOD OF 180 DAYS. PLEASE FIND ATTACHED HERETO MR. SELLMEYER'S ENGINEERING STATEMENT.

Attachment 16 Description Engineering Statement . . .
(via Artie Bigley, Columbus OH, Nov 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 680, Nov 27 at 0638 UT, Bay Area ads, 0641 UT KNBR ID, into basketball scores. Best with IBOC from 670 WSCR nulled, i.e. aimed NW instead of W. Fast SAH of about 10 Hz from something, maybe San Antonio? Despite the silly sports format, I`m always pleased to hear KNBR which is the most distant domestic MW `regular` here, over 1300 miles from San Francisco, slightly further than NYC, whose `clears` hardly ever make it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, Nov 27 at 1259 UT, with WKY OKC Spanish music nulled, I am getting Spanish talk from another, soon ID in Spanish for KAPR, 930 en Arizona, ``Ãsta es Quà Vale`` (? Not certain of that slogan). Makes SAH of about 5 Hz. KAPR is nowhere listed as Spanish! It had been Christian and/or talk in English, and apparently duplicating 1030 KVOI Cortaro (Tucson). 

A recent format flip. How recent may account for the Spanish I had been hearing several months previously around sunrise in WKY null, not with definite ID but hoped to be KHJ Los Ãngeles (which is no longer Spanish ranchera, but Immaculate Heart! in English since Nov 17).

I had not considered KAPR since was supposedly English. It`s in Douglas AZ, right on the border, appropriately owned by Sonora Broadcasting, U1 = non-direxional, 2500 watts day, 71 watts night, and ``day`` doesn`t officially start there until 1345 UT in Nov, 1415 UT in Dec. However KAPR does have a PSRA of 500 watts starting at 6 am local = 1300 UT, all year except unneeded when sunrise is even earlier, so maybe it just powered up, tho soon fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 1000, Nov 26 at 0642 UT, with KTOK OKC nulled, hearing not only the usual Mexican music from XEFV JuÃrez, but also some sports talk in English: don`t see how this could be anything but WMVP Chicago despite unfavorable nite pattern. Also ~1 Hz SAH but not clear between which pair of the trio. 0659 UT try to get an ID of sports station, but mainly Mexican dominating with JuÃrez mention again at 0702 UT. Now I measure the SAH at 42/minute = 0.7 Hz. Anyhow, no KKIM NM which would be preaching, evidently no longer cheating with 10 kW ND day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1070, Nov 27 at 1400 UT, ID for KFTI-FM Newton-Wichita, 1070 KFTI Wichita, news but IDs in passing sure sound like KFDI, which was the longtime call on 1070 years ago. KFDI is very hard to distinguish from KFTI even with clear reception. 

1402 UT back to Classic Country 92.3 with ``Battle of New Orleens``. Still a fast SAH against some other 1070, maybe still KNX shortly after sunrise here, as 1070 Wichita is always off-frequency, whatever its calls. 

FCC Queries confirm that 1070 is KFTI, --- but the same Journal Broadcasting Company also owns 101.3 in Wichita which *is* KFDI-FM. So it should be easy to mix up the calls, accidentally or deliberately (like KFDI provides the news on the KFTIs? The only real call letters on the website http://www.classiccountry923.com/ are KFDI, for News). 

And whatever became of the sale of 92.3 as in this report from Oct 13? 

Envision, headquartered in Wichita, is a nonprofit dedicated to making the blind and visually impaired independent and self-supporting when possible. It is acquiring the station to use as a training ground, a revenue source and a messaging platform. . .
http://www.radioworld.com/article/journal-sells-station-to-envision/272804

There doesn`t seem to be any other press about this since mid-October, so I suppose still pending. Should be quite a change once implemented, non-commercial? 92.3 is a plenty big 100 kW signal, altho out-of-town from Metropolis Wichita, in Amtrak railhead Newton to the north. 

Meanwhile, Journal is making the best of the AM/FM duplication, with 1070 alone presumably to inherit the Classic Country format. Wasn`t it once AM $tereo? Yes, NRC AM Log still had that marker even during the ESPN Deportes yeara [= era lasting one year]. How many times have I said I must dust off my Radio Shack C-Quam tuner and try it?

I was checking 1070 in the first place, since as I mention on WORLD OF RADIO 1749, NRC AM Switch reported that its call changed Nov 14 from KLIO to KFTI, resuming the letters it had from 2001y to 2010y. KLIO applied to the previous year of ESPN Deportes, and before that to classic rock format on 1070 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510-, Nov 21 at 1835 UT on caradio, tell-tale het caused by KCTE Independence MO being perpetually off-frequency, audible at local mean noon (1832 UT), with the solar insolation angle approaching its wintry nadir allowing skywave. The hetee is presumably on-frequency KNNS Larned KS barely by grouondwave. At least we haven`t heard daytimer KCTE`s het at night lately. 1931 UT recheck, IDs as ESPN 1510 (and 1660 Kansas City, Bloomberg Radio is also audible); 1943 UT ad for Hendrix Buick-GMC on Stateline Road, which is a dead giveaway for Kansas City MO/KS market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510, Nov 21 at 0233 UT, Mexican music, roughly N/S with WLAC nulled, also rumbling lo het with something; 0235 UT fades up between songs for non-ID in English! ``Dial us up on your FM radio, 94.3 FM, K-rock`` (not sure of the K-Rock part but positive of the FM frequency), back to music in Spanish. I was checking an hour later than usual for the Mexican I`ve been tracking, thought to be XEQI Monterrey. But if it`s really a daytimer, it may have gone off at 0200 UT â not sundown but a typical time for Mexicans. So which of the US 1510 stations have an FM on 94.3? The only one in the NRC AM Log 2014 is:

KROB Robstown TX, D1, 500 watts, PSRA 500 but no PSSA. It`s really in Corpus Christi, SS-OLD format which fits, and // K232DE 94.3, ``Classic Konjunto`` a slogan I certainly did not hear. 

The WTFDA FM database for all 94.3 stations agrees on this matchup and slogan, but does not show AM frequencies of stations translated, in case there is another on 1510. These Tejano stations play music in Spanish but don`t hesitate to talk, ID in English, like KKLF 1700 and KEDA 1540. Wikipedia says it`s branded as the Conjunto Station, and the 94.3 translator is in Corpus Christi itself. 

Of course, on 1510 there is also KCKK Littleton CO which I have also heard recently, ``The Rock`` but its FM is 93.7, and I`d be surprised if it`s partly Spanish. Furthermore there is no 94.3 around Denver in case it`s a sibling station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510, Nov 25 at 0059 UT, CBS Sports Radio ID after ads, dead-air during legal ID time, 0100 UT back to CBS Sports Radio; no Spanish now, and WLAC nulled. Network website and NRC AM Log agree there are three affiliates on 1510. On
http://radio.cbssports.com/stations/
there are 483 entries, 50 to a page, but many of them duplicates! And you can sort by frequency! But only on each of 10 pages, confusingly mixing in FM and AM, and some with commas, some without.

KGA Spokane WA, daytimer WPUT in Brewster NY; and --- 5 kW daytimer KBED in Nederland TX. While KGA would be nice, it`s surely KBED, too ashamed to utter its call letters after sunset which in November is officially 2315 UT (sunrise 1245 UT; December, 2315-1300 UT). Furthermore its ``daytime`` direxional pattern is NNW/SSE, just right for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1680, Nov 24 at 0705 UT, KRJO Monroe LA is playing Xmas music already, country-accented; and another one later. Not sure if it`s all-Xmas music. It`s before Thanksgiving yet, but in some other markets the radioed Xmas music started after Hallowe`en. Enough! Already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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